Illustrator day (Happy Halloween!)

Today I learned lots of new things about Illustrator. We worked on creating a strat column, that was super cool. That's a skill I plan on using a lot.

Once again, the lithologic swatches didn't work on this computer. I think it is just this computer, because it wasn't working on Wednesday either.

So, my Halloween plans for the night are pretty awesome. I'm going to DI with a friend of mine where we're going to randomly pick each others costumes, and then we're going party-hopping since there are dozens of parties going on tonight. I'm pretty excited. I need to get out. Happy Halloween!

More Illustrator

Wow, today we went over a whole bunch of new things in Illustrator. Super cool! These programs are awesome! I wish I had taken this class before I took Strat and Sed so that I could've made my own figures. I especially loved the lithologic swatches. That was super awesome, I'm still all excited about it.

The whole tracing tool, (what we did with the cat) didn't work quite the same for me. I think that maybe my options were a little different, I don't know.

Hmm, I've had a lot of cool Halloween costumes, but last year I went as Carmen Sandiego. That was pretty cool. I loved being all red and mysterious and stuff. It was pretty rad.

Illustrator!!!

Illustrator Day! I absolutely loved it! So cool. But I did get a little carried away and now it looks like a schitzophrenic four year old got a hold of my paper, but I had fun with it. Now I'm all full of cool ideas of things I'm going to use Illustrator for. Yipee!

There's tons of things I don't know yet, but hey, it's the first day. No worries

Man, I don't want to know a thing about the future. I can barely handle the past and I'm full of plans for the future hour, so I think knowing the future would overwhelm me. Honestly, I'm glad that life doesn't have a magical crystal ball. Looking at where I've been I wouldn't change a thing, but I'm pretty positive that if you had shown me the future in the past before I had lived it, it would've scared the pants off of me. Yeah, not being able to tell the future was a good call on our Creator's part.

Mini-assignment 4

Wow, this one was pretty neat. I couldn't find any good pictures to merge to make my panorama, so instead I just found one good picture and then copied it three times, merged it and then used the clone tool to make each picture unique enough so you couldn't tell that they're all actually the same picture. Cool huh? I also used color adjust, brightness/contrast, Gaussian blur, and a bunch of other tools that don't really count for the assignment. I didn't replace the sky completely like we did in class, but I definitely replaced it in parts using the clone tool. I hope that counts.

Oh, and since I turned this assignment in early, since it's technically due on Monday since I used the clone tool, can I use that to make up for one of my other mini-assignments turned in late? Come on Adam, it's almost the holiday season. Let's spread the cheer. I promise to pay it forward.

Mini-assignment 3

Wow, I really like this one too. The original image I started out with was so bad! But it looks pretty good now. I used color balance, brightness/contrast, Gaussian blur, burn/dodge, hue/saturation, black/white, and a couple of other things, but that ought to do it point-wise I think. Hmm, now I really need to get a car and not just a really cool picture of one...

Mini-assignment 2

I really like this one. It turned out really well I think.

For this one I used the crop tool, and then I straightened out the image. After all that I adjusted the brightness and contrast of the photo and the color balance. Enjoy all!

Mini-assignment 1

Hey Adam,

Tools used:

Besides choosing a color scheme, I used overlay, crop, blur, (and a bunch of others that I'm not really getting points for, so I'm not going to list them all...)

Thanks!