Cornucopia

This is my cornucopia I made using different shapes and tools in Firefox. I mainly used circles and the free form tool to make my different fruits and vegatables. I made the indent in apple and the orange by using the reshape area tool under the free form tool options. I made the stems using the L-Shape then I made the shape different with the subselsect tool. I made the cornucopia using overlapping cicrles to make it look like it was 3-Dimensional. I then made the middle of the biggest circle darker to make it look hollow. I made the canvas color an orange to contrast all of the colors so you can see them all easily. I made the grapes by making a circle, changing its color and then just copying and pasting it enough times that you think is appropiate. I made the pumpkin by stacking  a few ovals and making them orange. I made the corn by making an oval then putting criss crossing lines.

Optimizing and Exporting Graphics -

Optimizing and Exporting Graphics - 

    

        Optimizing and exporting graphics help people put images on to the interent. To optimize graphics you have to go to the optimize panel and make the image as small as you can so it can load faster on your website. To help optimize you can minimize the amount of colors are in your graphic. To export graphics you have to click the export option and save it as a PNG file with different name, make sure it has a different name or it will erase the original copy and you wont be able to edit it.

Nameplates

  This is my basic nameplate. I made a square for the background and i gave it the texture of an oil slick with a transparency effect of grain. For the text it is in elephant font with the fill of a gradient cone with the White, Black color preset. I then scaled the text to fit the canvas and centered and aligned it. Then I put a filter on the text. The filter was an outer glow. I made it a neon green color.

 

I made this mid-level nameplate using Adobe Fireworks CS3. It has a length of 300 pixels and a height of 200 pixels. Its resolution is 200. I made it by making a basic rectangle with the Rectangle Tool. I customized the rectangle by changing its Fill to a Gradient. I chose the Gradient effect called Contour. The preset colors for the Gradients Black, White. Then added a text box to put in my name with the Text Tool. The text font size of my name is 110.13. Then I rotated the text to a different angle.

 

          This is my professional nameplate. i made it by giving it a background of a gradient linear with the preset colors called copper. The text of my name was just an elephant font. Then I made the fill of the text a gradient called bars with the preset colors Black,White. Then I scaled the text to an appropiate size for the canvas and used the skew tool to make the text look as if it is at an angle.

Art Terminology Definitions

Art Terminology Definitions

Hue-

A hue is the attribute of colors that usually classed as red, yellow, green, blue, or any colors in between any of these pairs. So for example light green is a different hue than dark green. 

Reference - http://www.alleydog.com/glossary/definition.php?term=Hue

Chroma-

A chroma is an aspect of color in the Munsell color system that appears to differ from a gray of the same brightness or lightness and it corresponds to the saturation of the perceived color. So it is a color that is free of white or gray

Reference - http://www.answers.com/topic/chroma

Tint-

A tint is a shade of color, usually pale or delicate variation of the color. It is a gradation of color mostly made by adding white to a color to lessen the saturation of it. So a light fading red could be a tint.

Reference - http://www.brainyquote.com/words/ti/tint230546.html

Tone-

A tone is the quality of a color modified with a mixture of black and white. The overall effect of color values of the gradations of light and dark in a picture. So there different tones of every kind of color. For example, there tones of blue, red, green, purple.

Reference -http://www.yourdictionary.com/tone

Shade-

A shade is a darker area in a picture or painting. A color that varies slightly from a regular color due to a difference in hue, saturation, or luminosity.

Reference - http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=shade

Complimentary Colors-

Either one of two colors whose mixture in the right proportions produces white, in the case of light or gray, in the case of pigment. A color directly opposite another on a color wheel and providing the greatest chromatic contrast to it.

Reference - http://www.thefreedictionary.com/complementary+color

Analogous Colors-

Analogous colors are the closest shades and tints of color on the color wheel. They are very soothing and easy to use when put together. Some examples are yellow, green and orange; yellow, green and blue; orange, red and purple.

  

Reference - http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0882846.html

Contrasting Colors-

Colors placed opposite one another on the color wheel. For example, orange and blue are contrasting colors. The colors don't have to be direct opposites on the color wheel to be considered contrasting colors.

Reference - http://desktoppub.about.com/od/glossary/g/contrastingcolors.htm

Texture-

Used to describe how a 3-D object actually feels when touched. It can also mean the visual "feel" of a 2-D object. An example would be a painter, depicting a rock, would create the illusions of these qualities through use of color, line, and shape.

Reference - http://arthistory.about.com/cs/glossaries/g/t_texture.htm 

Graphic Design-

The Principles of Graphic Design suggest how a designer can best arrange the various elements of a page layout in connection to the overall design and to each other. An example would be if you were making a webpage.

Reference - http://www.agda.com.au/about/what-is-graphic-design 

Balance-

Balance is the way in which elements of a piece are arranged. The formal definition of balance means symmetrical but can also be used as an art definition. Balance can also mean Asymmetrical.


Reference - http://twahl14.blogspot.com/2012/02/definition-of-balance-in-artgraphic.html

Symmetry-

What occurs when one side of something balances out or mirrors the other. As an example if you were to draw a line down the middles of the of your body you would see that your eyes, teeth, ears all mirror each other which is called symmetry.

Reference - http://en.mimi.hu/finearts/symmetrical.html

 

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