Taz's Blog Matrix

Measuring your successes and failures Draft

2011-08-02T16:59:00.000-07:00

Hi Chris

Here is my quick description of the Measuring your successes and failures Draft.

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Paul

Promote your Blog 2

2011-07-27T22:31:00.000-07:00

Hi Chris

Here are a few more different designs.

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Paul

Promote your Blog

2011-07-27T16:40:00.000-07:00

Hi Chris

Sorry about the delay. I actually missed this assignment. My bad.

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Paul

Rationale

The use of the simple black and white lines for these buildings is to have a person think "Oh, what is this?". Having people think this, would have people looking at the page, trying to figure out what the lines become, unless of course they are Transformers fans, in which case, they'd know it's the Cybertron capital, Iacon.

Digital Imaging Task 10

2011-06-29T18:52:00.000-07:00

Hi Chris

Here's is the Task 10 you requested. In case you were wondering, yes, I did incorporate Blender into the project. Hope it is all good.

Thanks
Paul

Mind-Map

2011-05-25T16:51:00.000-07:00

Hi Chris

Here's my mind-map for a website. If you think this is too small, believe me, it was bigger, a lot bigger, but my laptop didn't like it at all, so I had to make it much smaller.To give you an understanding of the detail, this image/map was from one page of written information. It was originally 6 pages.

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Paul

remakes

2011-05-17T18:50:00.000-07:00

Hi Chris

Here are the remakes of the Car on water project, Matrix for sale project (x2 with 2 different types), being green project (almost totally remade) and heritage project.

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Paul

Finall assessment 2

2011-04-20T18:07:00.000-07:00

Hi Chris

Once again, the cousre site takes forever and then never to upload my work, so here it is.

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Paul

Assessment 1

2011-04-13T20:43:00.000-07:00

Hi Chris

Here's the first assessment task
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Paul

Shooting Motion

2011-04-12T21:04:00.000-07:00

Hi Chris

Here is my shooting motion task with my favourite 3.

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Paul

This image was a photo already in my personal archives.

This photo was a shot in amongst 10 shots that were taken in quick succession.

This is my favourite. I did not have access to a skateboarder on such a rubbish day, so I improvised. My camera is attached to a wooden ruler and the bind of a folder, which the other end is attached to a big water bottle. The camera is the set to quick succession shots and the camera ia allowed to roll with the bottle, therefore keeping the bottle in focus, but the background is a swirly blur.

Seamless Background

2011-04-05T20:25:00.000-07:00

Hi Chris

Surprise, surprise I have not made one based on Transformers, however one a Piano. I hope all is good.

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Paul

Webpage background image

2011-04-05T18:35:00.000-07:00

Hi Chris

Here is my webpage background image for you.

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Paul

"Tell-a-story-with-a-flatbed-scan" Part 2

2011-04-05T17:58:00.001-07:00

Hi Chris

Here is the flat bed scan part 2. I hope it's all good.

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Paul

Web Background

2011-04-05T16:49:00.000-07:00

Hi Chris

Here is my favourite out of the 3 website backgrounds.

I chose this one, not only because it's a Transformers site, but the way they made this page was clever. When you scrol down the page, the background stays where it is (just like many others do), but Shockwave (the transformer) follows you. It's sort of like the background image is notattached to the page scroller, but Shockwave is attached.

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Paul

Being Green

2011-04-05T16:07:00.000-07:00

Hi Chris

He is my "Being Green" work. There is real no subject to it, however I could do another with all green Transformers.
Also, the Rubix cube, it had to get all the greens to line up. I succeeded.

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Paul

Rationale: There is no real subject here, however there are many sort subjects. Transformers, animals, land, challenges, things we use and information forms.

Hypthetical precious item sale

2011-03-29T21:37:00.000-07:00

Hi Chris

Here si my precious object sale piece.

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Paul

2011-03-23T20:44:00.000-07:00

Hi Chris

Here's the task with Kathy's car.

It was quite stressful actually. My photoshop is being a real .............. at the moment, which didn't help, however I got it done. It may not be perfect, but you can't blame me for trying.

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Paul

2011-03-23T16:38:00.000-07:00

Hi Chris

Here is the first part of lesson 2.

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Paul

2011-03-22T16:54:00.000-07:00

Hi Chris

Here is the scanning a story task.

The objects I had available to me were limited. So here's a story about some of the things that have been made and done here at the Workskills room I attend.

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Paul

Digital Imaging Module

2011-03-22T16:18:00.000-07:00

Hi Chris

Here are the photos for the cropping task.

I told you I'm a transformers nut. I hope the captions are ok. I may have got a little carried away.

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Paul

Before 1: An Optimus Prime pose in front of Windows Media Player.

After 1: Optimus Prime cropped with his gun fading out of focus.

Before 2: An Optimus Prime pose in front of Windows Media Player.

After 2: A black figure of Optimus Prime.

Before 3: Doesn't Optimus Prime just have the bluest eyes?

After 3: Optimus loves close ups.

Before 4: Optimus Prime goes to the beach.

After 4: Optimus feels a little squished.

Digital Imaging Module

2011-03-22T15:28:00.000-07:00

Hi Chris

Here is the first task.

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Paul

Lions at 72dpi, 960px width

Loch at 72dpi, 960px width

Potter at 72dpi, 400px width

Design Lesson 8: LA15

2011-03-16T19:42:00.000-07:00

Hi Chris

Here is LA7.

Cheers
Paul

Introduction to Design Fundamentals: Colour

Answer these short questions to demonstrate your understanding of colour theory and use. Use MS Word. Name it, date it and save into your account, then email it to your teacher for feedback.

Your client whose Sydney-based business is import/export of training textbooks in the engineering field needs a new business identity/ brand. What could you suggest would be the colour scheme for this client for their website? Explain why you chose these colours.

I would suggest blue, orange and a middle class grey. I chose these because they can represent a particular part of their business. Grey would represent the steel, orange will represent the safety within the business and the blue would represent the cleanliness and efficiency of their work.

Your client whose business is producing rugged outdoor footwear for the domestic (Australian) market needs a new corporate identity. Their product line is chiefly aimed at teens to mature adult. What could you suggest would be the colour scheme? Explain why you chose these colours.

I would choose a dark colour, like black, brown or even a dark shade of grey. I choose these colours to work in relation to a person’s mind. The last thing a person wants to do is clean their shoes, so if the shoes are a dark colour, then they won’t see much of whatever they’ve picked up in the forest or desert. They won’t be consciously spending time trying to get rid of something that makes their shoes look dirty.

A client who runs a govt. sponsored agency to support drug rehabilitation services needs a new corporate identity. What could you suggest would be the colour scheme for this client? Explain why you chose these colours.

Again I would choose colours that could represent something. In this case I would choose red, green and blue. Red to represent the stopping of a person using drugs, green to represent the drug user to keep going with their life, drug free and the blue to represent the sky, which represent their drug free future.

How many colours can be represented by a 24-bit RGB display system ? Why is it the most popular setting for computer displays?

24-bit rgb display systems are represented by 3 base colours, red green and blue each of these have 256 shades, however there are a total of 16,777,216 colours. In some graphic cards, the so-called 32 bit per pixel display graphic mode is identical in precision to the 24 bit per pixel mode; there are still only eight bits per component, and the eight extra bits are often not used at all.

How many colours can be represented by the Pantone CMYK process for print?

There are 1,114 spot colours in the Pantone CYMK chart.

Draw a diagram representing the rgb gamut (label the axes). Take a digital photo or scan it in and embed it into your document.

On the same diagram draw a superimposed cmyk gamut. What does this diagram suggest about the limitations of the cmyk colour model for screen-based (multimedia) design?

What does this mean when a client needs their traditionally print-based corporate logo carried-over to the web?

They would like the colours converted from CYMK to web colours.

When developing for DVD (Standard definition, PAL TV) what are “safe colours”? What happens to artwork that uses colours on PAL TV that aren’t safe? What’s a good rule-of-thumb for choosing “safe” colours.

The range of colours for a television is not as many as for that of a computer. The amount of colours for a television is limited, there are too many colours ofr it to handle. This is not the case for a computer.

Rules of thumb refers to specifying safe colours.

Check the photoshop utility ‘PAL safe’.

Try not to use pure colours. They are colours with a non-zero value.

Only select RGB colours that are below 20% of the maximum colour.

List 3 free-to-use online software tools to help you develop colour schemes. List their URLs and briefly describe how they work.

http://colorschemedesigner.com/

You are given the options of mono, complement, triad, tetrad, analogic and accented analogic, then you can you the colour wheel provided to choose your own colour schemes. Hovering over the colours gives you their hex code.

http://www.allprofitallfree.com/color-wheel.html

This site has a simple hover technique. You hover over a colour and the area around the colour grid lights up that colour and you are also given the hex code.

http://www.colorsontheweb.com/colorwizard.asp

The colour wizard lets you submit your own base colour, and it automatically returns matching colours for the one you selected.

The BAM (Before & After Magazine) colour wheel is based on which colour wheel?

The wheel is based Johannes Itten’s 12-step colour wheel.

According to “Western” perception of colours, describe the emotion associated with the following colours and provide an example of its use in contemporary culture.

Colour emotion example

Red warmth fire

Blue cold water

White peace dove

Black sadness death

Yellow fun sand

Dark Green eerie dark forest

Lime-green relaxed tropical

Chrome strong metal

Orange cautious potential danger

Pink cute girly girl

Grey bored B&W TV

Purple vibrant neon light

Brown grounded earth

What’s the meaning of the following colour terms:

Hue

Hue is one of the main properties of colour, defined technically as “the degree to which a stimulus can be described as similar to or different from stimuli that are described as red, green, blue and yellow. The other main correctives of colour appearance are colourfulness, chroma, saturation, lightness and brightness.

Lightness

Lightness is a property of a colour, or a dimension of a colour space, that is defined in a way to reflect the subjective brightness perception of a colour for humans along a lightness-darkness axis. A colour’s lightness also corresponds to its amplitude.

Saturation

Saturation is one of three coordinates in the HSL and HSV colour spaces. Note that virtually all computer software implementing these spaces use a very rough approximation to calculate the value they call “saturation”, such as the formula described for HSV and this value has little, if anything, to do with the description.

Tint

In colour theory, a tint is the mixture of a colour with white, which increases the lightness.

Shade

In colour theory, a shade is the mixture of a colour with black, which reduces the lightness.

Tone

Tone is also be called value or lightness. See lightness.

Gamut

In colour reproduction, including computer graphics and photography, the gamut, or colour gamut, is certain complete subset of colours. The most common usage refers to the subset of colours which can be accurately represented in a given circumstance, such as within a given colour space or by a certain output device.

Warm colours

Warm colours are usually any colour that refers to any kind of warm feeling. These colours can include red, orange and yellow.

Colour temperature is a characteristic of visible light that has important applications in lighting, photography, videography, publishing, manufacturing, astrophysics and other fields.

Cool colours

Cool colours are usually any colour that refers to any kind of warm feeling. These colours can include blue, green and cyan.

Colour temperature is a characteristic of visible light that has important applications in lighting, photography, videography, publishing, manufacturing, astrophysics and other fields.

Gradient

In vector calculus, the gradient of a scalar field which points in the direction of the greatest rate of increase of the scalar field, and whose magnitude is the greatest rate of change.

Primary colours

Primary colours are sets of colours that can be combined to make a useful range of colours. For human applications, three primary colours are usually used, since human colour vision is trichromatic. These colours are blue, yellow and red.

Secondary colours

A secondary colour is a colour made by mixing two primary colours in a given space. Examples include: purple (blue + red), orange (red + yellow) and green (blue + yellow). CMYK mixture are slightly different.

Tertiary colours

A tertiary colour is a colour made by mixing one primary colour with one secondary colour, in a given colour space such as RGB or RYB. Unlike primary and secondary colours, these are not represented by on firmly established name each, but the following examples include some typical names. Brown and grey are sometimes known as tertiary colours and can be made by mixing complementary colours.

Cyan + blue = azure

Blue + magenta = violet

Magenta + red = rose

Red + yellow = orange

Yellow + green = chartreuse

Green + cyan = spring green

Chris Adams 2011

Design Lesson 7: LA14

2011-03-16T17:56:00.001-07:00

Hi Chris

Here is LA7.

Cheers
Paul

Design Lesson 7: LA13

2011-03-16T17:47:00.000-07:00

Hi Chris

Here is LA7.

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Paul

Design Lesson 7: LA12

2011-03-16T17:37:00.000-07:00

Hi Chris

Here is LA7.

Cheers
Paul

Design Lesson 7: LA11

2011-03-16T17:30:00.000-07:00

Hi Chris

Here is LA7.

Cheers
Paul

Design Lesson 7: LA10

2011-03-16T17:26:00.000-07:00

Hi Chris

Here is LA7.

Cheers
Paul

Design Lesson 6: LA9

2011-03-16T17:09:00.000-07:00

Hi Chris

Here is LA7.
These designs are from things I made last year.

Cheers
Paul

Design Lesson 5: LA8

2011-03-16T17:06:00.000-07:00

Hi Chris

Here is LA7.

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Paul

Design Lesson 4: LA7

2011-03-16T16:55:00.000-07:00

Hi Chris

Here is LA7.

Cheers
Paul

Design Lesson 3: LA6

2011-03-16T16:52:00.000-07:00

Hi Chris

Here is LA6.
I guess this is the appropriate time to tell something that is in relation to the third image in this task. I am a mad Transformers freak. You may find that I'll try to base a lot of my work on them. Just ask Sarah Markland.

Cheers
Paul

Design Lesson 3: LA5

2011-03-16T16:45:00.000-07:00

Hi Chris

Here is LA5.

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Paul

Design Lesson 2: LA4

2011-03-16T16:44:00.000-07:00

Hi Chris

Here is LA4

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Paul

Design Lesson 1: LA3

2011-03-16T16:42:00.000-07:00

Hi Chris

Here is LA3.

Cheers
Paul

Design Lesson 1: LA2

2011-03-16T16:37:00.000-07:00

Hey guys!

This is my first blog ever and what better than to have something i like, hate and like and hate.

Chris, here's my LA2 task, the rest are to follow.

Thanks

Paul