Creative Spheres

These first three spheres pictured to the left I created in illustrator. Though they may not look it, they were very simple!! and who doesn't love that? These were created by creating simple patterns of lines and making them into a style. When making them into a sphere, I simply laid the pattern onto the shape like a gradient.

This was my first creative sphere in photoshop and was
fairly difficult despite its simplistic look. This work im not
proud of however it shows my growth in perfecting spheres.

This sphere pictured above and to the right are by far my prized possession in my creative spheres field. Which makes me sad to admit that this as well, was very simple and a lovely tutorial held my hand the whole way through. This was created in photoshop and was an overlay as well.

















My sphere pictured to the right was actually my
second sphere in photoshop. I used the same technique as explained
above with the earth. Very simple, however, my choice of background
/image overlay could have been better.

Realistic Shadows

This realistic shadow tutorial was a bit challenging and took MULTIPLE attempts to get a pleasing product. I started with the tiger image above then pulled in a new background which is pictured to the right.

Next I extracted the tiger with quick selection tool and worked a lot with contrast and softness in the refined edge. I also put it against the blue background so pixel fringe could be seen and I could handle that.

Finally I took all backgrounds away and worked with just the tiger to create a shadow. This was particularly difficult as I had to pay attention to not only the light source but the way the shadow fell. I used a gradient for the shadow to be dark near the tiger then lighten the opacity to blend with the ground. One thing I love about this piece is the tiger however the background I put it on just isn't quite as awesome:(

Real Or Hoax Website Preview

Real or Hoax- Home Page

Real or Hoax-Real Viruses (linked page)

        One main focus of this website was to call attention to all of the scams on the web. Many are familiar with the emails that go around asking you to perhaps send money or pray. While some are genuine, most are not. This website was created to provide examples of the hoaxes you going around and the real story behind it all. This website was also a project to further our skills in dreamweaver and problem solving.

         As for the process of this website it was fairly simple. Not a lot of prep was needed because all content such as pictures logos and information was all given. Had it not been, we would have needed to do background research for all of the content and the truth about them. As for actually constructing the website we used dreamweaver in creating all of the seperate web pages. We created on CSS style sheet and controlled everything through that. We embedded pictures and links into every page. Along the way I learned more about the basic hitches and how to problem solve especially when it comes to linking websites and the root folder. I also learned that it is handy to have someone who knows the program better than you do around! Next time I would  be a little more diligent in the CSS with the color choice and pay more attention to fonts and typography. I however thought I did well with time management and would budget my time the same. Next time I will now apply my newly acquired skills in linking websites and there will be fewer problems.