Sarah Grossman Digital Media

  For my portfolio I created my own template, so I had more control over the colors and design.   Went with a more dark and muted color palette to match most of my work. I picked a light blue color for the header font and a white color font for the body text so writing stood out against the dark slides. The portfolio starts with an about me page and a table of condense. The artwork is organized from earliest created work to latest created work and showcases all my work from the semester.

  The business cards were created using Adobe InDesign. For the first card I chose to have the card be vertical. I wanted to focus on an aesthetically pleasing color scheme. I used shapes to create a design to give something to look at. I had most of the composition be circles with some arrows. For the second card I made the card horizontal with a city skyline as the logo. For the back, I used a radial gradient with the colors from the f ront of the card.  

  Get Started with 10 Beginner Tips for InDesign - Bing video   One tool that might be hard to use is the drop shadow. This is probably because I am not quite sure how to use it. All the text options sound fun but also a little overwhelming. There are a lot of options to remember. I also think that the different ways to scale an image is going to take some getting used to. You must be careful if you accidentally cut off the image w hen you try to fix the image.   InDesign Business Card Design Tips & Tricks - InDesign Business Card Tutorial - Bing video   One thing I am worried about is coming up with a template that will be easy to create in InDesign. I also wonder what makes a good business card design. I also wonder how to create a bleed . I am not sure I did that right in class. Overall creating a business card does not seem too hard.   Adobe InDesign Tutorial for Beginners - 2022 - Bing video     The two-column view seems like a useful and easy to use tool. I like the A

  For my somewhere project I photos hoped myself into a scene from Spider-Man into the Spider-verse. I inserted a picture of myself and placed it over top a character in the scene then created a mask so that it w as just me in the photo. I then continued to play with the color balance , brightness, and exposure. I tried to give myself a blue tint and lower the contrast to that I fit in better with the picture . In hindsight I probably could have benefited from picking a non-animated movie to photoshop myself into, but all things considered I think it turned out ok.