Mail Card

PHOTOSHOP
QUARK XPRESS
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Design Rationale

In the beginning when starting off this project, I knew how to use photoshop so this was fairly easy, and it wasn't too hard to match the exact fonts because they were overall basic. Except figuring out the yellow star shape on the side was a big challenge. I had to eventually find one under shapes that sort of looked like the firework, so it wasn't exact. The background I actually found online by searching "purple fabric" and it actually looked almost exact to the little tabloid. I used Arial for most fonts and Monotype for the big font. But I already knew how to move objects and import pictures, so this was not a problem.

Quark was a lot trickier than photoshop. I learned that it is different in that the toolbar on the bottom controls everything. And that you move the pictures around with the hand tool. I also learned that it was much harder to save my document and this aggravated me. Somehow I could not save my document anywhere until I went out and bought a flashdrive myself. It was really aggravating because the pictures would not save as a GIF or JPEG and I was really stressing out after have completing the Quark portion about 3 times. But after the third time I learned how to use qurak a lot faster than before! There were things I liked about it and things I didn't. Quark was a lot more professional than photoshop, and I got to use a lot of better graphics- I found a replica of the firework I had been trying to create on photoshop. On the other hand, the size was not coming out right and it was hard adjusting to the different toolbars after using photoshop. Plus when I printed it, the colors came out all wrong only on Quark and it highlighted certain parts of my card for no reason. But overall on the screen the colors looked a lot better and closer on Quark.

Bon Jovi Design Rationale

Design Rationale: Bon Jovi Powerpoint

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So, this task was definitely my most challenging yet. Although I have had experience working with powerpoint in the past- I had never done a fun project like this for one of my classes. I pretty much knew the custom animation- i.e. how to make all of my letters and pictures flash before you, and do extreme effects- and I saved a lot of fun pictures from google that I thought would be appropriate to represent Bon Jovi. After picking out these 6 specific backgrounds- which all had to do with guitars, or tie dye, and rock and roll- I formatted the CD slides to look just like the album covers with the same font- the main font used was COPPERPLATE GOTHIC BOLD. I used figured out how to make boom boxes as my bullet points, and use the slide transitions icon, as well as self timing my slideshow. The most challenging, was basically the same for everyone which was music. I struggled figuring out how to transfer the music from my cd to the slideshow and keep it running the whole time.