The week started with a review of what we need to do in order to pass our A3 Assignment. I then handed out the feedback forms I had produced to people sat around me in order to get important feedback about my designs. I found this useful for the look of the website but not so much the colour scheme. I had tried to use the colour wheel as examples of colour I could use and found most of the colours I had developed for people to pick wouldn’t look that great on website. This led to me choosing a colour scheme from the colour index book.
Developing the screen designs I was able to learn a lot from past mistakes. I simplified the measurements of the template by doing the site to scale as soon as possible. I felt this was a good approach and it worked well for me when putting everything into Pagemaker. I have to admit I chose I final colour scheme once the template was up on the computer because I have had trouble in the past in trying to use the colours in my sketch book, which don’t transfer well to the computer. I think this will improve only with experience.
Thursday we started with a good test of our design skills we had to design banners in 120, 90, 60 and 30 second intervals, and create 6 designs for each time limit. I enjoyed doing this as there was very little thinking involved. I don’t know about anyone else but I was just concentrating on not making all the designs look the same, so when looking back some of the designs were awful but there one or two I liked from each section.
After break we had to chose our best design from each section and develop that idea in 3minute sections. We had to draw the banners to scale and think about font styles, sizes, colour and background colours. This was a lot harder for me than the first task even with more time trying to get something that would look good on the screen as well as the sketch book as I said before I have found to be quite tricky.
The afternoon we were left to get on with our A4 assignment part 3 and 4. I was reluctant to do anymore work on the image restoration (part 3) just in case Steve told me it needed to be started from scratch in the feedback sessions later that day. I started work on the banners for part 4 this was the first thing I had created in Photoshop and stress really wasn’t the word. I realised I had done the to scale banners in my sketch book to the wrong scale doing the designs 75mm x 80mm instead of 75mm x 90mm.
Developing the screen designs I was able to learn a lot from past mistakes. I simplified the measurements of the template by doing the site to scale as soon as possible. I felt this was a good approach and it worked well for me when putting everything into Pagemaker. I have to admit I chose I final colour scheme once the template was up on the computer because I have had trouble in the past in trying to use the colours in my sketch book, which don’t transfer well to the computer. I think this will improve only with experience.
Thursday we started with a good test of our design skills we had to design banners in 120, 90, 60 and 30 second intervals, and create 6 designs for each time limit. I enjoyed doing this as there was very little thinking involved. I don’t know about anyone else but I was just concentrating on not making all the designs look the same, so when looking back some of the designs were awful but there one or two I liked from each section.
After break we had to chose our best design from each section and develop that idea in 3minute sections. We had to draw the banners to scale and think about font styles, sizes, colour and background colours. This was a lot harder for me than the first task even with more time trying to get something that would look good on the screen as well as the sketch book as I said before I have found to be quite tricky.
The afternoon we were left to get on with our A4 assignment part 3 and 4. I was reluctant to do anymore work on the image restoration (part 3) just in case Steve told me it needed to be started from scratch in the feedback sessions later that day. I started work on the banners for part 4 this was the first thing I had created in Photoshop and stress really wasn’t the word. I realised I had done the to scale banners in my sketch book to the wrong scale doing the designs 75mm x 80mm instead of 75mm x 90mm.
The afternoon wouldn’t get much better, I first used Pagemaker to create the banner until Steve told me it should be in Photoshop, one hour wasted. When creating a space in Photoshop to work on I created a banner to 75mm x 90mm when It should be the actual size of the banner and not scaled down. I was working on this scale for a good 1-2 hours before I realised.
So after wasting the best part of 3 hours doing the wrong think I was very annoyed. Iv tried to put it down to the fact I was tired rather than just my dimness but Il let u be the judge. I did however still get to grips with Photoshop basics eventually and was able to get a banner half finished that I could show Steve in the feedback.
So after wasting the best part of 3 hours doing the wrong think I was very annoyed. Iv tried to put it down to the fact I was tired rather than just my dimness but Il let u be the judge. I did however still get to grips with Photoshop basics eventually and was able to get a banner half finished that I could show Steve in the feedback.
Marc said the letters at the to were to squashed in and the D was too close the edge, and Steve didn’t know why I had a diagonal line at the bottom and not the top. Any different feedback would be a great help.
My action plan this week is all about learning from my mistakes which there are so many of this week! I will create a better feedback sheet including fonts and a better colour scheme sheet (A3) make sure my scale measurements are correct (A4), know what software were using to create the images (A4) and create the image outline correct first time (A4).
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Loving the screen design Rich. The green seems a little bright to me (although this monitor always seems quite bright).
As for the skyscraper image. Fantastic. Looks like a real professional design. Looks quite classical too.
Saying this however, I do agree with what Steve and Marc said. The D could do with just being moved over slightly.
I like the idea of the diagonal line, if you could implement it to the top of your banner it would look even better. I wouldn't take it off without trying it at the top first though.
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