Introduction:
In this project we were asked to get started with the portfolio and as you can see I chose to keep my original top header, because I quite liked it, however I did "improve" it a bit in photoshop as my skills in the program increased during this semester. Below you can read about what I learned etc. during the process of making the first layout.
Learning:
I started the web-deisgner education with close to zero knowledge about any of the subjects the educations takes you through. I once opened photoshop about five years ago but I did not spend more than maybe ten minutes checking out the program before closing it down again because I could not get it to do what I wanted it to do. As for html I have administrated a couple of forum pages, something more or less anyone with minimal basic internet knowledge would be able to do. During these first weeks of the education I have learned how to do some basic things in photoshop: Erase, overwrite, bend / manipulate features, copy from one to another picture, scale, editing shadows etc. Overall a good deal of things, which I had no clue of how to do beforehand. As for html I knew a couple of tactics but getting the most basic ones refreshed and learning a couple of new ones was helpful. Becides photoshop and html we have learned a little bit about selfbranding, something I am sure we will learn alot more about throughout the next couple of years, which is also why my first real selfmade photoshop picture is a logo made for branding me and my future deisgns.
Deisgn & Visualization:
As mentioned above I knew close to nothing about any of the programs the Adobe CS3 package contains and during these first weeks I had to spend a little extra time with photoshop at home, since I do not own a laptop yet, so it has been troublesome for me to use the programs at the Academy.
That aside I want to describe in detail how I made my first photoshop (logo) picture.
First the original, untouched (by me at least) picture:
I started out by giving the picture slighty more contrast in order to highlight the thunderstorm a tad more. Next the "real" work began, I wanted to get rid of the windmill so it would not take away the focus from ny name but it took more time than I had first anticipated. I started out by duplicating a new layer on which I erased the mill from the picture, leaving a blank hole. After that I began using the "Clone Stamp Tool", setting different starting points on the picture, slowly copying it onto the empty space where the windmill used to be. With that tool I also added a little extra lightning to the bottom left. Making this look realistic was no easy task and I spent quite a lot of time on getting the picture to look somewhat decent (the way it looks now).
When that was done I started working on the text in the middle of the logo, I made two new layers, one with "D A X" on it and one with the "T". I did this in order to get the T to be behind the first bit of text (enhanced coolness!).
I bent the text to make it look better and when I was satisfied I merged it all into one layer, then scaled it down to a more manageable size that could fit the top header (the original picture was huge).
I started working on some other pictures but none of them are complete yet, so for now I decided to only add my logo to this portfolio.
The Company:
In one of our first classes with Mette she handed out a Belbin test for us to take. It is a test that helps indicating what roles people usually take in project / group work situations. It obviously does not tell you 100% how a person would act in a group situation but it helps you to somewhat determine what kind of people you are dealing with and in my case I think it fits my profile pretty well. My test results:
Firmaets mand--- 11
Ordstyrer---------- 9
Dirigent----------- 29
Visionær----------- 0
Netværker--------- 6
Overvåger--------- 8
Teamworker------- 2
Fuldfører ---------- 5
