Christian Balkin

1. What did you learn?– This lab gave me an idea of how designing a package would work. Things such as creating a contrasting background to place the logo over. 2. What was easy?– I found that the document set up ultimately made it very easy to organize the carton and design it. 3. What…

1. What did you learn?– This lab covered a lot of stuff that I was unfamiliar with in adobe illustrator. 2. What was easy?– Creating an image trace of the original logo image was an easy step. This created a pretty good vector image though there were some rough spots that had to be altered.…

1. What did you learn?– This lab worked with vector graphics in figma. I have not had a ton of time with figma so I get more comfortable with the tools every time. 2. What was easy?– Figma makes it very easy to resize items like my clouds and make sure they are centered with…

1. What did you learn?– In this lab we created a background for a desktop. To create the finish product I learned a lot about layer masks that I had not known. 2. What was easy?– It was not to hard to create the background using methods we had learned. It took me a while…

1. What did you learn?– In this lab I learned some methods to create background images/textures in photoshop. 2. What was easy?– For one layer we used the rendering tool to create clouds. This tool is easy to use and can generate some very interesting backgrounds. 3. What was challenging?– I had trouble deciding what…

1. What did you learn?– This lab was about compiling images touching them up and preparing them to be posted online. 2. What was easy?– I’ve had experience with Brackets so posting the images and their thumbnails was familiar. Also organizing them in Figma went smoothly. 3. What was challenging?– What I found to be…

1. What did you learn?– In this lab we learned a couple of different methods that can be used to remove the background from an image. 2. What was easy?– I was surprised at how easily the quick selection tool could pick out a person when its on “select subject”, I had not used that…

1. What did you learn?– In this lab we worked on touching up an image, this would be very useful to do before posting an image to the public. 2. What was easy?– I found it easy to get the close to the last stage, making small changes to the brightness and contrast brought the…

1. What did you learn?– In this lab I worked on cleaning up images I took. The biggest change I made to each was changing the brightness and contrast. 2. What was easy?– I found it pretty easy to make small adjustments that made the colors much more vibrant 3. What was challenging?– Some of…

Christian Balkin For the most part these stamps are pretty self explanatory. The first one is based off the buffalo sabers, buffalo’s hockey team. This calls on the sports aspect of buffalos culture. The second one is based around chicken wings a very popular meal in Buffalo that was also invented hear, as far we…