For this project I really wanted to focus on the background as that’s what most people first see. The hexagon pattern I feel helps it stand out as its bold and very direct. I chose the colors I did for one reason, and that is fall. When is one most likely to enjoy a product …
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Project 3 Critique
I tried to keep the over all package design relatively simple since all their products follow this approach. However the all white they use now is boring so I thought id add some fall colors since when I think of apple spice I think of an October day. As for the front I tried to …
Kacalski – Project 2
For project 2 we were tasked with creating composite images from our project 1 imagery. In My case here I used Vader as my center piece and after that continued with the villain theme. I used different blending techniques to make it seem like one cohesive image the primary ones being, color dodge and linear …
Kacalski – Lab 5
In this Lab we got introduced to adobe Illustrator. Specifically we used the pen tool. Unlike what we have done so far, I wasn’t that used to working with illustrator as I have primarily worked in Photoshop. Like most labs this one was fair and straight forward with it gradually getting harder as you went …
Kacalski – Lab 4
In this lab I learned more about the different ways to make textures from scratch as well as master the stamp tool in photoshop. While I am fairly familiar with many tools in photoshop the stamp tool was one I haven’t used as frequently. While this was a simple lab I’d say the easiest part …
Kacalski – Project 1
For project 1 we were tasked with creating a portfolio of 16 images that have a personal meaning to us. My first thought was to do the 05-06 and 06-07 Sabres teams, however we had to use original images and finding newspapers to scan with those team pics in them would have been very difficult …
Kacalski – Lab 3
In this lab I learned more about the different masking tools in photoshop. Although I’ve seen most of these tools I haven’t worked with all of them and some where more challenging than others. While this was a simple lab I’d say the easiest part was masking with the pen tool it was very straight …
Kacalski – Lab 2
For this lab we had to color correct two images. For the first image, I really wanted to enhance the deepness of the blacks and increase the green in the cats eyes. This creates a much bolder image. The second image was scanned from an old Dark Horse Star Wars comic which I plan on …
Kacalski – Lab 1
While initially the photo’s look incredibly similar this is not the case. With the low end phone camera the textures of the objects are not made out as crisp compared to the high-end DSLR. The best example of this can be seen in the champagne bottle. With the low end phone camera you can’t make …