For this project we were tasked with creating a map of an area. Instead of making a very busy map of a large area, I wanted to make mine a tad more simplistic. I almost wanted this map to look like something I’d see in my elementary school as the area I chose was not …
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Project 4 Critique
For my map I went for a much simpler approach. I decided to do a little area by where I live. With some of these big areas I felt less was more here. Since there where fewer things to do I tried making it almost like an elementary school map, with simple symbols and vibrant …
Kacalski- Project 3
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 …
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 …