Task one consisted in an infographic, researching about, pixels, raster and vector images, bit depth, colour space, image capture and optimising all of which had to be included in the infographic and in creating our media blog. One of the main difficulties that I encountered in this task was when it can to designing the infographic. Since there were quite some keywords to be included, I felt that it was going to be crowded with information.
We also had to create banners and backgrounds. I’ve made a couple of banners varying from jpegs to gifs. They were the most fun part of this task, as I love to experiment and create with Photoshop.
Moving on to task two, researching on our client: MediaCast. MediaCast is made up of students who study Media within the Institute of Art & Design which started in the scholastic year of 2009/2010. The aim of the brief was to learn the basic tools and techniques of digital graphic software to produce images for interactive media products.
A plan of the blog was then made; the MediaCast logo in the banner, colour scheme would be blacks/whites/greys/; white background with black text and a grey border, sticking with the tradition, the font would be either Times or Arial.
Later on, for task three we had to design three different banners together with their colour schemes. Designing the banners was a fun process because I got to experiment even more with Photoshop, and, just like I did with the banners for my blog, I’ve done jpegs as well as gifs for this one. Took a set of photos and initially started working on the posters.
In the end I've found myself mostly doing what I already knew with Photoshop.
