Visual Design Journal by Dayanna Arias

   When you need to print a picture, you need a 300ppi resolution in order for it to have a high resolution and for it to look professional. When you are inserting a picture in a webpage, you need a 72ppi resolution so it doesn't look too bright. For example, when printing out the two pictures, the one with 300ppi resolution was a good picture because since it had a high resolution, you were able to see the picture clearly as if it was a regular picture and not something that was printed. Compared to the 72ppi resolution, which was too dim and you weren't able to distinguish things very clearly.

     What I did in this lab was that I downloaded a picture of a car and then i created four more copies of it. I then opened a new document and adjusted the size of the car to be 250x186. Then I re saved the image as a copy and used it in a new document. I later then adjusted the cars to that they would go diagonally even if it meant overlapping each other. I then proceeded to change the adjustments of each image to certain things such as making it black and white, raising the saturation of the image, replacing the colour of the car only with another colour and finally change the hue of the image. Afterwards I named the technique i used for each card and made it look nicer by changing the font of the letters and adding some effects to it. This is useful for a web designer because it teaches us how we're able to only change certain things of an image if we wanted to. For example, I learned to change the colour of only the red car in the second layer and that is useful becaus

         What I did in this lab is that in photo shop I used the lasso tool to cut out the picture of the dog very carefully and then I copied it 10 times to give me a total of 11 dogs in the end. I then proceeded to select the eye next to each layer so only the one dog would be left. I then used the magic wand to select the whole background of the layer and the select the inverse which would be the dog. After that I proceeded to edit the picture. Some of the things I changed were the hue/saturation, the brightness of the picture or even turn the picture black and white. I did this to all 10 copies of the dog and ended up with many colours. These skills are important because sometimes you have to make adjustions to some images that you plan on using but since you don't know what to do or how you're going to do it, its good to learn that you can make cut out the same image and play around with it until it looks perfect and worthy of using.

  What I did in this lab was that a camera was given to me and then I was ordered to go on a hike to take specific pictures from certain angles. Those angles were high point angle, low point angel, eye level angle, focus and landscape. In order to get these angles I had to stand on one specific spot and take 24 pictures that reflected each angle. In order to accomplish this I had to chose a spot that had a variety of things surrounding it. These skills are important for a web designer because you have to learn what pictures are appropriate to use when creating a website. You have to learn how to use pictures that would capture the attention of the people and make them actually want to go and see what the website is all about.