The Final Job

The Final Job May 6, 2014

Last tuesday was the last day of me working with my mentor. I was sad about the fact that we cant really finish the project as how we planned to do it. Anyways, we started off by planning what we are going to put in the banner. There were different factors that we had to consider. One was the name, which happens to be "Marcello Kingpin Line". Other factors were the background color, the picture that we're going to put in it, and of course the layout. It is important to have a sketch first or just an idea of how it's going to look like. Ours happened to be a picture of "Marcello" and it's sick-looking puppies beside it. We sliced the actual puppies out of the original pictures. But prior to that, we had to have some background. Since, unfortunately, we didn't have that much time, we just decided to get a dark background image off the internet and enhanced it a little bit by adding effects to it. It was pretty cool that you can costumize it however you want it to be. But of course you have to have the knowledge on doing it. It was actually easier than I thought. My mentor said that it is easier to operate the new photoshops from today than the ones from back then. Yet, the new ones have more effects and functions that you can use to make a simple picture look better. So, after putting a layer for the background, we put the "sliced puppies", what me and my mentor called it, into the picture. But of course, of a different layer. Layers are important so you could re-edit a part of the picture if any changes occur. I thought doing photoshop is pretty interesting cause you can really put yourself into it by expressing yourself and being creative. Anyways, then, we put some effects into it such as shadowing and all that sort of stuff. The shadow around the puppies and Marcello makes them stand out. Even if it was not finished, yet, I actually found it pretty sick. I thought it looked so cool. And the fact that I made it made it even more exciting and fulfilling. Then after that, we chose a font for the text, which will be the name of the store. We used some cursive looking font and decided to arc it a little bit to match the shape of the dogs below them. We, again, added some effects to it to make it emboss. We finished it off by adding shadows around the text and making the background fade a little bit. I thought it looked pretty decent for a work done by an amateur like me. But, at the same time, I felt sad because it was the last day that we are going to work together for the capstone project. But the good thing is, we are still going to work even if it is outside the project. We didn't get to actually using Adobe Dreamweaver but he kind of introduced it to me and taught me where to find which, but he said that I have a lot more complex things to learn to be able to make a website. I'm looking forward into learning all of those because I know I can use them in the future. And thus, we ended that session by him signing off on my mentor evaluation. It's been a great experience working with a professional like him.

Time logged for this session: 4 hrs

Total time logged: 26 hrs