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This week, I kept working on my calligram project in Adobe Illustrator. I focused on tracing different sections where I wanted to place words and learned how to use Envelope Distort – Make with Top Object to shape the text. By Tuesday, I had a black-and-white draft, but there is still a lot I need to improve before the final version is due next Tuesday. Adobe Illustrator is a program used to create illustrations and designs. This week, I used it to manipulate text and fit it into specific areas of my calligram. This process required a lot of precision and adjusting, which made it more challenging than other projects I’ve worked on. One of the main tools I learned was Envelope Distort – Made with Top Object. This tool allows text to take the shape of the object I created using the pen tool, which is the main part of my calligram design. My biggest struggle has been getting the text to fit exactly right within the shapes I created with the pen tool. It takes a lot of trial and error, and...

  Sophie Miller Weekly Blog Post 1 - 2/3 - 2/7 This week, we continued working in Adobe Illustrator and started on layers and tracing our headshots. We switched back to dropbox, and I ensured all my assignments were properly named and uploaded. One of the biggest exercises we did this week was the Griswold car exercise, where we had to put the National Lampoon's vacation inside the car using envelope distort: make text mesh. At first, this was difficult for me, but after I understood how it worked and how each point can be moved to fit the way you want it, it became easier and quite fun. Adobe Illustrator is a program used to create illustrations, logos, and other designs. This week, I learned how to use different tools to group words, move them around, fit them inside projects, and turn text from text font to an object, these tools gave me better control over how text interacts with different parts of a design. This week, I worked on two major projects. First, I traced headshots f...

Weekly Blog Post 1 - 2/10 - 2/14 This week, we learned how to use Adobe Illustrator, specialized in the pen tool, and started on our first project, a calligram. A calligram is an image made from words, where the text forms a shape that represents its meaning. For Thursday's class, I will have song lyrics picked out from one of my favorite songs, “Yes I'm Changing” by Tame Impala. I will also have headshots done by Thursday. This week was my first time exploring Illustrator in-depth, and it was challenging using a new app. Unlike Photoshop and Firefly, Illustrator uses vector graphics instead of pixels, so designs can be resized without losing quality. This makes it great for logos, illustrations, and text-based art. This week, I focused on the Pen Tool, which is used to create precise paths and shapes in Illustrator. It allows you to draw straight lines, curves, and different shapes by placing points and dragging to create curves. At first, I had trouble getting smooth curves a...

  Sophie Miller Weekly Blog Post 1 - 2/3 - 2/7 Hi! This is my first blog for Digital Media Spring 2025. This past week, I worked with Adobe Firefly and used it in Photoshop to explore layers and different editing techniques. Firefly helped me understand how AI tools can expand a person's creativity and make the design process easier. Adobe Firefly is a generative AI tool that lets users create and edit images using text prompts. We took the photos Adobe Firefly created and put them into Photoshop and worked with techniques like layering and different types of blending the layers to make it more cohesive. The main project we worked on this week was creating a colored pencil ad by generating a lion lying down in a grassy field, and we had to make the lion look like it was sketched with real colored pencils. It took a lot of trial and error to try different prompts and filters to get the right picture, and it was interesting to see what Adobe Firefly spit out with the different prompt...