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This is my name that I made my own font for. What I first did was I chose the text box tool and types my name in. I then used the sub selection tool to reform my name and gave effects like blur and piano keys.

Cornucopia_Fireworks

This is my Cornucopia for Thanks Giving. I used Adobe Fireworks for this cool project. As you can see I used all of the fruits and vegetables that were in my head. What I did for the basket is I started out with a small circle  and finished with a big circle. For the grapes i made one small circle and duplicated it so there where many of the same circle and conjoined them so it looked like a grape cluster. For the pumpkin i made one big oval and made littler ovals around the big one in the middle. For my pear I started out with a circle and then used the Reshape area tool to make the pear look effect. For my apple I made a oval and used the Reshape area tool and made it look like there is a bite taken out of it, and I also added a stem and used the Sub select tool to make it into a stem. For my orange I made an orange circle and added a small circle to make it look like the green stem on an orange. For my bread I made a long oval and added smaller ovals to make it look like slits and used the sub selection tool to reshape it too look more like slits. For my carrot I made a long skinny oval and also used the sub selection tool to make it even skinnier. For my watermelon I used the Pie shape and created a vine look and also used the pie shape again but make the meat of the watermelon. For the squash i did basically the same thing as the pear but shaped it so it curves a little bit more and also added a stem to it. Last for my sunflower I made one leaf and duplicated it and rotated each leaf around the brown circle and then added black seeds in the middle of it.The textures I used for this assignment are sand, and mesh.

Optimizing & Exporting Graphics

Optimizing and Exporting Graphics:

In Adobe Fire works what we did is Optimizing and Exporting the graphics of our design. This means we clicked on the image that we made, and click 4-up on the top of the image. This will divide your image into 4 parts. From here you will be able to change the file type for example: change the file type to JPEG or a GIF and change the quality to change the download speed and of course to change the quality of the image. Under your image that you created and once you clicked the 4-up, it will tell you all the information that is with the image, like the download speed, how big the image is and what the quality is. There are other settings also to change the smoothing and the matte.

 

Nameplate

-I made this image using Adobe Fireworks CS3. This is a JPEG What I did to create this image is I put a square over the canvas then edited it and changed the color and the texture of it. Then I used the text tool and made my name and bolded it, italicized and underlined it. The background is Rectangle, the edge is Hard and the texture is Scratch.



Professional-level

-I made this image using Adobe Fireworks CS3. This image is a JPEG and has a quality of 80. I made this image by adding a rectangle to the canvas and customizing the canvas color and texture. The color of the canvas is
Ellipse, the edge is Hard and the texture is Grain. I used the preset color red, green and blue.



Mid-level

-I made this image using Adobe Fireworks CS3. This image is a JPEG and the quality is 80. I made this image by adding a rectangle and changing the canvas color to a mild dark red. I then changed the font color to a light green and italicized the font. The font size is 75. The type of text used is Aharoni.




Basic-level

Art Terminology Definitions

 Hue:
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 Hue means a shorter version of color or colors. Hue can simply mean the lightness or the darkness of the color. For example red has many different hues like dark red, light red and even just plain red.
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Chroma:
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Chroma is the intensity or strength of a color like how light red does not have much strength. The intensity is how bright or just how the color stands out from other colors. This also means the purity of the color which means how pure the color is or if it has a lot of chemicals and what not in it.
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Tint:
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Tint is the opposite of shade. Tinting is used to make a color brighter or make it stand out more by adding tint to the color. Tinting also means a combination of a color to make it brighter.
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Tone:
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When talking about tone we are referring to the lights and the dark's of a color. For example if you can imagine a grey scale from white to black there are a lot of different "Tones" in between the two colors.  There are very light lights and very dark dark's.
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Shade:
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Shade is using a mixture of black to make a color darker.  For example if u add black to the color blue depending on how much you add, the color blue will turn darker. Shade is also the opposite of Tint.
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Complimentary Colors:
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Complementary colors are those which look opposite to one another on a color wheel. The complimentary colors are green, red, blue, orange, yellow and purple.
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Analogous Colors:
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Colors that are related to or close to are analgous. They are neighbors on the color wheel and have in share a common color. For example blue violet, violet, and red violet are all related because they all have red.
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Contrasting Colors:
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Contrasting Colors refers to the arrangement of opposite elements. For example light vs. dark colors, rough vs. sooth textures, ect. The colors white and black have the greatest degree of contrast because white is super light and bright and black has little light ans is super dark.
For more info, visit -  http://arthistory.about.com/cs/glossaries/g/c_contrast.htm

Texture:
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Texture is another element of art and is used to explain or describe either the way a three dimensional work actually feels when it is touched or the visual "feel" of a two dimensional work. Take a piece of wood, a real 3-D piece of wood might feel rough or smooth. A painter would create the illusions of these qualities through the use of color, line, shape, ect.
For more info, visit- http://arthistory.about.com/cs/glossaries/g/t_texture.htm

Graphic Design Principles:
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Graphic Design Principle has many principles and all have a certain thing they do in art today. The 6 Principles are, balance, proximity, alignment, repetition/consistency, contrast, and white space. These principles all have a meaning in art.
For more info, visit- http://www.design-lib.com/graphic-design-principles-gd.php

Balance:
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Balance refers to the way in which the elements of a piece of art are put together and arranged. ("informal") balance occurs when the elements are placed unevenly on a piece of art, but work together to produce harmony overall.
For more info, visit- http://arthistory.about.com/cs/glossaries/g/b_balance.htm

Symmetry:
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Symmetry plays a big part in the art world. This plays a big part because symmetry is when one side of something that balances out the other side.
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Graphic Format

PNG:

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The commonly used abbreviation in the computer world PNG stands for Portable Network Graphics. PNG is a Image File Format which is associated with (an)image/images. Saving a PNG is usually a pretty small file size and doesn't take up much space.

 For more info, please visit  - http://info.eps.surrey.ac.uk/FAQ/standards.html

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GIF:

The abbreviation of GIF is Graphics Interchange Format. A GIF is suppose to help slower connections transfer images or an image. Graphic Interchange Format was developed in 1987. GIF is in an 8 bit format which means the maximum amount of colors supported by the format is 256.
For more info, please visit - http://info.eps.surrey.ac.uk/FAQ/standards.html

JPG:

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JPG or JPEG stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group. This means it is a standardised compression mechanism. JPG is designed to compress either full color which is 24 bit or grey-scale digital images of "natural" real world scenes. JPG works best for simple cartoons or on photographs.
For more info, please visit-  http://info.eps.surrey.ac.uk/FAQ/standards.html

TIFF: 

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TIFF is an acronym for Tagged Image File Format. TIFF is one of the most widely supported file formats used to store bit-mapped images on a personal computer.
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