I believe the greatest thing I have learned this semester is familiarization with certain key software such as Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and Flash. I focused more on Flash and Photoshop as these will be two programs I will be using greatly in the feature and I am thankful that my professor, Jennifer Curtiss, did an amazing job in explaining the basic ins and outs. I do feel my greatest accomplishment was furthering my knowledge in adobe Flash, which I wouldn't have been able to do without the video project to give me motivation to push myself further than the curriculum. My greatest challenge was web design, but after observing several aesthetically pleasing websites, I'm sure my knowledge of creating pleasantly presented websites will increase with my knowledge of Dreamweaver.

Flash Basic Tutorial from Amaron on Vimeo.

The former was my instructional video concerning Adobe Flash player and various animation techniques used within it. 

For the current video assignment, I'm planning to do a frame by frame video showing 'steps' into getting into a college and university. I plan for this video to be humorous yet be able to offer sound advice at the same time. The frames will be simple and hand-drawn. 

I learned several new ways to make websites during the small portion of this course. While I did have some previous experience in Microsoft Frontpage, Dreamweaver was almost a whole different ball game. I learned how to interact and import css, choose colors, and import pre-made templates.

I've yet to come far with my website so I have not found much rewarding thing yet. Frustrations though, I've encountered a whole lot of them. Mostly alignment not working properly, the lack of coding knowledge to make more sophisticated and complex websites, also the lack of ideas that sometimes happens.

Next time I start building a site, I'll be sure to design and concept the website before jump in and start working on it cold turkey.

For my website, the main design I'd like to achieve is a hub page that branches into three different parts of the website. One showcasing and explaining animation, one showcasing art, and one for personal posts. The hub will be composed of three buttons and a background while the other pages will follow a blog like format for now.

Website Crunch

Web design seems to be both simplistic and complicated from what I've gleamed. You an create simple pages and websites with nothing more than notepad and a knowledge of html, or you can take it a step further and use software such as frontpage or dreamweaver. You can even mix in scripting from different languages ranging from Java to Perl in your website as well for more features to database management. Html is mostly composed of tags that are contained within <>. They are also composed of cascading style sheets which govern the appearance of the website.

How2Derp

Forgot to post this for the typography assignment. 6-9 Sorry.

But where's Octavia? D:

Design a Book Cover

I found a dusty old book in my attic one day.

When did I write this? :\

Because Physics.

Photo manipulation exercises. I killed a duck and took a feather from it today. Afterwards, I took a pose image of myself and the feather. I am such a baddie.

Wait, what? Today's assignment was supposed to be re-touching?...

Damn. :X

 ACTIVATE THE DERP CANNON!

Because I can. Besterest typeset ever.

Time for a t-shirt design! Took me about 3 classes time-wise to finish up the design on a larger scale then shrink it down.

Today we experimented with more tools in Photoshop CS6. I learned the usage of transformation, effects, and backgrounds/layers. The picture I uploaded is a bit of experiment with perspective using several combined images and also a filter gallery effect.

Today's lesson was a skim over some of Photoshop's features and image manipulation options. The lesson ranged from resolutions to contrast and exporting types in Photoshop. It was very informative, especially with some of the image effects possible. For now, my objective is to experiment with brushes in Photoshop.

THIS SUMMER I LEARNED HOW TO TYPE USING ALL CAPS.

I visited Jordan this summer to sit with my family. I pretty much sat down for a good two months visiting the local places and talking with my various cousins that also live there. It was pretty fun meeting my parents again after a while. I also got to eat lots of falaffel and shawerma. 

Hello, World.