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Feb 23 - Gestalt Principle: When things appear to be similar to each other, we group them together.
Emphasis: Th principle of design that highlights the most important elements in a composition to draw the viewers attention.
Feb 22 - Iterative Design: Involves a continuous cycle of planning, analysis, implementation, and evaluation.
Rule of Thirds: The technique of using a grid of three rows and columns and placing important elements where the lines meet.
Feb 21 - No Derivatives: Copyright license that allows others to use a creative work but it cannot be changed in any way.
Share Alike: Copyright License that allows others to reuse, remix, and modify a creative work, but any derivative (changed) works must be distributed under the same terms and conditions as the original work.
Feb 20 - Orientation: Specify a page orientation for the document as either portrait or landscape
Foreground: Elements in a composition that are closest to the viewer.
Feb 16 - Public Domain: Creative work that can be used without permission because it is owned by the public and not an individual.
Development order: 1-planning, 2-designing, 3-building, 4-testing, 5-publishing
Feb 15 - Creative Commons: Copyright license that allows anyone to use a work in certain ways with permission from the creator
Non-Commercial: Copyright License that does not allow profit to be made from the use of creative work.
Feb 14 - Saturation: The intensity (brightness) of a color
Value: the lightness or darkness of a color
Feb 13 - Crop: To cut out necessary parts of an image to improve framing, highlight a subject or change the image's aspect ratio.
Grayscale: The use of only black, white, and shades of gray in an image.
Feb 12 - Gradient: A gradient fade between colors
Rule of thirds: the technique of using a grid of three rows and columns and placing important elements where the lines meet.
Feb 9 - Rasterize: To convert a vector image to pixels(raster image). Texts and shapes created with the shape tool are the only vectors in Photoshop.
Resample: to change the dimension of a raster image by adding or deleting pixels through sampling.
Feb 8 - Release: A legal document giving permission from the copyright holder to use copyright material
Metadata: Information about an image file such as copyright information. You can set this at file>File info
Feb 7 - PNG: A file type used for online (not printing) that has a transparent background.
Raw File: An uncompressed file directly exported from a camera with the most detail possible for editing. After Editing, RAW files are often compressed in JPG Files.
Feb 6 - Contrast: The arrangement of different elements in a design to create visual interest, emphasis, or a focal point. Contrast can be achieved through variations of color, size, shape, texture, or typography.
Emphasis: The principle of design that highlights the most important elements in a composition to draw the viewer's attention. Emphasis can be achieved through size, color, contrast, or positioning.
Feb 5 - Symmetry: the work of art is the same on one side as the other.
Radial symmetry: A form of symmetry in which identical parts are arranged in circular fashion around the central axis.
Feb 2 - Mockup: A scale or full size model use for design presentations, often showing how a design will look in its intended environment.
Brand Identity: The visual elements that represent a logo or brand and help differentiate it of its competitors
Feb 1 - Alignment - The placement or arrangement of elements in a design along a visual axis to create balance and order
Whitespace/negative space - The empty or unmarked areas in a design strategically used to create balance and order.
Jan 31 - Gamut: the range of color used in a color space
Color depth/bit depth: How much color variation in each pixel of an image.
Jan 30 - RGB Color: you add all the colors together to make white
CYMK color: you subtract all the colors to make white
Jan 29 - Leading - The vertical space between lines of text in a paragraph
Hierarchy - The arrangements of elements in a ay that indicates importance.
Jan 26 - Kerning: the space between two characters of text
Tracking - the space between a group of text characters
Jan 25 - Dimension: The exact size of your file
Proportion/Aspect Ratio: the ratio of an images width or height
Jan 24 - Raster(bitmap): an image Photoshop made up of square pixels. it cannot be enlarged without losing any quality since the pixels will get bigger.
Vector: Graphic that can be enlarged without losing any quality.
Jan 23 - Printing specs: CYMK files, the resolution should be 300
Screen spec: RGB files, the resolution should be 72.that is clear enough for viewing on a screen and will download faster.
Jan 22 - Non destructive edits: when you make edits that are no permanent
Destructive edits: edits that are permanent
Jan 19 -
Iterative design - A type of process when you continuously improve the project your working on by making a prototype, testing it, tweaking it, and repeating the cycle with the goal of getting closer to the solution.
Visual Design Process - Discuss intention of the job, research similar jobs, brainstorm (do rough sketches), make edits and refine work. This is a specific example of iterative design.
Jan 18 -
Testing Phase - The third step in a project when a team sure everything that was designed works correctly.
Implementing/Publishing Phase - The last step in a project when the final project is done and either put on a website, published in a book or printed.
Jan 17 -
Planning and Analysis phase - The first step in a project when a team collaborates (has a group discussion) on how to solve a problem in the project.
Designing Phase - The second step in the project when solutions are created and suggested to solve any problems or tasks needed.
Jan 12 -
Timeline - The estimated time it will take to complete a project and when its due
Project Phases - The grouping of steps required to finish a project - they are broken down into sections and put on a timeline.
Jan 11 -
Questions to ask a client - What are the goals of the project? Who is the target audience? What are the audience demographics?
Project specs - Description of how the project needs to be done( sizes, resolution, color format, web cs. print document, etc.)
Jan 10 -
Target Audience - The specific group of consumers that will most likely want to buy your product or service.
Demographics - The groupings of your target audience that can be age, culture, education levels, income levels, and gender.
Jan 9 -
Feedback Loop - The order in which feedback is presented on a part of a project
Scope Creep - Continuous and unauthorized growth of a project's scope.
Jan 8 -
Project scope - The part of planning a project that involves making a list of specific project goals with tasks, costs, and deadlines.
Change Orders - requested changes to a project's scope which should either be approved or denied.
Dec 14 - Credit to the author, No Commercial Use, and No Derivs
Dec 13 - Share-alike license is a copyright licensing term, originally used by the Creative Commons project, to describe works or licenses that require copies or adaptations of the work to be released under the same or similar license as the original
Dec 12 - to credit the author and not change the artwork in any way.
Dec 11 - You can't sell the art if you have the no commercial use license even if you credit the author or not.
Dec 8 - Non-Commercial License is a license that limits you from making profit from your work. Your not allowed to make any money with this license. The person that contracts you has the rights to what you created for them. A fair use doctrine is what is used limit the use of something as long as the rights holder doesn't lose any money.
Dec 7 - Public Domain is when a copyright license expires, bringing the product to the public domain, where it stays their forever allowing anyone to do anything with it.
A community of photographers run Pixabay. The site has more than 450000 free photos under CCO license. So, you do not need any licensing permission to copy and distribute the photos. The site also allows you to browse using the terms the type of camera, by photographer, orientation, size, color, and ‘Editor’s Choice’.
Dec 6 - Creative commons license gives everyone from individual creators to large institutions a standardized way to grant the public permission to use their creative work under copyright law.
Dec 5 - SA License - This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms.
Dec 4 - Derivative means changed, so ND the work can not be changed. You can use it, but it must appear exactly like the original.
Nov 30 - I liked the glass.
Nov 28 - Attribution means giving credit to a person who created something
Nov 27 - Copyright is the exclusive right to copy, distribute, and profit from a work. It allows authors, musicians, and artists to make money off their work. It prevents others from taking their work for free and prevents people from altering(changing) their work without permission.
Nov 16 - The spacing between 2 letters is called kerning. The spacing between a group of letters is called tracking. The spacing in between lines of text in a paragraph is called leading.
Nov 15 - Red could be for a big project, a car company like Ferrari for example, which puts their all into their work and manufacturing. Black could be for a classic clothing company, maybe making sophisticated suits for the wealthy and people with luxurious taste. Green could be for a plant company considering the natural color of plants is green, which sprouts a sort of naturalism.
Nov 14 - I Feel like I did good on the isometric room, but I want to add more to it. I tried something new by adding lighting and want to add more detail.
Nov 13 - The apples have contrast and repetition from the amount of apples their are and the one red apple in the center.