Peer Review On Brochures

Today we saw some different brochures done by the class. I thought that for the most everyone did a pretty good job. BRlyLegal done by Shawn was very neat to me. I thought that the colors were very well organized and easy to read. Although he had a bit too much images and very little on text and informations. At the same time It was still very creative. He set the images up like it was a collage. The fact that he set the images up like a collage really caught my attention. I also think that since he was the only person that think of it was really kind of new.

Unlike Shawn's brochure, Aliaa had a completely different thing. Hers was quite different and very well detailed. Although her brochure was somewhat really less on images which was fine. But it didn't cause my attention very well. I understand that when she said Model UN didn't really have much images to use. I think her color contrast was okay. It was very easy or too hard to read. Her background was somewhat too dark. Still her brochure was very well organized out.

Now for the most part, I thought that Jennifer's brochure on Sophies was very well done. It was easy to read and really cause my attention. I think that the inside of the brochure, the images she had put was a bit too small but overall it was very well organized. I like the fact that she was the only person who did her brochure like a menu that you see in stores with details and prices. The contact was also very long and detailed. Overall I learned that many students did a really well job on the brochure and that they all had their different imaginations and creativity.

Photoshop and InDesign Lab Reflection

So far we have done 6 Labs in this class related to Brochures. The first lab we did reflected on a lab that was very similar in Visual Design 1. We were doing about working with saturation, hue and other things that are in Photoshop for the first lab we did. Then on the second lab we were working on how to play around with text to see the different effects on what the text can create.On the third lab that we did we learned how to wrap text which is basically like making texts go around a box instead of on it to make it look nice with a format. In the fourth lab we did we learned how to do character styles. Basically it was to help us to save styles we created and we can use it again.

On the fifth lab it was really cool we did it about vanishing. We played around with an image and overlaying stuff using tools. Finally on the sixth lab we did it on a layer in InDesign where we used a previous lab for it. It was how to lock and make layers to be seen or not. But this lab u can't necessarily see it unless it is in InDesign where you can see it on the Layers Panel. These labs helped me to further understand the different tools that are in both InDesign and Photoshop. All the labs we did were mostly focusing on the texts.

These labs we did will help us later in making a brochure because it will make our brochures look better. Such as the wrap text, we can use that to separate the columns better and more organized. These labs will also help us in understanding the concepts of the texts. This will help make the brochure different and unique. Which can also help in applying to different audiences that you have chosen. All of these can be used for the brochure such as pictures. Maybe we can use the lab that we learn and apply black and white, saturation, hue and many more others to the images we might use in this brochure we will be making.

Peer Review

The welcome page has great informations but there really isn't any specific pictures. I'm guessing that he did not have enough time to finish his welcome page. The layout and folder setup is separated into 2 different folders called Design Work and Image Work. The header of this portfolio is good because it contains informations. As for the color scheme it is pretty nice because it isn't too hard to read from and the shade of blue is very nice. My overall impression is that I can clearly see that he has improved every single time as the projects moved on.

His portfolio is also very well organized. But as you moved on towards his portfolio you can see that he didn't have much time left so he didn't really make folders to separate the labs and the projects that he did. I see that he didn't really include all the pictures that we've took outside with out digital cameras for the image work. But it was still great that he had the labs which we played around with in Photoshop by changing images to black and white, saturation, hue and so on. I think that he did a great job converting all the files into pdf so that it was actually able to be opened to see his work. It helped to show his progress in all the labs and projects that he has did and it also shows how much improvement has happened from first semester to the end of the semester.

Better Brochure

This video taught me how to get the size of the image I want to fit my brochure. But not only that it also teaches me how to maintain the quality of the picture. This would help to preserve how the important objects of the pictures to look the same as it originally is. It would help to not stretch the picture too wide or make the important objects to o short and scrunchy which won't look good. Not only that it also helps so that it will satisfied whoever your making the brochure for so that there is no complaints of any sorts. I think this video also taught me some new ways of preserving a picture in the object by first using the lasso tools to select it out and save the layer so that later when you are going to scale the image size it wouldn't affect that object even a bit. It would only affect the items that weren't as important which isn't a big deal. I also think this video will show that to the customers that you know how to use the tools well enough and make a great brochure for them to hang out so that maybe later in the future they might recommend other companies or peoples to ask you to make more brochures that are interesting, new, creative, and unique.