Finally Done!

Last night I finished everything. Although mine may not look as good as other peoples that I have seen, I am still pretty proud of mine. Given that I am not an art major or minor I think I used my limited knowledge in what looks good and what doesn't, pretty well. I started off wanting to do the diving with sharks for the Aquarium because I wanted to use the pictures that I took when I went diving. But as I started designing my template, I used less pictures and more details. I think I could vamp it up a little bit and add a little more to it if I got the chance, but I am still pretty proud of it!

I used Illustrator to create all of the vector shapes and the gradients and then transferred it over to Photoshop where I added masks to the pictures so I could erase them to match the shapes. I did this pixel by pixel and it took a painstakingly long time but the outcome is pretty high quality I think. After that, I moved the whole thing over to InDesign where I messed around with the texts. I liked being able to control how bold or Italicized everything was. Another helpful tool was the All Caps button or the No Caps button. It made it quick and simple to see what words I wanted in all caps and what looked like too much without having to retype everything. Also, I liked the tracker tool. It helped me see what kind of changes I was making once I got to a certain point. That way if I didn't like what I was doing, I could just decline the changes and I did not have to worry about it. It saved a lot of time and accidents.