Kismet Arts Tangent
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Category: software
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(Above: Pete’s shirt button– I think one day I’m going to make an interface where this is a button you must press. Where it goes, I cannot yet say.) Tim showed the class how to do stuff in Photoshop to make our interfaces more professional, but truly this stuff comes with years of practice and…
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I took the above picture last Sunday. I keep having software dreams. Last week I had a dream about text wrap. Today we learned how to make multiples in InDesign using the arrows and polygon tool (command if you want to give them more room—yay for gutters), and it made me think I’ll have a…
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The most important thing when approaching a program you aren’t familiar with is to show it who is boss. Today Hoppe ran through the basics of InDesign showing firstly that you must set your preferences in the program to give yourself more control over what you are doing: change the defaults. Set your workspace to…
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Today Mr. Hoppe explained how to go through the proper channels to get the best selection for an image. (Blue works best. If CMYK, convert to RGB.) I learned that the silhouette (the black and white image in the duplicate channel has to be super sharp (and blurry where you want it!) before actually making…
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This is what a symbol spray and its various sidekick-widgets can do for you (also with a bit of graphic appearance modifications). I imagine this could be useful for future depictions of flocks of birds, schools of fishes or abstract concepts like the herd of triangles that swishes around in the Fantasia 2000 clip of…
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(This poster doesn’t particularly demonstrate the differences of black. I was playing with the 3D effect in Illustrator– as per the instructor requested– and decided that the donut spaceship was too cool to discard.)
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It’s interesting for these effects that the clarinet image is on top of the stripes.
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Here’s my Blob-Brush Dragon and his homeland, BlobBlending Volcano Island. (Done in Illustrator in class.)
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