Selecting Text in Adobe InDesign

1 click: places the cursor where you have clicked.

Click and Drag: Selects whatever you drag.

2 clicks: selects a word.

2 clicks and drag: selects a sentence. 

3 clicks: selects an entire line 

3 clicks and drag: highlights rows of lines

4 clicks: selects a paragraph.

4 clicks and drag: selects the following paragraphs until you stop dragging

5 clicks: Selects all.
5 clicks and drag does nothing after everything has already been highlighted.

Logo Design and Layout Stages

DESIGN STAGES

Audience:
The logo that I designed is directed towards the students and faculty of AWC.

Using Gestalt:
Gestalt means "whole" in German. In order to be considered gestalt the logo has to have certain qualities such as, closure, continuance, similarity,  proximity, and alignment. The @ symbol was an interesting symbol to work with because it automatically created continuance because of it's shape, the tail sort of guides the eye automatically to words and it creates closure after you finish reading the words. For the letters I used this "block" like font that I came up with. The letters all had similarity in the shape and were aligned in the tail of the @ symbol.


LAYOUT STAGES

GESTALT NAME INITIALS 

LOGO SKETCH 

                          SKETCH ROUGH                                                        SKETCH FINAL 

Low Quality Raster LOGO Reconstruction in Vector Format

Preparation:
After successfully scanning the image, the next step is to increase the resolution. Technically the higher the resolution, the better the image will look. For this logo we need to increase the resolution to 600. The following step is to select the grayscale color mode. The final step in the prep is to adjust the scale to 100%. Save file as Tiff.

Clean Up:

Once the Image has been prepped, while still in Photoshop the next step is to adjust the blacks and the whites so that the image becomes a lot sharper and without the patchy spots.
I then changed the image size to 8400 while keeping the image ratio.  Save Image as PSD and JPG

Live Trace in Illustrator:

Using Illustrator is a viable solution but I still like to use Photoshop a lot better. By using the black and white live trace preset the image really becomes sharp and at this point it looks like it could be the final product.

Logo Reconstruction Using the PEN Tool in Illustrator:

This was my first time using the Pen Tool in Illustrator and It was tricky and awkward at first. After getting the hang of it the bat logo that was traced came off of the original and onto the new logo.

File Format: 

When I scanned the image I saved it as a Tiff file because it provided the best image quality.  

After prepping and cleaning up the image in photoshop, I saved it as both a JPG and a PSD. 

While using Illustrator the file automatically saves as a Ai file so then we must export stand turn it into a PSD and a JPG. 

Advice on Vector Creation: 

I think that the most important part of this project was to be patient and do everything step by step.