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. 

Vectorize Raster Logos

RGB Mode

Indxed Color Number

The RGB mode is definitely the better quality image as the edges of the image are way smoother and the colors are sharper. Because the RGB color mode uses more colors the file size of this new image will be 869 KB compared to the INDEXED image, which size is 345 KB. Even though the RGB uses more space it is definitely the more appealing image.

GIF IMAGE

Orignal GIF

As we can clearly see the NEW GIF IMAGE has way better quality than the ORIGINAL. The original image had terrible resolution which was fixed by using the HIGH FIDELITY preset then changing it to a GIF FILE.

Ai: Compare File Sizes

3 colors 

High Fidelity

10pt. Curved Line

By using the 3 COLOR preset we decrease the number of colors therefore the file will be only about 2.1MB. When we use the HIGH FIDELITY preset we increase the number of colors therefore making the file size quite larger to 10.4 MB. Also when we use HIGH FIDELITY the number of vector points increases by about four times of the SIMPLE image.

PEN TOOL

In order to make a perfect rectangle in illustrator  we must use the pen tool to first draw a line. After drawing the initial line find the anchor and draw three more lines until the rectangle is complete. 

You create a curve by adding an anchor point where a curve changes direction, and dragging the direction lines that shape the curve. The length and slope of the direction lines determine the shape of the curve.

In order to draw an arrow just draw a straight line with the pen tool. Open up the stroke window by going to Windows----->Stroke, then select the arrowhead that you want.

Position the Pen tool where you want the curve to begin, and hold down the mouse button.The first anchor point appears,and the Pen tool pointer changes to an arrowhead. 

In order to create a 3pt. curved line we position the Pen tool where we want the curve to begin, and hold down the mouse button. Once it's curved go to Windows----->Stroke, then under the arrow head option you can find all sorts of "arrowheads" select the one of your choosing.

SHAPES Ai

Select star tool and drag 

Select the Flare tool then drag
for this tool one can adjust a variety of settings like the dimensions of the halos, rays, and rings.

Select star tool and change the number of points desired. 

Select Polygon tool and drag. 

Select polygon tool, then change the number of points you want.

Select rectangle tool then adjust the heigh and length to equal dimension 

Select rectangle tool and drag out

Select the Ellipse tool and drag.

Select the ellipse tool and adjust height and length dimensions 

Use Rounded Rectangle tool and drag.