Tressa McIff Blogs

Summary My first project as a sophomore in Graphic Design was to follow along with some Photoshop tutorials and eventually edit my own creation. I learned a lot through this process, especially since I hardly knew anything about Photoshop before starting with the tutorials. First, I learned about content aware fill and used it to remove unwanted details from the background of images. Then I learned about the patch tool and used it to remove a logo from a man's shirt. Next, the videos taught me about the clone stamp and the healing brush. I used those to remove a tag from a woman's coat. After that, I learned how to use the patch tool with the clone stamp and used those to remove more background details. The spot healing brush, which was next, was used to remove small blemishes from a boy's face. The last tutorial was about building a portrait collage and combined most of the skills I had learned in previous tutorials. The last project was a challenge where I was supposed ...

My first video project of my sophomore year was creating a video that showed how to go through a basic procedure at ONW. My group decided to show how to get a pass and go to the restroom. Initially, we were going to show what not to do as well as what you should do, but I decided to cut that out of my edit in order to make the video shorter. We had to start the process with coming up with a concept for the video. Luckily, we came up with the idea of getting a pass and going to the restroom fairly quickly. Once we did that, I wrote the script and the other group members created the storyboard. We were supposed to start filming the next day, but we got faulty equipment so we couldn't start until the next day. As far as our cast list, we just used the people in our group as actors in the video so that we wouldn't have to disturb any other groups or classes. The process of actually filming went fairly smoothly. I was the main cameraman, one group member was the main actress, and...