The brochure assignment was not difficult yet deciding the layout took some time. Once we found the information that we wanted to include into the brochure next we laid it out and fixed the images in Photoshop before including them into the final project. We had to make sure the the information looked good and was the right spots, as well as broken up accordingly. We got lucky printing the brochure because it ended up coming out in the right direction the first time. Overall this project was helpful in case I ever need to create a brochure for a business or project in the future because before this I would have used a word template which is no where near as professional.

newsletter

The RIFF newsletter assignment was not too difficult. Deciding where to put the text on each page and each picture was the most frustrating part. Once the text was placed and the pictures in the right spots, wrapping the text was next. Normally I would not be able to figure this out but the handout in class showed how to accomplish this. Playing around with the fonts and columns was fun, but deciding on colors took a while, because we wanted to created an equal balance between text, images, and color. Overall I think the newsletter turned out well. We included the information about the film festival, how to enter, as well as an application form for the 2008 event. We used Big Caslon font, because it was stylish yet not to complicated, and colors that seemed to match the title color which was red.
I think the newsletter was a valuable assignment because in the future we may need to create one for our jobs. Learning how to put things in columns and wrap the text even made it look somewhat professional.

Bind In Cards

The three bind in cards were the hardest assignment for this course. Trying to make everything exactly identical to the original card was the hardest part. It seemed that every time I moved something, something else got messed up.
In Design was the easiest application to use. Moving the text around and making the magazine picture and title was not as hard as the other applications. Making the shadow on the picture and getting it to not be blurry was the hardest. I had to find the smallest picture of the magazine in Google, so that the resolution would not be blurry. Overall I like my In Design bind in the best.
Photoshop was the next easiest, but still difficult. Since we have not used it in a while it was hard to re adjust to using layers. Finding something as simple as a line took me a while to get u used to, and the size of the actual card took time as well. The filters were easiest in Photoshop, but fixing the text and line size was definitely the hardest.
Quark was the hardest application to use. Only having used Quark for the poster, and the bind in card being the hardest project so far, the two factors together did not work very well. In general Quark is just not familiar.