Hexadecimal Color Coding and Fonts

Hexadecimal Color 

Hexadecimal color coding is a way to display color in HTML. It is represented by #RRGGBB; the R representing red, the G representing green, and the B representing blue. Hexadecimal has a base of 16 digits, which range from 0-9 and A-F. The letters are higher than the numbers, so F is like a 16. The higher the number/ letter, the lighter the color will appear and vice versa.

 We incorporated our web design knowledge with our knowledge of the hexadecimal color coding to create a webpage. Looking at the HTML coding, you can see that the body has a lot of similar looking coding. But you can see that each is a different color with a different hexadecimal color code. We started off by doing the rainbow. For example, to create red you make the RR part the highest, which is FF, and leave the rest as zeros. Then we made a lighter color/pastel section. To create the lighter colors, we made the colors less vibrant. To do this, for example, the color red: You keep the RR turned up all of the way but make the other spaces in between dark and light by making them eights. Lastly, we made a section of "colorless colors." Black is the lowest number (#000000) and white is the highest (#FFFFFF), so to create gray, you meet half way. Gray would be #888888.The hexadecimal color coding does not always have six digits. If there is a color that has the same digit in each place, it can be shortened to just three digits. For example, #FF0000 can be shortened to #F00.

 This is what the Hexadecimal webpage looks like.

In addition to creating the hexadecimal page, we made a font page as well. We first learned the eight core web fonts. Some of which are serif fonts which means they have little 'lines' or feet at the end of them, while some are sanserif which means they do not. The serif fonts include:

• Times New Roman
• Georgia
• Courier

The sanserif fonts include:

• Arial
• Verdana
• Tahoma
• Trebuchet

• Comic Sans, which is a very controversial font. Many people hate it because it is commonly misused, disproportionate, and is overused.

After being educated on these fonts, we used created a webpage for it. We included the eight core web fonts by doing the same thing as creating the color page instead with fonts. We created a div style and set the font family to whatever the font was. We then typed: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. We typed this to display the letters of the alphabet because this simple sentence includes all of the letters in the alphabet.

This is what the font webpage looks like

Photoshop Reflection

In Graphic design we started working with Photoshop. Photoshop is used for editing pictures, so that is what we did. We edited a wide array of pictures, after watching tutorials instructing how to do it. When Photoshopping an image, it is important to be as precise as possible, or it will be easy to tell that the picture has been altered. I learned this the hard way through editing the pictures.

Content Aware Fill Tool

We started off simple by editing out unwanted marks and scratches that were on the wall behind the man. This was done by selecting the marks with the content aware fill tool, and then pressed delete. It is a very handy tool because it gets the job done easily, fast, and well. This is my favorite tool that we learned this week because it is very useful and easy to use.

We then got the opportunity to better our skills by using the content aware fill tool once more. First we selected the logo on the man's surfboard, and then we moved it up higher on the surfboard. Because the bottom of the the surfboard is slightly a darker color than where the logo was moved to, we also had to adjust the background color to match. 

                                         Spot Healing Brush

Secondly, we used the spot healing brush tool. The boy had dirt splotches all over his face, so we had to remove them. To do this we used the spot healing brush. The spot healing brush requires a sample background color selection to accurately conceal the blemish. You just select the background color, and color over the dirt, and it is gone. I really like this tool because, like the content aware fill tool, it is very simple to use, does a great job, and is very fast. 

Clone Healing Brush

Next, the clone healing brush tool was used to remove a tag from the girl's coat. Unlike the spot healing brush, the clone healing brush selects the around colors automatically. All that needs to be done is draw over the tag to erase it. After this, we added some texture back into where the tag used to be. I could have done better with this step. My 'texture" turned out being very sloppy and unnatural looking, although it is not very noticeable if it is not zoomed in. 

                                Clone Patch Tool

There was a pole perturding through the man's head in this picture, so we edited it out. We used the clone patch tool to remove the pole and then go over it with the background sky color. If you look closely, the sky is a slightly different shade to the far left because I could have done a better job using the tool. This is a useful tool, but I'm not very good at using it. 

Patch Tool

The man had a political shirt stating that "everyone poops," so we removed it from the picture. This was done using the patch tool. First we drew around the graphic, then moved it to a space that was the color of his shirt. The tool recognized the color of the shirt automatically and changed the graphic to the color.

                                           The Collage

The most challenging of the Photoshop tutorials was the collage. It involved everything that we learned from previous videos and even threw in some new things as well. Too many tools and steps were used in the making of the collage to list. We started off with three pictures of which we arranged to look like it does to the left. This sounds simple but it was quite the process. We had to get another picture to continue her sleeve because it was cut off, expand the background/ scenery, and color in the sky. I did not do so well on expanding the background as you can tell by the obvious vertical line on the left hand side of the picture. This was a very frustrating project but was educational.

Challenge

Lastly, the class got to use our creativity and newly learned skills. We were given a photograph of a man, along with multiple scenery pictures. We were then told to let our imagination soar. I had no idea what to do, so I just winged it. I probably did everything wrong, and I couldn't even recall what  did, but in the end it actually turned out looking pretty decent.

Internet Archive "Wayback Machine"

The moment a website is "born" to the present, the evolution of it is being tracked. Some websites change drastically, while some stay pretty much the same. From the content to the design, it is always interesting to see the progression of a website. Luckily, there is a website called Internet Archive "Wayback Machine"(https://archive.org/web/), that allows you to go back in time to the very beginning of a website, and anywhere in between. In web design we looked up popular websites to go back in time to. I chose Amazon, YouTube, and Blogger.

Amazon.com

Amazon 8/25/16

Amazon 8/25/16 HTML

Today Amazon.com looks clean and appealing. It gives the online shopper much to want to click on. There is a lot going on, yet it is simple and organized. There are also many pictures and icons. To the right is Amazon's present HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language, which is the language used for content on the web). There is a lot going on in its HTML.

Amazon 10/13/99

Amazon 10/13/99 HTML

Amazon has not always looked so good. On October 13th, 1999 the website could use some work. It had a painfully dull design with little to no appeal. It was all words, with no pictures and few icons. The HTML in very simple which is shown through its design. Luckily Amazon has changed since the twentieth century.

                                                              Youtube.com

Youtube HTML 8/24/16

Youtube home page 8/24/16

Youtube has a very organized layout, and it needs to be that way because of the millions of videos it hosts. The popular video sharing platform is easily accessible, with its search bar placed at the top, and recommended videos placed in plain view. The layout is simple and works well for its intended use. The HTML is quite complex with many different sections, which correlates to its visual design.

Youtube home page in 4/28/05

Youtube HTML in 4/28/05

Everyone knows Youtube as a site to find and post videos, whether it be for entertainment or a tutorial; but Youtube has not always been this way. Back in 2005, at the "birth" of Youtube, it was actually used as a dating website. Not only was the old Youtube's intended use cringe-worthy, so was its design. The Youtube logo has stayed pretty much the same to the present day's, but the wys it was placed on the original website is very bad. It would be much better if the logo was made transparent. Overall the original design is not interesting. Its HTML is very simple. On each new line there is hardly anything.

Blogger.com

Blogger home page 8/24/16

Blogger HTML 8/24/16

What this blog post looks like as you are reading it now was quite different than what it would have been back then. Blogger's home page is very artsy, clean, organized, colorful, and simplistic. It has a sign up button, a few pictures, and a changing background. The HTML is very complex because the home page has a lot going on, but it is displayed in an organized way.

Blogger 6/1/04 HTML

Blogger 6/1/04

Blogger was still a blogging platform at its beginning, but it was not as aesthetically pleasing as today's is. Blogger's design was extremely boring and bland, with its lack of color. Unsurprisingly, its HTML was incredibly simple.

e-Magine

At e-Magine we had the chance to see what all of the upperclassmen from Olathe NorthWest, and other Kansas schools were doing. It ranged from website designs to short films, but they were all equally impressive. Everyone did a wonderful job creating their creative project, and I hope to become as good as they are.

E.O.Y. reflection

e-9 is drawing to a close. Not only was I able to be a part of something very fun, I also learned a lot to do with what makes an appealing design through color psychology, CARP, text, and much more. Besides learning design tips, I learned the basics of the four rotations. 

I learned how to make an animation in animation. Animation was probably the hardest of the stands, but it was also the first strand, so I might have just not been prepared. Animation had many different steps in making something and was very complex; but in the end, it was worth it when you can look at the awesome final product. The bouncy smiley face was my favorite project that I made in animation.

After animation was video. Video was very exciting because you're able to let your personality shine through in videos. You can do the same in the other strands through voice and design, but in video you can act out funny, sad, or scary scenes. Video was not very difficult and it was very fun. My favorite video that I put together was the e-9 promotional video.

We were introduced to website design during second quarter. Web design is very good for letting your creativity loose. At least for me, it was very fun to put all of the colors that compliment each other together, and incorporating different fonts to make the website look appealing and clean. My favorite website that I designed was for my quarter four project, Pocket Cosmetics. I was designated the job of Website designer. I loved how the website turned out with its girly colors and fonts.



The last of the rotations was graphic design. Graphic design was very fun. It allows you to put your imagination down into a beautiful creation. Graphic design is a little challenging because it has so many different tools and shortcuts, but it's very fun. My favorite graphic design creation that I made was the AVAcado logo.

I also learned how to communicate, collaborate, and how to lead a group and keep it in check. This has been achieved mainly through the last quarter rotation where we invented a product. I would say that my greatest strengths are coming up with an idea, while my greatest weakness would have to be exhibiting the idea. It is easy for me to imagine what I will do, but it is hard to do the technical aspects of making it happen. I have improved, however, on learning how to do things so that I do not need as much help. With what I have learned throughout the year, I plan to create more creative and appealing things. If I am making a card or a power point I can use what I've learned to make it look really good. To make the e-Comm experience better and simpler for beginners, I would suggest a paper that has all of the keyboard shortcuts and how to do things, and buttons to press. Overall, my first year of e-Comm has been very fun, and I am excited for next year.

Pocket Cosmetics

For the last quarter of e-9, all of the first hour classes were mixed together. We were then divided into 4-5 member groups based on our ranging personality types. I was in a group with Mackenzie, Ella, and Anyzja. We all discussed what product we wanted to "invent". Anyzja came up with the idea of a pocket knife but for makeup instead of knives, which we named MakeMeUp! We went off of this idea to design the look of our company and product. We constructed a logo, web banner, ad, and coupon in the graphic design rotation. We made a 3D animation of our product in animation. Lastly, we made a commercial in video. Working in a group has its pros and cons because of all the varying ideas and visions. Luckily, I think that my group and I got together quite well. We worked well coming up with good ideas together, but we lacked communication along the way. We had our ups and downs but overall we made a good team.

This is our home page of our website. It has our commercial on it. Special thanks to Haley Couch for staring in our commercial. The logo was made by Mackenzie, and the web banner was made by me. I also designed the website.

 This is our "More" page. It has in depth information about what our product is. It also has an animation of the MakeMeUp, made by Ella. The bathroom scenery was made by Anyzja.

 This is the "coupons" page of our website. It has the coupon on it that was made by Anyzja.

 The "Ad" page has the ad on it which Ella created.

The company info page has the company information and the bios of all of the team members.

This is our commercial

This is the animation

Photoshop

For our last week in graphic design we had our photoshop unit. Photoshop deals with editing pictures. We edited four different pictures. 

This was the first photo. It started off as just a picture of Olathe North West, but I typed ONW into it and put the onw compass on it. I made the opacity low so that the picture beneath it could still be visible. This edit was very simple. 

This was the second picture that I edited in Photoshop. It started off as a monarch with orange wings. I selected the orange areas and changed the colors to make a nonexistent species of butterfly. A rainbow butterfly. This was very easy to do, and if I took my time it would look extremely realistic. This is why you sometimes can't trust a picture- because Photoshop can do a lot.

This picture was a little more difficult because I had to use a text mask. It started off as just a picture of NorthWest, and then I put the text mask over it and made the colors ONW colors.



The last picture I made was the most difficult. I had to first "trace" the raven out of a picture, and then layer a bunch of pictures on top of each other.  I personally think that the picture looks sloppy because of how many pictures are compiled onto one another.





On top of being our Photoshop unit this week, it is also the last week of graphic design. I enjoyed graphic design very much and am excited to take it next year as well.