I am having so much fun with learning these new technologies and getting more familiar with paint.NET. This blog post will show my magazine cover. I initially started out with my cat’s photo to practice with and make a cat magazine but when I was done practicing, I noticed a misspelled word, and I was running out of time, so I just stayed with the cat magazine theme and started all over. The bad thing about Paint.NET is that if you make a mistake in one area, such as misspelling a word and want to go back to it, you can’t! You will erase everything you did after you get to that one area you go back to in your history, so it is good to work in layers which is what I did the second time. Magazine2. Here is a link to my magazine cover. And yes, that is my cat, Somer-short for Somersault-on the cover. It may be hard to tell, but she is a tad bit overweight. At least that is what the Vet always tells me.
Below is a 11X17 flyer I made for PWR-350 in Adobe Illustrator. I traced Google images of the horseshoe, the shamrock, and the hat. The rest I used Adobe Illustrator to color the background and give it a light-dark image. Trying the get the letters to write on a curve was hard, but it is getting easier. I LOVE THIS STUFF!!!!!
I also learned how to export an AI (Adobe Illustrator) image to a JPG.
I also made a flyer for my PWR 350 class and I want to save it to my BAGTHEWEB.com site, but…well…I don’t know yet how to do that. In the meantime, I am going to load it here.
I did this in Adobe Illustrator for the “Share Your Story” night at the Hett.
I don’t fully understand why some attachments are so difficult to maneuver, but the above flyer or maybe it is to the right, I don’t know because when I type this message it is above, but when I update it, it moves it to wherever! Frustrating! (I’m referring to the purple flyer with the silhouettes).
I also did an advertisement for a golf tournament coming up. I would like to use other sites, such as Microsoft Publisher and Adobe Photoshop, but I am not as familiar with them as I would like to be, so this flyer above was done in Paint.NET.
Why this downloaded so easily versus the other one, is beyond me. Go figure!
Anyway, I hope you like it.
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