Organizational Skills
Fall
break is here! Now I have a lot more time to work on my Personal Project and
get some other work done. To start off, I looked at the calendar dates (2014 to
2015) that I found last week.
I also found a list of Indonesian
public holidays for both the end of 2014 and all of 2015, which I can use as a reference for my calendar’s red days.
Communication
I
asked the woman at the program store if she knew how to use Indesign, and she told me
that she did. In addition, she was going to show me a few of the tools and how
they worked, but when she opened the program I realized that it was just like
Photoshop with a few tools added. I did not want to waste anymore of her time
since she had other customers waiting, so I told her I would just look up some
web tutorials to figure out how to use the tools that were not in Photoshop.
Information Literacy
To
make my first calendar page, I used a tutorial on Youtube by “btscreativesuite”.
It
helped greatly because I learned a lot about making tables in Indesign,
coloring them, and resizing the different columns and rows. The color scheme I
am planning to use for each calendar page will be according to the color scheme
of its corresponding picture. Like the issue of Wolf Conservation:
Since the wolves in the picture are
grey, I decided to make the rows of dates grey. Also, the background is mostly
green, so the title row is colored green. I decided that if they were switched
(the title being grey and the dates being green, the green may be too dark for
anybody to write their important events on, rendering it useless). I also drew
some calendar designs. I had created some before, in the beginning of the
school year, but I realized that the main focus of the picture page of the
calendar should be the picture itself, not the short paragraph and tip. So I
made the space allotted for the picture bigger, and the text space smaller.
This is the first rough draft of the design of my calendar.
This is the second draft. It puts a lot more emphasis on the picture, which people will probably pay more attention to anyway.
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