Book Cover (Photoshop)

For this book cover first I divided each section with ruler lines. As a background I found a dark image of a car in a foster and I put it behind everything. For the front page I wrote the book title in a large font with the name of the author at the bottom a bit smaller than the title but still a bit large to gain the attention. In between I inserted two images which I gave them a circle shape by using the Elliptical Marquee Tool. Also I made them black and white and decreased their opacity. For the flip of the back (author section) I inserted an image of the author and made a clip mask of a circle shape so the image take the same shape. Then at the back I added a stroke for the bar code because it was black on a dark background and it wasn’t that visible, so thanks to the stroke the bar code came visible. For the same reason I made the dummy text in a white colour.

Flyer (Photoshop)

For this flyer I decided to keep a plain background with two rectangles across each other to make that kind of movement effect in the background. The title which is “Stress Management Seminar” I made it with capital letters to gain attention, with a colour and with a shadow effect. Across it I wrote “Open to all MCAST Students” with the same colour as the boxes and again I gave the shadow effect. Below this I put an image related to stress so the flyer won’t be text only. At the bottom of the flyer I wrote the details; date, time and place with a different colour. Then in the up-right corner I put the MCAST logo to sort of proof that it is supported by the collage.

Grid Project (Illustrator)

For this exercise we had to divide an 8 by 8 inch art-board into four columns and rows with ¼ of an inch between each section. We had a set of text that we had to arrange them through the whole grid, by making an effect with the whole text, but still being readable with a font size 8 and with a font type from Switzerland. We had to make three different with the third one we could add another font size. To make the certain effects basically I used the left, right and centre alignment, arranging the text box size to make it continue in another part, by dragging the small red cross.

Recipe Booklet (Illustrator)

For this exercise I did two art boards in the same document and made a ruler margin in the middle of each so I will know which page that specific part will be, as the recipe is a small booklet.

First I gave a sort of a yellow colour to the background, then I started with the front page; putting an image of the main ingredient (in this case the bacon), in the middle of the page with “Bacon” written above it and “Recipes” written below it, both in capital letters and in black colour. To make a sort of effect to the front page I put two lines in the top left-corner and in the bottom right-corner, and gave them an orange colour to be in the same scale of yellow. After that I started with the pages of the inside (the actual recipes). Basically for both of them I put their title on top of the page in bold and in black colour, then underneath that I mentioned the “Time”, “Ingredients”, and “Directions” with the titles being bold, and all the text in black colour. In the bottom right-corner of each recipe I put an image of a final product.

Drawing (Illustrator)

For this exercise we were divided into groups of three and each individual had to draw on an A4 paper folded in three so the others won’t be visible to the other group members. Basically the drawing had a head, body, and legs.

Hand Drawing

After it was drawn by hand we had to scan it and make a digital version of it by Illustrator. I did this by going through the lines of the picture by the pencil tool and here is the result:

Digital Drawing

Face Illustration (Illustrator)

For this illustration I searched for some portraits and I chose a portrait of Vladimir Putin.

First I opened the image on Photoshop to select certain areas and make paths for them. To select these parts I chose different tools between Quick Selection, Magic Wand, and also the Magnetic Lasso Tool. For every part I selected I created a path for it, and after I selected the parts that I wanted I exported them to Illustrator. From here I started to given each path (selection) a colour and for every path I had that in the real picture was darken with a shadow, I gave a darker colour to make a bit of a contrast.

Here is the result:

Weekend Break Advert (Illustrator)

For these adverts I found an image from the internet and put it in Photoshop to make it black and white for the first advert which had to have only black and red as colours. After that I moved it to the Illustrator where I put it in the middle of the composition. Then I started the text which basically I've put the ‘Weekend Break Special’ above the image with a red colour fill, while the hotel name, telephone number and website below the image with a black colour fill.

Then for the colour advert I inserted the image in Illustrator and placed it slightly above the middle of the composition. After that, I put the name of the resort above the image with a yellow colour fill and a black stroke, while the ‘Weekend Break Special’ below the image together with the telephone number and website, and for the information I chose the same colours as the name of the resort, while for the slogan I chose an orange colour fill with a black stroke.

Name Logo (Illustrator)

To make this logo I used really simple and basic steps, starting with by writing the letter ‘M’ and the letter ‘E’ in capital and enlarged them a bit. After that I've put them towards each other so they get the look as they are on thing. Then I wrote the word ‘Enrico’ and ‘Manicaro’ separately and placed them in the space of the letter ‘E’ has. Finally I've put a circle behind the letter ‘M’ so it won’t be a text only logo. I made this logo in three different colours, starting with; achromatic, complimentary and monochrome.

Texture within Text (Photoshop)

For this exercise I decided to choose the word Water and give it the wavy type.

I first wrote the word in a Plain Font Type, and after that I chose an image from the internet of water and I inserted it in Photoshop.

Then I put the image above the text and made a Clip Mask for it and like this the word took the image as its fill.

Finally I chose the Smudge Tool and started to go over the word to have the sort of wavy effect as you can see in the image.

Collage Dark vs Light (Photoshop)

Dark vs Light Collage

To do this collage I took the perspective of light and dark in a way of good moments for the light and bad moments for the dark, in lifetime episodes.

I started with the background image by choosing two images which describe light and dark in the perspective that I decided to do my collage on. I wanted to have one image from both, which will be divided across from corner to corner. To do so I used the Pen Tool; I created three points covering a corner of the image and then went across half of the image. After this I right clicked on the selected part and clicked on Create Vector Mask so the image will remove the other half and keeps the part I covered with the pen tool. I repeated the same thing to the other image and after I combined them together, I merged the layers together to become as a one image.

When the background image was ready I chose two different fonts in a way that they contrast with the actual word. I chose the Rage Italic font type for the Light because it is a handwritten type it creates certain flow in the wording, while for the dark I chose the Narkisim font type because it is a solid and a bit bold which make a good contrast for the wording.

After this, I started inputting the images. For the light side images I used the Magic Wand Tool and the Quick Selection Tool to remove the background of certain images. I used the Lasso Tool to cut a part of an image, and also for the same reason I have chosen the Elliptical Marquee Tool to cut the image in a shape type. For the dark side images I used the Eraser Tool in a way to fade the edges of the images and I made an image Black and White as it was in colour to keep the side on the dark.

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Task 1 Finished

Task 2 Starting