Jake Wendel ART 201 Blog

This was easily my least favorite assignment we've had yet. I went back and watched so many different videos on Lynda and still couldn't figure out how to make the really bright smudge on the hood go away, and after 4+ hours of working with it I finally just smudged it enough to pretend it looks like a natural bright spot and just turned it in. I wasn't big on the clone stamp tool, it was way too sensitive. For a majority of the little blemishes on the wall, ground, car, etc., I used the spot healing brush and that worked pretty well but was very tedious and time consuming. In hindsight, I should've used the patch tool for those blemishes.

I don't know what was more frustrating about this assignment, how tedious and time consuming it was to adjust the tracking between words in the layout, or figuring out how to print it correctly.  The tracking problem was frustrating because how how minuscule each adjustment was and I couldn't figure out which amount of space between each set of words looked best, and then, once I'd finally set the new tracking distances, I kept finding a new font or font size that I liked better, so then I'd have to go back and adjust all the tracking distances. However, once I finally realized that I could highlight a line of text and adjust the tracking between all of the words at once, that task got much easier. As far as the printing dilemma, once I went through the entire checklist of specifics (that we went over in class) to make sure the layout would print right, I made my first print attempt, and it turned out that one side of the spread was upside down. After some go

This assignment took me a good 3-4 hours spread out among a few days, and there were so many little tweaks and changes I had to make, trying to make the shadows just right, constantly changing the hues I picked, etc., that I felt like it was never going to end. However, I must add that I actually kinda enjoyed this assignment because after I'd draw a line or make a new shape and finally get it right on line with the template, I'd hide the template to see the progress I was making and that was a really good feeling. The hardest part was definitely dragging the anchors of the shape I made to cover the shadows, and getting it to cover all the right places and look like a natural shadow. Especially because once I'd drag the shape out one direction on the bird's left wing, it would tweak the bottom right boundary of the shadow ever so slightly that I felt like the tireless cycle of adjusting the anchors would never end. I'm very content with how the final product looks