Portfolio Show

The big day is here and I’m pretty excited that it’s coming to an end overall. Trying to prepare for this was long, but totally worth it. The pieces I wanted to show are my web comps, layouts, product labels, and compilation of many other pieces to show all my strengths. I hope to get […]

Research On Print Companies

Researching for well known print shops can be tricky because you need to know what quality that they can do, what the prices are, and what is color output for solid colors like rich black. When looking at Vista Print as being my chosen print company for my business cards I asked what their formula […]

Color Seperation Poster

This poster show how you can look at one image and see how much cyan, magenta, yellow, and black you use in a photo. It also show the different screen angles that inks are used in a CMYK build. In commercial printing it can change based off the order in which it prints to produce […]

What is Color Management?

Color management is the development in which how color is corrected to meet standards of a client. The process goes three steps; monitor profile, and prepress, this is making sure everything looks correct for color output. Inch step a profile is placed into each system for consistency. First monitor is checked then the client receives […]

Basic Photo Editing in Photoshop

When editing photos these are the steps to take when editing a photo of someone so that he or she still looks natural. 1. Check for any shine on the forehead. 2. Clean up any blemishes that are noticeable and not naturally on the face. 3. Check for any loose hairs. 4. Brighten white of […]

Cooperation with Fellow Coworkers/Classmates

What makes up a strong team? I believe a strong team are group of people willing to help and strengthen people’s weakness by working together. This was a big thing with trying to produce things for the portfolio show invites to get the things done. I volunteered to cut all the squares out when printing […]

InDesign Resources

The importance of using all these in building with the tools that I’m showing is so things are organized. You have layers that have what they are on them so that anyone can tell what it is. Pantone and other personal colors are shown that are being used in the document. It’s best to delete […]

Mixed Inks

Chris_mixing_inks from Chris Cox Heres the video I promised everyone on how to mix inks for commercial screen printing.

Tech Journal

Lots of work to do and to pull out all of my old notes from the last two years of college. This is a cheatsheet that I can use for reminding me guidelines and things that I can use to give me references on how things work. I hope to carry this out and have […]

Magazine Continued

We finally did it. We got it done and learned how to use iRA where we printed out the cover first and set up the command workstation so that so once it printed everything it went to the manual feed tray to grab the cover and stable and fold it together.