School #1

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I probably won't be posting a lot of school stuff, but this is one of the first good assignments and I was very pleased with it. (As was the teacher! She always has to balance praise with criticism. This project she didn't have anything bad to say about!) I wasn't into the fact that I had a good project and had to add certain things. This isn't exactly how I designed it before I had to add all the elements the teacher wanted.


The project was mostly to help us get familiar with Adobe Illustrator. I hadn't even opened the program until I got ready to do this project! I HATE the program! I can't find anything and even if I can I can't get it to do what it's supposed to! So this is why I'm so proud of this assignment and the teacher's comments! This was a two part assignment (so far). We did the original and then had to use more of the tools and things to make changes.


Here are the teacher's comments from the first one. (I don't have comments back from the second one yet.)


"Leah, your magazine cover looks great! The masthead is awesome! Are you sure it is not a scan of a real magazine cover? ... just kidding :-) You already have the UPC label there so if you add a few more of the standard things you find on a magazine cover, such as date, price, page numbers you will have a real magazine cover ;-)"



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Comments

The Taylors said…
That is pretty wild! Looks like you did just fine for not knowing the program!
June 7, 2008 at 8:56 PM
Becky said…
That's awesome! You forget that someone is just sitting there getting paid for doing that exact thing in real life. Did I understand correctly that you did both (one was just tweaked for the prof.)?
June 8, 2008 at 1:55 AM
Becky said…
P. S. check out my latest story when you get a chance
June 8, 2008 at 1:56 AM
Leah & Jon said…
Yeah. I did both. I just had to add some things and use more features of the program for the second one.
June 8, 2008 at 8:24 PM
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