Choose TWO of the tutorials from this page and follow them using your OWN NAME as the words. Post your finished products as jpgs in a reply to this post.
Great and easy challenge. It even made me feel like I know something about Photoshop. =)
DMC w4 – super heros
Using an image of yourself, follow and complete this tutorial: https://wegraphics.net/blog/tutorials/…er-poster/
Post your finished product as a jpg in a reply to this thread.
This one, like the most of the other DMC challenges, felt a bit challenging, but I think it turned out to be kind of good in the end. Personally, I think that getting a proper understanding of how the layers work on photoshop was the most time consuming thing about this challenge.
DMC w5 – pathfinder in Illustrator
Watch this for background info on the pathfinder and shape creator tool:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPP7Nh_waNsand then create this logo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANnCJ1Bkl0wBonus points for artistic flare with colours and stroke styles!
This is was neat challenge! Really easy to do and a very useful in the future. It’s incredible how a lousy screenshot can be turned into such a nice logo.
DMC w1 – bad headshots
I want you to take three passport style headshots, of you or other staff, and make them bad in 3 different ways (each photo will be bad in a unique way). You need to explain why are they each bad passport style headshots and go into detail about the settings that you used. Post your jpgs and explanations in a reply to this post.
This first photo was taken with a slow shutter speed and completely off focus, hence the blurriness.
In contrast, this one was taken with a more reasonable focus and a fast shutter speed, which wasn’t enough to capture enough light.
This one is still out of focus and it has a similar aperture to the last photo, however the white balance was customized towards the blue/violet end of the spectrum which made the photo look brown.
DMC w3 – Logo Trace
Pick a jpg of a logo for a brand of your choosing and trace it with the pen tool in Illustrator.
This tutorial will probably help:
https://piesbrand.com/tracing-with-the…lustrator/Post BOTH the original jpg, and an EPS file of the final product vector based logo.
I used the Atari logo for this. The original file is in red and the traced one is in green.
DMC w2 – Dispersion Effect
Ever feel like being at MUN is causing your confidence or sense of self to crumble away? You can thank or blame Clifford Bowe for recommending this challenge!
Take a picture of yourself (or a c-worker) for this challenge. I’ve attached some dispersion brushes below which you will need to install in Photoshop. Follow this dispersion tutorial: https://youtu.be/4xgOWWfurpU Post your finished product as a jpg as a reply to this post.
Hint: it’s easier that the images be taken on a somewhat uniform background; the effect will be much cleaner that way.
I gotta say, I’d never thought I’d be able to do this challenge, especially given my lack of experience with Photoshop and constant feeling of helplessness I get towards Adobe suite challenges. The guide on this one though is pretty much self explanatory. All it took me was to mimic the tutorial step-by-step to get an acceptable result in the end; in fact, it even felt like a little miracle getting this thing done.
DMC w8 – fusion 360
Create a model of a Memorial building (of your choosing) from the outside. In a reply to this post, state the name of the building along with a screenshot of the model, and the STL file itself.
I finally became a bit more familiarized with Fusion 360 and was able to finish this challenge. Last term, when I had my first try with it, I couldn’t even finish simple models. Now that I’ve done “something” I’m even able to recognize what a powerful tool this is, if properly used.
DMC w9 – fixing PDFs for printing
Following the tutorial with the example file provided and then complete it with your OWN UNIQUE BUSINESS CARD. Post your finished business card pdf and the generated report in a reply to this post.
Files:
Bizcard_DMC-Challenge_fixed_report
To be honest, I thought this challenge was really well done and filled with new information. I think that’s great that we know about the existence of PDF compliance standards, but I do wish that I won’t ever come across a client who has a document that doesn’t fit those standards. Not that this is too complicated, but it just has far too many detailed steps that I don’t think I’ll ever memorize.