Inspiration:

I actually enjoyed making this logo and in fact I made it on the plane to California. As a kid when I would go on a vacation, I would have the cartoon Looney Tunes downloaded, to keep me entertained. After every cartoon, there would be some iconic character with the words “See ya next time!”. I thought that would be a fun thing to incorporate into my logo.

Design:

I felt like I had to incorporate a plane, since thats the main way I travel. I did this by using the shape tools and the pen tool when I needed to create my own unique shape. A plane was not the easiest thing to make, thats for sure.

To go with the logo and plane, I wanted to show the two most known landscapes of travel; mountains and palm trees. You could interpret that as traveling to Hawaii or Alaska, I felt like it gave it a nice variety. The palm trees were by far the hardest thing to make. I had to create the individual shapes and then mess with the effect “warp” to get the leaves just right.

For the text, I decided to stick with the effect “warp”, I just like the way it looks against the plane. It turns simple words into something that stands out.

All the creation of this logo was done 100% by me.

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This was the hardest set of tutorials so far for me. Although it was fun to learn how to use a new software, I struggled creating all of the tutorials. The one I enjoyed the most was the banner. The one I struggled with the most was the coug/name sticker. I look forward to advancing my skills in illustrator.

I choose to draw this for my logo sketch because my blog is all about traveling as a college student, so I wanted to include both palm trees and snowy mountains. I got inspired for the “see ya pullman!” from watching old looney tunes cartoons, that always ended with “see ya next time!”

I have decided to change my topic for this blog to travel instead of healthy living because I realized I have a unique perspective on this subject. Coming from Alaska, travel has not always been easy and usually too expensive to do. Now that I live in the “lower 48” as we call it back home, I have more opportunities to travel. During this semester I am going on at least three trips, so I realized how great of a topic that would be for me.

I created this poster on photoshop using all original photos that I have taken myself, therefore I don’t have to worry about copyright issues. I thought the best graphic design for my topic would be a collage of some of the photos I have taken this year. I added some photos of myself but mostly cityscapes and landscapes.

How I created the collage: First, I “place embedded” all of the photos I planned on using. I Find this is the easiest way to add photos in while also creating a layer. That way the photos are all separate. I then hide all but one photo, so that I could mess with the editing of that photo to make it pop a little more. After doing that with all the photos, I unhide them all so that I could start to arrange them in the format that I wanted. I used the move tool and the transform tool to get the pictures exactly how I wanted. I wanted to add text on top of the pictures. I did this by clicking on the text box and messing with the size and color of the text. Since the pictures in the background are so vibrant I thought it would be smart to outline the text so that it was easy to read. I right clicked on the text to bring up “blending options” and used stroke. I choose pink for the outline since its my favorite color and added a “girly” vibe. To make the text a little more unique I decided to add the warp effect.

Since my blog topic is my healthy living journey, that will be the main focus of the image collection; workout photos, healthy food alternatives, or pictures with that theme.

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All the photos used were found under google images and under the “free to use and share” advanced setting choice.

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Here are my 5 completed photoshop tutorials:

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