Final touches

At this point after the last class, I think that I am pretty much done with my website. At most I may be adding one more page or something. But I am pretty satisfied with my newly found abilities to create graphics on photoshop and flash applications when I had never heard of either of these programs before. Below is my last photoshop graphic created so far. This represents more of my dangerous and daring identity. I took a photograph that I had of spinning fire, and altered it to created brighter and firery colors. I also created a cool text from a tutorial online on how to make fire looking graphics on photoshop. I also added in the Sydney bridge to bring in a little of the culture, and my identity to travel, which incorporate into the daring part of my identity. The bridge is high, and something that would be daring to bungee off of, or even to climb.



I also added background color, a simple gray to not take away from my graphics. This made the website have more unity. The last class was used to tidy up everything. At this point I think I am done with my website. I wish that we were taught how to put on music because I would have liked to have done so. But I guess we ran out of time.

links

I have been creating more pages for my website, and also combining these pages on dreamweaver. I like how the rollovers work, so I have used that for the front page with my multicolored hand, and I am also going to use it in various other places on the website. Here are two other pages that I have been working on this week. This first page below represents how distant from my family I am right now being on the other side of the world. I crazy colors of space just makes the graphic more interesting, and I made the word distant bend so that it looks like the middle of it is disappearing into the distant space. This is part of my family identity because of how I miss them, and how far away I am now.


This next graphic represents my identity at school. The transparent pencil that I have blended into the background will be made into a flash so that it is writing on the paper. I also included bright colors and alterations to the picture because I love being at school. I am happy at school, and have some of my best times there. The bright and happy colors prove this.

new graphics

This graphic that I made here is to describe my identity of fear and exploration for extreme. This is the platform of an area that I bungee jumped. The picture is made darker by filters and gradients so show fear. The anxiousness turns into fear and adrenaline. This identity has been in control a lot in my recent few months.

two new photoshop works

Here are two other works that I am working on in photoshop. Niether one is done yet, but they are the general idea. The beach one is used to explain my identity with my girlfriend. This is a relaxing identity, where nothing else matters on the beach, but the sky is an abnormal color to produce the effect of unpredictable relationships.



The other is a beginning piece of work to represent my family identity. This will have a few slides, but this first graphic represents the beginning of my life. This contrasts to where I am in my life now in Australia because the city is in the background. It is darker because I am not with my family right now so in a way it is ironic.

website hand

So I was tihnking abuot maybe another homepage, or maybe my second page. I just wanted to know what you thought about my original homepage. I wanted to know if you thought that it was not too corny, and if I should include it. Otherwise I created this other photoshop graphic of my hand.

Design

Tomorrow in class we are going to begin to put our final project together, but I am still in the process of making some photoshop graphics. I have that good flash idea with the Simpsons but I need to be in class to make it. When the mouse rolls over one of the Simpsons head, not only do I want it to pop up in color, but I also what it to go from small to big. It can expand to maybe most of the page.

The homepage that I posted a few weeks ago is going to be a good start off. I will add rollovers to the beginning page, and maybe some audio. That will be my goal for the first day, to create rollovers on the home page, and hopefully link them to simple secondary pages.

This image below is very interesting how they set up their art. I really like how they put together the different images into circles. They all mean something different. I was able to just isolate the image from the website so I didn't have to do a screen shot, but I like this art.

Simpsons family

So I was looking around on the internet, and got a good idea for a flash application for the website. I realized that the Simpsons have the same amount of family members as I do, as well as the same sexes of the kids (2 girls and 1 boy). I have below a picutre of the Simpsons that I altered with the threshold. Then on the website I'm going to have the color pictures of each of their heads individually pop up over the black and white, and then go back to black and white. Each character will do this separately. I am having trouble with the photoshop on windows though. I cannot figure out how to put one picture on top of another. Can you try to tell me how to do it? Otherwise I like this idea a lot, and am going to try and work on it more in class because the computers are easier to use there. But here is the threshold picture atleast.

graphic

This is a continuation from the last post because here is that last graphic from the website that I messed around with to create my own graphic to put on the website.

flash

I found this cool graphic in which I can break up into pieces, and create a flash with the graphic. This design is cool because all of the little squares I can break up and then overlap them more. I can also change the shape of the pieces, as well as add my own flash to them. When the mouse rolls over the pieces the identities can pop up. When I get photoshop on my computer I will be able to play with this graphic more. I had trouble putting it on my computer, so I was unable to mess with it. I think I can become creative with it especially with the new flash that I learned.