mod 6

My final edit I did some minor changes.  I added the social media bar under the picture. The bottom I added some more site links that are common to web pagers, as well as contact information. I changed the color of the link text so that it was less washed out.  also i made the text smaller and fit it to the left of the picture.  I found a higher quality logo so that it was less pixelated. I change the colors of the logo and the slogan on the blue background so that they were easier to read.

The non profit organization I chose is Volunteers of America.  I have had interaction with the organization in the past, as I have done some volunteer work for them.  They specialize in helping young teens with drug addictions, or bad home lives.

 I did use the real mission statement from the organization. The feel I wanted to give was a genuine feel as if you were surfing the page. I created the rectangle box  where the header is, and added a dark to light blue gradient to it. took the logo from a localized section of the organizations website, cropped it, and change the color with a red color overlay. I then created the black rectangles where the links are, and added a Black to dark grey gradient overlay. Each rectangle from the "About Us" sub link menus is a separate entity.  The smaller rectangles are the same gradient overlay as the main header to give the page bit of a flow as far as the color goes.  I lowered the opacity of the squares so that they do not take away from the rest of the website below it. Overall I went for a really simple design.  I believe the less clutter there is on a website the best it looks visually, and the easier it is to navigate for the user.

Work Cited

"Our Mission." Our Mission. Volunteers of America, n.d. Web. 25 Aug. 2014.

VOA AK Logo. Digital image. Volunteers of America Alaska. Volunteers of America, n.d. Web. 25 Aug. 2014.

Holding hands. Digital image. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Aug. 2014. <http://bilder.poster.net/LRG/27/2740/E4PND00Z.jpg>.

Mouse pointer. Digital image. Clipartist. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Aug. 2014. <http://clipartist.info/Art/April/mouse_pointer_1302118210-555px.png>.

Social media buttons. Digital image. Web Carson Labs. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Aug. 2014. <http://labs.carsonshold.com/social-sharing-buttons/demo.png>.
Volunteers of america logo. Digital image. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Aug. 2014. <http://static-sympoz.s3.amazonaws.com/blog/2013/02/volunteers-of-america-logo.png>.

 I didn't do anything to the image of the woman in the final image.  I did decide to add a fantasy forest type background.  I added a diffuse glow to the background to give it a bit of a cool color glow, then i added a Gaussian blur to give it that hazy look.

Below is the first attempt at an avatar and sketch. The initial photo seems to have had some digital altering done to it already.  I think that made it a little bit more difficult on me as far as getting the highlights and shadows to work correctly with the avatar.  It took quite a bit of dodging and burning to get the photo where it is.

 work cited

Reed, Kevin M. KEVIN MICHAEL REED. Digital image. KEVIN MICHAEL REED. KEVIN MICHAEL REED, n.d. Web. 31 July 2014.

Dodson, Nathanial. AVATAR MASK. Digital image. Tuvid.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 July 2014.
Pickyme. Fantasy Background 6. Digital image. Deviantart. Deviantart, 2009. Web. 7 Aug. 2014.

Bob Dylan poster

The book design I decided to do was for Bob Dylan.  I wanted to have a 60’s feel based on stories told from the artist’s life in the 60’s with a play on words with the title. The back ground was originally a strong colored tie dye.  I added a curves effect alter the way it looked as well as some of the colors.  Then I added a Hue/Saturation layer to tone down the overbearing florescent colors. On the front cover the giant floating head is just a floating head of the artist with a clipping mask with just different color brush strokes.  I then used a dry brush filter to give the colors on the head a bit of a texture.  I used a hue saturation layer on the New York Times best seller logo to change the colors to something that flowed a bit better with the rest of the book. The back cover silhouette of the guitar man was originally a black and white photo of Bob Dylan.  I used a solid color black overlay to give it the silhouette look then added an outer glow effect, and made it a tiny big transparent.  All of the text have an outer glow added. The artist name, title, authors name on the front, spine and back cover all have a text warp added to it. 

WORK CITED

Jadisofeternity. Tie Dye Spiral Fractal. Digital image. Deviant Art. DeviantART, 2006. Web. 24 July 2014.

Bob Dylan Dcal. Digital image. Prosportstickers. Prosportstickers.com, n.d. Web. 24 July 2014. <http://www.prosportstickers.com/product_images/v/bob_dylan_decal__73232.jpg>.

Dylan, Bob. "Goodreads." Goodreads. Good Reads Inc, n.d. Web. 24 July 2014. <http://www.goodreads.com/>.

New York Times best seller logo. Digital image. Imaginebks. Imagine Publishing, n.d. Web. 24 July 2014. <http://www.imaginebks.com/children/dinosaur_pet.html>.

Barcode. Digital image. BISG. BISG, n.d. Web. 24 July 2014. <https://www.bisg.org/sites/default/files/images/barcode_example1.bmp>.

Orbit Logo. Digital image. Orbitbooks. Orbit, n.d. Web. 24 July 2014. <http://www.orbitbooks.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/Orbit_logo.gif>.

"Bob Dylan Official Site | The Official Bob Dylan Site." The Official Bob Dylan Site. Sony Music Entertainment, n.d. Web. 24 July 2014. <http://www.bobdylan.com/us/books/chronicles-volume-one>.