Instructions
- Pull out your infographic image file posted in Module 1 and open it with Adoboe Photoshop. By default, your original infographic should be the background of your new Adobe Photoshop document. Leave it as the background and don’t delete it.
- Recreate each and all elements by adding layers, shapes, photos, text, colors, etc.. Try to mimic your original design as much as you can. This assignment is designed to sharpen your Photoshop skills by recreating the same elements in a infographic. Please note that you are supposed to recreate the elements from scratch inside Photoshop. For instance, if there is a line/shape in your original infographic, you need to recreate that with the line or shape tool inside Adobe Photoshop. This assignment requires you to apply what you’ve learned in the past four modules.
- Let’s have some fun with this exercise by adding your personal logo. Be bold and creative. I would love to see how you would design a logo to represent yourself. You should design your logo on a separate document. After it is done, you just drag it to your infographic design. Put your personal logo on the bottom-right corner of your infographic design.
- Save your self-introduction infographic Photoshop file (PSD) and create another image file (JPG) for web display.
- Save your logo Photoshop file (PSD) and create another image file (JPG) for web display.
- Create a new page inside Weebly and upload four files:
- Your original self-introduction infographic (JPG or GIF).
- Your new self-introduction infographic Adobe Photoshop file (PSD).
- Your new self-introduction infographic image file (JPG).
- Your logo image file (JPG).
- Add a brief narrative about this page by describing what these four files are (especially, your personal logo) and what you’ve learned.
infographic_cscook_remake_w_logo.psd |
infographic_cscook_remake_w_logo.jpg |
logo.jpg |
The above files are examples of my progression using Photoshop and my ability to recreate graphics. The topmost file is the infographic I completed using picktochart.com. It is a JPEG that gives a basic overview of who I am. The second file is the Photoshop document file for my remade infographic in which I used Photoshop to recreate the Pickochart file. To this file I also added a logo. The third file is a JPEG of the Infographic PSD file. The fourth and final file is my custom logo, created using Photoshop CC2015. This logo proved to be challenging at first because of the intricacies of the Photoshop program. However, once I used all I learned from the video tutorials I was able to recreate the infographic with relative ease.
The logo itself is an off-shoot of a logo I created when I was thinking of starting a web-design business called CSC Web Designs. It is basically a version of the "share" icon found on cellular devices, turned on its point, with a "man with a tie" taking up the middle of the design. The idea behind this design was that I would help you "share" your site with the world.
The logo itself is an off-shoot of a logo I created when I was thinking of starting a web-design business called CSC Web Designs. It is basically a version of the "share" icon found on cellular devices, turned on its point, with a "man with a tie" taking up the middle of the design. The idea behind this design was that I would help you "share" your site with the world.