A simple enough assignment, taking elements of your 3 favorite holidays, and combining them into one image. If it wasn’t clear, I went with Halloween, Christmas, and Independence Day. I’ve always been a fan of Halloween; I love the combination of Autumn weather and the atmosphere around the holiday. Christmas is associated with family and vacations; as I’ve grown older, I care less about the gifts and more about spending time with the people I love. Fourth of July has always been a ton of fun, and is a nice patriotic holiday; another big family event day. I found three transparent images on Google, brought them into Photoshop, resized them, and layered them correctly. Not much to it!

This assignment is very similar to the design assignment The Ultimate Merger, so I have some experience working with logos. However, I connected the assignment to my character this time, so changing it up a bit. I took the logo of Smith & Wesson, a gun manufacturer, of which my character owns a gun from. I figured ammo would be something he would buy often, so it’s fitting to place their logo on the backside of a bullet. Here’s the original logo:

And my version is below:

The process was fairly simple. In Photoshop, I created a couple circles, and added gradients and textures to them. I found the font similar to that of the logo, which was Georgia, and added in the manufacturer and type of ammo around the bullet. Then, I embossed to give the edges and imprinted effect, both on the font and the interior logo. Most of the time spent was being finnicky with the settings, not actually finding the techniques to do this.

For this assignment, I had to create a mashup of one of my favorite characters and some scenes they have been in. I chose to do Chandler from Friends because he’s awesome. I chose a bunch of my favorite scene’s of him. My all time favorite is when he gets stuck in an ATM vestibule with a Victoria’s Secret model and freaks out. I made a small title screen and used scene’s from our Friends DVDs in Windows Movie Maker.

For this Assignment we had to put our three holidays together in one picture. I ended up using just my Mac Preview for it, because I don’t know how to use photoshop or anything else that is fancy. This assignment was worth 3 1/2 starts. I would give it 4 just because it was kind of hard, to put the photos together, and its extra hard for the people who aren’t tech savvy.

My last assignment for the week is my last mashup one. I selected to do Twittr which is worth 2 1/2 stars bringing my final total to 13 stars. This assignment tells you to used a photo editing program to mashup two webpage names. First, I decided that I wanted to use Google and Yahoo. I went online and saved images of each logo and then cropped them each in half. I then uploaded them into Paintbrush on my Mac so I could combine them. This was fairly easy to do except for editing the images so that they were the same size so they would flow nicely. I like how it turned out! It could be a new search engine that  combines sources from both Yahoo and Google. I wish I made the pics a little smaller though because the “Y” is cut off just a tad.