This design shows that nothing is impossible; any goal can be achieved by courage and hardworking. To reach to success is to never give up, thus it is important to believe in one’s self and become a hero to our own self. Similarly , every super hero ‘s origin starts within his/ her self by deciding his/her goal and the best way to achieve it. I used http://www.pixton.com website for creating this design; it was really easy and fun to use. I really enjoyed creating this work.

This photo is an imagery horror photo of one of my friends. I first used the http://www.photofunia.com website and then I used http://www.picmonkey.com for making the photo imagery horror. It was really fun and easy doing this assignment.

The photo shows my dream animal; the photos were downloaded from Google. I used this website http://www.pizap.com for editing the photo, because it is easy to crap the photo.

Last one, I promise. And it just so happens to be my radio show promo poster! woohoo! (2 stars)

Yes, I realize that I have quoted Willie Nelson, but for the sake of ds106 radio, I don’t think he would care. I also changed the lyrics up a bit. Because we are going with a roadtrip theme, I knew I wanted an image of the open road. I found it, here. I loved the vivid colors and the feel of the open road you get from the image. There’s also balance and a sense of relaxation derived from that.

I love the song “On the Road Again”. In fact, that might be the bumper I make for our show. Whenever I think of roadtrips, that’s the song that comes into my head. So I adapted the lyrics for the purpose of ds106 radio. I imported the image into photoshop, added the text, and voila! Ds106 promo poster perfection! (well, sorta.). The blue sky was the perfect place for the text box, and I felt I was immediately drawn to it.

Almost done, here’s the assignment I chose for number 5, worth 2 stars.

This is probably my favorite of the week. The hardest part was finding an image that had a meaningful message to me. I liked this one the best because I look peaceful and it went with my concept. My mom is always saying to me, ‘this too shall pass’. I have grown to love that quote because it’s a reminder to not sweat the small stuff, or make mountains out of molehills (even though I inevitably do sometimes.) My dad has been absent from my life in recent years, so to me it’s a reminder that it’s his loss, not mine. I have also had things in my life that really stress me out for no reason. That’s where the staying calm through it all comes in! I tend to be slightly dramatic and probably drive people nuts because I have a hard time letting things go. I can keep dredging up the past for days, so in a way this cover also reminds me of my flaws.

Back to the image and design. I found the image, put it into photoshop. I added a text box and chose the font that most looking like my writing. The first time, I went super cliche with “this too shall pass: and other life lessons”. That didn’t really seem to express my individuality as much, so I changed it. Also, I had to kind of move the text around because I couldn’t find a spot for it where it looked readable. I settled on moving it down into the grass part of the picture. This picture was taken on a golf course, which at sunset happen to be the most FUN things around (and if you’ve ever been the Eastern Shore of Virginia, you’d understand that there’s not much else to  do at night). Speaking of the ESVA, it’s my hometown and I lived there until I was 11. So the image also is a homage to my past.

Our theme for our radio show is Autumn mixed with Halloween. We will do interview form asking people of there experiences during this time of year. Any cool stories or Halloween jokes, etc. I used the program artweaver, and chose several images off google. I picked an autumn leaves background, carved pumpkins, pumpkin beer, and a halloween joke. I turned the autumn leaves to grayscale and added a splash of color to two of the leaves. then I added in the pumpkins and lowered the opacity to blend into the autumn leaves. After that I added a halloween joke as a text on the leaves. Lastly I added the pumpkin beer and also lowered the opacity and rotated them a little.