Project 2 Reflection

Tenzing Younten
Digital Design
Period 2-3

Project 2

                This Project was one of the hardest and funnest project I had ever done. It was all about how I express my feeling towards my favorite cartoon character and mainly about my own creativity. In this lab, I learned so many new things that I never knew about and I was very glad to meet new obstacles in this lab. In fact, I was interested in figuring out how to solve problems and to overcome obstacles in this project. I am the type of person who's lazy and is not that interested in troubleshooting problems repeatedly. But, this project was very interesting, as a matter of fact I spent extra hours after school to do this project. Every time I tried to solve a problem I learned something new from it.

                In this lab, we were told to pick our own favorite cartoon character and then to write a biography about them. Next, we had to sketch our cartoon character and scan it. Then, we uploaded it into Fireworks and began filling colors and effects to our character. We had to make 3 pages for this lab. Firstly, I started by making the homepage and putting backgrounds, buttons and a banner for my homepage. After that, I copied my homepage twice and named them as a Process page and a Biography page. In the process page, I uploaded my lab 10 and 11 images to show the steps I did to make this final draft of my character. On the Biography page, I wrote all about my character which was Inuyasha.

                This project is very relevant to web design because there's a lot of thing from this project that is going to help me in the future and upcoming labs and projects for Web design. These skills are very useful in the future for those who love animations and not only that, but it can also be used to make your own story in your workplace.

Lab 11 Reflection

Tenzing Younten
Digital Design
Period 2-3

Lab 11

            This lab was about improvising my favorite cartoon character from Lab 10 and to put some effects, backgrounds and more details on the character itself. I learned a lot of new things in this lab too. I learned how to put effects in layers in Fireworks CS6 and also learned how to troubleshoot some basic problems. This lab was basically all about putting all my effects and colors in the cartoon character which is my Final draft of the character. I didn't have a lot of problems like I did in the previous lab because I was getting used to it and knew some of the rudiments of Fireworks CS6, whereas in Lab 10 I was new to it and had trouble completing my work.

Lab 10 Reflection

Tenzing Younten

Digital Design

Period 2-3

Lab 10

          This lab was basically all about putting my favorite cartoon character's sketch and the colored cartoon character in a web page. In this lab, i learned how to scan an image and most importantly I learned how to use some of the tools in Fireworks CS6. My biggest obstacle in this lab was to fill the color in some specific areas of my cartoon character, because it was really hard and it took a lot of time for me to just fill in the color. The magic wand tool was of great help, it saved my time and filled color in the selected area really fast. At first, it was really difficult for me because I have never used this software before and was slowly getting used to it. But, I am glad that I used this software because now I have a little idea about this software and how helpful it is when it comes to coloring. Besides, I also learned many new things that I didn't know at all and I am looking forward to learning more new things.

Lab 9 Reflection

Tenzing Younten
Digital Design
Period 2-3

Lab 9

            In this lab, we had to take a picture of our self and then convert it into a rollover. This lab was fun and easy to do once I figured out how to do. I started by taking a picture in the photo booth and then placing that picture file in my lab 9 folder. Then, after taking a picture, I searched up a good gif for my 2nd picture. Next, I opened Dreamweaver and started my heading and all that rudimentary things like name and font color. Afterwards, I inserted first image followed by my second image. As a result, whenever I move my mouse back and forth the image swaps.

            This lab is relevant to web design because I need to create many things related to this lab for my website in future. For instance, the buttons that lead to my blog or homepage and many other things. I can use the skills from this lab in the future when I need to put a rollover image to my blog or my website or in my workplace. These skills are going to be very helpful to me. 

  

Lab 7 Index portfolio reflection

Tenzing Younten
Digital Design
Period 2-3

            This lab was basically about summing up all my labs into one specific location in the web. Firstly, i took screenshots of every labs that i had done till now and then saved it in my lab 7 folder. Secondly, i organized every work of mine in the folder and named it properly so that it looked organized and was easier for me to find the file i needed or wanted. Thirdly, i made a webpage for this lab and then created my own banner and home buttons for it. Lastly, i put all my labs in the webpage by using Dreamweaver and uploading it online. I used the basic codes to put all those labs in the web page and then hyper-linked each and every single lab to its own page. For this lab, i used filezilla to upload my webpage, photoshop to create my own home buttons and other necessary buttons and dreamweaver where i did all my coding and adding the screenshots of my labs as well as my lab itself. This skill is useful for me in the future and can almost be used in any situation. For instance in my own business or in my workplace. Besides, these skills will allow me to get a higher chance of getting a job.

Career Day Reflection

Tenzing Younten
Digital Design
Period 2-3

           It was a great pleasure to be in the CTE Career Day, I got to learn many new things that were beneficial for my future. We were introduced to many colleges and companies that we're recruiting young bright students from public schools. We walked around asking questions and informations about the colleges/companies that were present. Besides, I also got to resolve my questions about some specific things for colleges and got to know about the colleges that participated in it. Furthermore, I also got an idea of what it felt like to be in college from a recent graduate from our school. She gave me a little idea about how it was in college. Moreover, attending the CTE career day was a good experience after all and it left me with motivation and excitement to face challenges and roadblocks from going to college and becoming what I want to be. This experience has helped me in keeping my goals and thoroughly following the steps to achieve my goal.