Adobe programs played a big role in my graphics communications class. I still remember the first project we started which was the mushroom vector. I never thought I would finish it! It was my first time ever using Adobe Illustrator. It took awhile to get used to but I learned how to use many of the tools so therefor it could later help me with my History of relief printing and photography timelines. Each of the projects required a lot of knowledge in order to put the final pieces together. To finish the mushroom we had to learn a variety of skills such as using the cutting tools, making circles, or even just adding fading color. The mushrooms took my class awhile to learn but the results were good in the end.
The next projects I worked on were my History of Relief Printing timeline and my History of Photography timeline. Both were also made in Illustrator. The goal was to make timelines of important events for the subjects. I included dates, pictures, and text. These projects were fairly easy to do once I knew more about Illustrator. Basically you create lines for the timelines, add text, and copy and paste pictures. Other than that the only other hard work was pulling together all the facts and placing them in chronological order based on the dates that they occurred in. Overall I would have to say the timelines were some of the easiest projects.
One of the last projects I worked on in graphics was a Hockney Photo collage. The project invlolved me taking over thirty pictures and turniing them into one picture. I decided to do something no one else had done, combine two of my friends faces. I took about twenty pictures of each friends faces and began to combine them in Photoshop. The project did not take very long and the end project was kind of creepy but I liked it. I placed over thirty pictures over and under and around each other until the faces were pretty even then I printed it out. Lastly I mounted it onto black paper. The final result can be seen above in the middle photo.