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Tiffany Contreras

Tiffany Contreras
(760) 485-9141
tiffycon@hotmail.com
tiffanycontreras.wordpress.com
255 S. 1st W.
Rexburg, ID 83440

Table of Contents
Brochure.....................................4
Web Page....................................6
Final Montage.............................8
Montage....................................10
Letterhead.................................12
Busienss Card...........................14
Logos........................................16
Flier...........................................18
Event Ad...................................20
Imaging.....................................22

Brochure
Description: One-fold brochure with a shorter front than back.
Date: Dec. 6, 2014
Course/Instructor: Comm 130, section 5/Brother Joel Judkins
Programs/Tools: Adobe Photoshop; InDesign; Illustrator
Objectives: The objectives of this project were to create a
brochure that displayed professionalism, contrast, encouragement
to be for the company being advertised, and create an original logo
to go with the company.
Process: I opened Adobe InDesign, set my margins to .25
inches, and entered my body copy and photos: microphones, a
piano, a violin, guitars, and drums. These are taught at the School
of Musical Performance, so I chose to illustrate this on the inside
of the brochure, accompanied with copy that explains what each
instrumental course will include. Following, I took the piano photo
and imported it into Adobe Photoshop. I used the quick selection
tool to cut everything else out of the photo and only keep the
piano. I followed this by refining the edges and increasing the
level of smooth, feather, and contrast. I placed the new version of
the piano into InDesign and applied text wrap around the piano.
Following, I chose to do my title in Illustrator so that there would
be space in the words School of and Performance, and I used
a different font for Musical to make it larger than the rest of the
text. I added the same photo from the back and front onto the side,
where the Vocals, piano, violin, guitars and drums text is placed.
I made the photo on the side a continuation of the front.

Web Page
Description: This image is a spiritual montage, created on Adobe Photoshop with masking as its main edit.
Date: Oct. 25, 2014
Course/Instructor: Comm 130, section 5/Brother Joel Judkins
Programs/Tools: Adobe Photoshop
Objectives: The objectives of this project were to learn how to use
masking layers in Photoshop; edit photos through smoothing,
contrasting, vibrancing, and sharpening; blend images together to create
one large photo, while accompanied with approrpriate text, fonts and
proper alignment.
Process: I created this webpage by using TextWrangler on Mac
software. I combined an HTML and a CSS code and used them for the
first time. I edited the codes by adding my own elements to organize and
decorate the site. I chose this background image from Google because I
wanted it to represent the behind-the-scenes of film, which would fit well
with Columbia Entertainment. In addition, I opened Adobe
Photoshop to select the color that the logo was so that I could match
it with the background color of my first headline. I also made the text
of my second headline the same color. I matched these colors with the
colors in the background image to apply my monochromatic-red color
scheme. once I took an overall look at my webpage, I added padding to
the sides of the body and the top of the headline. I also added a dotted
border around the second headline to add more a film look.

Final Montage
Description: This is an inspirational montage, describing the
success that comes from never giving up.
Date: Dec. 10, 2014
Course/Instructor: Comm 130, section 5/Brother Joel Judkins
Programs/Tools: Adobe Photoshop
Objectives: The objective of this project was to demonstrate my Photoshop skills
and knowledge by creating an inspiration
montage - combining three photos with a meaningful message.
Process: I began this project by inputing three photos into Photoshop. I layered
each photo with a mask so that when I went over each photo with the brush tool,
the photos would blend with one another. I made the first photo appear to be people
first starting to climb a mountain - metaphorically, the mountain of life. Second, I
put the other picture of the group climbing up the mountain on the bottom of the
montage to demonstrate that they worked their way up from the bottom. Lastly, I
put the photo in the middle - between the two photos - of them when they made it to
the top. I chose to layer it as such so show that good things happen when patience is
a large factor in life.

Sometimes that mountain

youve been climbing is just
a grain of sand.
Carrie Underwood

Montage
Description: This image is a spiritual montage, created on Adobe
Photoshop with masking as its main edit.
Date: Oct. 25, 2014
Course/Instructor: Comm 130, section 5/Brother Joel Judkins
Programs/Tools: Adobe Photoshop
Objectives: The objective of this project was to combine photos
with a
spiritual message by using layers and masks.
Process: I enlarged the bigger photo of Jesus Christ in Adobe
Photoshop to have as the background. I followed that by placing
the smaller photo of The Savior with a child, and then I masked
both photos and blended them together. I decreased the opacity to
30% and 40% in Photoshop to make the images blend more into the
background, and then I switched to 100% to get rid of the hard
edges. Following, I used a black paint and varied brush sizes to
smooth the edges. Afterward, I added another layer for the text.
I used Arrus BT Bold to give contrast to the words I know the
plans, by making them a bigger size than the rest of the font, as a
way to symbolize that The Savior knows our lives and has every
detail planned. I took out the bold to carry the rest of the message. I
followed this by overlaying the entire text to blend with the
background. When I finished the edits, I applied a sharpen filter to
the larger image of the Savior. I applied that filter so that He would
have the first main focus.

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Letterhead
Description: I created this letterhead to have a natural appearl to the
audience by a quick glance, which I achieved through repitition and
contrast with the boxes and low-opacity Polaroids.
Date: Nov. 9, 2014
Course/Instructor: Comm 130, section 5/Brother Joel Judkins
Programs/Tools: Adobe Illustrator; Adobe InDesign
Objectives: The objectives of this project were to combine both Adobe
Illustrator and Adobe InDesign and create a professional letterhead to go
along with a business card. In addition, repetition where appropriate was
a crucial factor in the projects creation.
Process: I created a letterhead with consistent title themes and Polaroid
photos in the background. I decreased the opacity to make words easier
to read when typed onto the letterhead. I put the same information on the
letterhead that I put on the business cards, with the exception of my name
on the address of the letterhead. I put a low-opacity box behind the text at
the top and bottom of the letterhead and allowed a full bleed. This
allowed proximity, alignment, and repetition. I kept simplicity between
the business cards and letterhead by keeping the items at a low opacity
and a simple font. I also incorporated the logo that I had made in
Illustrator for the card and letterhead at the top.

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Business Card
Description: I created this business card to match with the
letterhead. A big element in this was a consistent logo with
consistent font, which would be repeated throughout the page.
Date: Nov. 9, 2014
Course/Instructor: Comm 130, section 5/Brother Joel Judkins
Programs/Tools: Adobe Illustrator; Adobe InDesign
Objectives: The objectives of this project were to combine both
Adobe Illustrator and Adobe InDesign and create a professional
business card to go along with the letterhead. Any time the logo and
logos font were used, it had to be the exact same - as it would on a
companys business card and letterhead.
Process: I created a logo in Adobe Illustrator. I used the rounded
rectangle to create the camera, as well as the rectangles inside of it. In
addition, I used the pathfinder to blend each shape together to give it a
more natural look. I also created a polaroid photo in Illustrator. When I
finished the logo and photo, I opened a document in Adobe InDesign and
placed the logo and polaroid photo in the document. I created two
rectangles for the business cards one for the front side and one for
the back side. I entered my company name and contact information, as
well as the polaroid photo in the background and the camera logo in the
polaroid. Since the companys name is Polaroid Lovers Club, I made the
streaks on the camera pink and put a heart on the camera.

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Logos
Description: I made these three logos for Columbia Entertainment. I used the type
and illustration styles of logos.
Date: Nov. 1, 2014
Course/Instructor: Comm 130, section 5/Brother Joel Judkins
Programs/Tools: Adobe Illustrator
Objectives: The objectives of this project were to learn how to
operate Illustrator, create three original logos for a company, and use the pen tool
when appropriate.
Process: I created these three logos in Adobe Illustrator. I began the first logo by
choosing a color scheme, typing and filling the text, then I used the pathfinder and
divided the shapes and text. Afterward, I colored each of the shape to flow with my
color scheme. I used the curved rectangular tool to create the next two logos. I chose
to give a cinematic feel to those logos to relate to the entertainment part of
Columbia. I applied contrast to the title of the second logo by capitalizing the letter
T and making it appear as a TV stand. I made little boxes on the side of the
regular-sized boxes to make it look like a strip of film. I applied a similar theory to
the last logo, as well.

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Flier
Description: This is a black and white flier, promoting a graduate leadership
conference with the Vouant Company. Graduating seniors have the opportunity
to meet with executives of Vouant.
Date: Oct. 3, 2014
Course/Instructor: Comm 130, section 5/Brother Joel Judkins
Programs/Tools: Adobe Photoshop
Objectives: The objectives of this project were to design a layout for a flier
that reached the target audience of graduating seniors and include appropriate
typography and image and text placing.
Process: I sketched four different layout possibilities and chose one of them
to input into Adobe InDesign to create the final flier. I used the photo that was
provided to me to align with the text in the provided body copy; I made sure to
keep the two aligned. I emphasized the leadership conference in the title so that
graduates will know what the conference is about just by a simple glance, which
would spark their interest to read the text. I used boxes in the background of the
title to give contrast and attraction to the audience. I kept white space between
the top and the photo and text to keep simplicity, as well as on the bottom
between the logo, the black box with text, and the photo and text. I kept the
logo which was provided to me small so it wouldnt distract the audience
from seeing the title, the image and reading the body copy.

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Event Ad
Description: This is a full-bleed, color event ad to encourage
BYU-Idaho students and their families of all ages to attend a pizza party
dinner that the BYU-Idaho Communications Department is holding, to
which all proceeds will go. This ad was made in Microsoft Word, with
the image scanned from an EPSON scanner.
Date: Oct. 12, 2014
Course/Instructor: Comm 130, section 5/Brother Joel Judkins
Programs/Tools: Adobe Photoshop; Microsoft Word; EPSCON
scanner; PDF2PJG.net
Objectives: The objectives of this project were to create and edit a
full-bleed ad for an upcoming event for a company in Microsoft Word.
Process: I began this project by scanning an image of pizza on a plate
from a magazine that was promoting the plate with an EPSON scanner.
I imported the scanned image into Microsoft Word, made it larger, and
turned it a little to the right so that the focus would be on the pizza
rather than on the plate and still be catchy. I chose two different
fonts to make the ad have more of a fun feel to it so that it would grab
the audiences attention as a fun event. I made sure to keep alignment of
the words to keep everything organized and unified. When I completed
the project, I converted the Microsoft Word document into a PDF, then I
used http://pdf2jpg.net to convert the PDF into a JPEG. I used that
website to convert the document and the scanned image into a JPEG.

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Imaging
Description: This image demonstrates outside lighting in photography during early
afternoon when the natural light was at its brightest, as well as Photoshop editing, to
deliver a specific message.
Date: Oct. 18, 2014
Course/Instructor: Comm 130, section 5/Brother Joel Judkins
Programs/Tools: Adobe Photoshop
Objectives: The objectives of this project was to edit a photos saturation, contrast,
sharpening, and layers in Photoshop.
Process: I decided upon a color scheme before I took this photo. I chose on a lime
triadic color scheme, which led me to choose to take this photo on a DSLR Cannon
camera. The statue of the child reading is surrounded by different shades of green
in the grass, which allowed me to have a more diverse selection in the color of the
text, as well. After I took the photo, I imported it into Adobe Photoshop. I began my
editing process by changing the levels of the photo to make it brighter, but also have
a natural look. Following, I edited the saturation and sharpness to blend together. I
noticed that if I had too high of a saturation, the sharpness made it look less
natural and more edited. This led me to decrease the saturation and sharpness by
a few levels to balance each other out. Moreover, I edited the vibrance to give the
photo a nicer feel. I also edited selective colors and color balance to brighten
certain colors and make others stand out. I also provided boxes in the background
by laying them underneath the image. This is when I provided more colors from my
color scheme. After I input the text and had completed my project, I noticed that
the photo wasnt as attention-grabbing as its background distractions. As a result, I
used the Gaussian Blue affect to slightly blur the background of the image and keep
the statue of the child more in focus. Additionally, I used color swatches to keep
the text in the color scheme. I accomplished this by using the eye dropper to match
certain colors from the photo to allow proximity.

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