Saturday, December 23, 2017

Lab 13 Reflection Journal

In this lab, I used primarily the pen tool to create custom lines and shapes for the Chapter 3 Sample Quiz from https://s2.jupiterfiles.com/p1/36460875/1/844430766/Adobe_CC_Design_Basics_v18.pdf.
First I clicked on the link shown above. ↑↑↑ Next I scrolled down to the Adobe Illustrator section to the Chapter 3 Sample Quiz. After that, I had to follow the steps of the Chapter 3 Sample Quiz. To do this, I opened up Adobe Illustrator CC 2017. Therefore, I gone to the Illustrator bar and clicked on File. Now from the File tab, I clicked on New to show a window for the settings of my new document. I set the document to default settings and named it Chapter 3 sample quiz. A new Illustrator document appeared for me to do the Chapter 3 Sample Quiz. Then I clicked on the Pen tool from the Illustrator toolbox to select it. I created a line with the Pen tool with 5 corner points that looks like a mountain by clicking and dragging the mouse to selected points. Next, I created another line that curves to form something like two hills. I did this by clicking, holding the mouse button, and dragging the mouse pointer to a selected area. I moved my mouse in a direction to make the curve happen and clicked to confirm. I clicked again at the end of the first line to make a second line. I clicked, held, and dragged my mouse button until I reached a certain point. I released the mouse button and moved in a direction until my desired curved was selected. I clicked to confirm it. Secondly, while still using the Pen tool I made a clicked and dragged upwards to make a new line going straight up. I clicked at the end of the vertical line. I clicked, held, and dragged my mouse horizontally until a certain point. I moved my mouse in a direction to make the line curve upwards. I clicked to confirm the curve. After that, I clicked at the end of the curved line. I clicked, held, and dragged the mouse from the end of the curved point to the desired point. I moved my mouse to make an upwards curve. I clicked to confirm the second curved line. I clicked at the end of the curved line and made another vertical line. I clicked and dragged until I came to the desired point. I clicked to confirm it. I clicked at the end of the second vertical line. I clicked, held, and dragged the mouse button until I reached a certain point. I dragged the mouse button until I made a downward curve. I clicked to confirm it. I repeated the previous step until I had the last curved line meet up with first vertical line. I clicked to confirm it. I clicked on the color picker to make the now created shape gray. Thirdly, I created a new line going vertically curving to the right a bit. I clicked at the end of the new line and dragged the mouse to the right until I reached a certain point where I clicked to confirm the line. I then placed a new line clicking at the end of the horizontal line to a certain point going downwards. I clicked at the end of the vertical line, held my mouse button, and dragged the mouse until I was at a certain point. I moved my mouse vertically to make the line curve upwards. I clicked to confirm it. I clicked at the end of the curved line, held my mouse button, and dragged my mouse to a desired point. I dragged the mouse vertically to make the curve downwards. I clicked at the end of the downwards curved line, held my mouse button, and dragged the mouse pointer until it reached the curved line to turn it into a shape. I clicked on the color picker and turned the new shape to blue. I clicked on the ellipse tool, clicked, held the mouse button, held the shift key, and dragged the mouse button until a circle was made on the blue shape. I clicked on the color picker and made the circle white. Underneath the blue shape, I created a new shape. I clicked on the Pen tool and started on the new shape. I clicked at a point and dragged the mouse upwards. I clicked on the mouse to confirm the vertical line. I clicked with the mouse at the end of the vertical line. I dragged and held the mouse to the right until a certain point was reached. I dragged the mouse vertically to make the line curve upwards and clicked to confirm it. I clicked at the end of the upwards curved line, held the mouse button, and dragged the mouse to a desired point. I dragged my mouse vertically to make the line curve downwards and clicked on the mouse to confirm the curvature. I clicked at the end of the downwards curved line, held my mouse button, and dragged the mouse to a certain point. I dragged the mouse vertically again to make the line curve upwards and clicked to confirm it. I clicked at the end of the previous line and dragged the mouse downwards. I clicked to confirm the vertical line. I clicked at the end of the vertical line, held my mouse button, and dragged the mouse to the first vertical line. I dragged the mouse vertically to create an upwards curve and clicked to confirm the shape. I clicked on the color picker and made the new shape dark blue. Underneath the new green shape, I clicked at a point, dragged my mouse upwards, and clicked to confirm the new line. I clicked, held, and dragged the mouse button from the end of the vertical line to a new point. I dragged my mouse vertically until the line was curved upwards and clicked to confirm it. I clicked at the end of the upwards curved line, dragged my mouse downwards, and clicked to confirm it. I clicked at the end of the second vertical line, held my mouse button, and dragged the mouse over to the end of the first vertical line. I dragged the mouse vertically to make the curve go downwards and clicked to confirm. I clicked on the color picker to make the new shape green. For step 4, I created a gray droplet using the Pen tool and vertical guides.  I clicked Vertical guides from the Illustrator toolbox. I clicked on the Pen tool. I clicked, held, and dragged the mouse from one point to another curving the line by moving the mouse horizontally. I clicked to confirm it. I clicked and dragged the line that was attached to the line to try to make the curve as exact as the curve in the pdf. I clicked at the end of the curved line, held my mouse button, dragged the mouse to the other end of the curved line, dragged horizontally to make the line curve to the left, and clicked to confirm it. I clicked and dragged the line attached to the curved line to make the exact adjustments. I made the droplet and clicked on the color picker to make the droplet grey. I clicked on the gray droplet and held options. I dragged the gray droplet while holding options to duplicate the droplet. I did this 4 times until I had 4 gray droplets. I selected the 4 gray droplets and clicked on Object to Transform from the Illustrator bar. I clicked on Scale from Transform to make the 4 droplets 50% smaller than their original size. I clicked on 3 out of the 4 droplets and clicked on Rotate this time from Transform to Rotate the droplets to the desired angle. I rearranged the 4 droplet to make them into a cross like arrangement. Finally, I clicked outside of the 4 droplets, dragged my mouse to a point, clicked, dragged my mouse to another point, clicked, dragged my mouse to another point, clicked, dragged my mouse to another point, clicked, dragged my mouse to the first point, clicked, and created rhombus. I clicked on the color picker to change the color to white for the rhombus. I clicked on arrange from the Illustrator bar to send the white square to the back. Knowing how to use Adobe Illustrator CC 2017 is useful for web designers because it allows web designers to make ads and logos for their websites.   
Website for Lab 13  pdf: https://s2.jupiterfiles.com/d24795/s5027226/1486898087/Chapter_3_sample_quiz.pdf              

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