This is my first attempt of my article for 'Graphics on a Macintosh', which is about how i created my film poster and my animated image. On this blog post i will be explaining how i did certain things to make it look more like it has been done in an article format, and i will also be proof reading my article to make sure every aspect of it is correct.
Before opening Adobe Illustrator I started to write my article up by just using blogger, the reason i did this was because i thought it would be easier to write it up without a layout rather than worrying about spacing and setting it out right.
After finishing writing my article up i then opened the software Adobe Illustrator to start creating the layout of my article, I set the settings to create a page with 3 columns to give it a look of a magazine article or a newspaper article, I then added how many pages i wanted which was 5 i did this by clicking on insert and "new page", The five pages was more than enough and i was left with a bit of writing on the last page which didn't look right, that meant i then had to fill my space by enlarging my finished images across 2 pages to make it look more filled.
After doing that i added a title 'Graphics on a Macintosh' i spread this right across the pages of my article in a bold font which i also made rather large. I did this so it would stand out and also make the page look more in an article format, as you can see on the image above.
When i had done that i then went onto my word document which i had already done and saved all the pictures and screenshots that i had used into there own folder. I did this because it would then be easy to just open the folder and drag the pictures onto my page layout.
When i had done that i then went onto my word document which i had already done and saved all the pictures and screenshots that i had used into there own folder. I did this because it would then be easy to just open the folder and drag the pictures onto my page layout.
After setting my page out to the appropriate format and inserting my main title i then started to insert all the text what i had already prepared on word, but before i started inserting the text i had to insert text box's to the size of the columns and then copy and pasted all my text into the columns, when doing this there was a little green box at the bottom what held all the text to get it onto the new column i clicked that and it spilled out across each of the columns making it look more professional.
After adding all the text into my columns I looked at the article which i wrote on word and looked at which text went with which pictures, after doing that i chose a few pictures which i thought was appropriate and added them onto this article scattered out quite a bit. i did this by dragging the images out of a folder on my desktop onto the page of my article,
The pictures and screenshots i chose to upload onto my article are very important within this piece of work for many reasons. Because the article is intended to target the audience that are unaware of the software they are put in place to help the viewers get a better understanding along with text to also explain how to do particular things on the software.
When the pictures were uploaded it then changed the layout of the text, and put different things in different places, for example the text didn't match the picture that had been uploaded, so that meant i had to go through the whole of the article to fit all the text to match the picture. I had to do this because if the reader was to see the image with the text not matching then it wouldn't make any sense, and it wouldn't make it any easier to learn how to use this software.
When all the text and pictures were put in place i was left with one half filled column on another page and then realized that i had to do something with the half filled column because it didn't look professional like an article should do, when i noticed this i then made my final finished images larger and put them across the 2 pages and all column's to fill in the extra space, as you can see above.
The final thing i had to add to my article was prices of the software's i used to create the poster and the cartoon like image, to do this i went online on the official Adobe site and looked up prices per month on how much it was to have which was £26. When i found this i then went on Google images and got the logo of the two software's i used and placed them next to where i put the information about the prices.
Another thing i also did was include a link to my blog which includes more images and information on how to use the two software's, just for the people that need more information the link was
http://emilyvalegraphics.blogspot.co.uk
That concludes the long drawn out process of creating my own article and making it look more professional than just as a word document.
The pictures and screenshots i chose to upload onto my article are very important within this piece of work for many reasons. Because the article is intended to target the audience that are unaware of the software they are put in place to help the viewers get a better understanding along with text to also explain how to do particular things on the software.
When the pictures were uploaded it then changed the layout of the text, and put different things in different places, for example the text didn't match the picture that had been uploaded, so that meant i had to go through the whole of the article to fit all the text to match the picture. I had to do this because if the reader was to see the image with the text not matching then it wouldn't make any sense, and it wouldn't make it any easier to learn how to use this software.
When all the text and pictures were put in place i was left with one half filled column on another page and then realized that i had to do something with the half filled column because it didn't look professional like an article should do, when i noticed this i then made my final finished images larger and put them across the 2 pages and all column's to fill in the extra space, as you can see above.
The final thing i had to add to my article was prices of the software's i used to create the poster and the cartoon like image, to do this i went online on the official Adobe site and looked up prices per month on how much it was to have which was £26. When i found this i then went on Google images and got the logo of the two software's i used and placed them next to where i put the information about the prices.
Another thing i also did was include a link to my blog which includes more images and information on how to use the two software's, just for the people that need more information the link was
http://emilyvalegraphics.blogspot.co.uk
That concludes the long drawn out process of creating my own article and making it look more professional than just as a word document.
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