This week we had to create a couple of logos for our blog with a web-based program called Chittram (you can click that link, but I totally wouldn't if I were you). Vector graphics are great because you can resize them a bazillion times, and your image or artwork isn't going to get all pixelated like a raster graphic will. It's been a bad week. I lost so many logos because Chittram wouldn't save, or I would make an object and want to change it, or delete and the program wouldn't let me. Sometimes when it would let me save, it would change the dimensions or stroke size of the things I created, so I would have to go back time and time again to fix it. It is NOT user friendly, at all. To top it off, I'm about to post screen shots of my logos because they refuse to embed into my blog, so you're not going to get the clean lines of a vector graphic, you're going to see a pixelated screenshot of my logos. Great. Maybe all of these web-based applications are turning me off, or maybe I'm just not good at this stuff. I want to enjoy what I'm doing... right now, I don't.
I tried to keep my logos cohesive with the blog colors I use, so you'll see some orange, purple, green and black. In the first one, "my" head is way too small, but after creating so many different logos, I really just don't have it in me to go and resize it. Let's just pretend I have a really tiny head, ok?
I will say the one highlight of this week's assignment was my instructor's tutorial videos. I can't remember when I have laughed so hard - it's been a LONG time. She reminds me of the relationship Bubs and I have along with our furbabies: she makes weird noises, has a dry sense of humor and her relationship with her cat is hilarious.
Anyway, here are my screenshots. Don't leave a comment. I know they're crap.
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