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Terry Grogan |
| For the first exercise, I chose to make the rose's
background the same as the web page. I used the smart edge tool (I
never knew what that did, it's great!), which got most of it, and used
freehand to add the stem piece. |
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Here's the rose as a .jpg It's a small file size, only
5k, but look at the "jaggies" around the rose. I don't like it and
wouldn't have used it. |
 Here's the
same rose but saved as a .gif. While the file size is larger, 19k, I
don't have the "jaggies" and it looks much better, I think. |
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Well, I learned a lot this week. I never played much with
gradients. I also didn't realize that even with the background style
set to "none" you still get both your pallet colors in the gradient!
My pallet colors were yellow and purple. I chose the sunburst gradient
but I changed the "repeats" to 50.
The color count was only 44, so I saved it as a gif to keep it "crisp
looking" |
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This is a pattern called smeared gold. I changed the
scale to 150%. I like the effect. It had over 16,000 colors so I
saved it as a jpg. Since it's a pattern, jaggies aren't noticeable. |
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Here's the puppy. He's leaning over an old couch in my
basement I never did like, lol. I used a combination of the point to
point and freehand selection tools. I then chose a gradient and
selected one called "pink neon". I used the radial setting but changed
both horizontal and vertical to 100. |
