Christina Canwell

Portfolio

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Contents
1 Brochure
3 Montage
5 Event Add
7 Photo Design
9 Flier
11 Logo
13 Stationery
15 Website
17 Photography
19 Mastery Skills
21 Church Bulletin Insert

Brochure
Description:This is a brochure to help those on campus who struggle
with mental health. This offers advice and support for those who
wants more information on these matters.
Program: I used photoshop to create my logo and InDesign to create
everything else.
Date Completed: Saturday, March 26, 2016
Course: COMM 130
Objectives: Set up and align a two-sided, folded document.
Create an original, new logo and use it in a brochure.
Process: I started out by finding a background image I liked from a
website. I created the logo on the back in Photoshop. I searched and
selected a motivational quote. I then selected in background color
and font color. I then wrote the descriptions of what this organization was about in the paragraph sections. I added images last.

Montage
Description: A year ago one of my friends, Maddy, died. She was only 20
and was just out enjoying a pretty bike ride in Walla Walla, WA, when
we was hit by a car and pronounced dead several hours later. I made
this because she was a huge spiritual inspiration to me, and she loved
God fiercely. I gave it to her mom on the one-year anniversary.
Program: I used photoshop for this assignment.
Date Completed: February 13, 2016
Course: COMM 130
Objectives: Learn to blend two or more images together gradually, using masks. Demonstrate more advanced Photoshop skills for layout with
multiple elements. Use a mask to apply a filter to one part of the image.
Apply typography principles (titles, quotes, events or scripturesyour
choice)
Process: I used alot of masks. I got this original pictures from her facebook, as well as the quote. I used about 5 different masks throughout
this project I believe. I chose a font that I thought looked dainty and
beautiful because that reflected maddy

Event Add
Description: I chose to make my flier for a Bridal Fair that would be coming to Rexburg and would be held in the BYUI Heart Gym. What better
place for a bridal fair than at a school that loves marriage?!
Program: Microsoft Word Publisher
Date Completed: January 31, 2016
Course: Comm 130
Objectives: Find, scan and import a high-quality image.
Create a full-bleed design. Choose a color scheme and typeface(s) that
work for your message and audience. Learn to use only Word design features without using any Adobe programs, including Photoshop.
Process: I went to a store and bought a wedding magazine. I selected a
picture I felt would be appropriate for a primarily lds town, and scanned
it into my computer. I placed the picture into the word document, selected
my color scheme and chose a font that I believed was wedding-appropriate.

Photo Design
Description: I took this picture up by the Rexburg Temple. I chose to use
a picture where the Temple is in the Foreground while a beautiful snowbrushed tree was the main focus.
Program: Photoshop
Date Completed February 8, 2016
Course: Comm 150
Objectives: Learn basic photography skills. Choose a color scheme, take
a photo to match those colors, then incorporate the colors into the
layout. Use a digital camera to take a quality image, then download it.
Adjust image levels, saturation, color balance, sharpen tool on separate
layers for NDE (non-destructive editing.)
Process: I used basic Photoshop editing, such as levels, selective color
and vibrance to enhance the photo a little. The picture was taken on
my Cannon Rebel T5. I chose the color scheme Tetradic because I felt
matched the colors in the picture.

Flier
Description: This was a flier I created for a student leadership conference.
We were given the pictures and logo to use, as well as the text. It was our
job to create an appealing flyer with InDesign.
Program: InDesign
Date Completed: January 24, 2016
Course: COMM 150
Objectives: Apply the design principles and use appropriate typography.Incorporate basic InDesign skills to improve basic flier layout. Retrieve image
and logo from links on this page.Create a project folder with image, logo
and InDesign document to keep links in InDesign intact.
Process: I started by carefully looking through all of my options for pictures and logos to find the ones that seemed to compliment each other
best. From there, I designed my flier in indesign and made sure all of my images and links were in the same folder on my desktop.

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October 21
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Logo
Description: I choose to create a logo for a bakery that would be spelled, Doonuts instead of doughnuts because the two donuts looked like os. This was a fun
logo to create.
Program: Illustrator
Date Completed: February 19, 2016
Course: comm 130
Objectives: Create three completely different, original logos to fit a company or
personal image that will appeal to the audience. Do not imitate existing logos or
use previous designs.Market research: gather opinions from at least ten people
about which logo appeals most to them.Use only the Illustrator tools to create
and draw your logos. (No Illustrator pre-fabricated flares, symbols, etc.. No photos or live-tracing. You may use an image or drawing as a guide to trace it with
the pen/pencil, but delete the image before submitting.)Refine one logo with variations for color
Process: I used illustrator for this. I made one of the donuts and than just copied
and pasted the other one so I wouldnt have to worry about sizing and the sprinkles being different. For the rest, I just used various tools to create the smile and
the tongue.

Stationery & Buisness Card

Description: I chose to make up a business that offers outdoor tours. I

chose to keep a simple black, white, and grey color scheme because I thin it
looks clean and professional.
Program:
Date Completed: February 26, 2016
Course: COMM 130
Objectives: Use the basic tools in Illustrator & InDesign.
Create a new logo to fit a company or personal image. Do not imitate existing logos or use previous designs. Dont use photos or live trace. Apply typography rules, keeping small copy.
Keep designs simple with light watermarks and drop shadows and plenty of
white space. Include contact information: name, address, phone, website,
and email on each piece. Use periods, bullets, or spaces in phone number; no
parentheses/ hyphens.
Process: I made the logo in Indesign using the shape tool and lines. It is a
simple, yet appealing design.

Web Page
Description: made this webpage using the Photoshop, Illustrator, CSS
and HTML skills we have been using in class. I was provided with the basic
CCS and HTML but was then assigned to make it my own. This was a difficult assignment because I have had zero experience with coding.
Program: Text Wrangler, Illustrator
Date Completed: March 12, 2016
Course: COMM 130
Objectives: Size and optimize an original logo as a .png for a web page so
the long side is 300 500 pixels. Write content to describe the process of
creating your logo and how it appeals to a target audience. Acquire a
working knowledge of HTML. Identify hex colors to match logo, using
Photoshop color picker. Open the HTML page in a web browser and capture a quality screen shot.
Process: I originally used Illustrator to design my logo, and Photoshop
to resize it for the web. I then used an app called Text Wrangler to do all
of my coding.

Photography
Description: This semester I have been working on taking pictures and
editing them. Although I can use photoshop, I prefer to use Lightroom.
These are a selection of some of my favorite pictures I have taken or edited this semester.
Program: Lightroom
Date Completed: January-March of 2016
Objectives: When taking these pictures, I just wanted to gain more experience. I used my boyfriends family for some family pictures and a friend
who was going on her mission for the other. I really am happy with the
skills I feel I acquired while editing these photos, mainly when it came
to lighting and correcting acne and whitening teeth.
Process: I used all of the basic lighting edits as well as shadows, highlights, saturation, and contrast. I also used the blemish corrector and
teeth whitening as well as face brightener.

Mastery Skills Demo

Description: This was a mastery skills demo we had to complete

in a half hour. it is an add for ford. I was surprisingly happy
with how it turned out given the little time I had.
Program: indesign
Date Completed: April 1, 2016
Objectives: I was instructed to make an ad for ford. I was to
find an image of a car, include text that was given to me, and
add the ford logo.
Process: I googled high resolution mustang pictures and selected the one I liked the most. then, I found the ford logo and
placed in on the car picture, making sure to remove the original white background so only the logo was showing. I than
found the font ford uses, and downloaded it. I than typed the
required text, and saved my file as a jpeg.

Church Bulletin Insert

Description: My mom is a seventh day adventist youth pastor,

and so she holds a lot of events for her churchs youth. I volunteer to help make event adds, bulletin inserts and images for
Facebook for her. I recently worked on this one for her, and I
was very pleased with the outcome.
Program: InDesign
Date Completed: March 24th
Objectives: My mom wanted an easter themed add for her childrens church. It couldnt have easter bunnies because that may
offended someone because its a religious holiday, so she wanted
eggs. she wanted it to be all spring colors.
Process: I found the background image on unsplash and then
added all of the text boxes and made them somewhat transparent. After this i inserted her text and her logo for the childrens church.