Engagement Photos in Adobe Lightroom
This was a long awaited project in editing the photos I took for my friends Sarah and Jan for their engagement. Using Adobe Lightroom, I was able to make phots more crisp and defined. I was also able to make colours more vibrant and fix imperfections and blemishes. I would definitely use this program again!
T-Shirt for the Catholic Students' Association in Adobe Photoshop
(Community Project)
For years being in the community of the Catholic Students' Association on campus, I had heard many times suggestions for t-shirts to be created. I was among those interested in a community t-shirt, but no one ever stood up to approach the challenge. So I went to our council and asked what they would think of me creating one. They agreed it would be a good idea, and after about a month of drafting and brainstorming, I presented two different designs to the council. This was the design that they chose, and along with it all pictures of the different variations of the same design that I played around with in the stages prior to marketing and ordering.
The t-shirt received great interested, with nearly 40 of them sold including our chaplain purchasing one for each grad in the community. We just handed them out this past Sunday, April 8, 2018. They look pretty awesome if I do say so myself. This design was produced in Adobe Photoshop, with the outline of the heart being a stock photo off Google images, and the rest of the image being free-hand.
Social Media Promo Edits for Side Project Coffee in Adobe Lightroom
This was some fun I had with a few of the pictures I've taken while at work. Also done in Adobe Lightroom, I wanted to darken the backgrounds mostly. I wanted to make the object in question the main focus without any distractions. Hopefully these will make their way onto our social media soon!
Fun fact: I also planned, designed, and drew the menu board in the third image. Because chalk markers apparently don't like chalk paint, this is basically permanent.
Menu for Side Project Coffee in Adobe InDesign
(Screen Shot View)
This is a project I actually got paid to do, which is really cool! When I was hired at the Grad House for their brand new coffee shop, I didn't know what to expect. I was told that I was hired, along with two other experienced baristas to make the café what we thought a café should be, but to what extent I had no idea. A menu had been created for the restaurant and bar, but nothing was being sorted for the café.
Originally, the idea was going to be for me to take an existing menu and change the contents. However, the other menus were created in Microsoft Publisher, a program I don't have. Right around this time is when we had our workshop on Adobe InDesign. I had picked up the program pretty quickly in the workshop, so I thought I would try my hand at creating the menu from scratch. This is the [near] final result. The final product will be in printing soon, which is really cool because this is what this business will be using for the foreseeable future!
A Capella Voice Layering in Audacity
(Personal Project)
I've never recorded audio before. I've done lots of video recording and editing and audio editing, but I've never done recording. I wanted to learn about how to layer voicing tracks in Audacity. I tried other programs at first, but they required actual recording equipment and I'm a broke student. So, I learned that you can record straight from your laptop using Audacity and I used my plain Apple EarPods to record the vocals.
When you record one track and then listen to it while recording the next track. This created a lot of delay in my tracks and I spent a lot of my time aligning them properly. This little project is unfinished, for two reasons. I'm bad at figuring out the background sounds so it was hard for me to flesh out the songs, and I get really self-conscious when singing so I didn't want my roommates to hear me. Haha!
This track is all raw vocal recordings. The only edits are sound levels and cuts that I've made.
