Dylan Krapf - Digital Media Blog

  For my Black & White to Color project, I had to select an image of myself to completely transform and re-design. First, we had to grey out the image and remove all of the color that was previously there. For my image selection, I chose a selfie that had some neutral tones, and pops of color throughout. I did this for a reason because I knew that when I added color to the images, it was going to bring it more to life! These are the final products of my Black & White to Color project. I have to say, while it was a difficult project in the beginning, it became much more enjoyable and playful once you got the hang of it. Photoshop is not an easy platform to learn, which was understood and accepted before completing this project! Overall, I feel that the best outcome was the Square image. It has the most pops of color and is very vibrant.

For my first business card, I took inspiration from one of my favorite artists, Olivia Rodrigo. The business card is based off of her first studio album, "SOUR". On a personal level, the album has impacted my life in a variety of ways. The business card is mostly based off of her album cover. It seems to be a trend that I find my favorite musical artists and their work to have a rather large impact over my work in this class. Moving onto the process of using Indesign, it was definitely a little difficult at first, especially trying to space out each number and letter. In comparison to other Adobe platforms, I wouldn't say it was interesting because tools from Illustrator were also incorporated into the platform as well. Overall, I am pretty proud of how this came out, and if you're a fan of Olivia Rodrigo you would understand the general concept of the business card. In my next business card, I put together my hometown (Long Island, NY) and a candy store and made it i

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXRT3dHu6_o While this is a very long tutorial, I feel that the person who posted this is very knowledgable. If you want to take a while to sit down and really dive into Indesign, this video is perfect. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eqhUFRlvgI On the other hand, this is a good video to watch if you want a quick understanding of Indesign as it is only a 9 minute tutorial. Even though it is short, it still gives you a great understanding of Indesign and its different tools. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7MIKi663ok This last tutorial was also very informative and interesting and I feel that I learned a lot after watching it.

     My favorite movie of all time is definitely Mean Girls, so when I heard that for our assignment we had to Photoshop ourselves into a scene, I knew exactly what to choose! The scene that I edited myself into is the scene when Regina exposes the burn book to the entire school and everyone gets into a huge fight. I edited two pictures of myself into this scene. The first picture of myself is the more obvious one where I am standing next to Regina. This picture is geared more towards the allusion that I am friends with Regina and am on her side, doing just as much damage to the school as she is. The second picture is me in the background in the hallway. Since the drama in the burn book impacted the girls more, I am simply minding my business in the background while still wondering why everyone is losing their minds and fighting with one another. This project was very fun to work on and definitely felt more freeing as we could put ourselves into our favorite movie/scene!

I feel that it would be hard for me to Photoshop myself into this image because of the minimal amount of space that is left. My face would not be able to fit into the open space in the top left corner either. This image would definitely be considered an inspiration for my Somewhere project because I was editing myself in the spaces available next to the characters in the original image. This image definitely made me laugh! It shows the ways that you could turn a normal picture into a funny, twisted version. In specific, this picture shows the possibilities with Photoshops rotate feature. I feel like this image would be fun to re-create. It is very well done and inspiring.  

Photoshop Tutorial for Beginners 2022: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61mkx_OV61s Photoshop CC - Tutorial for Beginners: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH5K5h4WkT4 Photoshop CC Tutorial - Designed for Beginners: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMNVYzckSPU I found these tutorials to be very interesting and helpful for beginner users in Photoshop. Personally, I've never used Photoshop before besides I think once or twice in my freshman year of high school. So, if I did have any knowledge on the platform, it's definitely long gone by now. With the help of these tutorials, the process of using Photoshop will hopefully be easier for me and any other beginners in class.