Liam's Super Terrible Unrelated File Funtime (STUFF): February 2015

Friday, February 27, 2015

Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Graphic Design notes on Color Theory

Primary, Secondary, Tertiary

ROYGBIV is the visible color spectrum

-light travels in waves and different will appear as dif colors when has dif properties

Primary

-Pigment generated: yellow, red, blue-(Subtracted)

-Light generated: red, green, blue-(Additive)

Lighter colors are perceived as coming towards us, while darker colors look like they are receding

Color mixing, RGB, RGY, CMYK-(print process)

Monochrome-tints, shades and tones of a single hue

Grayscale: black and white only

Web Safe format RGB:hexagon compatible

Tints-add white }

Shade-add black } to pure hue

Tones-add grey }

Color harmony

Color wheel

opposite sides are harmonious

split complementary: opposites and two to left/right

Analagous-next two each others

Triad-triangle

Tetratic-uses rectangle

Quadrilateral- uses square

color palettes-invoke mood, location, emotion

Color Properties

cool warm bright dark saturated(lots of hue) desaturated(add white)

Color Intensity- changes based on surrounding color

Color associations- universal to all people

Some are cultural because certain things are from being raised in a certain area

Color increases recognition of a brand by 80%

Colors affects appetite

Color affects the mind

Graphic File Formats Notes, Liam Conley, per 2

All com. doc., or files are packaged in dif. formats

the format is determined often by the files origin such as a software program like photoshop. or a digital cam.

Graphic file such as a photo, video or artwork can be reduced in file size by using compressors

Lossy v lossles

the 2 categorys

w/ lossy data is “lost” or reduced for smaller file sizes but cause poor image qualt. can result in compresion artifacts

lossles retains image data

Graph. formats

Tif, Jpeg and Gif are the 3 most com. formats for activities such as printing, scanning and displaying over the internet

Png is a common web format is a common web format, is high quality and can contain an alpha channel

each format has its own dis/advantages

Tif

tagged image format

common format for desktop pub., print, photo, and graphic des.

is lossless file. retains image data

can result in larger file sizes not fit for display over internet, not browser compatible

JPG

stands for joint photographers expert group

created for digital photography and works best for it

is lossly

can reuce 10:1 w/out showing compression artifacts

the level of compression is adjustible

GIF

graphics interchange format

is best for flat colors such as cartoons

reduces image size by “indexing” color from 3 channels to 1

is adjustible by changing color bit levels from 1 to 8

contains no DPI data for printing

Which format should I use for ____?

Best qual. Tif Png

Smallest file size JPG

Max compatibility TIF JPG

worst choice for photos GIF

worst choice for line art JPG

Know your pixels

Tif and JPG are best for images w/ pixels that blend in color called contiguous pixels

Gifs are best for flat images or non contiguous pixels

alias v anti-aliase: jagged v softened

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Black mage pixel art

Black Mage pixel art by Liam

Gif Proj. Pt B

Nick-Riddle (Bowser) v MVD (Snake) cinema-graph

Gif Proj pt A

Godot's coffee is full of OBJECTIONable evidence

Thursday, February 19, 2015

FIREWORK GIF!!!!

File Format proj.

The smallest file size is Low JPG, however the image quality is significantly poor. The largest file size is 24 PNG, the quality is the highest but it is not too noticeable when compared to other files such as 8-128 PNG which is only really noticeable when zoomed in and has a significantly smaller file size making it the optimal choice to put online.