Youth Empowerment Day Reflection Journal

Let me start off by stating that anyone that did not go to this conference a poor sucker, because this was a Shrektacular conference of epic proportions.

We first started off the conference at 52nd Broadway at the United Federations Teachers building where we were given some breakfast and a raffle ticket. Then we proceeded on to the main stage where we sat down close to the Youth Panel. Apart of the panels were a Harvard Graduate, a New York City Police Department Lieutenant and a Human Resources manager at a firm. 

 They explained their positions and the struggles they endured to reach their position and what mistakes we should avoid if we were to reach their position one day, then there was a giveaway and 2 of our boys won iTunes Gift cards and movie tickets. The Panels continued on for 3 hours and at around 12:30 just around when everyone was starving we were given lunch that included Turkey and Tuna Wraps and a really big cookie that we ate whole heartedly.

 After that we had a few more giveaways(still no dice for me) and in addition we had a friendly inter school dance-off including our reluctant teacher, Ms.Ramirez.
Now the the program was about ending and the final speaker of the day was Mr.Hampton a creative director at Johnson Inc, he gave us some ideas about Multiple Intelligence theories and how we ALL are geniuses which I have to say was very inspiring.
At the last few minutes there was a iPad giveaway which was very close to being mine, by only 4 numbers !

 We received Ms. Cherlyl Wills book 'Die Free' which I shall read very soon and an MCU card that contained breath mints after that we went outside and took pictures with Ms.Ramirez and the rest of our group and we departed our separated ways.

Lab 19 : Feathering

 In this Lab we did a bit complicated lab, we did something called feathering, which is improving specific parts in irregular objects such as ships, cars and planes.

 For this Lab I selected a ship that  decided I was going to make into a ghost ship. By using refine edge tool, I altered the edge radius , the smoothness, feathering, and finally the contrast. So in the end I also had to change the background color as well, so I got a decent looking ship that looks very spooky.

Original Image : 

Feathered Image:

Lab 20 : Puppet Warp

  The last and final Laboratory experiment for the 1st marking Period of the Spring term was the Puppet Warp.

 The Puppet warp features basically allows you to select parts of the image and warp it so to say or extend it to your liking.

 I chose to warp a Starfish and make it have 7 legs instead of the usual 5.

Project 8 Brochure : Bronx Zoo Brochure

 A fortnight ago Ms. Ramirez announced that we would be doing a Brochure and not some picture, but a real brochure that people would see and feel in their hands.


     To start us off Ms.Ramirez assigned us each a group of usually 4 to 5 people. I was placed in a Group with Sean Patrick, Ashley Cruz and Ashley Sequeira. After careful deliberation we chose our roles with my being the Manager, Sean being the Designer, Ashley S being the Secretary and with finally Ashley C being the Researcher. We then decided our Brochure was going to be about the Bronx Zoo. Sean and the two Ashley's came up with the layout of the Brochure. Our roles were quite simple in this Sean did most of the Design, the two Ashley's provided pictures and information for him and I kept everything in check to make sure no one goes offtrack, I also provided quite a bit of Proofreading to make sure every word and sentence makes complete sense and compliments each other.

Overall, I learned quite a few things from this Project especially Adobe InDesign and how to use it and make two sided brochures on it and what not, I got to know more about my teammates and how other groups made their Brochures, to be frank I am quite satisfied with our project and would have not wished to be placed in any other group.
 

Lab 8 : Vector Shapes

Lab 8 was a Laboratory experiment about different vector shapes. 

First I made a 30 boxes by using the single row and single column marquee tool and filled them in using a color. Then for each boxes I used a different shape and a different color for each shape. This was a very interesting Lab as it taught us how to use the single marquee tools and how to apply them practically. To top it off I put my name in the little corner on the bottom right.1

 

Lab 4 : Image Adjustments Part 2

 Lab 4 : Image Adjustments Part 2 was a very Lab to do as it let me choose any picture I wanted and play around with it. Our Goal for this project was to choose any object and make copies of it  and also change the color balances,saturation and hue of each image. I did exactly that and choose a sports car called the Lamborghini Veneo. In addition to learning the different color options of Adobe Photoshop it was really fun seeing how the colors changed right infront of my eyes. I finished this project with my name in the Middle on a white background where the 4 cars are.

Original Image

My Adjusted Image

 

Lab 3 : Image Adjustments

Hello,

  In this Lab , we had the pleasure of receiving an image of a Dog and then were told to duplicate it and change the color/saturation of each dog in Adobe Photoshop. First I had to make 2 copies of the original image , so one for each dog and 3 dogs in total. Then i selected the first dog and copied it onto the rest of the Image. After that I only had to select each layer/dog and changed the color/saturation by going to image adjustments. The tools required for this lab were the Quick Selection tool, the magnetic lasso and the layer tool.

Before Image Adjustments :

After Image Adjustments