Jacob Ostroff - Identity

     The strongest technical aspect of my work is the cut-outs i made on the 4 athletes. This is my strongest aspect because I cut out all of the background only leaving the players perfectly cut out to be used without covering the background due to their own backgrounds. An aspect I could improve upon is my spacing on the league logos. This could be improved upon because they're all very different in shapes and sizes so I could've resized and worked them around to be more even looking.
     The easiest part of this activity was the background and the text. This was easy because the background required me to just drag and drop it in and the text just required me to type "Boston MA" and then color the 4 colors of the Boston sports teams. The most difficult part of this project was cutting out the backgrounds of the players. This was hard because it was difficult once there was barely any background left because it was very easy to cut out part of the player and have to redo the cutting.
     I demonstrated the objective in this activity by cutting out the backgrounds of the players, using the new tools we learned, and I used things such as opacity from the first project. If I could do this project again I would change how everything is spaced out to make it look less cluttered and clean.

Graphic Design - Text Art "MLK"

     This is my work entailed "MLK" made with text in Photoshop. The strongest aspect of my work is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as the focal point. This is the strongest aspect because it provides a focal point for the work and covers many of the requirements. Something that could be improved is the gradient in the middle, after looking at it for so long it started to look slightly off, I could change this by making a new gradient.
     The easiest part of this activity was the 2 arches I made. I made the first one using the warp text tool then duplicated the layer, flipped it, and moved it down to reflect the top one. The hardest part of this project was had to of been making MLK in the middle. This was difficult because I was not very familiar with using masks but I used a mask to mask the image over the J's and it took me awhile to figure out.
     I demonstrated the requirements in these ways: The arches for warp, flipped, and gradient text and MLK demonstrated opacity and size. If I could do this differently I would've made a different person in the center.