Creative CV Analysis

I designed my CV for a job as an animator. It allows myself to show off my art skills, for example in the place of a photo I drew myself. The overall design of it is cartoonish, which is the usual style of animation. The sketchy design of it portrays that I would like to be a storyboard artist in the animation industry.

I have used muted, complementary colours of red and green as they compliment each other. They subconsciously show that I am passionate (from the red) and energized (as green is an active colour). The blue and yellow background gradient sets a soft, calming and relaxed feel to my CV.

The decorative font I used for my titles is called orangejuice. I used it because it looks sketchy and matches the theme of my CV without looking too excessive. Nyala Regular is the font I used for the information on my CV. It is sans-serif and matches orangejuice to create a small font family. All of the text on my CV is correctly tracked and kerned with appropriate leading and sizing.

The main design of my CV features a tree- this represents that I am ready to grow and learn throughout the job, as well as that I am well balanced. It looks simple yet effective, with no negative space. There's also the Gestalt theory principle of continuity in the design as you follow along the branches to read the sections throughout the CV.

3/10/16 Production Journal

Photoshop Tutorials

Marquee Tool

• Using the rectangular or elliptical marquee tool hold shift to draw a perfect square/circle
• Hold shift when holding a shape to move it in a straight line
• Draw a shape, hold shift whilst drawing another to join it onto the original shape
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Draw a shape, select- modify- smooth tool to round the edges e.g. set rectangle edges from 1 to 60

Creating Brushes

• Use the magnetic or polygonal lasso tool to trace around the image wanted
• Cut and paste onto another layer
• Go to edit- define brush preset
• Save and select from the brushes
• Press "(" to shrink the image, press ")" to enlarge
  
  
  
  

Downloading Brushes

• Go to Brusheezy, find a brush on a free download (not premium)
• Press proceed on the firewall and always save as
• The brush will download as a compressed zip file, extract all on the file
• Load the brush in the brush window on Photoshop, it will appear at the bottom

History Brush

• Insert image
• Image window- mode- greyscale (don't flatten)
• Image window- mode- rgb (don't flatten)
• Window- history, click the box on the last task before greyscale (e.g. image paste, insert)
• Use the history brush tool to restore colour to the image where wanted
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Custom Shape Tool

•  Select the custom shape tool by clicking and holding the rectangular shape tool above the hand tool
• Go to the shape drop-down menu on the top bar then click the cog and add all shapes
• Select the wanted shape and draw (don't forget to hold shift for a perfect shape)
• Fill in shapes with colour using the paint bucket tool, etc
• When finished rasterize the layer by right clicking on the layer containing the shape and selecting "rasterize layer"

Warping and Opacity

• Draw a shape using the marquee tool
• Fill using a gradient or the paint bucket tool
• Press ctrl + t then right click on the shape and select "warp"
• Move the shape around until happy

• In the layer sidebar is a section called opacity, which should be at 100%. To fade the image reduce the percentage

Stroking

• Create a shape using the marquee tool or highlight a picture
• Go to edit- stroke
• Change the width, e.g. to 10px

Filters

Iris Blur

• Image- mode- rgb (don't flatten)
• Go to the filter window- blur gallery- iris blur
• Position the size and area of the blur until happy

Tilt-Shift

• Following the steps of iris blur, change the image mode to rgb
• Filter- blur gallery- tilt-shift
• Position where wanted

 Noise

• Add colour to layer
• Filter- noise- add noise
• Adjust the amount and type

Extrude

• Insert picture
• Filter- stylize- extrude
• Adjust the filter

• You can also use the extrude tool to create decorative borders by pairing it with the marquee and gradient tools

Textures

• Insert picture
• Filter- filter gallery
• Select from different effects

Layer Mask

• Paint using a brush
• Add a vector mask to the layer by clicking the box with a circle at the bottom of the layers sidebar
• Draw a gradient (the length of the line determines how strong the gradient is)

Downloading Fonts

• Go to dafont
• Find a font and download, save as to a folder
• It will download as a compressed zip file, extract all
• Open up font installer and drag the extracted file over
• The font will be immediately available on Photoshop. If already open and the font isn't present, close then reopen

Type Mask Tool

• Insert picture
• Select the horizontal or vertical type mask tool hidden under the type tool selection
• Click wherever on the image, it should then turn pink
• Type whatever wanted and adjust by opening the character window (make sure its perfect- you won't be able to change the fonts, text, leading, kerning, etc once you click off!)
• Select the marquee tool and use it to move the text to wherever you want on the image
• Press ctrl + c to copy then open a new layer and press ctrl + v to paste
• Put on a stroke, blend, add shadows and highlights, etc

Guidelines

• Use guidelines to match up text, images, etc
• View- rulers or press ctrl + r
• Drag guidelines from the left bar or the upper bar
• To delete go to view- clear guidelines