Will Murray's (Willscrlt's) Media Gallery

Assignment

Choose 1 descriptive/action word about you. Start your project large: 3000 x 2400 (to be saved as .psd). Must be at least 5 layers; all layers must be labeled. Must have these layers:

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  Your descriptive word (can be big in background, can be all over, etc. - make it noticeable)


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  A photo of you (you can filter, etc.); a large face shot or an action shot make the most interesting collage


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  Your name signed like a signature in bottom right hand corner


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  The others are your choice - try to make it a collage about you. Think about it as a portfolio website and someone hits the "About Me" link. What collage photos would describe you?

You will save and turn in the file in 3 ways: (1) Save large file with layers as .psd; (2) save large file for .jpg print (Save As > .jpg); (3) Compress and Save for Web: Change the image size of file to 1000 wide and Save for Web (compressed saved as .jpg) under 300KB.

Here is a sample list of words: devoted, sweet, cool, lost, determined, puzzled, random, confused, peaceful, driven, amazing, fierce, unforeseen, and graceful

Implementation

I've been a "techie" my whole life, as you can see from these photos. Background photos (L-R, top to bottom):

1. 
   At a computer in the 90's


2. 
   Playing with toy cars as a wee lad


3. 
   Representing the California IPv6 Task Force at a convention


4. 
   Showing off the printout of one of my first programs


5. 
   (hiding between the "e" and the "c") My first camera


6. 
   (between "c" and "h") Co-instructor at a weekend science program for youth


7. 
   A "face shot" of me


8. 
   14 servers and a bundle of cabling in the server room where I last worked


9. 
   Me assembling a stereo system for my grandparents


10. 
    Co-camp director at Space Endeavour Camp at Vandenberg AFB helping kids launch their first model rockets


11. 
    At a rocket launch hosted by the model rocketry and R/C aircraft club I helped found


12. 
    Working as staff at a computer at the Endeavour Academy, an applied sciences program at my old high school


13. 
    A vendor at the GovTech conference in Sacramento

Inside the letters:

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  T: The mainboard (motherboard) of a computer I built myself [Darkone, CC BY-SA 2.5]


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  e: Nikon lens I would like for my camera [Hiyotada, CC0]


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  c: Some Dell servers [DSV, Public Domain]


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  h: Samsung Galaxy S6 (my newest smart phone) [Kārlis Dambrāns, CC BY 2.0]


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  i: Baofeng UV-5R handitalkie amateur radio (lic #KK6UAJ) [Baofeng]


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  dot over i: A laser refracting (just because it looks cool!) [CILAS, CC BY-SA 3.0]


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  e: Java code I wrote in CISP 401 last year

Instructor's comments

WOW! You put a lot of work into this one. It turned our fantastic ~