The Expert 2.0

Below is the design I created for a thesis book cover: The Expert 2.0: How Blogging has Changed the Notion of the Expert. I decided to go for a simply color scheme and format. I liked the idea of using a venn diagram to incorporate different social media networks and tie it in with the idea of an expert.

Opacity Mask

I followed the bittbox tutorial to practice the opacity mask tool and I think it came out well.

Summertime

My first attempt at anything in adobe flash. I was determined to make the ball bounce.
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Launch Button

After numerous attempts, probably too many, I have only been able to create the below image. Around step 5 and 6 I decided to create the striped box with my own tweaks. The launch button was the most difficult to create. I don't fully grasp the opacity button and I wasn't able to create the word "launch" properly. I can't get the white font to stand out after using the opacity tool one last time.

Photo Shoot 7

Baseball in the Spring

Below are a series of baseball pictures I took at a Yankees game opening weekend. Everyone says Memorial Day weekend means summer is upon us and I believe baseball season is an indicator that spring has arrived. I took images of the game and the stadium to capture the overall essence of Yankees stadium, which is one of the more modern stadiums.