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Youth Announcements Graphic 9/7/16

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This is probably my favorite type of graphic to do because it's fun. Again, I was trying to do something quick and on the spot. This took about two hours to do, and would've been easier working with vectors in Illustrator, but again I was limited to Photoshop. Luckily, my job has a license for Adobe so I can start using my products through that and won't run into this problem anymore. I like that it can look messy and not perfect. I had my Wacom tablet from Intuos, but forgot my cable and pen. That would have been awesome to use for free form sketching especially on the arrows for example in Illustrator. Moral of today's story, come to work prepared with all my gear in a backpack in case I need something.  The flag could have looked ton better, and three of the arrows are the same one copied and contorted, which I would love to fix, but was running out of time. I like this design because its a lot more interesting than just writing out a list in Microsoft Word and

Youth District Rally Graphic 8/31/16

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This is my first graphic I made for work. It's not just super awesome, but this is also the first time I'm having to use any design skills I have for work since I graduated. There's a lot more I'd like to learn, and I really think using Illustrator for something such as this would've been way more beneficial, but since my Adobe membership has expired this was the best I could do in Photoshop. It took maybe an hour while I was eating lunch and I was just trying to get something up quick. If I had time to go back and work on it I would like to do a better Post-It note and put a shaded box with a low opacity behind the date and time to make it stand out a little more. Overall, the image is really simple.