Design Assignment 8 - Major Project Graphics
We know our websites need graphics. Effective graphics set a tone for the site and communicate meaning to the user before she or he has read past the title bar in the browser. It is not possible to specify how many graphical images are too few (or too many). Beyond specifying at least a header-type graphic, I will not require a minimum number of images for the websites we're building.
Any graphics that do appear as part of your design must be custom made by you. If you begin with someone else's photo, and alter it to create your graphics, be sure to acknowledge your source on your References Page.
Due Date: November 20
Your Task
1) Armed with your storyboard, show off your visual design potential by building the graphics you want to use for your major website project.
2) Remember to "save for web" when saving your Photoshop documents as GIF or JPG images.
3) Save your Photoshop documents (.psd) so you can get back into your visual design and revise if necessary.
4) Email your header-type .psd to Cripps, along with a 100-word description of the process you used to create the graphic. This needs to be YOUR graphical work, and we'll talk about the process you used.
You will be rewarded here lesson the "quality" of your graphics than on your own effort, and hte contributions your visual elements make to your overall hypertext. Quality images matter, but excellent images that seem disconnected from the site's purpose, audience, and written content will weaken the final project. Somewhat amateurish graphics that are well-conceived and clearly connected to the overall site will fare better here. Spend more time on integrating visual and textual elements and less time on that cool halo effect that adds nothing to the overall site.