Sunday, March 14, 2010

Page designs

So i've pretty much designed the pages for my portfolio, layers are intact incase I decide to change anything as the class goes on. I'm not sure what we're going to be doing in class next week but I also decided to try linking my pages together with a bit of actionscript (based on my old project.) I managed to get every page to work except for the home page, i'm not really sure why it doesnt work, but here are the images of what they are going to look like:
here is my home page.. I designed the page layout in photoshop, using my own artwork (self promotion) and then I imported the background into the flash library, only it shows up much darker in flash than it does in photoshop and i'm not sure how to change that.




this is my bio page... Because I have a gallery page I didn't want to use the same images throughout the portfolio, so i quickly made a new image in illustrator.



for my gallery i've used thumbnails and a scroll bar, so if you click on the thumbnails a larger image pops up. Looking at this page in small view I think im gonna change it a bit... the green bar near the top looks too big. Originally that was where the thumbnails were, but I decided to change it to the side.




my resume page I haven't decided how to present yet... I'm deciding between having my resume as text on the page, or as a download (if I can do that) it would probably look neater as a download... but then the page would also look pretty empty

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

layout



I have an idea of what I want my portfolio to look like


After we looked at buttons yesterday, it gave me an idea of what I wanted my portfolio to look like.. since it is for my art I want it to have images of my own work in the background, i've sketched the layout of the pages and I know what images I want to use


I want all my pages to be able to link to each other, so they wont have to go back to home to find the page they want to look at.

Monday, March 8, 2010

A portfolio in flash!

I think this assignment is a really good idea, this way we have something we can use once we have completed our degree. I want my portfolio to help me with my career in the future, all i'm interested in is art so the people I would show it too, need to see a gallery.
I actually created a portfolio in my last flash class with Luis but I wasn't happy with the end product. The actionscripting got in the way of what I wanted it to look like! So i'm hoping this will be easier for me to understand and I can create something I want to use.