Portfolio

Olivia Howland

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Olivia Howland
795 E. 900 N. Apt. 24
Logan, UT. 84321
949.395.4149
olivialark@gmail.com

Table of Contents
Imaging
Event Ad
Letterhead
Business Card
Montage
Logos
Flier
Brochure
Web Page

Imaging
Description: This was a project to showcase my
skills in taking photography with different views
(ie: Light, Fore and Background, and Lead Room),
and my photoshop skills.
Dates: Oct. 14, 2015
Course/Instructor:
Comm. 130 Section 11 | Sister Kunz
Programs/Tools: Photoshop, sharpening tools, light
adjustments tools.
Process: I went down to the local Dam in Logan
Utah and took pictures of all the required views. I
had a lot of fun with this, it was really my first time
taking pictures like this and I was able to get up
close with the birds and take some great pictures of
them. I took a background and foreground picture
where the focuses were different. The one displayed
is foreground focussing.

Even t Ad
Description: An event ad, using a full bleed, explaining
the time and location and point of event.
Date: Oct. 11, 2015
Course/Instructor:
Comm. 130 Section 11 | Sister Kunz
Programs/Tools: Photoshop, Microsoft Word, PDF,
and JPEG.
Process: First I went to the library at Utah State,
found a picture from National Geographic that I liked,
and went to use the scanner on campus. After several
failed attempts, I checked out my magazine to take it
home to use a better scanner. My roommate has a high
quality printer, so that is where I ended up scanning my
picture. I cropped the edges in Photoshop to clean it up
then played around with making my ad in Word. Once
I decided it was an okay draft, one that needed a lot of
work, I had it critiqued. I then toned it up, but decided
it wasnt done. I then had it critiqued once more and
fixed it again, exploring the program even further and
ended up with the one I have now, which I am happy
with.

Letter Head
Description: Creating a stationary for letters.
Dates: Nov. 8, 2015
Course/Instructor:
Comm. 130 Section | Section 11
Programs/Tools: Ilustrator, InDesign, the pen tool.
Process: I used Illustrator to create the flower water
mark and logo using the pen tool, and then I used
InDesign to put it all together. For the flower I
changed the opacity to get it to the color it is now.
And with the watermark I lowered the opacity a
great deal to make it slightly visible on the paper.

B u s i n e s s C a rd
Description: Creating a business card for a company.
Date: Nov. 8, 2015
Course/Instructor:
Comm. 130 Section 11 | Sister Kunz
Programs/Tools: Ilustrator, InDesign, the pen tool.
Process: I used Illustrator to create the flower
water mark and logo using the pen tool, and then
I used InDesign to put it all together. For the
flower I changed the opacity to get it to the color
it is now. I used normal boxes for the color strips.
I had a completely different layout for the flower
and then desided to change the flower to be on the
card completely rather than just hanging off like I
originally had. I like this new one much better.

Montage
Description: A spiritual montage created by
blending 3 photos together, and tied together with
well chosen typography to describe the message.
Date: Oct. 24, 2015
Programs/Tools: Phototshop, Lasso tool, changing
opacity, and crop tool.
Process: For starters, I knew right off the bat
which scripture I wanted to use (Mosiah 20:11),
and thought how cool it would be to have a dragon
defending the temple, defending families, against
the evil of the world. Once I had the idea in
mind, I went onto the schools website to find the
instructional video and after editing the pictures
individually, I put them all onto one page. I began
blending them the way I wanted, and for the picture
of the soldier, I learned how to flip him around so
he was facing the dragon instead of the edge of the
picture.
I made the dragon more vibrant than the original
picture so the red and other bold colors would show
up more. The typography was hard, but I played
around with it a lot and found one that I liked. I then
played around with the strokes until I found what
I liked. The programs and tools I used was Adobe
Photoshop.

Logos
Description: Creating logos using Adobe
Illustrator to build your own designs.
Date: Nov. 1, 2015
Programs/Tools: Adobe Illustrator and the pen
tool.
Process: I made the scissors with the pen tool
in Illustrator and then I played around with the
box and circle tool to create some shapes and
ended up with these differet ideas for the logos.

Flier
Description: Black and White flier, Graduate
Leadership Conference
Date: Oct. 4, 2015
Programs/Tools: InDesign
Process: I made some sketches to start off
my thought process for the layout of the flier,
I then found one I liked and decided on my
typography. With that I put in my pictures and
lined everything up.

Brochure
Description: This is my project where I
used my skills from inDesign and Photoshop
to create a brochure for a mock company I
created.
Date: Dec. 6, 2015
Course/Instructor:
Comm. 130 Section 11 | Sister Kunz
Programs/Tools: Photoshop, Illustrator,
InDesign, Pen tool, and Lasso tool.
Process: I started out in Illustrator and made
my logo, I then headed to InDesign to create
my brochure page layout (2/3 fold), and added
some pictures to help create the feel for my
mock company. I went into photoshop and
used the lasso tool to crop the picture in the
upper right hand corner and played around
with some shapes and colors for the finishing
touches.

We b Page
Description: This is to show my skills in using
html and logo designs.
Dates: Nov. 22, 2015
Course/Instructor:
Comm. 130 Section 11 | Sister Kunz
Programs/Tools: InDesign and Illustrator,
and HTML.
Process: The programs I used where
Illustrator and InDesign to make my logo.
I then used html and .css to make it into a
website. Once I did that I validated it using
http://validator.w3.org.