Kate Sixsmith's Blog

1. InDesign for Beginners https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXRT3dHu6_o  This video dives into many elements that beginners using Indesign can benefit from. The man in the video shows steps like creating text boxes, aligning margins, and he shows a lot of shortcuts also. The man in the video Dan, shows how to make spreads versus single pages. Spreads can be used to make multiple pages like magazines and pamphlets. He shows how to make the multiple pages, have the same elements by using tools like the layers and copy and pasting. He talks a lot in his videos about "bleeding" which can happen when elements are off the margins of the page which can tend to happen with a lot of text.  2.  Learn Adobe InDesign in 11 MINUTES! | Formatting, Tools, Layout, Text Etc.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF_fu1wcT0Y This video explains how to import and export images and elements in InDesign. It also explains master pages.  When you have a multiple-page document, such as a broc...

 November 28, 2023     Included below is the piece I created for my animation assignment. I created it in photoshop, and it is a GIF of a turtle swimming around and then finding some aquatic plants to eat, and then the turtle moving on. I was inspired by children s book animations, and Youtube kids videos. I felt the colors were very bright and cheerful that children can appriciate and be attentive to. 

  I feel this image would be really hard to photoshop myself into. The lightening and filters of this image would make it hard to match up with a separate edited photo of me.  This image gave me some inspiration for the upcoming Somewhere project. As I was looking through this mans Instagram, he does a lot of cool shots with Photoshop and celebrity images. In this picture, I saw Margot Robbie, and I had the idea of adding myself in a Barbie movie scene.  These images make a laugh because the author of them has people message and request Photoshop details. He then alters them in a funny way but also on par with what the individual asked for, but in a different way. These photos made me laugh because someone asked him to make the boys dad a little shorter, so the author made the dads whole torso smaller in a funny way.  I liked the illusion of these images. The use of shadows and light to reflect onto the girls face is a great way to naturally create illusions by using...