Cleaning Up

Good evening world,

I had fairly unique week-long spring break experience. Did I spend my time inebriated on some nondescript tropical paradise? Conversely, did I travel to a culturally rich European country?

I chose to fill the void of my seven day vacation by meticulously assembling my portfolio on my new website, www.julioarata.com! Coincidently, reading chapters seven and eight of Designing a Digital Portfolio became very relevant in terms of the exact timing of assembling the massive task of putting together a web portfolio within a week.

Without going too far before explaining the rational of spending my spring break dedicated to portfolio completion; I applied to my first major career job with positive results.

For seven days straight I spent the entirety working on assembling and scanning my various forms of artwork and video. Chapter Seven of of Assembling a Digital portfolio came in handy when scanning both my black and white pencil illustration a sketches and large artworks that were too large to scan. I followed the advice that the book provided on "Stitching with Software" in order to take three pictures of a large art piece that created and seamlessly assembled them in Photoshop. As for my lengthy series of black and white illustrations I depended on Photoshop's Levels function to properly display my work.

Though the book's advice was useful I depended on Deke McClelland's, "Photoshop: Beyond the Basics", Advanced techniques, Channels and Masks, Advanced Channels and Masks, and Portrait Retouching Essentials to assemble my work best.