Swatches- blog post #3

Swatches, swatches, and more swatches! What's not to LOVE? 

Still being fairly new to indesign and all it has to offer, I find swatches to be beyond helpful when it comes to the layout and design. 

In our most recent project of designing brochures, swatches will come in handy when i decide what color scheme I want to use. Take my first line of blue in the image attached as an example; I could use a dark blue for the font, the lowest opacity blue would be my text box color and the middle opacity blue would be the accent.

Using swatches prevents you from using 3 different blues that first of all don't look good together and second of all looks sloppily made.
I definitely think that I will use swatches for mediated comm projects and perhaps in future comm classes!

CLOUDS!

Nothing more relaxing than looking at clouds. This post is about the different types of images that you can work with.

 The gif seems to be the one that stands out the most from the three. 

Personally, I think jpeg files work the best for images of naturalistic things; whereas gifs would be better with images containing words or distinct shapes. A png is also extremely detailed with multiple shades of gray within the cloud. 

Cloud Gif

Cloud png

Cloud jpeg

Welcome to My World

Staring at this blank post, I'm at a loss for words for how to begin. Lets just get this out of the way from the beginning, I am new to blogging. I still haven't been able to wrap my head around how am I supposed to make an accurate and acceptable first impression in 100 words or less, but here goes nothing.
My name is Maureen Blaha. I hail from Cleveland, Ohio and couldn't be more excited to be spending yet another semester in this environment of upbeat students and plenty of new experiences. 
In my free time, you can easily find be either on horseback, or enjoying a long day on Lake Erie.