Could social media affect your chances of getting into collage?

     I recently read the article "They loved your GPA, then they saw your Tweets" by Natasha Singer. This article is a study of how collages look at your social media post when considering your application. 381 collages that answered their questionnaire 315 of them said they had visited applicants face book or other social media to learn more about them. 30% of them said they found something that negatively impacted their applicants prospects.

     There are many stories of people getting turned down from collage because of social media. Last year, an undergraduate at Pitzer Collage in Claremont Calif., who had befriended a prospect on Facebook notified the administration office because of offensive comments posted about a high school teacher. That student was not admitted.

     These numbers surprised me, I didn't think that many collages actually viewed applicants social media. In fact I didn't think they did it at all. For some people this can be a scary thing, think about your post. Do you have anything that could be a red flag to collages?

     This article made me stop and think what i put on social media. now that i know this i will try to filter my post and be careful what i put on the internet.

     

     

     

  

Photoshop Projects

For this project we used the crop tool the horizontal type tool and the opacity setting my biggest challenge was figuring out how to resize the photos to the right size and percent. 

For this project we used the magic wand tool. my biggest challenge for this was being able to change the color of the selected area and i had problems with it selecting the right areas to color.

For this project we used the text mask and the gradient tool. my biggest was making the gradient because it was verry confuseing to open the window and to use the tool.

For this project we used the clone stamp tool this was probably my biggest challenge because it was so hard to out line the raven and copy and paste it properly it took me at least ten tries and was very confuseing.

Personal Logo

For my E-Communications class we had a project to design a personal logo using what we had learned about shape and color. Since i plan on going into the video part of E-Communications i made a logo of and old video camera in black and a yellow circle around it yellow and black represent the bright warm felling of the sun it also is used to grab attention quickly. i also used a circle which gives the feeling of enclosure.

My Name In New Alphabet

This is my name and the labeled parts of my new font: New Alphabet

New Alphabet Font

This is the font that i got from the "whats your type" assignment and these are the four words that describe me.

Graphic Design

          Graphic design is in everything we do, it is in everything we touch and in everything we buy. Graphic Design is more than just cool pictures and logos its the human touch behind what you interact with. It can be used to represent love, hate, sadness, and happiness. Graphic Design has emotion and can bring out the best and the worst in us. Graphic Design is everything

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTi5SNgxE3U