Project(s) Update

I have been working a lot and haven’t had a great deal of time for projects, but in the time I have been able to spend, I have decided to split my idea into 2 separate projects. I am going to be re-working a web application that I made last year for my company’s annual United Way fund raiser, and I am going to be creating an inventory management system.

Because of the scale of the inventory management project I will need a bit of time to put this all together, but I wanted to get some good content on here before that.  Since I am creating the silent auction web-app anyway, I thought that would be a perfect opportunity for me to get some quality content posted.  I have an existing ASP.NET MVC5 application that does exactly what is needed for this application.  I made this last year, and it worked just fine.  The idea with re-working it this year is to improve on my Angularjs 2 skills, while hopefully helping somebody else out with similar issues that they may be encountering.  Check out the Projects links to see how the progress of these is coming, and I will be updating the main blog to include any completed items that can be viewed.

Until next time -Galen

Creating AWS Service for Data storage of new application

5/27/16

I have recently decided to re-purpose this wordpress site in order to have a place to chronicle some software development projects that I am working on to remind myself what worked, what didn’t work and maybe others can learn from this as well. I am currently researching Amazon AWS services to attempt to create a REST service for providing data access to both desktop/laptop computers and mobile devices.

I began by creating my AWS account and doing some basic research into the products that Amazon offers.  I also downloaded the Amazon studio and the AWS SDK and AWS Eclipse Plugin in order to get a start on the things that I need for my project.  I did do some basic diagramming for a data model (Entity Relationship Model) earlier today and I will get that posted up here once I have a nicer version of it ready.

I will be on vacation for the next 2 weeks so there is a good chance that I won’t post here again until midway through June.  I hope everyone enjoys their summer and I will see you here again before long.  I hope to have some neat stuff to show off by then!

GIT 230 Illustrator Project

This is my project for Adobe Illustrator. I designed a custom Skateboard deck.

Here is a brief description of the process:

First I took a picture of an existing skateboard deck and used the pen tool to create an outline. This gave me the correct shape for the design process. After that I duplicated the object so that I could do a front and back design. Next I took a picture of the city of Phoenix and used the live trace 6 color tool to create a unique city-scape view.  Then I used the knife tool to cut the bottom of the deck picture into two sections. Then I placed the city-scape as a background and duplicated it so that there was one for each portion of the bottom. I created a clipping mask out of each half of the board to use the city as two separate backgrounds. I then inverted the colors on one half and adjusted the colors to my liking. I created type and converted it to outlines so that I could modify it to my liking. I added a stroke to the text to make it stand out better. I then added a single path for the division between the two sections and added a clipping mask to get the edges to appear correctly. I then created a star path in the middle and converted it to a live paint object so that I could create the proper gradient and delete the portion of the path that was going through the middle of it. On the top I added a picture of some city buildings that was live traced as well. Since skateboard decks are covered in grip tape on top anyway I added a small graphic right where the gap usually is put in the grip tape to give it some flair.

Lab #5…Illustrator skills improving

While I don’t have much experience in Adobe Illustrator compared with Photoshop I am quickly learning. Here is the latest project.

LAB #4

Polishing my Adobe Illustrator skills. While I have some experience with Photoshop before this class, this is my first go at the Illustrator software and I am thoroughly enjoying the learning process. Check out my first couple pieces:

Album Cover

This is my CD cover for an imaginary metal band called ‘Galactic Star Bandit’. This was meant to be a fun and non realistic looking CD cover. This was made by cutting out an image of a white tiger, a saddle in two layers, a cactus, and a picture of my daughter in two layers riding a scooter. I then arranged the layers to make the rider. I had to make separate layers of a couple of the pictures to get the appearance of them all being part of the same 3 dimensional object. I then created the silhouette of the mountains from a picture of mountains and added a layer of stars from a picture of stars. I also Added the text and the moon as separate layers with extra filters and styles applied. There were several sharpen filters used for the layers that were cut out of other pictures including the defringe, sharpen and auto color methods. I also applied gradient overlays to both the mountains and the background layers. I Applied bevel and emboss techniques to the moon and a texture fill. I transformed each of the layers to be in the correct proportions and correct location and direction in relation to the other objects. I have updated this post with a better description since I still haven’t received a grade as of 11/16/14. The post was originally made on 11/2/14. I also posted this before that on my lab #3 post.

Lab #3

Week 2 Labs

WELCOME

Hello, and welcome to my blog. My name is Galen Goforth and I am a software engineering major. I am currently a JR and am doing GIT as a secondary focus for my degree. I look forward to sharing my media, and viewing yours. While I have some PS experience from building websites, I am not an expert at this sort of thing in any way. I have a hard time with the artistic side of things and am looking forward to learning from the GIT class materials and my fellow students.

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