Professional Nameplate

In order to make this nameplate I first started off by changing my canvas color to this nice green. After I had done that I put in a text box and typed in my name which I then changed to a solid red, underlined and changed the font to Adobe Caslon Pro Bold. To make my name stand out even more I added an Unsharped mask and a Glow.

Midlevel Nameplate

To make my mid level nameplate I started by making the canvas size 300 pixels by 200 pixels. I then clicked on the canvas and gave it this nice purple background because I think purple is a very nice color. After that I typed my name in the canvas, skewed my name so that it would slant the way it does, colored it red and then I added a green outline to my letters so that they would stand out. I then went to filters and added three more things to my name and those things were an inner glow, solid shadow and curves.

Basic Nameplate

I created my nameplate by first starting with my canvas color. I clicked on the down arrow for the canvas color and chose this green because it didn't hurt my eyes. Next I typed in my name and underlined it. After I underlined my name I used the skew tool to put it in the position that it is now. Finally after I did all that I changed the color of my name to this dark blue and I changed the outline of my name to this light blue.

Optimizing and Exporting Graphics

Optimizing graphics can be done by using the tools on the top right hand corner of your adobe fireworks page. In order to optimize your graphics such as to make your graphics look nice and at the same time make your graphics load fast when you export them you have to change the levels of some of your tools such as your quality and your smoothing. Also if you click on the down arrow on the box next to the Matte you can get some different tools to change the quality of your graphics and the time it takes to load. At the top of your canvas page you have something called 2-up and 4-up. If you  click on 4-up your page will divide into 4, each one with your canvas and there is where you can change the quality of your canvas and the smoothing. The time it takes your canvas to load when you export them depends on the smoothing level and your quality. The reason why is because the higher your quality is the more time it will take to export your graphics.

Art Terminology Definitions

 Art Terminology Definitions

Hue:Hue is another word for color. This attribute describes the colors by name like red, blue, green etc.
Chroma: Intensity or strength and or the purity of a color.
Tint: The opposite of a shade. Tinting is combining white with a color to change it's shade.
Tone: The quality of a color.
Shade: Using a mixture of black mixed with a color to make it darker.
Complimentary Color: Colors which appear on the opposite side of the color wheel. These colors are
Analogous Colors: Colors that are adjacent or next to one another on a color wheel.
Contrasting Colors: Two colors from different segments of the color wheel.
Texture: Texture creates the feeling of an object.
Graphic Design Principles: How a designer can best arrange the various elements of a page layout in connection to the overall design and to each other.
Balance: An art and design principle concerned with the arrangement of one or more elements in a work of art so that they appear symmetrical or asymmetrical in design and proportion.
Symmetry: when one side of something balances out the other side.

Resources:

11/8/12-http://www.artincanada.com/arttalk/arttermsanddefinitions.html#h
11/9/12-http://painting.about.com/od/artglossarya/g/defanalogous.htm
11/9/12-https://www.google.com/#hl=en&sugexp=les%3B&gs_nf=3&gs_mss=Contrastin%20colors%20definition&tok=UNzjoDT8xOJDHQ5j7E8DRw&pq=analogous%20colors%20definition&cp=11&gs_id=33l&xhr=t&q=Contrasting%20colors%20definition&pf=p&tbo=d&sclient=psy-ab&oq=Contrasting+colors+definition&gs_l=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&fp=51dabdeb6d5d2770&bpcl=38093640&biw=824&bih=861
11/9/12-http://desktoppub.about.com/cs/basic/g/principles.htm

Graphic Formats

PNG: Portable Network Graphics- PNG can be pronounced two ways. One way is "ping" and the other way is "P-N-G". It is used pretty often on the web and is a popular choice for the application of graphics. The format PNG was first introduced in 1994 which was after JPEG and GIF because JPEG and GIF had already been around for years. PNG has many benefits that come from GIF and JPEG. For example PNG enables  compression of images without loss of quality and PNG has 24-bit color like the JPEG however the PNG format supports the alpha channel  unlike JPEG and GIF and PNG may include more than 16 million colors.

GIF: Graphics Interchange Format- GIF is a compressed image file format  that uses a compression formula that was first developed by CompuServe. Gifs are based on indexed colors, which has about 256 colors. This reduces the size of the file. The compressed image files can be easily transmitted over the Internet or a network.

JPG/JPEG:Joint Photographic Experts Group-  JPEG stands for "Joint Photographic Experts Group" because it's the name of the committee that made this format. You don't have to remember all that just know that JPEG is a compressed image file format.

TIFF: Tagged Image File Format- This is a file format which is pretty much used to store images like snaps and line art. This was first created by the Corporation Aldus with some help from Microsoft for things like purposes of Post Script printing, TIFF is a great and a very famous format for high color resolution images. Formats like this one in particular are supported by applications such as Photoshop, GIMP, you lead Photo impact, Paint Shop Pro etc.

Resources:
11/7/12- http://www.blurtit.com/q714155.html
11/8/12- http://www.techterms.com/definition/png
11/8/12- http://www.techterms.com/definition/gif
11/8/12- http://www.techterms.com/definition/jpeg