This week for my internship, I tried my hand at mockups again. My director assigned me a project to create t-shirt and hoodie mockups using the company’s logo. I got the chance to practice using Adobe Photoshop some more, a program which I’m not totally comfortable using still. I noticed that I created these mockups faster than the mask, and I learned some new skills to make the final product more realistic utilizing layer modes and adjusting the levels of the photographs I used.
On the other hand, my job at the casino has also been going well. I was assigned a project to make some edits to a menu, and my senior commended me for my attention to detail. Additionally, I finished my employee recognition pins & certificate assignment, and I would say that I’m about 50% finished with my Design Bible.
For the Design Bible, I started adding annotations to my images to describe the guidelines for the designs for digital ads. My boss and coworkers actually didn’t have a lot of information on the context of the ads that they design, like where they go or how they look when they’re live, so I had to do a lot of personal research on the various ad sizes. I learned a lot about the top performing ad dimensions, about “ad inventory,” and now I can identify different ads based on their dimensions!
I also spent some time after my shift familiarizing myself with the property, noting the various screens that our promotions/designs appear on. It’s important to be able to contextualize the designs I’m going to be creating so that I’m able to design for the space better.
