Tag: Photoshop

  • Book Cover Design

    Book Cover Design

    Created cover art for his first book, All Nighter at L&L Pub (I was also a reader/editor). The image he had in his head was something like a pub you might find in The Hobbit and he wanted the title to include the pub’s signage.

    The original image is from Ingo Jakubke on Pixabay (creative commons licensing; the image I’ve uploaded here is smaller/low-res). Using photoshop, I cleaned up various business-related stickers that were in the windows, removed the goldschmiede atelier signage, moved the Nürtinger Keller sign to the doorpost, removed the ornamentation that had been on top of the sign-post and the business’s name, then added L&L Pub. I would have loved to have kept the ornamentation on that signpost, but enough of it was cut out of the picture that including it would have been a challenge.

    According to the photographer, this is in Tuscany, which confused me since the signage is German (though I did find a couple 2007 stories about a German travel company buying a Tuscan village, so… maybe??)

    After the ministry’s name change, the cover was updated again to add the new name, logo, and website.

  • Logo “Refurb”

     

    Logo “Refurb”


    Recreated original logo for Storytelling Apologetics Ministry (now Echoed Calls). The image the author was using was originally done in MS Paint (I know!) and quality had degraded with use. I was able to match all of the original elements, making it almost identical to his original. 

  • Logo Design: Echoed Calls

  • Organizational Communication Intervention

    March 2020: Partnered project to create a website to teach classmates about Organizational Communication Interventions (Chapter 15 of our textbook) using Google Sites. Video was made using Adobe Spark. All graphics came from Pixabay (royalty-free/creative commons licensed images). Created chalkboard and caution signs using Photoshop. In order to embed video, I had to create a YouTube channel and upload from there. Rotating “take-aways” at the bottom of the site were done in Google Slides by my project partner, Andrew Sparks. We worked together to tweak the timing and autoplay. Layout was his idea and we worked together to make the sections cohesive and informative.

    Source: Van Tiem, D.M., Moseley, J.L., & Dessinger, J.C. (2012). Fundamentals of performance improvement: Optimizing results through people, process, and organizations (3rd ed.). San Francisco, CA: John Wiley & Sons.

  • Trapped in Love: A Memoir on Marriage, Parenting, and Loss (B.A. English Lit, Honors Thesis)

    Why “Trapped in Love”?

    In 2010, we had a son, Keith Alton. Our daughter was 7 years old at the time and had long blond hair. She would hover over him in his bouncy seat, making it so it was just her face and his inside a wall of blond hair, and tell him, “You’re trapped in sissy love!”

    Trigger warning: Keith died at two months of age. Sections I and III talk about this, the third more in depth than the first. Section III is a braided essay style and includes first person accounts of the night and aftermath of Keith’s death and the day and aftermath of my mother’s death.

    Section 1: Marriage

    Written in a poetry format, this section talks about mine and Brian’s relationship from beginning to 2018 (when this paper was submitted). The image is a depiction of what the computer screens looked like when we met and the verse is one that I consider to be “ours.”

    [pdf-embedder url=”https://www.elizabethmcalister.net/wp-content/uploads/securepdfs/2020/06/Trapped-in-Love-Spring-2018-Marriage.pdf” title=”Section I: Marriage”]

    1 Cor 13:4-8 with ASCII hearts

    Section 2: Parenting

    Written in a mix of prose and poetry, this section is dedicated to my daughter, Taylor . The verse is one that I think of as “hers.”

    [pdf-embedder url=”https://www.elizabethmcalister.net/wp-content/uploads/securepdfs/2020/06/Trapped-in-Love-Spring-2018-Taylor.pdf” title=”Section II: Parenting”]

    Proverbs 3:5-6. Trust in the Lord with all your heart

    Section 3: Loss

    Written in poetry form, somewhat braided essay style only in that Keith’s portion is on the left and Mom’s portion is on the right. I wrote the haiku on the image.

    [pdf-embedder url=”https://www.elizabethmcalister.net/wp-content/uploads/securepdfs/2020/06/Trapped-in-Love-Spring-2018-Grief.pdf” title=”Section III: Loss”]

    One day lasts a month; One month feels like yesterday; Grief is weird that way