For this assignment I chose to look into the visual Assignments section of ds106 assignment directory.

The two assignments I chose were a gif assignment and an Adobe illustrate assignment.

Right off the back I knew that I could complete the Gif assignment, as this is something we have been working on in class. The assignment asked that I choose a clip from my favorite movie scene and turn it into a short animated Gif. Which would highlights the essence of the chosen scene.

The secound assignment which I was less confident I would be able to do asked that I use photoshop to create a clipping mask image. One that utilizes shdows to make it more realistic.

I was not too sure that I could complete this assignment being that I am not too familiar with photoshop. I had not used photosop beyond the object selection tool and resize image tools.

I found a tutorial on youtube detailing haow to use the the clipping mask tool.

After watchng the tutorial I realized that the assignment was actually easier than I imagined. The terminology just made sound slighly difficult.

I first dowloaded adobe illustrator  and created a new file–>

I found a picture of grass on google and added it to illustater by dragging it from my desk top.

I then opened a new page added text and the grass image.

selected the text only and bought it to the front.

Following this i selected the text and made it a compound shape.

I selected both the grasss and the text hit control + click and made them a clipping mask.

whcich combined the grass and text. I found an imageof dirts and sent it to the back layer. Object–> Arrange–> send backward.

next i ateempted to add adrop shadow in illustrator however it did not seem to work for me. So i transferred both the grass and the dirt as two seperate layers to photoshop and added the shadow.

click the text layer–>effects–>drop shadow.

This is the finished product–>

During this semester I think we should expore new  varrying projects like this more often. I think it is useful to gain a better grasp of different storytelling and design tools. After this project I feel a bit more tech savy. And I look foward to learning how to create things like this.