Lab #15 Reflection

     This lab is the first lab that is on adobe illustrator. It required us to use the information learned from the reading we absorbed. The tasks were simple but required a bit of looking for some of the options and customization tabs. Though InDesign was new to us, it wasn't hard to understand the interface well because it had similar structure and tools to illustrator and photoshop. The first task required us to make a black banana using curved lines and anchor points. It was the simplest to do and to do it I used the pen tool. The next task was to make text wrap a shape. In this case a square that would have text wrapping around it.

     First I made a rectangle using the rectangle tool. Then I put a text box over it. I then made enough text to fill it and went into the wrap text option while having my rectangle selected. The text then wrapped the text around it. It was also fairly simple. Next task was to make 2 paragraph headers and body text. It was simple because I followed the instructions that was given to me in the reading. It had stated how you bold a the header and make it have its own paragraph style. The same goes for the body text but without the bolding. Last but not least was playing around with glyphs and the character tab. This allowed me to utilize the text to look just like the one shown. The following glyphs included were infinity, double dagger, and copyright. The text had different character styles too. A web designer would need these skills to be able to add an interest to their text so it doesn't look plain and boring. They would need it to attract attention and be able to get viewers on their website.