- C.R.A.P. – discussed in Robin Williams book: contrast, repetition, alignment, proximity.
- Contrast focuses our attention with use of colors, bold type, and size to distinguish parts of text or an image and create contrast.
- Repetition helps to unite a document so that it looks like whole. Repetition may be achieved by repeating fonts, styles, images, and so forth.
- Alignment helps to organize information to make it clearer and more professional looking.
- Proximity helps to establish relationships between items such as items in close proximity appear related.
2. Vector – Vector art is created using vector illustration software programs, such as Adobe Illustrator, which I realize is what we were exploring yesterday in class. Vectors uses points, lines, and shapes to create art. It can be scaled in many different ways.
3. Rasterize – making an image into a pixel image which is done in vector graphics or images that have vector components. All this is new terminology for me. I just need to keep playing in the Adobe program to figure out how this all works to truly understand these terms.
4. Opacity – something that is opaque, the opacity attribute specifies the transparency of an object. Is this related to the opacity of the flower and bee image we worked on yesterday, thinking about the degree to which the background is overlaid or working in layers to create the whole picture.
5. Unification – the process of being united or made into a whole. In design, consistency and repetition of a design element creates the unity.