Gurav+Vats+Unit+2

Graphics  By : Gurav Vats 7MKR   INVESTIGATION   Identify the Problem
 * I have been given the task of using a computers to show and predict how I am changing as time progresses. This means that I have to create something which will show what I looked like in the past, what I look like now and how I will look in the future. **

Research and Analysis  Skill Exercises Skills Exercise 1

The Folder Structure has been created in my flash.



Skills Exercise 2

The image was created on Gimp.



Skills Exercise 3



Skills Exercise 4



Design Brief
 * I will design and create a collage of pictures of myself which shows the progression of what I look like from the past into the future using the graphics package Gimp 2.8.2**

Product Specification My product must: Test Plan **. Check the 5 different pictures up until 12 years old.** **. Ask family member if the online ageing software has worked and does it actually make me looked 15 to 80 accurate.** **.Check the separate layers and make sure if they are named.** **.Have my name on a separate layers.** **.Check for the flattened image.** **. Check if the image format is jpeg and also check the size should be less than 500kb.** DESIGN   Pictures of my designs   Design 1 and 2
 * My Collage Must: **
 * be 1200 pixels by 1200 pixels **
 * have 5 different pictures of myself from a baby to 12 years old **
 * have 1 picture of myself now. **
 * have 8 pictures of me ranging from 15 to 80 years old. I will use online ageing software to do this. **
 * Have each picture on a separate layer. **
 * have Each layer named. **
 * have my name on the collage on a separate layer **
 * Be flattened when finished. **
 * be saved as a jpeg file less than 500kb in size **
 * . Check the pixels are 1200 by 1200 pixels**



Analysis of my designs **I think that my designs do fulfill the product specification on paper and will on the computer as well. I am also confident that my design are simple enough to turn out to be a quality picture even on a 500kb limit The design that I choose will also emphasize the topic of time we are now persuing. Overall I am very confident on the quality and simplicty of my designs.**

Justification for chosen design **My choice of design is design number 1, I have made this particular choice because it is funny and when transferred onto GIMP, added with all the special effects and computer magic will turn out to be above the standard set by the product specification. There are also another reason why I did not choose to do the other design it was because I thought they did not fill my expectations.**

PLAN Resources Computer] Gimp Internet **Pictures:** 2 year old 4 year old 8 year old 10 years old 12 years old 15 years old 20 years old 30 years old 40 years old 50 years old 60 years old 70 years old 80 years old **Work** **Schedule** CREATE Final Product Changes made to the original Design I made quite a few changes to the supporting backgrounds of the pictures because I could not find an appropriate image and 7 of the 8 pictures for the future are missing because I forgot to research some websites but when I did over the weekend all of them I tried either you had to pay for them an the free ones said they could not find my face in the pictures. We also got 2 websites that Mr Mutasa gave us and 1 of the websites was also for paying. But the free one worked but only once. But that website had a problem as well and even after trying numerous time the site did not produce my image. This was the reason for the missing pictures in my future part. Changes made to the original Plan  For the plan I did not follow most of the timings for the schedule but I did follow the order of the work. This was because of being slow in organizing myself, having problems with the internet at home in which time I could have done quite allot of work done. EVALUATE  Results of tests I thought the results for my test were very good and every test subject noticed the missing pictures for the future. My Results Table
 * My Plan Consists of:**
 * collect pictures lesson 1
 * organize pictures lesson 2
 * place pictures on gimp lesson 3
 * Insert Words home work
 * Merge Layers home work
 * Check product specification and check that everything fits accordingly homework
 * Merge Visible Layers Homework
 * Test || Marks out of 10 ||
 * 1 || 10 ||
 * 2 || 10 ||
 * 3 || 5 ||
 * 4 || 10 ||
 * 5 || 10 ||
 * 6 || 10 ||
 * 7 || 10 ||

Recommendations for improvement In the future what I could do to improve the final product is doing my work faster, not chatting, being more organized, staying on top of my work and doing a bit of research myself and hopefully with all these things put together I will be able to produce a far better product than this time.

Self-evaluation of your execution of the design cycle  I think I have followed the design cycle properly but I always forget to emphasize on the design part of the design cycle. In order to solve this problem organization is the key, I have graded my self against the assessment criteria in the various stages of the design cycle as followed:
 * Stage || Mark || Improvement and Reason ||
 * Investigation || 5 || I gave myself a 5-6 because I did the majority of work to relatively high quality.What I could have done better in the investigation was to read the the part about research and analysis our teacher gave us and in the text Mr Mutasa it said that we had to research and find one of our own aging websites. ||
 * Design || 4 || In this criteria I gave myself a 3-4 because although I was only able to put up 1 design and it was also the design I chose I think the design I put up was of a very high quality. The way I could improve in this criteria is by adding 2 more designs I could have got a better grade than this. ||
 * Plan || 4 || For plan I gave myself a 3-4 because my plan somewhat described how my work was supposed to be carried out. How I can improve is by being more detailed about my work plan. ||
 * Create || 5 || For create I have given myself a 5-6 because even though most of the future pictures were missing I tried to make the gimp version of my chosen design look as much like as my paper design. Obviously I could improve my create by including all the future pictures in my gimp but because of circumstances and because of me not paying that much attention in class to what Mr Mutasa writes I could have created a better product by following instructions. ||
 * Evaluate || 6 || Once again! I gave myself a 5-6 in this criteria was because I am confident that I have evaluated in enough detail what marks I have given myself, the reasons for why I gave myself those marks and how I could improve. How I think I could improve in this criteria is by describing in even more detail how I could do all those things I have listed above and then hopefully I will get a 6 every time! ||
 * Attitudes in technology || 6 || And for the last but not least criteria F I gave myself a 5-6 as well and this time I am sure I deserve it because my attitudes towards this subject is very appealing and I am a big fan of using computer for everything that is possible to be done with a computer! In this criteria I could improve in paying more attention in class and finding new ways of finding good use of computers to solve any problem. ||