Category: 03: Optimization

My quick selection tool skills could be better, but I used 5 images to create my sample banner for assignment 3.

I made my banner for a zipline business in Hawaii that I made up. I used a photo we took on our trip to Maui in March when the kids did a zip line. The girl on the line is my daughter, the boy at the top of the tower …

I chose a picture I took in 2015 of a rainbow over lower campus and created an ad for UAF. After resizing the image to 960×341 pixels it looked pretty good. All of the transformations I attempted either made little difference or degraded the image. Since any transformation to reduce …

I’m fairly new to Photoshop.  I know some of the basics, but I never really got my hands dirty with this platform.  So I kept the banner pretty basic.  I used a photo that my father took out at Deep Creek a few days ago.  I used Cinema4D to render …

Here we have the EZ Arcade’s banner, an imaginary retro gaming site. The original file size was 1.1 MB and is now down to 79.1 KB. I probably could have gone smaller, but I’m so used to zooming in to look for graininess and artifacts on photographs, it’s going to …

As a previous owner to a travel agency, it is my passion to continue to help others find their place of travel. Here is a banner I created from pictures that I have in my collection from Southwest Alaska. The upper left image is a picture from the reindeer corrals …

I chose Bose for my banner because they are awesome and I wanted an excuse to make the equalizer in the background. 🙂

Banner I made for a PC Repair company named Wes’s PC Repair.

I’m not entirely pleased with this. First it won’t play well on all backgrounds and second it is just a bit too busy. To wit: the satellite over Earth is a bit difficult to make out. Had I just stuck with a brushed metal appearance for the text along with …

It came out pretty clean. Check it out on taraandbunbun.blogspot.com