Tice Graphics 3

Project Description

I am Cheryl Tice, in the University of South Carolina's Curriculum and Instruction program with an Educational Technology enhancement.  I developed the images on this page using GIMP as a logo for a conference day training in my district on Wiggins and McTighe's backward design process that takes place on 3/15/2019.  My rapid e-learning training that I am developing for my final assignment had a graphic on one of the template slides in Storyline 360 that I thought I could adapt to make a suitable logo for my purposes.  I went through several iterations of the logo.  Dr. Senn offered feedback that my original design was more of a informational graphic organizer than a logo.  The version on this page is the final of three or four designs I tried.  I plan to share this logo with district leadership to use when communicating about the conference day.  

Many tools were utilized to create this image.  I used the ellipse select tool to make the circles and filled them with color with the bucket fill tool.  I made separate text boxes for each line of text in the heading of the logo.  The number for each stage of the process are in separate text boxes, as well as the names of each stage.  I added a drop shadow to the circles for the 3-D version of the image.  Additionally, I added extra layers and changed the opacity of each duplicate text box and grouped them together in Layer Groups, so it would be easier to view and hide the layers as I went through the iteration process and came up with the final logo.  

The arrow is from the shapes in Microsoft PowerPoint.  I used the editing tools in PowerPoint to change the autoshape called Arrow: Curved Up.  I rotated it, added a rectangle over the part I wanted to remove and used the Merge Shapes option on the Format tab in PowerPoint to strategically remove part of the arrow.  I right clicked and saved the arrow as a PNG and inserted it as a layer in GIMP.  I made two duplicate layers of the arrow to play with opacity to make it look three-dimensional.  I made a layer group for the arrow image, as well.  

I set the print size to 300 pixels per inch and saved the printable versions as PNG files.  The website versions of the images were scaled to a smaller print size (150 pixels for an image size of 5"x4") and saved as GIF images.  

My favorite version of the logo is the 3-D version of the image.  I will use it on communication about our March conference day.  Make sure to click the 3-D logo to view it with better image quality.