Well I totally spaced writing last week, but since I was gone part of this week on vacation I'll just combine the two weeks. Well last week was good. But I got whats called a variance. Well I actually got 2 variances. Yay! Not. So a variance is when you build a file wrong and then we have to reprint it. The first variance was just stupid and fooled all of us but the second I wanted to smack my self. the client sent in 3 images on 1 file and I choose the wrong image. I have no idea why I didn't call the account manager to verify which one it was but I didn't. ( the job said "tent #1" so I choose "tent #1" seems logical right?) Well no the actual image was "tent #3" So even though the client approved the proof we sent them we still had to reprint it. The good news is now I wont do that again! I also got to do some banners for the Layton City 4th of July parade. That was fun because I knew that I would get to actually see them since I would be at the parade. (pictures below) though these were a bit more difficult because most of the time the client sends in the artwork they want but layton didn't. They were like "oh go find the declaration of Independence for us" or "find a font that looks like the declaration" or the best was the one they wanted to say "one if by land, two if by sea" They were like "we don't want the same font as the declaration. So find an appropriate font.". Well that narrows it down! haha But it was still fun. I also got very good at the clone tool in photo shop this last week. We had a lot of old photo's that were sent in that needed like 4 inches of bleed added so them so they could be blown up into banners. That is not an easy feat. The content aware tool helps but still sometimes the image doesn't look right so you have to go back and edit it with the clone tool. I also got to work on some items for the Utah Jazz. That was also fun. A bit of a pain because at first they didn't send in vector files, just jpg's and those weren't going to work. So finally we got those but then they also didn't give a lot of instruction for a banner we were creating for them so I had to go back and forth with the account manager a lot. The last thing that happened this week is a new kid started working there. One day when I walked in R. had me sit down and help him. Its always a test to see if you know what you are doing when all of a sudden you have to teach someone else. I came really close to helping him correctly! I just forgot the last step. Next time, next time. Over all it was a good two weeks though. Lots of learning experiences!
(I just realized my pictures are on my camera so those will be put up once I load them on my computer)
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