Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Week 5 Lab- Hispanic Population Study

Week 5 Lab-I started getting a little more comfortable with Adobe Illustrator.  Although I think it's a challenging program to learn, I keep learning new ways of doing things and think it's fun. It seems to allow for a lot of artistic expression.  One thing that helped me in this exercise was learning how to use the layers.  Through trial and error and the Illustrator help I discovered grouping and ungrouping, which seemed to allow me to edit the colors and text in the legend.  I also worked with the layer display order.  One thing that I couldn't get to work was the Kuler color selector.  It didn't seem to connect to the internet to review the color gradients/swatches.  I'll keep trying though as it seems like you would have many other color choices. Prior to posting my map, I reviewed a few really stellar selections and would like to try things a little different next time. 

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