J. McKenzie Hansen

File Folder Icon

The file folder icon was our big Fireworks assignment for Thomas. It was extremely frustrating, but fairly easy because we had the tutorial to go by.

I didn’t really like the way the tutorial’s images were and some of the directions didn’t really make sense. I had to read over them a few times just in order to draw one little box / rectangle.  Even though the directions were a little frustrating to follow, I also had to face the fact that my folder would not be completely perfect, which didn’t suit well with me since I am a perfectionist. I tried making mine EXACTLY like his, but after a while I realized that that wasn’t going to happen. In the end though, it looked really great and I am very proud of myself.

I was happy that it didn’t take very long to do. From the time I started to the time I finished only an hour and a half had passed by.  Which I thought it would take me longer since I kept trying to make it perfect. It also took me a while to learn the tools and how to use them correctly, especially skew. When I wanted it to do one thing, I wouldn’t move the correct place, which caused me to have to push CTRL + Z and redo it a couple times.

The tips given in the tutorial about hiding and locking layers literally saved my life! I was so happy to have that little insight, because even working on the correct layer, I would accidentally click something or move something on accident.

Though this assignment was a little frustrating,  I made it a little worse than it probably was because I was just ready to have it finished. Because I have messed with Adobe Photoshop before for EAST stuff, I am used to doing a lot of little detailed things that could take time. I guess it being Fireworks and this is actually for a grade, it was a little different. So I guess overall I am very proud of my work on this assignment and I am happy that I did it!