Empowerment

Technologies
Imaging and Design For the
Online Environment
 Evaluate Existing
Websites And Online
Resources
The picture above shows a good web design website. It uses the different elements on its
design properly. Not only that, the website designer also follows the rules in organizing and
placing the different elements in making website design.
What’s New
Activity 1 – Evaluate the design of Arngren website.

In creating any design, we should always remember the different types of elements to be used and
how to use them properly. Given the picture below, what can you say about the design of the website?
Do you like the design of Arngren website? Why? Why not?
What is It
Basic Principles of Graphics and Layout
The elements and principles of design are the building blocks of a successful
beautiful design. The elements of design are the things or tools that make up a
design while the Principles of design are what we do to those elements.
The Elements of Design

LINE – Lines are defined by points moving in space. It can create a

sense of movement or direction in your design. Line is can be smooth,
rough, straight, curve, broken, thick or thin.

SHAPE – A shape is an enclosed space, the boundaries of which are

defined by other elements of art like lines, colors, values or textures.
Shapes can be used to create patterns and draw the viewer’s attention.

DIRECTION – Applying motion to create the visual illusion of movement.

Use horizontal direction for calmness, stability and tranquility while
vertical direction for emotions of balance, formality and alertness.
 SIZE (SCALE) – Size is basically the relationship of
the area occupied by one shape to that of another.
Large elements means more significant than the
small one.

TEXTURE – Texture refers to surface appearance of

an object given by the dimensions, form, thickness,
arrangement, and amount of its basic parts.

COLOR – Color is light redirected off objects. It is used

to create curiosity and emotions to the viewer’s. It has
three main characteristics: hue (these are red, green,
blue, etc.), value (lightness/ darkness), and intensity
(saturation, or amount of pigment) and temperature
(warm and cool)
The Principles of Design
These are the rules that help you organize and place the materials to make arts or designs.

1. B A L A N C E – Balance in design is the state of equal relationship. It means

equal distribution of visual weight in a design. It can be achieved by adjusting the
visual weight of each element, in terms of size, color, textures, shapes or contrast.
Balance in graphic design provides stability and structure to a design.

There are different kinds of balance:

Symmetrical balance occurs when identical

weights are on equal sides of a composition.
Asymmetrical balance occurs when a design have
unequal graphic weight on either side, but those unequal
graphics need to balance each other (un-evenly
balanced)

Radial balance occurs when the design elements

swirl out from a central axis (emanating from a
central point)

PROXIMITY – Proximity maintains a relationship between items

that go together. It helps creates organization by grouping the
same elements together or in close proximity. The elements
should be connected visually
3. ALIGNMENT – Alignment refers to lining up the
elements of a design along the top, bottom, center or sides
of the elements. It allows us to create order and
organization in our design. The whole point of the alignment
is that nothing in your design should look as if it were
placed there randomly.

4. REPETITION, PATTERN, AND RHYTHM – Repetition

duplicates the characteristics of similar elements to contribute
to design consistency. It strengthens a design by tying
together individual elements; pattern is a regular arrangement
of alternated or repeated elements like shapes, lines or colors;
rhythm--is a combination of elements repeated, but with
variations.

5. CONTRAST – Contrast refers to the use of conflicting

elements or colors while still remaining harmonious and
unified when the artwork is viewed as a whole. It allows you
to give emphasis to key elements in your design.
6. SPACE – It refers to the area that an object occupies. Both
positive and negative space should be considered in graphic
design. White space gives your design breathing room.
What’s More
Activity 2 – Different Principles of Design and sign Used.

Based on the given picture below, identify what Principles of Design and Elements Design being
used.
What is It

What is Infographic?

The term Information graphic or Infographic is a

photographic presentations of data and information
that use the different elements of design to make
data easily understandable at a glance.
Infographics make complex messages become
more visually appealing to the viewers.

Visual Message Design can help with effectiveness

of delivery of a message. It can lend assistance in
presenting your ideas clearly.
Some Tools For Creating Infographics

1. Biteable https://biteable.com/infographic/

2. BeFunky https://www.befunky.com/features/infographic-maker/

3. Visme https://www.visme.co/make-infographics/

4. Cacoo https://cacoo.com/

5. Snappa https://snappa.com/create/infographics

6. Canva Infographic Maker https://www.canva.com/create/infographics/

7. Google Chart https://developers.google.com/chart/

8. Piktochart http://piktochart.com/

9. Infogram http://infogr.am/

10. Mind the Graph https://mindthegraph.com/

Principles of Visual Message Design using Infographics

1. Be unique
Be creative is one of the most important aspect of designing an effective
infographic. .

2. Keep it simple
Make a design easy to understand. Straight to the point and focus more on
the message.

3. Less is more
Focus on what matters. Keep your text minimal will most likely produce
more impact than a
page full of words.

4. Sharing
Share it with your friends. It is the most important and effective thing to do
in making infographic.
Tutorials and trainings in Creating Infographics using Piktochart

1. Visit youtube website. Open your favorite browser and type in www.youtube.com in
the address bar.

2. Search Infographic Tutorials. Type in piktochart infographic tutorials in the search bar.

2. Watch Tutorials. Select a video and start watching tutorials.

Activity 3 – Different Principles of Design and Elements of Design Used.

Based on the given picture below, what can you say about the infographic in terms of design? What is the
message of the infographic?
Activity 4 – Synthesizing Your Learning

Answer the following questions based on your learning. Be brief and concise. From your own
understanding, make a list on:

1.What makes a good design?

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2. What makes a good infographic?

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What I Can Do

Activity 4 – Giving Advice for Good Design

The website below is considered as on of the worst design website of 2018 by

https://www.loungelizard.com/top-5-worst-website-designs-of-2018/. As a student
who knew the different Elements of Design and Principles of Design, what advice can you
give to the creator of arngren website to make it more attractive?
Lesson 2: Use Image Manipulation
Techniques
What I Need To Know
How do you manipulate text and images?
What is the best image format to be use in your projects?
What is the best resolution in creating your projects?

The questions above are some of the few questions that comes into mind when
we talk about Photo Editing Sofware. The picture above is the Graphical user
interface (GUI) of GIMP Photo Editor that we will be using throughout the lesson
2. Before we go further, you need to answer the first activity of the lesson.
What Is it
Photo editing and designing software allow you to manipulate or edit images. In order to
perform image manipulation, you need to have basic knowledge of image editing operations such as
cutting, cropping, replacing and more.
For this, you need an image editing software for image manipulation practices. The followings
are some examples of image editing software:
• Adobe Photoshop
• Gimp
• Corel Draw
• Pixlr Editor
• PAINT.NET
• InPixio

Online File Formats for Images and Text

Image file format refer to how data associated to the image will be stored. It can be compressed to
decrease file size of the image. There are two different compression you can choose when enhancing your
images: lossy and lossless compression. Lossy compression reduces file size by removing redundant
information means that some data from the image file is lost. While Lossless compression retains values
and manages to lower file size.
 Image resolution refers to the number of pixels in an image or the detail
an image holds. It is identified by the height and the width of the image. A pixel is
just one unit of the whole digital image it is the smallest unit of an image. The higher
the resolution, means that there more pixels per inch (PPI), resulting in more pixel
information and creating a high-quality, crisp image.
f. Don’t forget to lock the transparency when you’re done.

g. The next step is to convert the text into an image. Right click on
your google text layer and then click "Discard Text Information".

h. GO to your google layer. Right Click > Duplicate Layer, lock

transparency and fill the layer with black.

i. Open Gaussian blur by click Filters > Blur > Gaussian blur

j. Select the layer that contains the colored Google logo and Open
Bump Map by clicking Filter > Map > Bump Map. Enter the
following information:
Azimuth: 90
Elevation: 45
Depth: 7
Leave the default value for X offset, Y offset, Water level and
Ambient.
What’s More

Activity 2: Gathering Client Information You were approach by a politician and

asked you to make election tarpaulin for him. In this case, write down at least
five (5) questions that you would want to ask him/her before making the
tarpaulin.

Five (5) Questions:

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.
Activity 4: Create an awareness campaign against water pollution

Directions: Design an Awareness Campaign against water pollution.

Rubric for Tarpaulin Design