Betsy Nearn

I designed a book cover based on a book my friend and I wrote in 8th grade. It was created in Adobe InDesign, then transferred to Adobe Express. I learned how to make it from Adobe Tutorials. Background generated with AI.

Second book cover created in Adobe Express. Background generated with AI.

Invitation created in Adobe Express for a “How to throw a dinner party” newspaper article.

In this Halloween Design Challenge, we were tasked with making a photoshoot of given Halloween decorations, and placing that image on an AI generated background. My personal assignment was to create a mockup of an X post.

This website header was made using a template and a video guide in an Adobe Help Tutorial.

In this in-class Infographic Design Challenge to the left, my group was tasked with creating a graphic using a pre-made template, advertising which ice cream flavors were the most popular in the U.S. We were told use as little words as possible.

My last Adobe Help Tutorial design is this simple “bN” logo made out of shapes. I learned that in order to create a logo, one must start without color so as not to get distracted by it. I tried to make mine look modern and avant-garde.

In our first in-class walkthrough of PhotoShop—(I clearly had trouble)—we learned how to place a stock photo of sunglasses over a stock photo of the sunset. We then erased the lenses and removed the sunset background photo, but kept the part for the lenses.

In this last in-class work, we learned how to use AI to generate a graphic for trick-or-treating. I learned that it still has a mind of its own—even if you’re as specific as possible. Yet I still learned the convenience of generating a graphic.