Who would you prefer to handle your company project?
The person with green highlights in his hair wearing a polo shirt and very torn jeans. Or, the lady who’s dressed sexily but slutty in a tank top inviting you to look deep into her cleavage?
If there’s 1 thing I’ve learned being around business owners and lessons from the recent image consulting class is that first impressions not only count, you can persuade a deal before it happens.
This was the sketch I did to educate more than 25 business owners the importance of dressing appropriately. And man, it’s been such a long time since I drew something.
I stumbled onto this edited picture and couldn’t help but want to blog about it. Coming from me as a designer, I just found this so so bad editing.
Unless you have never seen a picture from a digital device before, your gut feel will tell you there’s something amiss by looking at the picture.
Find the mistakes in the picture
Let me describe from a designers point of view the more obvious mistakes.
The logos on the left are very white and unaffected by the shop’s lighting.
All logos on the right are angled, which will happen if you’re not taking a photo straight on. The logos on the left maintain its square shape without any angles.
The green line drawn shows the alignment. And because there are “invisible” lines to the counter’s design, it’s easier to tell the alignment is off.
Logos on the left do not fit properly into the boxes on the last row as compared to the original.
How I would have done it
The thing about being a designer is you can be quite the perfectionist, depending on how perfect an image or result you want to produce.
What I would have done was remove the original logos first. Then add my own logos, after which I correct the perspective needed. Once I’m happy with that, I’ll start work on making the logo more immersed with the original image.
I’ve officially started my Japanese lessons and already I’m rather nervous. My 1st class experience began with some students from a level higher mistaking the class. One of them was a girl who figured she was always right and didn’t want to admit that her class was relocated until proven wrong by her own classmate. *facepalm*. Not to mention she didn’t admit her mistake after. -_-!!!
Anyway, teacher of the class was a petite Japanese lady named; Obata. It was shocking the moment she started teaching because she verbalized what we needed to learn that day very clearly – voice raised a little. But it did help, as I could hear the pronunciation of words
And the 2 hour lesson went by very quickly. By the end of the class, all I could think of was “how am I going to remember all of this?”
I’ve never been a star student in school. Spent more hours in the pool than in books. Plus from my experience, I’ve learnt better from copying homework than memorizing. Die.
Hmm… maybe I should go get an exercise book and write 1-2 pages of the same thing so I can remember it better. 😐
As an avid photographer, Instagram is one of the mobile apps I gotta have in my phone. Deemed an Asian thing, I take pictures of food to prevent friends from eating first and make those who aren’t present more hungry. 😛
Follow me on Instagram @dannyfoo
One fine day, I accidentally turned off the Facebook sharing on my Instagram and I couldn’t get it to work again. At first, whenever I tried to click on Facebook after I took a picture, the app crashed. -_-
Then, I tried other options like resetting the privacy and network settings. I guess you could say it was closer to a solution, but now all I get was this message.
Trust me, it was not helpful
When I checked my privacy settings as the instructions hinted, there wasn’t any applications in Facebook. WTF. Even after restarting and reinstalling the Instagram app, there wasn’t any difference. -_-!
So I turned to Uncle Google for a solution. I came across what I thought would’ve been ‘the’ solution. It was to login to my Facebook on the desktop, go to the Instagram app and click on the Send to Mobile.
Clickety click on the blue button
After I did that, I received a notification on my phone and thought “Hooray, it’s fixed”. I was wrong. -_-!!
So I continued looking to Uncle Google for answers and I found my solution from a user who posted this in the Apple forums and as a comment in another blog.
What he advised was to:
Go into Settings.
Go to Facebook.
Click on your username.
Hit Delete account – don’t worry, this does not delete your account on Facebook.
Now, launch your Instagram and set the Facebook sharing settings.
The moment I reached step 5, I knew this was my answer because the Facebook application switched places to ask my permission to allow postings from Instagram. YES!
I hope this helped you if you accidentally disabled your Facebook sharing settings as well.
