Author: Lucy Nguyen
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A primer on A/B Testing
What is A/B Testing? When comparing two versions of something to see which one performs better (VMO, 2016), the one that performs better is the one chosen. It can be anything from TV ads to websites. It is used often in the world of business. The purpose of A/B Testing The purpose is to optimize the…
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HIV Awareness
For my university class, I made a PSA to bring awareness to discrimination of HIV. I shot and edited the video. https://youtu.be/UcEwh-eVp3I
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HRSA & OBCC
I worked with HRSA to create a promotional video to showcase to potential partners. I used Adobe After Effects and Adobe Illustrator. https://youtu.be/g3ZxXfM9sk8
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Youtube: Kpopbyte
I’ve created Kpopbyte on Youtube, as a side project. The purpose of the channel was to inform k-pop music fans about the numerous k-pop groups. I have garner over 23,000 subscribers and 1 million views. Visit it here.
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Summit Doors Catalog
Summit Glass/Doors is a distributor and installer of door inserts & handles established in 2010, it has served mainly the GTA and the surrounding area. I had to photograph over 80 products and edit the photos using Adobe Photoshop. I then designed the catalogue using Adobe InDesign, focusing on a clean and simple look. The…
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Disney Princesses/Heroines Business Cards
Just for fun, I thought it would be humorous if I made fake business cards for the Disney princess. I tried to imagine what job would fit with each princess and it was quite hard! The Little Mermaid I’ve got whozits and whatzits galore. You want thingamabobs? I got twenty. I imagine Ariel as someone…
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Personal: dciman32.dll problem
As your computer gets older, it gets more problems. Perhaps it’s planned obsolescence, or I’m not a very good caretaker either way. I recently had a problem with my dciman32.dll being deleted, and I thought others might have had the same problem. So I decided to share my experience. The Problem My computer was shut…
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Indesign CS5 Tutorial: Document Settings
Setting up your job is an important part of Indesign. When you first open the program you are faced with this window. The Create New, on the right side has three options. Document, Book, and Library. Document is for a single file, Book is when for example you have multiple chapter in one document and…
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Indesign CS5 Tutorial: Master Pages
Adobe Indesign is the best way to go if you are making something that has a lot of pages. You won’t be able to keep track of them in let’s say Photoshop or Illustrator since they are separate in Photoshop. A Master page is useful, because it acts like a blue print. Whatever you put…
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Tutorial: How to Create PDF via different methods
There will be a time when you need to convert different file format to PDF because of school or work. Here are various methods of creating PDFs from different programs. Microsoft Word: Office Word 7 In the newer version of word there should be an option to choose to save as a PDF. Adobe Photoshop…
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Adobe Illustrator CS5 Tutorial: How to use the Pen tool
The Pen tool in Adobe Illustrator Differs in how they work from Adobe Photoshop. It works differently to become a more versatile tool for illustrators. You can check out my tutorial for pen tool in Photoshop here. Step 1: Setting up your Pen tool. Just like in Adobe Photoshop you have up how the “line” will look.…
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Adobe Photoshop CS5 Tutorial: How to use the Pen tool
Step 1: This tool you will often see and will use in Adobe programs. This is a basic tutorial on how to use the pen tool in Adobe Photoshop CS5, but previous versions of Photoshop will be similar to CS5. I often use Pen tool in Photoshop to do outlines but I prefer Illustrator. You…