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 I wanted to keep the first two business cards more muted so my logo was the thing to pop. Then for my third one I did a blue background with a black and white logo to make that pop, with the same idea as the first two. 

I decided to animate a "dancing dolphin" jumping in and out of the water playing with the sun like a ball. I had the dolphin go from left to right chasing the sun from both sides, hitting the sun with its nose back to the other side. I also added a sailboat sailing through when the dolphin isn't hitting the sun. I also added a moon/night time scene showing that the dolphin plays with the sun every day. Below is my story board, pictures I used to create the animation, and my final animated GIF. 

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc2j1DCm4UQ   This video shows that the Selection Tool and Type Tool are the easiest to learn because they are used constantly and behave similarly to tools in other programs. Placing images into frames is also pretty simple and becomes intuitive quickly. The video makes basic layout tasks like moving and resizing objects feel very beginner-friendly. However, tools like master pages start to get confusing because they affect multiple pages at once. The hardest parts introduced are paragraph styles and layout consistency tools, since they require more planning and understanding.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTTl2nD1IiI This video focuses on design, so tools like shapes, color swatches, and alignment tools are very easy to pick up because they are visual. Adjusting fonts, sizes, and spacing with the text panel is also beginner-friendly. The alignment and spacing tools make layouts look clean without much effort. More difficult tools inc...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO1yDUJl8qw  - The move tool is easy to use. All you do is click and drag on the item you select. The crop tool would also be easy to use since it only resizes the image. The brush tool because you control what it does and paint what you want. Along with the eraser tool being easy because you just erase a part of the image you do not want. the pen tool is fairly difficult just because you have to learn what anchors you can and can not move. the clone stamp sounds tricky to match the textures and colors.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObKru84L5SQ - the shape tool is easy because you click on the shape you want and click and drag for how big or small you want it to be. the magic wand tool seems easy to select similar colors in one click. the lasso tool seems a little hard because you have to draw in clean sections. adjustment layers I also think are confusing because one wrong click can mess up or alter the entire image.  https://www.youtub...