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Graduating MO
Photo-manipulation is something I truly enjoy. This photo was posted to the Alumni Foundation's social media accounts during the spring of 2016. It came to fruition from a need to create a congratulatory post for recent graduates without using a photo that depicted anyone's faces who had not signed a permission slip. To work around this issue, I blended our mascot, MO the Mule, with an existing photo to create a lifelike rendering of the beloved character in actual UCM regalia. The photo consists of four separate photo files and several layers of careful masking, color manipulation, and hand-drawn shadows. When posted, it received 578 likes where past posts had received around eight on average.
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Mule Nation Email Header
This header was created as a generic header that could be used for the UCM Alumni Foundation's Mule Nation events. It was created as a graphic capable of being appropriate for both casual and formal events.
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Graduation Header
This email header was created by taking five separate photos and carefully blending them together. It has been used extensively over the past few years to send recent/future graduates information about items that need completed soon after graduation as well as for congratulatory messaging.