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Tuesday, January 31st

1/31/2023

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Period 2
What are we learning today?
1. Demo: Making a Cover Page (Part 3)
2. Objectives to Accomplish Today:
   Typeface Search
     - Obtain and label four sheets of paper
         - 5 Roman, 5 Square (page 1)
         - 10 Sans Serif (page 2)
         - 10 Script (page 3)
         - 1 Text, 9 Novelty (page 4)
     - Cut out examples and glue them into the correct section
     - Print cover page
     - Staple all pages together
     - Turn in Search to bin
3. Review/What’s Next

Handouts: None


Periods 3 & 5
What are we learning today?
1. PPT: Rasters vs. Vectors (Vocab & Rasters)
2. Review Thumbnails & Rough
3. Before Vectoring
4. Objectives to Accomplish Today:
  Color for Emphasis
     - Find a photo from your camera roll to use for the project
     - Install Google Drive on your phone
     - Log into the app with your account (School or Personal)
     - In the camera roll, select the photo & upload it to Drive
     - Log into Drive on you school laptop using the same account as earlier
     - Find the photo and select it on you laptop
     - Download the photo to your laptop
   Logo
     - Choose a name or image to base your logo on
     - Draw 4 thumbnails around that idea
     - Choose the best thumbnail and develop it into a rough
     - Color the rough with colored pencils
     - Scan the logo with Ps & end computer
     - Create an Ai file, place scan, lock layer
     - Create new layer and vector each piece on it
     - Color the image
     - Save the image an Ai file
     - Export the image as a PNG (File>Export)
5. Review/What’s Next

Handouts:


Period 4
What are we learning today?
1. Review Requirements
2. Demo: Making Lines
3. Demo: Setting Up The Cover
4. Demo: Making a Bar Code
5. Objectives to Accomplish Today:
    Screen Print
     - Stretch new fabric
     - Choose an idea for the screen print
     - Vector the image
     - Scale the graphic to size (max 8”x 8”)
     - Add registration marks (1” from your images top & bottom)
     - Change one color to black, other to white
     - Email me the file so I can create a positive
     - Degrease screen
     - Coat screen
     - Expose screen
     - Washout screen
     - Patch pinholes
     - Cut paper to print on
     - Blockout screen
     - Print the first color
     - Re-block the screen
     - Print the second color
     - Reclaim the screen
     - Mat best print
     - Paperclip thumb, rough, comp & 5 good prints, place in bin
    Notebook Pages
     - Create lines for the pages
     - Vector the graphic , make any text
    Notebook Cover
     - Vector your graphics
     - Create your type
     - Create a background
     - Arrange everything on a doc together using the bleed
     - Print a proof sheet
     - Print the cover on tabloid stock
     - Cut the stock down to the edge of the bleed
     - Cut diagonals at corners
     - Score paper at letter size edges
     - Cut mat board for core
     - Rubber cement and assemble
     - Cut 90lb backing board
     - Rubber cement and assemble
5. Review/What’s Next

Handouts: None
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Monday, January 30th

1/30/2023

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Period 2
What are we learning today?
1. Demo: Making a Cover Page (Part 2)
2. Objectives to Accomplish Today:
   Typeface Search
     - Obtain and label four sheets of paper
         - 5 Roman, 5 Square (page 1)
         - 10 Sans Serif (page 2)
         - 10 Script (page 3)
         - 1 Text, 9 Novelty (page 4)
     - Cut out examples and glue them into the correct section
     - Print cover page
     - Staple all pages together
     - Turn in Search to bin
3. Review/What’s Next

Handouts: How Do I Use Illustrator


Periods 3 & 5

What are we learning today?
1. Review Illustrator Dog & Portraits
2. Demo: Practice Vector
3. Objectives to Accomplish Today:
  Color for Emphasis
     - Find a photo from your camera roll to use for the project
     - Install Google Drive on your phone
     - Log into the app with your account (School or Personal)
     - In the camera roll, select the photo & upload it to Drive
     - Log into Drive on you school laptop using the same account as earlier
     - Find the photo and select it on you laptop
     - Download the photo to your laptop
   Logo
     - Choose a name or image to base your logo on
     - Draw 4 thumbnails around that idea
     - Choose the best thumbnail and develop it into a rough
     - Color the rough with colored pencils
     - Scan the logo with Ps & end computer
     - Create an Ai file, place scan, lock layer
     - Create new layer and vector each piece on it
     - Color the image
     - Save the image an Ai file
     - Export the image as a PNG (File>Export)
4. Review/What’s Next

Handouts: None


Period 4
What are we learning today?
1. Notebook Syllabus & Examples
2. Demo: Exposing a Screen
3. Demo: Washing Out a Screen
4. Objectives to Accomplish Today:
    Screen Print
     - Stretch new fabric
     - Choose an idea for the screen print
     - Vector the image
     - Scale the graphic to size (max 8”x 8”)
     - Add registration marks (1” from your images top & bottom)
     - Change one color to black, other to white
     - Email me the file so I can create a positive
     - Degrease screen
     - Coat screen
     - Expose screen
     - Washout screen
     - Patch pinholes
     - Cut paper to print on
     - Blockout screen
     - Print the first color
     - Re-block the screen
     - Print the second color
     - Reclaim the screen
     - Mat best print
     - Paperclip thumb, rough, comp & 5 good prints, place in bin
    Notebook Pages
     - Create lines for the pages
     - Vector the graphic , make any text
    Notebook Cover
     - Vector your graphics
     - Create your type
     - Create a background
     - Arrange everything on a doc together using the bleed
     - Print a proof sheet
     - Print the cover on tabloid stock
     - Cut the stock down to the edge of the bleed
     - Cut diagonals at corners
     - Score paper at letter size edges
     - Cut mat board for core
     - Rubber cement and assemble
     - Cut 90lb backing board
     - Rubber cement and assemble
5. Review/What’s Next

Handouts: Notebook Syllabus
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Friday, January 27th

1/27/2023

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Period 2
What are we learning today?
1. Demo: Making a Cover Page (Part 1)
2. Objectives to Accomplish Today:
   Typeface Search
     - Obtain and label four sheets of paper
         - 5 Roman, 5 Square (page 1)
         - 10 Sans Serif (page 2)
         - 10 Script (page 3)
         - 1 Text, 9 Novelty (page 4)
     - Cut out examples and glue them into the correct section
     - Print cover page
     - Staple all pages together
     - Turn in Search to bin
3. Review/What’s Next

Handouts: How Do I Use Illustrator


Periods 3 & 5

What are we learning today?
1. Discuss Drawing With Shapes
2. Demo: Starting the Illustrator Dog
3. PPT: Portraits
4. Week’s Photos
5. Objectives to Accomplish Today:
  Color for Emphasis
     - Find a photo from your camera roll to use for the project
     - Install Google Drive on your phone 
     - Log into the app with your account (School or Personal)
     - In the camera roll, select the photo & upload it to Drive
     - Log into Drive on you school laptop using the same account as earlier
     - Find the photo and select it on you laptop
     - Download the photo to your laptop
   Logo
     - Choose a name or image to base your logo on
     - Draw 4 thumbnails around that idea
     - Choose the best thumbnail and develop it into a rough
     - Color the rough with colored pencils
     - Scan the logo with Ps & end computer
     - Create an Ai file, place scan, lock layer
     - Create new layer and vector each piece on it
     - Color the image
     - Save the image an Ai file
     - Export the image as a PNG (File>Export)
6. Review/What’s Next

Handouts: Portraits


Period 4
​
What are we learning today?
1. Review Degreasing a Screen & Coating a Screen
2. Demo: Coating a Screen
3. Demo: Trapping, Cutting & Layout
4. Objectives to Accomplish Today:
   Logo & Vinyl
     - Watch the video lesson on logo design
     - Brainstorm imagery to represent you
     - Sketch 4 thumbnails for your logo design
     - Develop best thumbnails into clean, smooth rough & color it
     - Take a picture of the rough
     - Upload the photo to Google Drive
     - Vector your logo and graphics
     - Create your type
     - Convert your type to outlines
     - Add all of your graphics to drawer doc, rescale
     - Copy and paste them to the vinyl file we created
     - Save file and Logo into vinyl PC
     - Open cut studio, make new doc
         - landscape orientation
         - Change size to 15” x at least 5”
     - Import the Ai file & drop it
     - Load vinyl & run an area test
     - Reposition vinyl if necessary
     - Cut vinyl and remove from cutter once done
     - Weed unwanted vinyl from sheet
     - Apply transfer tape
     - Turn in vinyl with transfer tape, upload file
    Screen Print
     - Stretch new fabric
     - Choose an idea for the screen print
     - Vector the image
     - Scale the graphic to size (max 8”x 8”)
     - Add registration marks (1” from your images top & bottom)
     - Change one color to black, other to white
     - Email me the file so I can create a positive
     - Degrease screen
     - Coat screen
     - Expose screen
     - Washout screen
     - Patch pinholes
     - Cut paper to print on
     - Blockout screen
     - Print the first color
     - Re-block the screen
     - Print the second color
     - Reclaim the screen
     - Mat best print
     - Paperclip thumb, rough, comp & 5 good prints, place in bin
5. Review/What’s Next

Handouts: None
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Thursday, January 26th

1/26/2023

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Period 2
What are we learning today?
1. 1 Font, Counts Once!
2. Objectives to Accomplish Today:
   Typeface Search
     - Obtain and label four sheets of paper
         - 5 Roman, 5 Square (page 1)
         - 10 Sans Serif (page 2)
         - 10 Script (page 3)
         - 1 Text, 9 Novelty (page 4)
     - Cut out examples and glue them into the correct section
     - Print cover page
     - Staple all pages together
     - Turn in Search to bin
3. Review/What’s Next

Handouts: None


Periods 3 & 5

What are we learning today?
1. Copyright
2. Logo Design
3. Discuss Developing a Logo
4. Demo: Making Thumbnails
5. Objectives to Accomplish Today:
  Color for Emphasis
     - Find a photo from your camera roll to use for the project
     - Install Google Drive on your phone 
     - Log into the app with your account (School or Personal)
     - In the camera roll, select the photo & upload it to Drive
     - Log into Drive on you school laptop using the same account as earlier
     - Find the photo and select it on you laptop
     - Download the photo to your laptop
   Logo
     - Choose a name or image to base your logo on
     - Draw 4 thumbnails around that idea
     - Choose the best thumbnail and develop it into a rough
     - Color the rough with colored pencils
     - Scan the logo with Ps & end computer
     - Create an Ai file, place scan, lock layer
     - Create new layer and vector each piece on it
     - Color the image
     - Save the image an Ai file
     - Export the image as a PNG (File>Export)
6. Review/What’s Next

Handouts: Copyright


Period 4

What are we learning today?
1. Review Making a Screen
2. Demo: Degreasing a Screen
3. Demo: Coating a Screen
4. Objectives to Accomplish Today:
   Logo & Vinyl
     - Watch the video lesson on logo design
     - Brainstorm imagery to represent you
     - Sketch 4 thumbnails for your logo design
     - Develop best thumbnails into clean, smooth rough & color it
     - Take a picture of the rough
     - Upload the photo to Google Drive
     - Vector your logo and graphics
     - Create your type
     - Convert your type to outlines
     - Add all of your graphics to drawer doc, rescale
     - Copy and paste them to the vinyl file we created
     - Save file and Logo into vinyl PC
     - Open cut studio, make new doc
         - landscape orientation
         - Change size to 15” x at least 5”
     - Import the Ai file & drop it
     - Load vinyl & run an area test
     - Reposition vinyl if necessary
     - Cut vinyl and remove from cutter once done
     - Weed unwanted vinyl from sheet
     - Apply transfer tape
     - Turn in vinyl with transfer tape, upload file
    Screen Print
     - Stretch new fabric
     - Choose an idea for the screen print
     - Vector the image
     - Scale the graphic to size (max 8”x 8”)
     - Add registration marks (1” from your images top & bottom)
     - Change one color to black, other to white
     - Email me the file so I can create a positive
     - Degrease screen
     - Coat screen
     - Expose screen
     - Washout screen
     - Patch pinholes
     - Cut paper to print on
     - Blockout screen
     - Print the first color
     - Re-block the screen
     - Print the second color
     - Reclaim the screen
     - Mat best print
     - Paperclip thumb, rough, comp & 5 good prints, place in bin
5. Review/What’s Next
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Wednesday, January 25th

1/25/2023

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Period 2
What are we learning today?
1. Kahoot!
2. Objectives to Accomplish Today:
   Typeface Search
     - Obtain and label four sheets of paper
         - 5 Roman, 5 Square (page 1)
         - 10 Sans Serif (page 2)
         - 10 Script (page 3)
         - 1 Text, 9 Novelty (page 4)
     - Cut out examples and glue them into the correct section
     - Print cover page
     - Staple all pages together
     - Turn in Search to bin
3. Review/What’s Next

Handouts: None


Periods 3 & 5

What are we learning today?
1. Review File Types, Short Cuts, Color, Rescaling, Undocking, Resizing
2. PPT: DSLR vs. Point & Shoot/Buying a Camera Part 2
3. Color for Emphasis Assignment
4. Review Making a Selection
5. Objectives to Accomplish Today:
   Merging Project
     - Find a photo
     - Choose a partner
     - Show your partner your photo, determine shooting
     - Take photos
     - Upload the photo(s) to the computer
     - Find a photo of a prop
         - Not a one color background
         - Higher res is better
     - Make a practice selection of prop
     - Make a legit selection of you from the photo your partner took
     - Turn the selection into a cutout
     - Adjust the color temperature on the cutout
     - Add the cutout to the picture from the web
     - Resize the merged, composite image
     - Save & Upload the merged photos to Schoology
  Color for Emphasis
     - Find a photo from your camera roll to use for the project
     - Install Google Drive on your phone
     - Log into the app with your account (School or Personal)
     - In the camera roll, select the photo & upload it to Drive
     - Log into Drive on you school laptop using the same account as earlier
     - Find the photo and select it on you laptop
     - Download the photo to your laptop
6. Review/What’s Next

Handouts: Color for Emphasis


Period 4
What are we learning today?
1. Importing vs. Opening, Saving vs. Exporting
2. Review Applying Transfer Tape
3. Screen Printing Rubric Details
4. Demo: Making a Screen
5. Objectives to Accomplish Today:
   Logo & Vinyl
     - Watch the video lesson on logo design
     - Brainstorm imagery to represent you
     - Sketch 4 thumbnails for your logo design
     - Develop best thumbnails into clean, smooth rough & color it
     - Take a picture of the rough
     - Upload the photo to Google Drive
     - Vector your logo and graphics
     - Create your type
     - Convert your type to outlines
     - Add all of your graphics to drawer doc, rescale
     - Copy and paste them to the vinyl file we created
     - Save file and Logo into vinyl PC
     - Open cut studio, make new doc
         - landscape orientation
         - Change size to 15” x at least 5”
     - Import the Ai file & drop it
     - Load vinyl & run an area test
     - Reposition vinyl if necessary
     - Cut vinyl and remove from cutter once done
     - Weed unwanted vinyl from sheet
     - Apply transfer tape
     - Turn in vinyl with transfer tape, upload file
    Screen Print
     - Stretch new fabric
     - Choose an idea for the screen print
     - Vector the image
     - Scale the graphic to size (max 8”x 8”)
     - Add registration marks (1” from your images top & bottom)
     - Change one color to black, other to white
     - Email me the file so I can create a positive
     - Degrease screen
     - Coat screen
     - Expose screen
     - Washout screen
     - Patch pinholes
     - Cut paper to print on
     - Blockout screen
     - Print the first color
     - Re-block the screen
     - Print the second color
     - Reclaim the screen
     - Mat best print
     - Paperclip thumb, rough, comp & 5 good prints, place in bin
6. Review/What’s Next
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Tuesday, January 24th

1/24/2023

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Period 2
What are we learning today?
1. Review Typeface Search Assignment
2. Objectives to Accomplish Today:
   Typeface Search
     - Obtain and label four sheets of paper
         - 5 Roman, 5 Square (page 1)
         - 10 Sans Serif (page 2)
         - 10 Script (page 3)
         - 1 Text, 9 Novelty (page 4)
     - Cut out examples and glue them into the correct section
     - Print cover page
     - Staple all pages together
     - Turn in Search to bin
3. Review/What’s Next

Handouts: Things You Should Know


Periods 3 & 5
What are we learning today?
1. Review File Types, Selection Tools
2. PPT: Buying a Camera
3. Demo: Adjusting Color Temperature
4. Demo: Combining Photos
5. Objectives to Accomplish Today:
   Merging Project
     - Find a photo
     - Choose a partner
     - Show your partner your photo, determine shooting
     - Take photos
     - Upload the photo(s) to the computer
     - Find a photo of a prop
         - Not a one color background
         - Higher res is better
     - Make a practice selection of prop
     - Make a legit selection of you from the photo your partner took
     - Turn the selection into a cutout
     - Adjust the color temperature on the cutout
     - Add the cutout to the picture from the web
     - Resize the merged, composite image
     - Save & Upload the merged photos to Schoology
  Practice Selection
     - Find an image on Google and download it to your laptop
     - Open the image in Adobe Photoshop
     - Use each of the tools to practice making a selection
     - Covert the background to monochrome
     - Save & Upload the project to Schoology under Practice Selection Assignment
6. Review/What’s Next

Handouts: Adjusting Color Temperature, Combining Photos, Resizing


​Period 4

What are we learning today?
1. Review Vinyl Master, Cutting, Weeding
2. Demo: Applying Transfer Tape
3. Turning in the Vinyl
4. Screen Printing Project Details
5. Objectives to Accomplish Today:
   Logo & Vinyl
     - Watch the video lesson on logo design
     - Brainstorm imagery to represent you
     - Sketch 4 thumbnails for your logo design
     - Develop best thumbnails into clean, smooth rough & color it
     - Take a picture of the rough
     - Upload the photo to Google Drive
     - Vector your logo and graphics
     - Create your type
     - Convert your type to outlines
     - Add all of your graphics to drawer doc, rescale
     - Copy and paste them to the vinyl file we created
     - Save file and Logo into vinyl PC
     - Open cut studio, make new doc
         - landscape orientation
         - Change size to 15” x at least 5”
     - Import the Ai file & drop it
     - Load vinyl & run an area test
     - Reposition vinyl if necessary
     - Cut vinyl and remove from cutter once done
     - Weed unwanted vinyl from sheet
     - Apply transfer tape
     - Turn in vinyl with transfer tape, upload file
    Screen Print
     - Stretch new fabric
     - Choose an idea for the screen print
     - Vector the image
     - Scale the graphic to size (max 8”x 8”)
     - Add registration marks (1” from your images top & bottom)
     - Change one color to black, other to white
     - Email me the file so I can create a positive
     - Degrease screen
     - Coat screen
     - Expose screen
     - Washout screen
     - Patch pinholes
     - Cut paper to print on
     - Blockout screen
     - Print the first color
     - Re-block the screen
     - Print the second color
     - Reclaim the screen
     - Mat best print
     - Paperclip thumb, rough, comp & 5 good prints, place in bin
6. Review/What’s Next
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Monday, January 23rd

1/23/2023

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Period 2
What are we learning today?
1. Review Fill, Stroke, Tracking, Leading, Kerning, Ascend
2. PPT: Type (Part 3)
3. Typeface Search Assignment
4. Objectives to Accomplish Today:
   Typography Assignment
     - Download the starting file from TechGeek.Pro
     - Create your own text in Illustrator that matches the example
     - Save & upload the file to Schoology
   Typeface Search
     - Obtain and label four sheets of paper
         - 5 Roman, 5 Square (page 1)
         - 10 Sans Serif (page 2)
         - 10 Script (page 3)
         - 1 Text, 9 Novelty (page 4)
     - Cut out examples and glue them into the correct section
     - Print cover page
     - Staple all pages together
     - Turn in Search to bin
5. Review/What’s Next

Handouts: None


Periods 3 & 5

What are we learning today?
1. Review Pixels, Res, Finding an Image, Holding, Selecting
2. PPT: Buying a Camera
3. Making a Selection of You
4. Objectives to Accomplish Today:
   Merging Project
     - Find a photo
     - Choose a partner
     - Show your partner your photo, determine shooting
     - Take photos
     - Upload the photo(s) to the computer
     - Find a photo of a prop
         - Not a one color background
         - Higher res is better
     - Make a practice selection of prop
     - Make a legit selection of you from the photo your partner took
     - Turn the selection into a cutout
     - Adjust the color temperature on the cutout
     - Add the cutout to the picture from the web
     - Resize the merged, composite image
     - Save & Upload the merged photos to Schoology
  Practice Selection
     - Find an image on Google and download it to your laptop
     - Open the image in Adobe Photoshop
     - Use each of the tools to practice making a selection
     - Covert the background to monochrome
     - Save & Upload the project to Schoology under Practice Selection Assignment
5. Review/What’s Next

Handouts: Buying a Camera


Period 4
What are we learning today?
1. Review Document Setup, Scaling, Vinyl Master & Cuts
2. Demo: Weeding
3. Demo: Applying Transfer Tape
4. Objectives to Accomplish Today:
   Logo & Vinyl
     - Watch the video lesson on logo design
     - Brainstorm imagery to represent you
     - Sketch 4 thumbnails for your logo design
     - Develop best thumbnails into clean, smooth rough & color it
     - Take a picture of the rough
     - Upload the photo to Google Drive
     - Vector your logo and graphics
     - Create your type
     - Convert your type to outlines
     - Add all of your graphics to drawer doc, rescale
     - Copy and paste them to the vinyl file we created
     - Save file and Logo into vinyl PC
     - Open cut studio, make new doc
         - landscape orientation
         - Change size to 15” x at least 5”
     - Import the Ai file & drop it
     - Load vinyl & run an area test
     - Reposition vinyl if necessary
     - Cut vinyl and remove from cutter once done
     - Weed unwanted vinyl from sheet
     - Apply transfer tape
     - Turn in vinyl with transfer tape, upload file
5. Review/What’s Next
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Friday, January 20th

1/20/2023

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Period 2
What are we learning today?
1. Review Fill, Stroke, Tracking, Leading, Kerning, Ascend
2. PPT: Type (Part 2)
3. Typeface Search Assignment
4. Objectives to Accomplish Today:
   Typography Assignment
     - Download the starting file from TechGeek.Pro
     - Create your own text in Illustrator that matches the example
     - Save & upload the file to Schoology
   Typeface Search
     - Obtain and label four sheets of paper
         - 5 Roman, 5 Square (page 1)
         - 10 Sans Serif (page 2)
         - 10 Script (page 3)
         - 1 Text, 9 Novelty (page 4)
     - Cut out examples and glue them into the correct section
     - Print cover page
     - Staple all pages together
     - Turn in Search to bin
5. Review/What’s Next

Handouts: None


Periods 3 & 5

What are we learning today?
1. Review Pixels, Res, Finding an Image, Holding, Selecting
2. Why Selections?
3. Demo: Making a Selection, Saving a Selection
4. Demo: Turning a Selection into a Cutout
5. Making a Cutout from the Photo of You
6. Objectives to Accomplish Today:
   Merging Project
     - Find a photo
     - Choose a partner
     - Show your partner your photo, determine shooting
     - Take photos
     - Upload the photo(s) to the computer
     - Find a photo of a prop
         - Not a one color background
         - Higher res is better
     - Make a practice selection of prop
     - Make a legit selection of you from the photo your partner took
     - Turn the selection into a cutout
     - Adjust the color temperature on the cutout
     - Add the cutout to the picture from the web
     - Resize the merged, composite image
     - Save & Upload the merged photos to Schoology
  Practice Selection
     - Find an image on Google and download it to your laptop
     - Open the image in Adobe Photoshop
     - Use each of the tools to practice making a selection
     - Covert the background to monochrome
     - Save & Upload the project to Schoology under Practice Selection Assignment
7. Review/What’s Next

Handouts: Making a Selection, Turning a Selection into a Cutout


Period 4
What are we learning today?
1. Review Document Setup & Scaling
2. Demo: Resizing the Document
3. Demo: Setting Up the Vinyl Cutter & Cutting
4. Objectives to Accomplish Today:
   Logo & Vinyl
     - Watch the video lesson on logo design
     - Brainstorm imagery to represent you
     - Sketch 4 thumbnails for your logo design
     - Develop best thumbnails into clean, smooth rough & color it
     - Take a picture of the rough
     - Upload the photo to Google Drive
     - Vector your logo and graphics
     - Create your type
     - Convert your type to outlines
     - Add all of your graphics to drawer doc, rescale
     - Copy and paste them to the vinyl file we created
     - Save file and Logo into vinyl PC
     - Open cut studio, make new doc
         - landscape orientation
         - Change size to 15” x at least 5”
     - Import the Ai file & drop it
     - Load vinyl & run an area test
     - Reposition vinyl if necessary
     - Cut vinyl and remove from cutter once done
     - Weed unwanted vinyl from sheet
     - Apply transfer tape
     - Turn in vinyl with transfer tape, upload file
5. Review/What’s Next

Handouts: None
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Thursday, January 19th

1/19/2023

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Period 2
What are we learning today?
1. Review Insurance, Care & Use
2. Website, Blog, Schoology
3. PPT: Type (Part 1)
4. Typography Assignment
5. Objectives to Accomplish Today:
    Log In to Laptop
     - Use School ID # only, Google Password
     - Launch Creative Cloud, Log in w/Google password & Address, NOT LOG IN WITH G
     - Update and Open Illustrator
     - Pin to Task Bar
     - Laptop Insurance
   Typography Assignment
     - Download the starting file from TechGeek.Pro
     - Create your own text in Illustrator that matches the example
     - Save & upload the file to Schoology
6. Review/What’s Next

Handouts: Type Packet


Periods 3 & 5

What are we learning today?
1. Review Insurance, Care & Use
2. Review Pixels, Res, Finding an Image
3. PPT: Before You Shoot
4. Using the Camera
5. Demo: Importing Files
6. Objectives to Accomplish Today:
    Log In to Laptop
     - Use School ID # only, Google Password
     - Launch Creative Cloud, Log in w/Google password & Address, NOT LOG IN WITH G
     - Update and Open Illustrator
     - Pin to Task Bar
     - Laptop Insurance
   Merging Project
     - Find a photo
     - Choose a partner
     - Show your partner your photo, determine shooting
     - Take photos
     - Upload the photo(s) to the computer
     - Find a photo of a prop
         - Not a one color background
         - Higher res is better
     - Make a practice selection of prop
     - Make a legit selection of you from the photo your partner took
     - Turn the selection into a cutout
     - Adjust the color temperature on the cutout
     - Add the cutout to the picture from the web
     - Resize the merged, composite image
     - Save & Upload the merged photos to Schoology
9. Review/What’s Next

Handouts: Before You Shoot, Importing Photos, Camera Policy


Period 4

What are we learning today?
1. Review Resolution, Color Modes, Layout to Scale
2. Best Vinyl Advice
3. Demo: Vinyl Cutting Layout
4. Google Drive
5. Objectives to Accomplish Today:
   Logo
     - Watch the vidoe lesson on logo design
     - Brainstorm imagery to represent you
     - Sketch 4 thumbnails for your logo design
     - Develop best thumbnails into clean, smooth rough & color it
     - Take a picture of the rough
     - Upload the photo to Google Drive
     - Vector your logo and graphics
     - Create your type
     - Convert your type to outlines
     - Add all of your graphics to drawer doc, rescale
     - Copy and paste them to the vinyl file we created
     - Save file and Logo into vinyl PC
     - Open cut studio, make new doc
         - landscape orientation
         - Change size to 15” x at least 5”
     - Import the Ai file & drop it
     - Load vinyl & run an area test
     - Reposition vinyl if necessary
     - Cut vinyl and remove from cutter once done
     - Weed unwanted vinyl from sheet
     - Apply transfer tape
     - Turn in vinyl with transfer tape, upload file
6. Review/What’s Next
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Wednesday, Januaray 18th

1/18/2023

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Period 2
What are we learning today?
1. Apologies!
2. Laptop Pickup
3. Care & Use
4. Adobe
5. Objectives to Accomplish Today:
    Log In to Laptop
     - Use School ID # only, Google Password
     - Launch Creative Cloud, Log in w/Google password & Address, NOT LOG IN WITH G
     - Update and Open Illustrator
     - Pin to Task Bar
     - Laptop Insurance
6. Review/What’s Next

Handouts: Laptop Insurance


Periods 3 & 5

What are we learning today?
1. Apologies!
2. Laptop Pickup
3. Care, Use, Insurance
4. Adobe & Google Drive
5. Review Pixels, Res, Finding an Image
6. PPT: Before You Shoot
7. Using the Camera
8. Objectives to Accomplish Today:
    Log In to Laptop
     - Use School ID # only, Google Password
     - Launch Creative Cloud, Log in w/Google password & Address, NOT LOG IN WITH G
     - Update and Open Illustrator
     - Pin to Task Bar
     - Laptop Insurance
   Merging Project
     - Find a photo
     - Choose a partner
     - Show your partner your photo, determine shooting
     - Take photos
     - Upload the photo(s) to the computer
     - Find a photo of a prop
         - Not a one color background
         - Higher res is better
     - Make a practice selection of prop
     - Make a legit selection of you from the photo your partner took
     - Turn the selection into a cutout
     - Adjust the color temperature on the cutout
     - Add the cutout to the picture from the web
     - Resize the merged, composite image
     - Save & Upload the merged photos to Schoology
9. Review/What’s Next

Handouts: Laptop Insurance, Before You Shoot, Importing Pictures


Period 4
What are we learning today?
1. Apologies!
2. Laptop Pickup
3. Care, Use, Insurance
4. Adobe & Google Drive
5. Vinyl Project
6. Demo: Drawing the Drawer Front in Ai
7. Objectives to Accomplish Today:
   Logo
     - Watch the video lesson on logo design
     - Brainstorm imagery to represent you
     - Sketch 4 thumbnails for your logo design
     - Develop best thumbnails into clean, smooth rough & color it
     - Take a picture of the rough
     - Upload the photo to Google Drive
     - On laptop, log in to Drive & download the photo
     - In Illustrator, Vector the logo
     - Create the drawer front in Ai
     - Scale the Logo & Text to an appropriate size
     - Change all type to outlines (Type>Create Outlines)
     - Make a new document that it 15” wide x 10” tall
     - Copy & paste all graphics into the new 15” x 10” doc
     - Save the file to Create Cloud or Google Drive
     - Logo into vinyl cutting desktop
8. Review/What’s Next

​Handouts: None
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