What are we learning today?
1. Review Ad Critique Assignment
2. Demo: Uploading, Downloading Your Ad
3. Demo: Cropping & Straightening
4. Objectives to Accomplish Today:
Principles of Design
- Find an effective advertisement from a magazine
- Take a picture of the ad & upload it to Google Drive
- Download the photo from Drive to your laptop
- Open the photo in Photoshop
- Straighten & Crop the photo
- Jot down some notes & ideas about it’s use of the POD’s
- How does it use each of the 6 principles?
- Is it a good use of the principle? Why?
- Is there anything that could make the ad more effective? How?
- Make a Screencast using these notes
- Upload the Screencast to Schoology
Notepad
- Choose a theme for your notepad
- Grab a sheet of paper & fold in half twice
- Draw a design in each square using the same theme
- Choose the best design & make a rough
- Vector the image in it’s own Ai file
- Layout a comprehensive using the rough template from Ai
- Make a 4-Up
- Print a proof sheet
- Choose 25 sheets of paper
- Place the paper in tray 1 of printer, tell others NOT to print
- Send the job to the 419-C1 printer
- Collect & jog prints
- Put prints apart
- Cut cardboard (mat board) for backing
- Make a mount for one print
- Pad the notepad
- Trim the edges
- Tuck thumbnails, rough, comp, mount & rubric into pad
- Turn in to bin
4. Cleanup
5. Review/What’s Next
Handouts: Straightening a Picture
Period 3
What are we learning today?
1. Demo: Setting Up the Tips Book in InDesign
2. Objectives to Accomplish Today:
Tips Book
- Research tips for good photography
- Choose tips for your book
- Rephrase & restate the tip in your own words
- Choose how you will show the tip in your book
- Draw 4 thumbnails for your book layout
- Choose the best layout and make a full size rough for it
- Layout the book template in Adobe InDesign
- Add your text to the template
- Take & import your photos for the book
- Need a before & after, with/without
- Take a few shots for each
- Edit your levels & color
- Crop & resize the photo to fit the box in InDesign
- Place your pics in InDesign
- Build the front background in Photoshop & place into InDesign
- Export the file as a Print PDF & upload it to Schoology
3. Cleanup
4. Review/What’s Next
Handouts: None
Period 4
What are we learning today?
1. Syllabus & Camera Signatures
2. Review Pixels, Resolution, Google
3. Demo: Making a Selection (Last Video)
4. Demo: Making a Selection a Cutout
5. Making Your Cutout
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 a photo of a prop
- Not a one color background
- Higher res is better
- Make a practice selection of prop
- Turn the selection into a cutout
- Upload the cutout to Schoology as a PNG
7. Cleanup
8. Review/What’s Next
Handouts: Making a Selection, Making a Cutout,
Period 5
What are we learning today?
1. Syllabus Signature
2. Review Pixels, Resolution, Google, Fill, Stroke
3. PPT: Rasters vs. Vectors (Terms to Know)
4. Demo: Starting the Illustrator Dog
5. Objectives to Accomplish Today:
Practice Vector
- Launch Ai
- Place the logo
- Create a new layer, lock the first
- Change the fill to none, stroke to bright color
- Zoom in (Ctrl +) on the inner ear
- Draw the three lines to make the shape
- Select and color the inner ear
- Draw the white silhouette of the head
- Color it and send it to the back
- Draw the blue oval with cutout
- Color the shape
- Draw the final white outer oval & color it
- Upload the final image to Schoology
Illustrator Dog
- Find & download the file
- Create new layer, lock the first
- Follow steps on handout to create the dog
- Be as precise as possible in shape, size & color
- Save the images as an Ai file
- Upload the final image to Schoology
6. Cleanup
7. Review/What’s Next
Handouts: Rasters vs. Vectors, Illustrator Dog