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
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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