What are we learning today?
1. Work Day Today
2. Objectives to Accomplish Today:
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
- Cut 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
Screen Printing
- Choose a name or image for a company
- Brainstorm and draw 4 thumbnails
- Choose your favorite thumbnail
- Develop that design into a large, clean, colored rough
- Obtain, label, & degrease a screen
- Coat the screen
- Convert the vector to black & white, email to Mr. Tate
- Expose the screen
- Wash out the screen with a cone spray of water
- Patch Pinholes
- Block out the screen
- Cut paper to print on*
- Cut out the comprehensive, center it on cut paper, tape in place
- Print the design
- Reclaim the screen
- Mat the best print*
- Paperclip thumb, rough, comp, 2 prints, matted & rubric
4. Review/What’s Next
Handouts: None
Periods 3 & 5
What are we learning today?
1. Kahoot & Quizlet
2. Last Week’s Photos
3. Review Starting the Collage
4. Objectives to Accomplish Today:
Calendar
- Change the month & dates to fit each month
- Crop, resize & place photos for the month pages
- Add any other touches to month pages
- Place in the cover design (possibly using the lens flare) on page 1
- Place the collage on page 14
- Export the calendar
- Make a proof sheet & print it
- Adjust colors, errors as seen on proof
- Export the calendar as a Print PDF
- Upload PDF to Schoology
- Turn in physical copy of thumbnails, rough, & proof to bin
Collage
- Open the calendar in InDesign
- On page 14, draw a box the size of the collage you would like to make
- Make a new document in Photoshop the same size as the box in InDesign
- In the properties panel in InDesign there is a W & H
- The W & H would be the W & H you will use for the new Photoshop Doc
- Set the resolution to 300
- Make the background contents transparent
- Open each photo separately in Ps
- Use the rectangular marquee tool to select the photo & then copy it
- Paste it into the new Photoshop Document & rescale it (Ctrl T)
- Repeat for the next photo, making sure they overlap
- Set the erase to a soft edge, somewhat opaque percentage & erase the edges
- Save the collage as a PSD
5. Review/What’s Next
Handouts:
Period 4
What are we learning today?
1. Demo: Using the Heat Press
2. Objectives to Accomplish Today:
Fabric Screen Print
- Choose an idea for the screen print
- Vector the image
- Scale the graphic to size (max 8”x 10.5”)
- Change one color to black, other to white
- Email me the file so I can create a positive
- Degrease screen & coat the screen
- Expose screen
- Washout screen
- Patch pinholes
- Cut paper to print on
- Blockout screen
- Print the first color
- Print the print accordingly
- Re-block the screen
- Print the second color
- Print the print accordingly
- Reclaim the screen
- Place thumb, rough, comp & print in bin
Sublimation
- Layout a document to the size of your product but with a .25” bleed
- Create graphics & Design
- Test print the design on the 419 printer
- Reflect the design & save it to Creative Cloud
- Log into the desktop & print to Sawgrass at low speed
- Watch the video for your product and record time, temp & other details
- Setup up the print on the product with heat tape
- Press the Design
- Save as an Ai file and upload to Schoology
- Place thumbnails, rough, comp & product into din
3. Review/What’s Next