Good morning! Hope your Friday is going great! Today is simply a work day... time for you to get stuff done! The CD project is due on Monday so this would be a fantastic thing to focus on today. If you don't have anything remaining to do for the CD, good for you! You can begin working on the key chain design or fabric print. Either is fine, just make sure that you use the time you have; there isn't much of it left! Have a great day and a fantastic weekend!
What are we learning today?
1. Work Day Today
2. Objectives to Accomplish Today:
CD Jacket
- Choose a band/artist and album
- Brainstorm ideas for graphics & photos
- Draw thumbnails for the cover, back, inside & spine
- Layout the CD framework in InDesign
- Print the layout & draw rough into it
- Vector image(s)
- Take your photo of the product
- Simple background & strong lighting
- Try different angles & take extra shots
- Make a practice selection
- Make a selection of your photo
- Compose your type in InDesign
- Add graphics & photo to InDesign file
- Export the file as a Print PDF & upload it to Schoology
Fabric Screen Print
- Choose an idea for the screen print
- Vector the image
- Scale the graphic to size (max 8”x 8”)
- 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
3. Cleanup
4. Review/What’s Next
Handouts: None
Period 3
Good morning camera geeks! Happy Friday! Today is a work day; work on what you ask? You can HDR the photos that you were to have taken yesterday. Don't forget to make proof sheets of the 15 original photos for it and the 5 new HDR photos. We will present them Monday so you can even prepare for the presentation. Maybe you still need to convert the color photos to monochrome and make proof sheets. Is the Sequence Photography done? The website might be something else you can work on. If you have those things done, you rock! Maybe take a look at the readings that I have for shooting at night. This will help you prepare for next week. Hope you have an awesome weekend!
What are we learning today?
1. Work Day Today
2. Objectives to Accomplish Today:
Website
- View sample sites
- Determine what things you like about the examples
- Sketch a plan for a pages & site map (min of 5 pages)
- Build the site with Weebly or Wix
- Prepare photos for site
- Publish the site and share link through schoology
Creative Edges
- Open a photo to add a weathered frame to
- Follow the steps to apply the effect
- Save & upload to Schoology
Sequence Photography
- Take at least 7 shots of a subject in action
- Import the shots as layers in Photoshop
- Align all of the shots
- Make & Adjust layer masks for each layer
- Crop the photo to remove empty edges
- Save the file as a PSD & upload to Schoology
HDR
- Import the HDR photos to the computer
- Use Bridge to stack the photos
- Use HDR Pro to boost the dynamic range
- Save & Upload the photos to Schoology
- Make & print a proof sheet
3. Cleanup
4. Review/What’s Next
Handouts: None
Period 4
Hello everyone. Hope you are having a great day today. Today is a work day for you to use to create proof sheets, prepare the calendar, or crop and place photos into the calendar. I do have a new project that you can start if everything else is done. Page 14 of the calendar will have a collage. This link will take you to an example collage, video and handout that will explain how to make the collage. If you have your photos and want to get started, those resources should help you to build the collage. Don't forget that your depth of field photos are due today by 11:59. Have a great weekend everyone!
What are we learning today?
1. Work Day Today
2. Objectives to Accomplish Today:
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
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
Lens Flare Background
- Follow the steps on the handout to make a flare brush
- Make a new document 11” x 17” & 300 ppi
- Use the brush to make the design
- Upload the document as a PSD to Schoology
3. Cleanup
4. Review/What’s Next
Handouts: None
Period 5
Hi everyone, hope you've had a good day today so far. Good news, I'm not there to ruin it for you! In fact, today is just a work day for you. You can continue to work on the screen printing project if it is not yet complete or Personifying a Word if you are one of the handful of students that has not yet completed it. The next project to be due will be the Notepad. In fact, the notepad is due next week at this time. The only other thing that you have to do is the Vinyl Jacket that we began working on yesterday. Most of you not named Dave, Noah or Kaelob have plenty to do, but even they have the entire Vinyl project to complete yet! Have a great day and a fantastic weekend!
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
- 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
CD Jacket
- Choose a band/artist and album
- Brainstorm ideas for graphics & photos
- Draw thumbnails for the cover, back, inside & spine
- Layout the CD framework in InDesign
- Print the layout & draw rough into it
- Vector image(s)
- Take your photo of the product
- Simple background & strong lighting
- Try different angles & take extra shots
- Make a practice selection
- Make a selection of your photo
- Compose your type in InDesign
- Add graphics & photo to InDesign file
- Export the file as a Print PDF & upload it to Schoology
3. Cleanup
4. Review/What’s Next
Handouts: None