What are we learning today?
1. Review Making Thumbnails
2. Demo: Making a Rough
3. Discuss Drawing the Rough
4. Objectives to accomplish today:
Notepad
- Choose a theme for your Notepad
- Draw 4 thumbnails
- Fold paper in half twice, fill each as if it were a pad
- Include font and image
- Make a rough
- Follow directions to build the layout, then print
- Draw font and type as they should appear in their location
- Get the rough approved
- Make a comprehensive
- Open the rough file, delete the text & inner box
- Type the text & position close to the guides w/o passing
- Open the vector, select all of it and group it (ctrl G)
- Paste it into the rough file, rescale & position it
5. Cleanup
6. Time Sheets
7. Review/what’s next
Handouts: Making a Rough
Period 3
What are we learning today?
1. Review Using the Pen Tool
2. PPT: Rasters
3. Next Task: Ill Dog
4. 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
Ill Dog
- Download the Illustrator Dog starting file from TechGeek.Pro
- Follow the directions on the handout to create the dog
- Remember, the better the match the better the grade
- Use only shapes to create the file
- Test the match by toggling layers
- When satisfied, save the file, upload to Schoology
5. Cleanup
6. Time Sheets
7. Review/what’s next
Handouts: Rasters vs. Vectors Packet
Period 4
What are we learning today?
1. Review Selecting, Deselecting
2. Demo: Making a Selection a Cutout
3. Course Syllabus
4. PPT: Portraits
5. Objectives to accomplish today:
Merging Project
- Choose a theme for your photo
- Find a photo
- Must include an area for you to occupy
- Should be large (over 1000 x 1000)
- Save the photo
- View Image, Right Click, Save Image As
- Always save to the U: Drive!
- Partner up
- Pair up with someone in the class
- Share your photo with them so they know how to position
- Obtain a camera & card
- Take your partners picture
- Transfer the photos to the computer
- Find a photo of a prop on Google
- Practice making a selection on the prop file
- Upload the prop cutout to Schoology
- Make a selection of you on your photo
- Add the photo to a transparent background, save as PNG
-
6. Cleanup
7. Review/what’s next
Handouts: Course Syllabus, Making a Photo Transparent, Portraits
Period 5
What are we learning today?
1. Setting Up a Document for the Vinyl Cutter
2. Demo: Using the Vinyl Cutter
3. Demo: Weeding???
4. Objectives to accomplish today:
Drawer Vinyl
- Measure your drawer
- Make a new document to size in Ai
- Choose images for drawer
- Vector the image in a separate file
- Copy and paste the image to the draw file
- Type the text
- Scale the vector to fit the drawer
5. Cleanup
6. Time Sheets
7. Review/what’s next
Handouts: Using the Vinyl Cutter