What are we learning today?
1. Grades & Timeline
2. Introduction to the Calendar
3. Planning Thumbnails for the Calendar
4. Objectives to Accomplish Today:
Folded Card
- Research card designs
- Draw four thumbnails for the inside of the card
- Layout the card in InDesign
- Take photos for the alphabet
- Crop and resize the photos accordingly
- Add type to the inside of the card
- Create artwork for the cover in Photoshop
- Place the Photoshop file into InDesign doc
- Export the card as a PDF
- Upload the PDF to Schoology
Calendar
- Choose a theme
- Draw thumbnails for your page layout
- Develop the best thumbnail into a rough
- Measure the rough & do the math
- Build the skeleton for the calendar in InDesign
- Copy & Paste in Place design to page 2-13
- 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
5. Cleanup
6. Review/What’s Next