Period 1
Good morning everyone. Hope all is well with each of you! After a work day yesterday, today we are going to move on to a new assignment and lesson. I spent a decent amount of time grading yesterday and have graded up to the Film Strip Collage. I have noticed that there are a few of you that haven't made much progress lately. I know that it sucks not having me there to help you but I'm here to answer questions. You just have to email me! We are going to continue to work on new assignments, even after I return Monday, so try to keep moving forward as much as you can! Below you will find a link to a lesson on Exposure Basics. This gets to the very heart of photography. I know it's a little heavy at times, especially when I get into balancing aperture and shutter. This is important, but I won't ask you to take any manual photos and use this specifically. After watching the video, you can get started on the next project, the lens flare background. Here we are doing something totally new... using Photoshop as a drawing tool. This isn't an uncommon thing. In fact, many people use Photoshop for art creation. Up until now though we have only used it for editing photos. So here we will draw a cool looking background like the one on the left. It's not particularly difficult, but you'll want to follow the link below to make it. Don't forget that tomorrow your depth of field photos are due! Have a great day everyone!
What are we learning today?
1. PPT: Exposure Basics
2. Lens Flair Background
3. Objectives to Accomplish Today:
Antiqued Photo
- Download the frame & add the photo to it
- Add a glass overlay on top of the portrait
- Create a wallpaper
- Add the portrait to the wallpaper
- Apply a drop shadow to the frame
- Make a vignette to emulate a spotlight on the picture
- Save as a PNG & PSD, turn in PNG
Film Strip Collage
- Choose 6 photos for the film strip, one for the background photo
- Crop each of the strip photo so they are are all the same aspect ratio
- Crop the background photo to 8 x 10
- Build the photo strip in Bridge
- Add the strip to the background photo
- Create the film
- Make the film wave
- Save as a PNG & PSD
- Upload the PNG to Schoology
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
4. Cleanup
5. Review/What’s Next
Periods 4 & 5
Good afternoon everyone. Today we are moving on into our Principles of Design unit. We'll start today by learning about what the Principles of Design are. If you use them, you're more likely to create a design that is effective and attractive. None of the principles are real complex or difficult to grasp, but they are important none the less. After you learn about these principles, I'd like you to take a look at the critiquing link below. On that page you'll find a video critique that I did on a cookie advertisement. Watch the video and see how I felt they did with the ad. Then I would like you to find your own ad. You're welcome to use newspapers, magazines or even Google. If you opt for the Google route, I would search for print ads. These advertisements will have more detail and give you more to talk about than a small banner or side bar ad from a website. The subject of the ad makes no difference as long as it's school appropriate and an effective ad. Once you have done this you're done for the day. Have a great day ladies and gentlemen!
What are we learning today?
1. Principles of Design Lesson
2. Ad Critique
3. Objectives to Accomplish Today:
Type
- 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
Ad Critique
- Find a full page ad from print (this can be a Google search)
- Look through the Principles of Design & jot down ideas of how your ad uses them
- Experiment with Screencast-O-Matic
- Make a video explaining how your ad uses the POD’s
- Must address each of the 6 principles
- Discuss WHY you feel as you do
- Video should be at least 45 seconds long (not including silence!)
- Feel free to include how you would improve the ad
4. Cleanup
5. Review/What’s Next
Good morning everyone. Hope all is well with each of you! After a work day yesterday, today we are going to move on to a new assignment and lesson. I spent a decent amount of time grading yesterday and have graded up to the Film Strip Collage. I have noticed that there are a few of you that haven't made much progress lately. I know that it sucks not having me there to help you but I'm here to answer questions. You just have to email me! We are going to continue to work on new assignments, even after I return Monday, so try to keep moving forward as much as you can! Below you will find a link to a lesson on Exposure Basics. This gets to the very heart of photography. I know it's a little heavy at times, especially when I get into balancing aperture and shutter. This is important, but I won't ask you to take any manual photos and use this specifically. After watching the video, you can get started on the next project, the lens flare background. Here we are doing something totally new... using Photoshop as a drawing tool. This isn't an uncommon thing. In fact, many people use Photoshop for art creation. Up until now though we have only used it for editing photos. So here we will draw a cool looking background like the one on the left. It's not particularly difficult, but you'll want to follow the link below to make it. Don't forget that tomorrow your depth of field photos are due! Have a great day everyone!
What are we learning today?
1. PPT: Exposure Basics
2. Lens Flair Background
3. Objectives to Accomplish Today:
Antiqued Photo
- Download the frame & add the photo to it
- Add a glass overlay on top of the portrait
- Create a wallpaper
- Add the portrait to the wallpaper
- Apply a drop shadow to the frame
- Make a vignette to emulate a spotlight on the picture
- Save as a PNG & PSD, turn in PNG
Film Strip Collage
- Choose 6 photos for the film strip, one for the background photo
- Crop each of the strip photo so they are are all the same aspect ratio
- Crop the background photo to 8 x 10
- Build the photo strip in Bridge
- Add the strip to the background photo
- Create the film
- Make the film wave
- Save as a PNG & PSD
- Upload the PNG to Schoology
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
4. Cleanup
5. Review/What’s Next
Periods 4 & 5
Good afternoon everyone. Today we are moving on into our Principles of Design unit. We'll start today by learning about what the Principles of Design are. If you use them, you're more likely to create a design that is effective and attractive. None of the principles are real complex or difficult to grasp, but they are important none the less. After you learn about these principles, I'd like you to take a look at the critiquing link below. On that page you'll find a video critique that I did on a cookie advertisement. Watch the video and see how I felt they did with the ad. Then I would like you to find your own ad. You're welcome to use newspapers, magazines or even Google. If you opt for the Google route, I would search for print ads. These advertisements will have more detail and give you more to talk about than a small banner or side bar ad from a website. The subject of the ad makes no difference as long as it's school appropriate and an effective ad. Once you have done this you're done for the day. Have a great day ladies and gentlemen!
What are we learning today?
1. Principles of Design Lesson
2. Ad Critique
3. Objectives to Accomplish Today:
Type
- 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
Ad Critique
- Find a full page ad from print (this can be a Google search)
- Look through the Principles of Design & jot down ideas of how your ad uses them
- Experiment with Screencast-O-Matic
- Make a video explaining how your ad uses the POD’s
- Must address each of the 6 principles
- Discuss WHY you feel as you do
- Video should be at least 45 seconds long (not including silence!)
- Feel free to include how you would improve the ad
4. Cleanup
5. Review/What’s Next
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