Period 2
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
3. Cleanup
4. Review/What’s Next
Handouts: None
Period 3
What are we learning today?
1. Grayscale Photos & Sequence Due Today, HDR Friday
2. Review HDR Photos, What works & How To
3. Reading to Prepare for Night Photos
4. 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
Monochrome
- Open you’re color photos in Ps
- Follow the steps on the handout to remove the color
- Save & Upload the photos to Schoology
- Make & print a proof sheet, turn in to bin
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
5. Cleanup
6. Review/What’s Next
Handouts: None
Period 4
What are we learning today?
1. Review
2. Demo: Building the Calendar (Part 2)
3. Objectives to Accomplish Today:
Blur Overlay
- Open a photo and apply the blur overlay to it
- Turn in before & after on Schoology
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
What are we learning today?
1. Review Thumbnails, Rough & Comprehensive
2. Demo: Adding Notepads to the 4-Up
3. Choosing Paper to Print the Notepad on
4. PPT: Principles of Design
5. Objectives to Accomplish Today:
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
- Reblock the screen
- Reclaim the screen
- Mat the best print
- Paperclip thumb, rough, comp, 2 prints, matted & rubric
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
3. Cleanup
4. Review/What’s Next
Handouts: Principles of Design
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
3. Cleanup
4. Review/What’s Next
Handouts: None
Period 3
What are we learning today?
1. Grayscale Photos & Sequence Due Today, HDR Friday
2. Review HDR Photos, What works & How To
3. Reading to Prepare for Night Photos
4. 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
Monochrome
- Open you’re color photos in Ps
- Follow the steps on the handout to remove the color
- Save & Upload the photos to Schoology
- Make & print a proof sheet, turn in to bin
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
5. Cleanup
6. Review/What’s Next
Handouts: None
Period 4
What are we learning today?
1. Review
2. Demo: Building the Calendar (Part 2)
3. Objectives to Accomplish Today:
Blur Overlay
- Open a photo and apply the blur overlay to it
- Turn in before & after on Schoology
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
What are we learning today?
1. Review Thumbnails, Rough & Comprehensive
2. Demo: Adding Notepads to the 4-Up
3. Choosing Paper to Print the Notepad on
4. PPT: Principles of Design
5. Objectives to Accomplish Today:
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
- Reblock the screen
- Reclaim the screen
- Mat the best print
- Paperclip thumb, rough, comp, 2 prints, matted & rubric
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
3. Cleanup
4. Review/What’s Next
Handouts: Principles of Design
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