Wednesday, 10/31/12

Graphic Design/Photoshop 1:Assignment:

•  Finish yesterday's assignment
• If you finish early, go to http://www.brusheezy.com/ and figure out how to download brushes and get them into Photoshop
  

Advanced Graphic Design/Photoshop 2: 
Assignment:

•  Continue working on current assignment 
• or use your fantastic warp effect skills to create this artwork
• or see what fantastic things you could do with this brush
  

Digital Graphics:
Assignment:

•  Continue work from yesterday
  

Tuesday, 10/30/12

Graphic Design/Photoshop 1: More on Puppet Warp
Assignment:  YMCA Mannequin (2 days)

•  Watch this movie:  Puppet Warp Tool 
• (If the internet is slow or the video won't link, it is also available by going to my resources page, click the videos and files link, click the "Photoshop Files" link and look for "Puppet Warp Tool")
• Use this file to follow along:   Mannequin
• When you are finished, duplicate the mannequin layer 3 times (cmd j)
• Line the mannequins up side by side and have them do the YMCA motions)
• Upload your finished file as YMCA Mannequins

Extra Practice:  Give this guy a face.  First, copy him and paste him into Photoshop.  Then, do a search for "eye" and use it to replace both eyes on the face.  Do the same for nose and ears.  Add anything else you like.
 
Advanced Graphic Design/Photoshop 2: 
Assignment: (Unless you are working on something else)

•  Do the YMCA Mannequin assignment above, only spell out "Vote Now" or any other 5 or more letter word or phrase
  

Digital Graphics:
Assignment:

•  Continue from yesterday
  

Monday, 10/29/12

Everyone:  From today on, every post has to have a title (in the box above your post where it says "Post Title.")  10 points will be taken off if it does not have a title.  Why?  Because in your Blog Archive, which you should also have on your blog, I can find the assignments by looking at the titles.

Graphic Design/Photoshop 1:Assignment:  Getting More out of the Warp Tool Effect

• No video today--you have to actually read the assignment!
• Getting More out of the Warp Tool Effect 
• (Note:  after the instructions say to "Place" the image, right click on the image file and "rasterize"--they left that step out.)
• Files:  Container Image, Image for Label
• When you are finished:

• Use the text tool to type your name. 
• Right click on the text layer and "rasterize"
• Use the warp tool to put your name at the top of the can

Upload your finished assignment as "Getting More out of the Warp Tool"

Optional Extra Practice selecting, resizing and pasting:   tv screens 3

Advanced Graphic Design/Photoshop 2: 
Assignment:

• Come up with an assignment of your own, or do the Photoshop 1 assignment above.

Digital Graphics:
Assignment:

•  Going over reviews and videos from last week
  

Friday, 10/12/12

Ketchup Day

 

Graphic Design:  Ketchup day (Or you can practice you Photoshop skills by doing the extra practice activities at the bottom of [most of] the posts.

Adv. Graphic Design:  Ketchup day (Make sure you finish your flow chart poster.)

Digital Media: Ketchup day

Have a great weekend! 

Thursday, 10/25/12

Graphic Design/Photoshop 1:
Assignment:

• Finish working on Portrait Project
• Extra (Optional) Practice:  Photoshop images of tv shows into the screens.
  

Advanced Graphic Design/Photoshop 2: 
Assignment: 

•  Continue working on flow chart poster (due tomorrow) or your own choice of assignments (remember to post to my blog what you are going to work on if you are at the point of choosing your own assignment.)
  

Digital Graphics:
Assignment:

1.  Watch the video on called "iPad Facetime," then spend a few minutes with another iPad student practicing what you learned.

• To get to the movie:  while you're on your computer, click the desktop to make sure you are in "Finder."
• Hold down Command and K at the same time
• Click "Browse"
• Look for Miller's iMac (it might be "Linda Miller's iMac")
• Wait a moment, and you should see "Teacher's Public Folder."  Click that.
• Click the Digital Graphics Movies folder

2.  Work on Reviews

Wednesday, 10/24/12

Graphic Design/Photoshop 1:
Assignment:

•  Continue working on Portrait Project

Just for fun or extra credit:  TV Screens
 Delete the blue and fill each of the screens with a different tv show.



Advanced Graphic Design/Photoshop 2: 
Assignment: 

•  Continue working on flow chart poster or your own choice of assignments (remember to post to my blog what you are going to work on if you are at the point of choosing your own assignment.)
• Flow chart original deadline was the 23rd, but I've moved it to the 26th.
  

Digital Graphics:
Assignment:

1.  Watch the video called "iPad Photobooth," then spend a few minutes practicing what you learned.

• To get to the movie:  while you're on your computer, click the desktop to make sure you are in "Finder."
• Hold down Command and K at the same time
• Click "Browse"
• Look for Miller's iMac (it might be "Linda Miller's iMac")
• Wait a moment, and you should see "Teacher's Public Folder."  Click that.
• Click the Digital Graphics Movies folder

2.  Work on Reviews

Tuesday, 10/23/12

Graphic Design/Photoshop 1:
Assignment:

•  Continue working on Portrait Project
  

Advanced Graphic Design/Photoshop 2: 
Assignment: 

•  Continue working on poster or your own choice of assignments (remember to post to my blog what you are going to work on if you are at the point of choosing your own assignment.)
  

Digital Graphics:
Assignment:

1.  Watch the 2 videos on taking video with the iPad (called iPad photos and videos), then spend a few minutes practicing what you learned.

• To get to the movies:  while you're on your computer, click the desktop to make sure you are in "Finder."
• Hold down Command and K at the same time
• Click "Browse"
• Look for Miller's iMac (it might be "Linda Miller's iMac")
• Wait a moment, and you should see "Teacher's Public Folder."  Click that.
• Click the Digital Graphics Movies folder

2.  Work on Reviews (Note:  I've decided that when you have reviews to work on, you will have all week to finish it.  That way you can work on additional assignments--like today, you are watching the video and practicing what you learn--without being bogged down by review after review.  Soon we will have the requested reviews out of the way, and any additional reviews will be rotated amongst the students.)

Monday 10/22/12

Graphic Design/Photoshop 1:
Project & Contest:
Original Portrait

1. Open the following photos in Photoshop:
2. Jewelry, Wilmer, Louise, Steph, Red Lips, Trio, Reeves,
3. Open a new file:  US Paper
4. Create a brand new face using 5 of the faces you've been given.  

Rules: 

1.  You have to use at least 5 different people (even though there are 7 photos, there are 9 people in the photos).
2.  You MAY get other images to add to your portrait, but you still have to use the original 5 in some way.
3.  The more believable your portrait is, the better your grade.  I should not see any "lines" where you can tell something has been added.  Try to match skin tone and hair color.
4.  Upload a screenshot (Cmd Shift 4) of your layers--this will be worth 20% of your grade.

• The layers must be named.
• The screenshot should be as large as possible, and only of the layers palette

5.  Upload your portrait
6.  Explain how you made it (20% of your grade).

• In your explanation say which tools you used and which images came from which photo.  (Example:  "I used the lasso tool to select the nose from Reeves, the ear from Steph, etc.  Then I used the eraser with a soft edge to erase the backgrounds....)
• Three sentence minimum.  You don't have to go into step-by-step detail, but anyone reading with some Photoshop knowledge would know how to do it themselves.

7.  Spelling and Grammar:  This is a test grade:  make sure your spelling and grammar are correct.
8.  You have 4 class periods to work on it.  Make it good!
9.  Email me with the link to your image (not your blog) if you want to enter your project into the contest.
10.  Winner will receive:  A certificate, 10 extra-credit points, a "goody bag" of prizes
11.  Runners-up will receive:  a certificate, 5 extra-credit points, their choice from the prize box
12.  Last day to email me will be Friday, Oct. 26th.   

 Advanced Graphic Design/Photoshop 2: 
Assignment: 

•  Cont. flow chart poster or begin an assignment of your choice

Digital Graphics:
Assignment:  If you are not finished with your last review, finish that first, then...
Review the following apps according to your class period.  You will have until Wednesday to finish.

2nd

L:  The Virtual Bacterial ID Lab

J:  Rescue City

   4th

M: Miranda App

T:  The Virtual Bacterial ID Lab

5th:

R: Bag and Tag

D:  Rescue City

B:  Miranda App

6th

G:  Bag and Tag

B: Rescue City
J:  Bag and Tag

7th

B:  Bag and Tag

N:  Flash Face

Practice pasting and resizing:
Use this Photoshop file to create a filmstrip of your choice of subject.

Friday, 10/19/12

Voting on Halloween Project
Click on the link above to view the projects, then go to the voting page to cast your vote.  You can only vote once.  If you vote more than once, all your votes will be removed.

Everyone:
If you used a dynamic layout when you created your blog, please change it.  I need to be able to see your tags and archive without having to click around to find it.

How do you know if yours is a dynamic layout or not?  When you're looking at your blog, can you see your archived posts, or do you have to click on the little tabs on the side of the page?  If you have to click the tabs, your blog is a "dynamic" blog.

Here's how to change it:
While viewing your blog home page (where you read your posts):

• click on the little house in the top right corner
• then on the next page click the dropdown on the far right of your page next to "View Blog"
• and click "Template"
• On the template page, scroll down and choose any template EXCEPT a dynamic template.

Graphic Design:  
Watch this Liquify tutorial using the "arm" file from Tuesday
Using a photo of your choice, change the expression of someone using the warp tool.
Upload the 3 images to your blog:  the arm, the before expression and the after expression.


Adv. Graphic Design:  Continue Flow Chart Poster

Digital Media: 
Stop what you're doing--it can wait till Monday.

• Fill out this form, then
• take your iPad for a field trip:  Taking Photos
• Before you go, make sure your settings in iCloud have the Photo Stream turned on and 
• under Privacy you have Locations Services turned on (at least for the camera).
• Then:
• Go to four different areas of the school and take 4 pictures.  You can even go out to the field house or the track area or the greenhouse.  While you're out, also take a 10-15 second video.  You will be working with these photos and video next week.  Please do not delete any photos or video that have been added by the person sharing your iPad.
• Be back before the end of class.

 
Graphic Design Practice:
Practice removing wrinkles:  Wrinkle1, Wrinkle2, Wrinkle3

Thursday, 10/18/12

Hey, Photoshop 2.  I decided that if I was going to require you to post your work regularly to your blog, I would do the same.  If you'll look to the right of this page, you'll see a link to my "Work in Progress" blog.

For Everyone:  Adding labels and the label gadget is a grade.  If you would like your grade to be a 100 instead of a "Missing," please go back and look at the Oct. 8 post.

Also For Everyone:
If your first name is not at the top of your blog, please put it there now, by either of these ways:

• Change the title

1. While viewing your blog, Click on "Design" in the top right corner (if you have a "Dynamic" design you will click on the little house, then click the dropdown and click "Settings")
2. Click on "Settings" on the left
3. At the top, under "Basics," you'll see "Title."  
4. Click "Edit"

• Add a "Text Gadget"

1. While viewing your blog, Click on "Design" in the top right corner (if you have a "Dynamic" design you will click on the little house, then click the dropdown and click "Settings")
2. Click on "Layout" on the left
3. Click "Add a Gadget" on the right side of the page
4. Scroll down to "Text" and click it
5. In the large box, write something about yourself or just type your name.  Whichever you do, make sure you include your first name but not your last (although you can include your last initial if you like).

• Add an "About Me" Gadget

1. Follow the above instructions to add an "About Me" gadget.

Today's Assignments:

Graphic Design:  

• Finish work from Tuesday and/or Wednesday;

Adv. Graphic Design:   (Note:  Voting on Halloween images will be Friday.  Please edit your Halloween posts so that the image is as large as possible without spilling over the edges of your blog.  Do not change the name of the post because I've already created the links to the voting page.)

• Finish and turn in Anti-Bullying poster;
• Continue working on Flow Chart Poster

Digital Media:

• Finish work from Tuesday and/or Wednesday

Practice removing scars:  Scar1, Scar2, Scar3

Wednesday, 10/17/12

PSAT
Shortened Schedule
Everyone:  Continue work from yesterday

Tuesday, 10/16/12

Graphic Design: Beautifying Portraits (3 assignments)

• 1.  Fly Away Hair
• Pic
• Upload 1 finished jpeg

2.  Content Aware Fill

• Beach, 
• chicken, fighter planes, spot, parachute, sandcastles
• Upload 6 finished jpegs

3.  Puppet Warp

• arm
• Watch video, use the "arm" image to make the guy more muscular.

Adv. Graphic Design:  Continue either Anti-Bullying poster or Flow Chart Poster

Digital Media: 

2nd, 5th:  Learn how to laminate, then work on yesterday's review.
On Thursday, 6th and 7th will learn.

Everyone else:  Finish yesterday's review

Practice removing pimples:  pimple1, pimple2, pimple3

Monday, 10/15/12

Graphic Design:  Beautifying Portraits (3 assignments)
Learn to remove blemishes and smooth skin:

Blemish 1 Video
Pic
Blemish 2 Video
Pic
Upload finished jpegs as Blemish 1 and Blemish 2

Smoothing 1
Smoothing 2
Pic
Upload finished jpeg as Smoothing 


Adv. Graphic Design:  Bullying poster due Wednesday.
Next assignment, due Tuesday, 10/23/12:  Flow Chart Poster


Digital Media:  Today we're going back to real reviews.
Find your class period and the first initial of your name.  Download the game or app next to your name.
Play the game or use the app for 10-15 minutes before writing your review.
You will have two days to complete your review.
Your finished review should look very similar to the reviews you've been reading and reviewing.
Note:  I will be grading your reviews according to the format you used to Review the Reviews.

2nd

L:  Transfuse

J:  Dr. Panda's Hospital-Free        

4th

M: Dr. Panda's Hospital-Free

T:  Lie Detector Plus

5th:

R: Dr. Panda's Hospital-Free

D:  iCrime Fighter CV Lite

B:  iCrime Fighter CV Lite
E.  Dr. Panda's Hospital-Free

6th

B:  Lie Detector Plus
G:  iCrime Fighter CV Lite

Ju:  Lie Detector Plus 

7th

B:  iCrime Fighter CV Lite

N:  Lie Detector Plus
M:  iCrime Fighter CV Lite

Friday, 10/12/12

 

Graphic Design:  Ketchup day

Adv. Graphic Design:  Ketchup day

Digital Media: Ketchup day

Have a great weekend!

Thursday, 10/11/12

Graphic Design:  
Last day to work on collage

Adv. Graphic Design:

Tomorrow is last day to finish Halloween image.  After tomorrow, 10 points off per class period.

Digital Graphics:  
Finish Review of the Reviews;
Scanning

Wednesday, 10/10/12

Graphic Design:  
Finish Project
Adv. Graphic Design:

Continue working on Halloween or Anti-Bullying projects

Digital Graphics:  
Finish last Review of the Review


Extra:
Practice rotating, coloring and making and coloring titles:
Car 1
Car 2
Car 3
Car 4
Car 5
Car 6
Car 7
Car 8

Tuesday, 10/9/12

Graphic Design:  
Check out these images (2011 Gradient Mask Projects) from last year, then read about your next project below.

Gradient Mask Project:

• What are you passionate about?  Band?  Music?  World peace?  A certain someone?  Find or take a minimum of 5 pictures that represent that passion and create a collage using the gradient mask technique you learned in the Gradient Mask tutorial.  
• Add text to create a title for your collage.  Make sure to use capitalization in your title.
• You will have 2 full class periods to work on this.
• Note:  last year students were not required to use a title, but this year you are.

Adv. Graphic Design:

Make sure you finish and "publish" your Halloween image.  Send me an email, or post a comment below to let me know when you publish it.

Digital Graphics:  
Do one last review of the review using an app from this list.
Note:  you should have at least 3 Reviews of the Reviews.  Even if you are behind, please make sure you do 3 reviews before you move on to anything else.

Extra:
Practice rotating, coloring and making titles:
Car 1
Car 2
Car 3
Car 4
Car 5
Car 6
Car 7
Car 8

Monday, 10/8/12

Everyone must do this assignment:  Tag your posts
Yes, it's for a grade
Yes, I mean everyone (Photoshop 1 and 2 and Graphic Design)
After you tag one of your posts, come back to this page for the rest of the assignments.

Graphic Design (Photoshop 1):  More Working with Text
Note about last assignment:  Although I said you didn't have to use exactly the same text as I did, your text did have to look like mine, at least the size and the amount.  I have not graded the assignment yet, but if you only used "Hello" or something like that, you will not pass the assignment.  The purpose of the assignment was that you know how to fit text around an image. You still have some time if you want to delete that image and replace it with another.


More Working with Text
These next three videos will show you how to get more creative with text:

• Clipped Text:  watch the video then find your own photo to do the same.  Don't just slap a word on the photo, make it creative!  Here's the Clipped Text video.
• Text to Path: Open a new Photoshop file (use "default" Photoshop size) and follow along.  Here's the Text to Path video.
• Warp Text:   Open a new Photoshop file(use "default" Photoshop size), type the word Hello, make it the size in the video, then follow along.  Here's the Warp Text video.

Adv. Graphic Design (Photoshop 2):

• If you didn't get a chance to look at the poster design examples, go to the Resource link above.

Digital Graphics:  

1. Finish your Review of the Review from Friday 
2. Tag all your posts (this will make it easier for teachers to find reviews)
3. Check for any scanning in your DIM box behind Mrs. Miller's desk.
   

Friday, 10/5/12, PS1 Voting Today for Fav Filmstrip Postcard!

Graphic Design:  
Learn to add text to an image.
You will need:

Entering Text File (this is a Photoshop file)
Entering Text Video 1
Entering Text Video 2
Upload your finished image to your blog.
Extra Credit:  Find an image, add a poem or part of a poem or part of a song's lyrics to the image (Example).

Adv. Graphic Design:  

Check out these saved image searches:
Anti-Bullying Poster Image Search  (you'll have to weed through them to get the good ones, but there are some very good ones.)
Poster Design Image Search (some really cool posters)

Digital Media: 
Do another review of the review using an app from this list.

Thursday, 10/4/12

Graphic Design:  
Gradient Mask
This is by far the most requested technique in Photoshop, and the one I am most often asked to review (as in, Mrs. Miller, how did we do that, you know, where we made a collage...?)  And my answer is "Go to the videos and files page."
But today, I am providing the link to the Gradient Mask Tutorial, as well as the link to the photos you will need (which you may already have, but here's the link anyway.

btw, you will eventually be creating a collage using this technique

Adv. Graphic Design: Check out this web gallery of poster scans.  Find a style you can use or adapt for your next project--Anti-bullying poster.  Or come up with your own style!  FYI, on the Videos and Files page, Mr. Hawes is posting images you can use in your poster.  He will be adding more over the next few days.

Digital Graphics:  Finish reviewing the review from yesterday.

Check to see if your class has scanning.




Frank
Skeleton
Costumes
Frank 2
Frank 3
Mask 1
Skull
Potion
Mask 2
Mask 3

Wednesday, 10/3/12

Graphic Design:  

Learn how to change eye color:
Use Photobooth to take a picture of your eyes.  Follow along with this changing eye color video to change the color of your eyes.  Then, find a photo online and do the same thing with the eyes and hair. Upload a before and after of both images (your eyes and the photo you find online).

Adv. Graphic Design:

Work on Halloween image or Anti-Bullying poster:  13 x 19 inches, 300 dpi, make it unique, creative, but NOT humorous.  This is a serious matter, it deserves a serious approach.  The best two (or three or four) will be printed full size and posted around the school.  Don't know yet who will determine "the best," probably Mrs. Haecker and/or Mr. Burks.

Digital Graphics
Follow this link.

Tuesday, 10/2/12

Graphic Design:  Note:  because of absences, I've decided that we will hold the postcard judging on Friday.

Learn how to change the color of a shirt by watching these two videos (one, two) and using this image.

Adv. Graphic Design:  

1. Your Halloween project is due the 12th.  (More inspiration here.)
2. Be thinking of your next big assignment:  Anti-bullying poster.  The best posters will be printed and posted around the school!  More details to come, but if you are already finished with the Halloween assignment, you can begin your poster now, just make sure you start with a 13 x 19 inch, 300 dpi file.

Digital Media: 
Finish reviews.
Check to see if your class has scanning.

Monday, 10/1/12

Shortcut of the day:  Command D (to deselect)

Graphic Design:  More Options when it comes to Selections

Using your own image, follow these three tutorials.  Upload your finished image.

Marquee 2, Quick Mask, Quick Mask Again

Adv. Graphic Design:  What are you working on?  Remember to post to your blog when you start an assignment:  what it's called, what you'll be learning, and when you expect to be finished.
Announcement:  New Photoshop Creative is in!  

Digital Media: 

1. Download the following apps according to your class period.
2. Summarize each app in one to two sentences.  Please don't copy what someone else has written, that's called plagiarism.
3. Write the pros and cons of each game.  You don't have to decided which is best, because in some cases the games are completely different.
4. Post to your blog the same way you've done the other apps, with at least 3 screenshots.

2nd (J and J only)

Diner Dash

Diner Dash: Boom

4th

VNurse Lite

Anatomy Browser

5th:

Avenue Flo

Big Business HD

6th

Hotel Dash

Hotel Dash: Suite Success

7th

Kids Anatomy Puzzle Lite, 

Speed Anatomy