9/29/14 and 9/30/14

All classes:  

Last week of the first six weeks.  Grades are due by Friday 4:00.

Photoshop 1:

Assignment: 

•  Download this picture and open it in Photoshop.
• Watch these two movies and create your own Vege man or woman:
• Video one
• Video two

• Upload your finished image along with a description about what you did or what you learned.

Photoshop 2:

Assignment: 

•  Cont. with advanced tutorials.
• Make sure you have at least 4 projects and/or finished tutorials on your blog.
• Upload your finished image along with a description about what you did or what you learned.

Print and Image:                                                                            

Assignment: 

• Get caught up.
• Make sure you have finished and uploaded all the text tutorials.
• Make sure you have finished and uploaded all the pen tool tutorials.
• Upload your finished image along with a description about what you did or what you learned.

9/25/14

All classes:  

Photoshop 1:

Assignment: 

• Finish your collage.
• Upload your finished image along with a description about what you did or what you learned.

Photoshop 2:

Assignment: 

•  Cont. with assignments.
• Upload your finished image along with a description about what you did or what you learned.

Print and Image:                                                                            

Assignment: 

• Finish text tutorials.
• Upload your finished image along with a description about what you did or what you learned.

9/24/14

All classes:  

Photoshop 1:

Assignment: 

• 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.  
• Make sure that your image will be print quality:
• Start with a file that is "US Paper Size."
• You may use it as is, or flip  it around so it is horizontal.
• Make sure the images you use are "large."
• 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.
• Upload your finished image along with a description about what you did or what you learned.

Photoshop 2:

Assignment: 

•  Cont. with assignments
• Upload your finished image along with a description about what you did or what you learned.

Print and Image:                                                                            

Assignment: 

• Playing with Text
• Playing with Gradients
• Font Styling
• Text Effects
• 3D Text
• Upload your finished image along with a description about what you did or what you learned.

9/23/14

All classes:  

Photoshop 1:

Assignment: 

• Goal:  create a collage by blending photos together without harming the original photos.
• Examples
• One of the most frequently requested Photoshop tutorial is blending photos.
• When you blend one photo into another, you can actually harm the photo, so you need to know how to blend photos using a "mask," which will protect your photos and allow you to try different techniques until you get it right.
• Find the gradient mask tutorial under "Videos and Files."  Use the pictures provided to follow along.
• Upload your finished image along with a description about what you did or what you learned. 

Photoshop 2:

Assignment: 

• Cont. with projects
• Upload your finished image along with a description about what you did or what you learned.

Print and Image:                                                                            

Assignment: 

• The pen tool is one of the most productive tools in Illustrator.  You may have already used the pen tool in Illustrator, but whether you have or not, the following tutorials will help you hone this the art of using this tool.

• Click this link to download a zipped file that contains several documents and a video.
• Use the documents to follow along with the video.  Upload each document when you are finished.  Make sure you write about what you learned.

• This second link will allow you to download another zipped file that will teach you some higher level skills with the pen tool.
• Upload your finished image along with a description about what you did or what you learned. 

9/22/14

All classes:  

Photoshop 1:

Assignment: 

• Finish Film Postcard.
• Upload your finished image along with a description about what you did or what you learned. 
• Find the gradient mask tutorial under "Videos and Files."  Use the pictures provided to follow along.

Photoshop 2:

Assignment: 

• Cont. with assignments.
• Upload your finished image along with a description about what you did or what you learned.

Print and Image:                                                                            

Assignment: 

• Finish your project.
• Upload your finished image along with a description about what you did or what you learned.

9/19/14

All classes:  

Photoshop 1:

Assignment: 
Create a filmstrip post card by following these two tutorials.  In the second video use your own photos.

1. This tutorial will teach you how to make the basic film that will be used in the post card.
2. This tutorial will teach you how to lay out the film to create the card.  Use any photos you like as long as they are "large."

Photoshop 2:

Assignment: 

•  Cont. with assignments.
• Upload your finished image along with a description about what you did or what you learned.

Print and Image:                                                                            

Assignment: 

• Cont. with project.
• Upload your finished image along with a description about what you did or what you learned.

9/18/14

All classes:  

Sharing your Blog using Google Docs (this is for a grade):
Go to the following link for your class and type your name along with the link to your blog:
First Period
Third Period
Fourth Period
Fifth Period
Sixth Period
Seventh Period

Photoshop 1:

Make sure you are up to date with all the tutorials.
Even though I am out, I will be accessing your blogs and grading them today.
Assignment: 

•  Use one of your portrait photos to follow along with Mr. Hawes in the following two videos. 
• When you are finished, upload the image from the first video along with a description about what you did or what you learned.
• Quick Mask 1
• Quick Mask 2
•  

Assignment 2:
Use this photo to follow along with the following two videos:

• Shirt Color 1
• Shirt Color 2

Upload your finished image along with a description about what you did or what you learned.

Photoshop 2:

Assignment: 

•  Cont. with assignments.
• Upload your finished image along with a description about what you did or what you learned.

Print and Image:                                                                            

Assignment: 

• Cont. with project:

9/17/14

All classes:  

Sharing your Blog using Google Docs (this is for a grade):
Go to the following link for your class and type your name along with the link to your blog:
First Period
Advanced Graphic Design
Practicum in Graphic Design 
Third Period
Fourth Period
Fifth Period
Sixth Period
Seventh Period

If you did not create your Avatar yesterday, make sure to look at the blog and follow directions.  This is for a grade!

Rubric for Avatar

Photoshop 1:

Assignment:  1

• Blending Layers
  and
  Opacity
• Upload your finished image along with a description about what you did or what you learned. 

Assignment 2:
Use your own pictures to follow along with these videos.  Upload the final images to your blog.

• Entering Text 1
• Entering Text 2
• Clipped Text
• Text to Path
• Warp Text

Photoshop 2:

Assignment: 

•  Cont. with assignments.
• Upload your finished image along with a description about what you did or what you learned.

Print and Image:                                                                            

Assignment: 

• Cont. with yesterday's project:
• Find an image to trace and have it approved by Mrs. Miller
  When you are finished with the Skull & Bones, begin searching for an image to recreate in Illustrator.  It can be any image you like--a cartoon, a drawing, even a photograph.  Don't make it so hard that you will spend more than three days on it.  Don't make it so easy that you will finish it in one class period. This will be your first project grade.
• Begin tracing the image using shapes and the techniques you learned with the monster assignments.

9/16/14

All classes:  

Go to doppelme.com and create an avatar.  Your avatar should be as close to your real self as possible (this  will be part of the grade).  When you are finished, save your avatar by putting in your (school) email and following the directions.  Also, save a copy of your avatar to your desktop (right click, save image as).
Rubric for Avatar

Set Notability to automatically back up to Google Drive. 

Photoshop 1:

Assignment: 

• Create your own fake photo using images of your choice.  
• Make sure you search for "large" images.
• Upload your finished image along with a description about what you did or what you learned. 

When you are finished, start on:
Blending Layers
and
Opacity

Photoshop 2:

Assignment: 

• Cont. working on assignments.
• Upload your finished image along with a description about what you did or what you learned.

Print and Image:                                                                            

Assignment 1: 

• Complete Skull and Bones tutorial.
• See an example here:  Skull & Bones Example
• Upload your finished image along with a description about what you did or what you learned. 

Assignment 2:
Find an image to trace and have it approved by Mrs. Miller
When you are finished with the Skull & Bones, begin searching for an image to recreate in Illustrator.  It can be any image you like--a cartoon, a drawing, even a photograph.  Don't make it so hard that you will spend more than three days on it.  Don't make it so easy that you will finish it in one class period. This will be your first project grade.

9/15/14

All classes:  

Photoshop 1:

Assignment: 

• Watch Fake Photos movie Mrs. Miller will show on the overhead.
• Watch and follow along with Transform using this Photoshop file:  Shark and Heli 
• Position the shark so it looks as realistic as possible and save it.  You will edit this again later.
• Watch and follow along with:  Cut and Paste Heads
  You will need these images.  Right click and choose "open link in new tab":
  Wonder Woman                 Superman
• Upload it and name it:  Cut and Paste Heads Practice
• Upload your finished image along with a description about what you did or what you learned.

Photoshop 2:

Assignment: 

•  Cont. with previous assignments.
• Upload your finished image along with a description about what you did or what you learned.

Print and Image:                                                                            

Assignment: 

• Finish piggie files and batwing.
• Upload your finished image along with a description about what you did or what you learned.

9/12/14

All classes:  

Photoshop 1:

Assignment:  
This assignment has a Part A and a Part B!
Part A: 

1. Find an image in your landscape photos that has a big blue sky (or find one online if necessary).
2. Open it in Photoshop and follow along for these three videos.

• MarqueeTool
• Lasso Tool
• Wand/ Quick Select

Part B: 

1. Now that you know how to use these tools, it is up to you how you want to make selections.
2.  Find an image online of two people.  They both need to be facing the same direction.  
3. Use the selection tool of your choice to swap their heads.  
4. Upload your finished image along with a description about what you did or what you learned.

Photoshop 2:

Assignment: 

•  Cont. with individual assignments.
• Upload your finished image along with a description about what you did or what you learned.

Print and Image:                                                                            

Assignment: 

• Finish Batwing (see Wednesday's blog entry).
• Upload your finished image along with a description about what you did or what you learned.

9/11/14

All classes:  

Photoshop 1:

Assignment: 

• Finish flower assignment.
• Upload your finished image along with a description about what you did or what you learned for each one. 
• Create a photo card using your own images.  Text is optional.
• Upload your finished image along with a description about what you did or what you learned.
•  

Photoshop 2:

Assignment: 

• Cont. with individual assignments.
• Upload your finished image along with a description about what you did or what you learned.

Print and Image:                                                                            

Assignment:  
Get Batwing uploaded and described.

9/10/14

All classes:  

Photoshop 1:

Assignment:  

Today you are going to start really working with layers in Photoshop.
Click on "Flower dir" and download the "flowers and more" zip file to your desktop (it has .zip at the end).
Double click on the zip file and it will open a folder of images.  Drag the folder to your "photos" folder.
Open Bridge, then open your Flowers and More folder.
Watch "Layers 1" using the images.

When you are finished, go back to Flower dir and find the Layers 01 file.  Right click on it and download it to your desktop.  Watch and follow along with Layers 2.

You may not finish this all today, and that's okay!

• Flower dir
• Layers 1 
• Layers 2
• Upload your finished images along with a description about what you did or what you learned.

Photoshop 2:

Assignment: 

Cont. working on individual assignments.

Print and Image:                                                                            

Assignment: 

Finish your Bad Piggies and upload all 3.
Write a sentence for each one explaining how you completed it.
After you have finished uploading your images, begin working on  batwing.
You may or may not need this file.

9/9/14

All classes:  

Photoshop 1:

Assignment:  

Video Tutorials:

• Fix This (Straighten and Crop)
• Arranging windows
• Naming/Renaming Layers Pic
• Content Aware Scale | pic
• Warp | Pic
• Upload your finished image along with a description about what you did or what you learned.

Photoshop 2:

Assignment: 

•  Cont. working on advanced assignment of your choice.
• Upload your finished image along with a description about what you did or what you learned.

Print and Image:                                                                            

Assignment: 

• Work on Bad Piggies.
• Upload your finished image along with a description about what you did or what you learned.

9/5/15

All classes:  

Take five photos of something that interests you.  (Take them on your iPad.)

If you still do not have Notability, please email me and I will send you a Microsoft Word document so you can complete the Student Info Sheet and email it back to me.

Photoshop 1:

Assignments: 

• Free Transform| Pic
• Straighten | Pic | Pic | Ex
• Smart Objects | Pic
• Upload your finished image along with a description about what you did or what you learned.

Photoshop 2:

Assignment: 

• Cont. with assignments
• Upload your finished image along with a description about what you did or what you learned.

Print and Image:                                                                            

Assignment:  Use your completed pig (export it as a .png first so you have a copy of it) and adapt it to create a king pig and a mustache pig.  See last year's blogs for examples.

9/4/14

All classes:  

Photoshop 1:

Assignment: 

• Finish Videos from yesterday
• Take a screenshot of your finished category list and upload it to your blog along with a description about what you did or what you learned. 
• Begin working on the following videos:
• Open Load Save  
• Crop 1 (right click on the "pic" link to get the photo for this assignment)
  
• Crop 2 (right click on the "pic" link to get the photo for this assignment)
• Crop 3 (right click on the "pic" link to get the photo for this assignment)

Photoshop 2:

Assignment: 

Cont. with work

Print and Image:                                                                            

Assignment: 

• Finish Angry Birds Pig
• Upload your finished image along with a description about what you did or what you learned.

9/3/14

All classes:  

Networking Activity:  Handshake

Photoshop 1:

Assignment: 

Go to Videos and Files and download the five "Bridges" videos

To download videos:  right click on the link, and click "save as."  Save it to your desktop so you can find it easily.

Watch and follow along with all five videos.  Use your folder of images from yesterday as you follow along.

Photoshop 2:

Assignment: 

•  Cont. with assignment

Print and Image:                                                                            

Assignment: 

• Finish Green Slobber Monster
• Upload your finished image along with a description about what you did or what you learned. 
• Begin  Angry Birds Pig assignment below:
  

  angry birds pig w pauses.mov

Tuesday, 9/2/14

All classes:  

Photoshop 1:

Assignment:  
Watch Low vs High Quality Images
Watch Mrs. Miller show you how to custom search for photos and images
Create a folder on your desktop and call in Photos
Find 10 "large" pictures for each of the following:
Animals
Sports
Landscapes (outdoors)
Portraits (faces)

Photoshop 2:

Assignment: 

• Cont. working on last week's assignment

Print and Image:                                                                            

Assignment: 

• Green Slobber Monster:  Under "Gaming Graphics" then "Print-Gaming"
• You will need the start file and the video
• Upload your finished image along with a description about what you did or what you learned.