1/17/13

All classes:  

Photoshop 1:

• Content Objective:
  Apply previously learned skills in a new way
  
  

  Assignment:

  Turn a photo into a polaroid collage

  
  

  
  

  Activity/Lessons:

  •  Polaroid layers:  Group your layers and copy them to create multiple layers of polaroids.
  • Use your own image.

Photoshop 2:

Assignment: 

•  Continue going through your study packet.

Gaming Graphics:                                                                            

Assignment: 
Find the file called "Aubrey's Sketch" in your Gaming Graphics link under "Comics."
Use the technique you learned yesterday (see below for the steps) to trace and fill in the sketch.
Upload a before and after to your blog.  Name it Aubrey's Sketch.

Next, watch and follow along with the video called Tracing and Inking a Demon.


The steps to fix your paint lines:
Object, Expand Appearance
Object, Live Paint, Make
Object, Live Paint, Expand
Now clean up your excess lines.
Then,
Object, Live Paint, Live Paint
Now, fill in your colors with the paint bucket

1/16/13

All classes:  

Photoshop 1:

Assignment: 

Finish Outdoor Retouch

• Upload as "Outdoor Retouch"
  Write 2 sentences about what you learned.

Photoshop 2:

Assignment: 

• Go to Certiport.com and register for a free account
• Note:  You are registering for the Adobe Certified Associate
• Find and download the Study Packet for CS5
• Go through the packet and make sure you are familiar with everything.

Gaming Graphics:                                                                            

Assignment: 

• Go to this website and follow along as best as you can with the first tutorial. 
• What you want to get out of this video:  the technique he uses to clean up where he overshoots his lines.
• Use any of your Illustrator brushes
• To make your brush larger or smaller, use the bracket [ and ] keys. 
• Quiz

1/15/13

All classes:  

Photoshop 1:

Assignment:  Learn to edit photos that have been taken outdoors

• Activity/Lessons:

  
  

   Outdoor Retouch Photo Videos:  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
  
  Upload as "Outdoor Retouch"
  Write 2 sentences about what you learned.

Photoshop 2:

Assignment: 

•  Cont. with yesterday's assignment

Gaming Graphics:                                                                            

Assignment: 

•  Quiz
• Use the script below and the images found in the comic section of the "Gaming Graphics" link above to create a full page comic.  
• Note:  the third and fourth panels do not contain text.
• There should only be two rows of panels.
• There should be 5 separate panels.
• Script:
1. Hardly anyone knows me without my glasses on.
2. So for you, I'll take off my glasses.
3. none
4. none
5. Of course the difference is greater in real life.

10/14/13

All classes:  

Take the survey located here.

Photoshop 1:

Assignment:  Apply previously learned skills in a new way.
Vocabulary:  Custom shape, background, snap to guides

• • Another use of repeat transform:   
  • Backgrounds and Custom Shapes using Repeat Transform
  • And here's the video version 
  •  (It has no sound, but it is self-explanatory)
  • When you are finished, upload your image as "Starburst" and write a sentence about what you learned using the vocabulary above.

Photoshop 2:

Assignment: 

•  ACA Exam Tutorials
• Download zip files (when you "open," they will take a while to expand into a folder)
• Go through each video using the image provided

Gaming Graphics:                                                                            

Assignment: 

• Quiz
•  Finish 4-panel comic

Pen tool quiz questions (Gaming Graphics)

1. What types of curves do you make with the pen tool? (Hint, starts with a B and is the type of curves used in computer graphics)
2. What is the shortcut for the pen tool?
3. What is a path called that has not been closed?
4. How do you deselect a path? (shortcut)
5. What happens when you forget to deselect and you start another path? 
6. How do you constrain your lines to perfect horizontal or vertical lines?
7. What is the shortcut for the direct select tool?
8. How do you delete one side of a handle? (what key(s) do you hold and where do you click?)
9. How do you move one side of the handle without changing the other side of the handle? (what key(s) do you hold while dragging?)
10. What does the narrator call the tops, bottoms and sides of an image where you click and drag? 

1/13/14

All classes:  

Photoshop 1:

Assignment: 

• Finish Calendar:
• Vocabulary:  You're on your own!
  Don't forget to write the caption.
  
• Go to the videos and files page and find the link for the Calendar project.  
• Go to this link and download all the images that start with "adj layers"
• There are 5 videos for this project.  
• This is a "Review Project," meaning you will use skills that, for the most part, you have already learned.

Photoshop 2:

Assignment: 

•  Poster editing and/or catch up day

Gaming Graphics:                                                                            

Assignment: 

• New comic assignment:  Create a 4 panel comic using skills incorporating speech bubble, thought bubble, at least one sound graphic.  You may use previously created sprites for your characters.
• Notes for quiz

1/10/13

All classes:  

Photoshop 1:

Assignment: Calendar Review

Vocabulary:  You're on your own!
Don't forget to write the caption.

• Go to the videos and files page and find the link for the Calendar project.  
• Go to this link and download all the images that start with "adj layers"
• There are 5 videos for this project.  
• This is a "Review Project," meaning you will use skills that, for the most part, you have already learned.

Photoshop 2:

Assignment: 

•  Finish Poster

Gaming Graphics:                                                                            

Assignment:  Comic Elements:  Speech Bubbles and Sound Graphics

• Right click on the link and save to your computer
• Follow the tutorials and upload both images to one blog post called Comic Elements.
• Write a caption for each image.

1/9/13

All classes:  

Photoshop 1:

Assignment: 

• Use this link below to learn how to create patterns.  Create at least 4 patterns.
• Create a new file in Photoshop and select 1/4 of the page using your marquee tool.  Fill the section with one of your new patterns.
• Repeat with the other 3 sections of the page using your other 3 patterns.
• Don't forget to write your caption!
• Your finished assignment will look something like this (but with your own patterns of course):

Photoshop 2:

Assignment: 

•  Finish Poster 
• Note:  for some reason I thought I was giving you 3 days, not just 2.
• I will ask the teacher not to come look at them until Friday afternoon, just in case anyone needs more time for this.

Gaming Graphics:                                                                            

Assignment: 

• Right click on this pen tool link and save the file to your desktop.  Double click the file to open it as a folder.  Follow along with the video using the worksheet files, which are also in the folder.
•  
• At the end of the first video, export your file as a png.
• Go on to the second video, and at the end, export that file as well.
• Upload both files to your blog and write a sentence about what you learned.

1/8/13

All classes:  

Photoshop 1:

Assignment: 

• Finish Review

Photoshop 2:

Assignment: 

•  Create recruitment poster for Auto Mechanics
• 13 x 19 OR 19 x 13 
• 300 resolution
• You may use any of the photos in this compressed file, however, do NOT use the same girl twice.  There are three girls, so you will have one, two or three photos on your poster.
• You may use the slogan:  It's Not Just a Guy Thing OR you can make up one of your own.
• Include a tag line, like:  Take Auto Mechanics (I know you can do something more clever than that)
• Give it some sort of background, but do not use colors that will overpower your message.
• Google for inspiration.  Possible searches:  school promotional posters, promotional posters, poster backgrounds, designing promotional media
• If you use one photo and want to blow it up extra large, make sure you put extra effort into the text
• You will give me the Photoshop file and upload a jpeg to your blog along with an explanation of your process.
• Due by the end of the day Thursday
• Note:  Three posters will be chosen to print and post here and at the 9th grade center

Gaming Graphics:                                                                            

Assignment: 
Finish Pen Tool Tutorial

1/6/14-1/7/14

All classes:  

Welcome back and Happy New Year!!!

Photoshop 1:

Assignment:  Review (3 days)

• Do each of the following. 
  Post before and after images for 1-6. 
  Post final images for 7-10.You have done all these tasks before.  If you need help, ask each other and/or check the Videos and Files page for the original tutorials. 
  
  
  
• Crop a photo so it has a white border all around it
• Swap heads in a photo with at least 2 people in it
• Change the color of someone's shirt
• Put muscles on someone using the Liquify filter
• Use puppet warp (under the Edit menu) in any way you want
• Find a photo of one animal in a field and use the clone stamp to put more animals in the field
• Make a path and put text on it
• Make clipped text
• Blend 3 images using gradient blend technique
• Wrap a picture around a coffee cup

Photoshop 2:

Assignment: 

•  Do the review above, only in 2 days instead of 3.

Gaming Graphics:                                                                            

Assignment:  Illustrator Pen Tool

Right click on this pen tool link and save the file to your desktop.  Double click the file to open it as a folder.  Follow along with the video using the worksheet files, which are also in the folder.