Image Manipulation

Friday, September 14, 2012

The class blog for MAA103 is now closed.
All submissions and re-submissions were to be online before class today.
All permissions to author the blog are now revoked and I will be grading.

~Professor Ellis

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Assignment 1,Holmes

1. What is Photoshop?

A graphic design program

2. List 10 things that you can do with Photoshop.

Paint

Transform

Edit

Draw

Crop

Sharpen

Blur

Lighting Effects

Shadowing

3. Professions that would use Photoshop to complete their work.

Game Designers

Graphic Designers

4. Tool panel overview:

Name a type of selection tool

Lasso tool

What does the move tool do and what is it's hot key?

Moves selected images - V

What is the hot key for the eyedropper tool and what does that tool do?

Samples colors and allows you to use those color.

What does the eraser tool do?

Erases

What tool creates straight, angled, or radial gradients, what is it's hot key?

Gradient tool - G

When might you use the brush tool?

Freehand drawing

What is the difference between vector and raster?

Vector is geometric, raster is pixel

What is the difference between aliased and anti aliased?

Aliased is sharp, anit is blurred

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Assignment 09 - Intro to Indesign - Final Project

Here is a good pdf for InDesign

Also here is a hot key list...

FINAL PROJECT

•For this project you will be required to make a PDF Portfolio Book of all of your assignments.

•All images will be organized and labeled as per in class instruction. (We will be going over instructions today in class as well as next MON).

•You will turn your PDF book into me on a CD on WED, SEP 12th 15minutes before the end of class, I will use this disc to grade all your assignments for the quarter for finals, please have all resubmissions updated before then.

The format of the book should be the following.
Each page should have the following and be found on the same location on each page:
The course name
The assignment name/number
Your name
Your email

Label your art as needed.

Here is the PDF Layout

pg. 01. Cover

pg. 02. Assignment 01 - Painting Tools
pg. 03. Assignment 01 - Recreation without painting tools

pg. 04. Assignment 01 - Written Component
pg. 05. Assignment 02 - JCVD Cash

pg. 06. Assignment 03 - "Book Cover"
pg. 07. Assignment 03 - Sketches for the book cover - this shows scanning proficiency

pg. 08. Assignment 04 - "Ad Campaign" your best Ad
pg. 09. Assignment 04 - The other 2 adds on top and the sketches presented underneath

pg. 10. Assignment 05 and 06 - Vector on the top and Coke - One Logo drawing.
pg. 11. Assignment 06 - Coke - One Bottle with Logo Drawing.

pg. 12. Assignment 06 - Coke - One Bottle with Logo and at least on Gradient
pg. 13. Assignment 06 - Coke Ad

pg. 14. Assignment 07 - Ai Tool Work Sheet
pg. 15. Assignment 08 - IMAX Poster "Best Poster"

pg. 16. Assignment 08 - All 4 posters in grid format 2x2
pg. 17. Assignment 08 - All 4 poster SKETCHES in grid format 2x2