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Week 2 1/31
Week 3 2/7
Week 4 2/14
Week 5 2/21
Week 6 2/28
Week 7 3/7
Week 8 3/21
Week 9 3/28
Week 10 4/4

 


Week 1 1/24/11

Monday

1/24

Teacher Planning  

Objectives:

  • Design concepts
  • Identify purpose
  • Typography
  • Product promotion
  • Image composition
  • Organization
  • Knowledge of copyright
  • Image resolution for web
  • Importing & exporting

Tuesday

1/25

Welcome and Class rules

Login Issues

Wordpress Blog

Email

Assignment: Create Personal Logo

100 pts

If you don't have one, create a wordpress blog for your Design Portfolio. You will be posting examples of your work there. www.wordpress.com (not .org)

Logo Design Inspiration   (you may choose other sites for your inspiration)

Wednesday

1/26

New Media Technology Poster Project

300 pts

Using Photoshop, create a poster to promote the New Media Technology Program: New Media & Digital Imaging Fundamentals, Digital Video & Audio Fundamentals, Web Design 1

Size: 11 X 17 inches

Thursday

1/27

Work on Poster  

Friday

1/28

Fruit Face Project

100 pts

Put a face on a piece of fruit. You can decide which piece of fruit. See website for information

http://www.photoshopstar.com/effects/how-to-cheat-with-visualization-in-photoshop/


Week 2 1/31/11

Monday

1/31

Create yourself as an Avatar

200pts

Take pictures of each other and upload them to your computers. Use the headshot images to create yourselves as an avatar. If you want to see an example just ask Rafael Diaz. See me for camera or use your phone.

Objectives:

  • Design concepts
  • Identify purpose
  • Typography
  • Product promotion
  • Image composition
  • Organization
  • Knowledge of copyright
  • Image resolution for web
  • Importing & exporting

Tuesday

2/1

Complete Avatar

 

Wednesday

2/2

Typographic Portrait

(300 pts)

See link for website and directions: http://10steps.sg/tutorials/photoshop/make-yourself-an-amazing-typographic-portrait/

Thursday

2/3

Complete Typographic Portrait  

Friday

2/4

Fantastic Abstract Fan Poster

(200 pts)

From the tutorial9 site, recreate using images of your own, the Animal King.

Click Here for link to the site.


Week 3 2/7/11

Monday

2/7

Nuclaer Accident Animal Morph

(300 pts)

See link for website for some examples of Nuclear Disaster Morphings... Click Here!

Choose two animals and follow the directions to morph them together to create a new nuclear accident animal.

Site 1 Tutorial

Site 2 Tutorial

Do NOT use the same animal combinations as in the tutorial or the example; choose your own.

Objectives:

  • Design concepts
  • Identify purpose
  • Typography
  • Product promotion
  • Image composition
  • Organization
  • Knowledge of copyright
  • Image resolution for web
  • Importing & exporting

Tuesday

2/8

   

Wednesday

2/9

Pick 2

Due Friday!

(200 pts each)

You will be choosing 2 tutorials from the following link. Both are due by Friday. You may NOT use the ones with the iPod or iPod shuffle. Also, if you choose one with a person, you or someone in the class must be that person. Turn both in as .psd (photoshop) files, but save them as jpeg for yourself and the blog.

Click Here!

Thursday

2/10

   

Friday

2/11

BLOG! Update blog by adding all assignments thus far. Use a separate blog entry for each one.

Week 4 2/14/11

Monday

2/14

Pick 2

200 pts each

(400 pts)

You will be choosing 2 tutorials from the following link.

Click Here!

  • Design concepts
  • Identify purpose
  • Typography
  • Product promotion
  • Image composition
  • Organization
  • Knowledge of copyright
  • Image resolution for web
  • Importing & exporting

Tuesday

2/15

work on tutorials  

Wednesday

2/16

work on tutorials  

Thursday

2/17

work on tutorials  

Friday

2/18

Tutorials due today.

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Week 5    2/15/10

Monday

2/21

No School  

Objectives:

  • Design concepts
  • Identify purpose
  • Typography
  • Product promotion
  • Image composition
  • Organization
  • Knowledge of copyright
  • Image resolution for web
  • Importing & exporting

Tuesday

2/22

Choose 6 tutorials

(600 pts)

Click here!

Due Friday!

Wednesday

2/23

Work on text tutorials

 

Thursday

2/24

Work on text tutorials  

Friday

2/25

Text tutorials due today!

Upload all work to blog.

(100 pts)

Add all completed assignments to the blog using separate entries. Write a brief statement about the assignment; what you liked about it, what you did not like about it, did you have to incorporate any new techniques, what type of advertising this type of assignment is useful for, or any other information you would like to add. Be sure to use complete sentences with capitals where they belong and punctuation in appropriate spaces.

Week 6 2/22/10

Monday

2/28

Photoshop Beginning Pen Tool

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assignments:

1. From the first tutorial site listed to the right, use the pen tool and create all the shapes and vector graphics used in the tutorial.

(200 pts)

2. Pen Tool Exercises

(200 PTS)

Review the following links to help you learn how to use the Pen Tool.

Adobe Photoshop CS4 Tutorials go through all the pages that have to do with drawing with the pen tool.

Tutorial 9 Pen Tool Tutorial

Pen Tool Tutorial and Exercise:

Atomic Learning:  click below for direct access

username login:       bps3541

password:   broward

1. From the first tutorial site, create a photoshop page that includes all the shapes and vector paths as you work through the assignment.

 

 

2. From the Tutorial9 website, create a photoshop page that includes all the shapes and vector paths as you work through the assignment. The following shapes should be included:

  • Star
  • Curve
  • Circle
  • Lilypad looking shape
  • Rounded edge box
  • 3 humps
  • Pen tool shape
  • Objectives:

    • Design concepts
    • Identify purpose
    • Typography
    • Product promotion
    • Image composition
    • Organization
    • Knowledge of copyright
    • Image resolution for web
    • Importing & exporting

Tuesday

3/1

Work on Pen Tool Assignments

Melissa Evans Page 2

Image trace and custom shape

(200 pts)

Melissa Evans - How to use the pen tool

From the page 2 of the Melissa Evans site, follow the instructions to cut out a person from one photo and place into a different photo, be sure to save as psd so all layers are in tact when you hand it in. -11 pts if not in psd format with layers. This is practice so use the pen tool and do not cheat by using some other tool for selection. Also create a custom shape using a tutorial from the bottom of that same page. Use the shape and put it in the bottom left corner of the project you turn in.

Wednesday

3/2

Work on Pen Tool Assignments

Pen Tool Face Exercise

(200 pts)

Pen Tool Face Exercise: - Using the built in camera of the computer, take a head shot, then use the pen tool to trace your face, and be sure to include as much detail as possible. Take the outlne path and add it to a separate photoshop file and paint your face.

Thursday

3/3

Work on Pen Tool Assignments  

Friday

3/4

Blog Update: You should have the following images uploaded to your blog to date:

  • Class Promotional Poster
  • Fruit Face
  • Avatar
  • Typographic Poster
  • Abstract Poster
  • Animal Morph
  • Fantasy 1
  • Fantasy 2
  • Advertising 1
  • Advertising 2
  • Text 1-6
  • Pen Tool Face Exercise
Add face pen tool assignment to the blog using separate entries. Write a brief statement about the assignment; what you liked about it, what you did not like about it, did you have to incorporate any new techniques, what type of advertising this type of assignment is useful for, or any other information you would like to add. Be sure to use complete sentences with capitals where they belong and punctuation in appropriate spaces.

Week 7 3/1/10

Monday

3/7

   

Objectives:

  • Design concepts
  • Identify purpose
  • Typography
  • Product promotion
  • Image composition
  • Organization
  • Knowledge of copyright
  • Image resolution for web
  • Importing & exporting

Tuesday

3/8

   

Wednesday

3/9

   

Thursday

3/10

   

Friday

3/11

  Add all completed assignments to the blog using separate entries. Write a brief statement about the assignment; what you liked about it, what you did not like about it, did you have to incorporate any new techniques, what type of advertising this type of assignment is useful for, or any other information you would like to add. Be sure to use complete sentences with capitals where they belong and punctuation in appropriate spaces.
Week 8 3/8/10

Monday

3/21

   

Objectives:

  • Design concepts
  • Identify purpose
  • Typography
  • Product promotion
  • Image composition
  • Organization
  • Knowledge of copyright
  • Image resolution for web
  • Importing & exporting

Tuesday

3/22

   

Wednesday

3/23

   

Thursday

3/24

   

Friday

3/25

  Add all completed assignments to the blog using separate entries. Write a brief statement about the assignment; what you liked about it, what you did not like about it, did you have to incorporate any new techniques, what type of advertising this type of assignment is useful for, or any other information you would like to add. Be sure to use complete sentences with capitals where they belong and punctuation in appropriate spaces.

Week 9 3/15/10

Monday

3/28

   

Objectives:

  • Design concepts
  • Identify purpose
  • Typography
  • Product promotion
  • Image composition
  • Organization
  • Knowledge of copyright
  • Image resolution for web
  • Importing & exporting

Tuesday

3/29

   

Wednesday

3/30

   

Thursday

3/31

Exam Day

Digital Design 2-7 Final Exam

You will be creating a bio of yourself using Photoshop. You will need some images that describe some aspect of you. The tutorial is of a sports person, but you do not have to use sports, you may use activities you are interested in or a different sport.

  • Go to the Out Box
  • Find the Digital Design 2-7 folder
  • Drag the Final Exam Folder to your desktop
  • Open the PDF file on your computer
  • go to page 64 (or the section on the Bio Page Ch. 3)
  • Using the iMac computer camera, take a photo of yourself. (25%)
  • Remove the background of the image of yourself
  • You will still need to create the same accents as described in the tutorial, but images are up to you. Try not to use images that look distorted when stretched across the layout. You can use more than one image to span the layout. (25%)
  • Add a couple of other images to go along with your chosen theme.
  • Add some text about you and the things you like to do as depicted in the bio page. (15%)
  • Save as png using the proper naming scheme: 1LastName_Final   (5%)

Friday

4/1

   

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Semester 2

 
Week 1 4/4/11
DAY/DATE ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS OBJECTIVES

Monday

4/4

No School

 

Objectives:

  • Design concepts
  • Identify purpose
  • Typography
  • Product promotion
  • Image composition
  • Organization
  • Knowledge of copyright
  • Image resolution for web
  • Importing & exporting

Tuesday

4/5

Animal King/Queen Tutorial

(200 pts)

From the tutorial9 site, recreate using images of your own, the Animal King.

Click Here for link to the site.

Wednesday

4/6

Work on the Animal King/Queen Tutorial  (200 pts)

Work on the Animal King or Queen tutorial

Thursday

4/7

   

Friday

4/8

 

Blog Update

(100 pts)

Add both completed assignments to the blog using separate entries. Write a brief statement about the assignment; what you liked about it, what you did not like about it, did you have to incorporate any new techniques, what type of advertising this type of assignment is useful for, or any other information you would like to add. Be sure to use complete sentences with capitals where they belong and punctuation in appropriate spaces.


Week 2 4/11/11
DAY/DATE ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS OBJECTIVES

Monday

4/11

 

Go to Website: Click Here!

Choose one of the following tutorials for your final:

#2 Wooden Text Effect in Photoshop

#7 Design a God of War III Inspired Text

#8 How to Create a Copper Photoshop text

#13 Snowy Rock Text Effect

#23 Create a Layered Glowing Text Effect

#29 Create a 3D Flowery Text Effect

#31 Create a Spectacular Grass Text

#37 Cartoon/Comic-Style Text Effect

Objectives:

  • Design concepts
  • Identify purpose
  • Typography
  • Product promotion
  • Image composition
  • Organization
  • Knowledge of copyright
  • Image resolution for web
  • Importing & exporting

Tuesday

4/12

   

Wednesday

4/13

   

Thursday

4/14

   

Friday

4/15

 

Blog Update

(100 pts)

Add both completed assignments to the blog using separate entries. Write a brief statement about the assignment; what you liked about it, what you did not like about it, did you have to incorporate any new techniques, what type of advertising this type of assignment is useful for, or any other information you would like to add. Be sure to use complete sentences with capitals where they belong and punctuation in appropriate spaces.

 


Week 3 4/18/11
DAY/DATE ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS OBJECTIVES

Monday

4/18

Pick 2

(400 pts)

You will be choosing 2 tutorials from the following link. Both are due by Friday. You may NOT use the following: Trendy Typographic Poster Design, Awesome Colorful Poster Tutorial, Turn of the Century Vaudeville Poster, or the High Impact Gig Poster Suitable for Screen Printing... Also, if you choose one with a person, you or someone in the class must be that person. Turn both in as .psd (photoshop) files, but save them as jpeg for yourself and the blog.

Click Here!

Objectives:

  • Design concepts
  • Identify purpose
  • Typography
  • Product promotion
  • Image composition
  • Organization
  • Knowledge of copyright
  • Image resolution for web
  • Importing & exporting

Tuesday

4/19

Work on Pick 2 for this week. Work on Pick 2 for this week.

Wednesday

4/20

Work on Pick 2 for this week. Work on Pick 2 for this week.

Thursday

4/21

Work on Pick 2 for this week. Work on Pick 2 for this week.

Friday

4/22

Good Friday, no school

 

 

 


Week 4 4/25/11
DAY/DATE ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS OBJECTIVES

Monday

4/25

Pick 2 from the list...

(400 pts)

You will be choosing 2 tutorials from the following link. Both are due by Friday. You may choose from the following: Mac OS X Logo, Wooden Text Effect in Photoshop, Create a retro logo, Firefish Mascot, Spiderman Logo, Crest Logo Tutorial in Photoshop, Amazing Nike Logo, or the Create a black and white logo. Turn both in as .psd (photoshop) files, but save them as jpeg for yourself and the blog.

Click Here!

Objectives:

  • Design concepts
  • Identify purpose
  • Typography
  • Product promotion
  • Image composition
  • Organization
  • Knowledge of copyright
  • Image resolution for web
  • Importing & exporting

Tuesday

4/26

Work on Pick 2 for this week. Work on Pick 2 for this week.

Wednesday

4/27

Work on Pick 2 for this week. Work on Pick 2 for this week.

Thursday

4/28

Work on Pick 2 for this week. Work on Pick 2 for this week.

Friday

4/29

Pick 2 due today.

 

 


Week 5 5/2/11
DAY/DATE ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS OBJECTIVES

Monday

5/2

Jaguar Advertisement

(200 pts)

   

Tuesday

5/3

Pick 1

(200 pts)

Link to site: speckyboy.com

You may not choose the following: Epic Fantasy

You must turn in the final project as a psd file. You will want to save it along the way as a photoshop psd file, not as a jpeg.

 

Wednesday

5/4

     

Thursday

5/5

     

Friday

5/6

Complete all work from this week.

   

Week 6 5/9/11
DAY/DATE ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS OBJECTIVES

Monday

5/9

Make-up day    

Tuesday

5/10

3D Wine Bottle Illustration

(200 pts)

Interim Reports Issued.

   

Wednesday

5/11

Classic Guitar in Photoshop

(300 pts)

   

Thursday

5/12

Work on Guitar image.

   

Friday

5/13

Penguin Drawing

(200 pts)

   

Week 7 5/16/11
DAY/DATE ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS OBJECTIVES

Monday

5/16

Surreal Cover Art

You may use the room image only. All others must be different.

(300 pts)

 

   

Tuesday

5/17

 

 

   

Wednesday

5/18

Retro Helmet Illustration

(200 pts)

 

Create your own from the tutorial. DO NOT USE ANY GRAPHICS FROM THIS TUTORIAL. An attempt on your part is much better than you just getting graphics and plopping them together or getting something that is entirely not your work. Click here for the tutorial!  

Thursday

5/19

Black Light Effect

(200 pts)

 

Create your own from the tutorial. DO NOT USE ANY GRAPHICS FROM THIS TUTORIAL. An attempt on your part is much better than you just getting graphics and plopping them together or getting something that is entirely not your work. Click here for the tutorial!  

Friday

5/20

 

 

   

Week 8 5/23/11
DAY/DATE ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS OBJECTIVES

Monday

5/23

Retro Summer Poster

(200 pts)

 

Do NOT use images used in the tutorial. Find your own. Do your own work. You may find a cartoon face instead of making one if you so desire. Click here for the tutorial site.  

Tuesday

5/24

Work on Retro Summer Poster.

   

Wednesday

5/25

Senior Finals Preparation

   

Thursday

5/26

Senior Finals blocks 3 & 4

   

Friday

5/27

Senior Finals blocks 1 & 2

Final Exam

 

 

Week 9 5/30/11
DAY/DATE ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS OBJECTIVES

Monday

5/30

No School - Holiday

   

Tuesday

5/31

Melting Face

(200 pts)

Do NOT use the same images used in this tutorial. Use google images to find what you need. Recreate the tutorial. You may use your own image by taking a head shot photo using the computer camera. Before starting the melting process, be sure to line up the skull image and the face image first. You might try reducing the opacity of the top one to make the allignment a little easier. Turn in the melting face as a psd file with all layers in tact.

Click here for the tutorial!

 

Wednesday

6/1

Grass Texture

(200 pts)

After creating the grass and the lines, use a number other than 50 for the number. Turn in the Grass Texture as a psd file with all layers in tact.

Click here for the tutorial!

 

Thursday

6/2

     

Friday

6/3

     

Week 10 6/6/11
DAY/DATE ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS OBJECTIVES

Monday

6/6

     

Tuesday

6/7

     

Wednesday

6/8

Underclass Exam Day

Final Assignment

(500 pts)

   

Thursday

6/9

Underclass Exam Day    

Friday

6/10

Teacher Planning