| Week 1 4/4/11 |
| DAY/DATE |
ASSIGNMENT |
INSTRUCTIONS |
OBJECTIVES |
Monday
4/4 |
No School |
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Objectives:
- Design concepts
- Identify purpose
- Typography
- Product promotion
- Image composition
- Organization
- Knowledge of copyright
- Image resolution for web
- Importing & exporting
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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 |
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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. |
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| Week 2 4/11/11 |
| DAY/DATE |
ASSIGNMENT |
INSTRUCTIONS |
OBJECTIVES |
Monday
4/11 |
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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
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Tuesday
4/12 |
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Wednesday
4/13 |
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Thursday
4/14 |
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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.
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| 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
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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
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| 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
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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.
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| Week 5 5/2/11 |
| DAY/DATE |
ASSIGNMENT |
INSTRUCTIONS |
OBJECTIVES |
Monday
5/2 |
Jaguar Advertisement
(200 pts) |
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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. |
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Wednesday
5/4 |
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Thursday
5/5 |
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Friday
5/6 |
Complete all work from this week.
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| Week 6 5/9/11 |
| DAY/DATE |
ASSIGNMENT |
INSTRUCTIONS |
OBJECTIVES |
Monday
5/9 |
Make-up day |
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Tuesday
5/10 |
3D Wine Bottle Illustration
(200 pts)
Interim Reports Issued. |
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Wednesday
5/11 |
Classic Guitar in Photoshop
(300 pts)
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Thursday
5/12 |
Work on Guitar image. |
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Friday
5/13 |
Penguin Drawing
(200 pts)
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| 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)
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Tuesday
5/17 |
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Wednesday
5/18 |
Retro Helmet Illustration
(200 pts)
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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! |
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Thursday
5/19 |
Black Light Effect
(200 pts)
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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! |
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Friday
5/20 |
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| Week 8 5/23/11 |
| DAY/DATE |
ASSIGNMENT |
INSTRUCTIONS |
OBJECTIVES |
Monday
5/23 |
Retro Summer Poster
(200 pts)
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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. |
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Tuesday
5/24 |
Work on Retro Summer Poster.
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Wednesday
5/25 |
Senior Finals Preparation
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Thursday
5/26 |
Senior Finals blocks 3 & 4
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Friday
5/27 |
Senior Finals blocks 1 & 2
Final Exam |
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| Week 9 5/30/11 |
| DAY/DATE |
ASSIGNMENT |
INSTRUCTIONS |
OBJECTIVES |
Monday
5/30 |
No School - Holiday |
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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! |
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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! |
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Thursday
6/2 |
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Friday
6/3 |
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| Week 10 6/6/11 |
| DAY/DATE |
ASSIGNMENT |
INSTRUCTIONS |
OBJECTIVES |
Monday
6/6 |
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Tuesday
6/7 |
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Wednesday
6/8 |
Underclass Exam Day
Final Assignment
(500 pts) |
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Thursday
6/9 |
Underclass Exam Day |
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Friday
6/10 |
Teacher Planning |
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