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Friday Nov 20

kekamisa — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:04:19 +0000

Design inside Christmas card message:
Merry Christmas or Mele Kalikimaka or
a Season Greetings, Happy New Year
- design text by changing paths
- make it unique
- design on 7×5 at 240 ppi
- use color, filter, styles…
- save as psd, firstname-xmas-inside
- due today

Christmas Gather
- go to public-techclass-photolibrary
collect pictures of Christmas things that you will use for card designs

Begin to design a Christmas bulb
- use 7×5, 240 ppi
- have either text or picture or both
- use warp to give add contour
- use gradients, masking, filters, styles

Thurs Oct 29

kekamisa — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:41:50 +0000

Final Projects

1 Prepare 2 photos for display
- select photos from either Grade 7 – Keei-09 or Grade 6 – Punaluu-09 on the public server
- evaluated on the following
- crop, your selection of crop
- adjustments to the picture
- dodge/burn technique
- framing
- No one else can do the same picture, so you must take a screen shot of the picture and print it, write your name on it and turn it in to me, I will post it and no one else can do it but you cannot change to another.

Thurs- Oct 16

kekamisa — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:10:37 +0000

Dodge and Burn Example
- find a portrait and use the techniques discussed in class
- final should be a 5×7 @ 240
- saved as a psd with all layers named
- top layer is a combined layer to show before and after

Text Example
- using the word Hawaii, redo it
- text should have use of gradient and other blending options
- find a picture using bridge, open in camera raw, adjust, save as
- add picture as a smart object or convert to smart object
- save as psd with all layers

Tech Projects – BTSD poster

kekamisa — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:00:18 +0000

BTSD Poster 12 x 24 @ 300 ppi
Use pictures on the public/techclass/ 2009
Get a good mix of different grades and people
Create a creative text to go with it.
Put creative captions
Must haves:
- clipping masks
- adjustment layers
- text
- blending options
- be creative

Tech Projects- Cookbook Inserts

kekamisa — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:56:24 +0000

Cookbook Inserts – 8×10 @300ppi
You can only do the ones you signed up for..
2 different inserts

- Advisory Picture, proper lightning, balance
- Use of adjustment Layers
- No internet pictures, only use pics on the public
- Creative text
- Use of layer masking
- At least 1 cutout
- Use of blending options

Tech Projects – Classmate Portrait

kekamisa — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:49:21 +0000

Classmate Portrait 8×10 @300ppi
Portrait selection
- lighting work, exposure, fill
- clearness, clarity
- composure
Use of adjustment layers
Use of layer masks
Text
- creative
- distinctive
- balanced color
At least 1 cut-out
- quality of cutout
- adjustments
- blending options
At least 1 clipping mask
Framing Design
Other things
- opacity changes
- filters, shapes…
turn in to drop box
*Complete Evaluation

Monday, Aug 17th

kekamisa — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:29:45 +0000

Take survey

Photoshop Tools

Background
-what is importance, why can’t move

Text Work
- how to layout or enter type
- use of character palette
- resizing, color
- blending options

Layers
- moving, selecting
- stacking, positioning
- opacity
- blending options
- layer adjustments – clipping

Thurs Aug 13

kekamisa — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:59:55 +0000

Turn in extension wksh

Review file information – metadata
- description, caption
- copyright

Web Gallery
- what this is, why use it
- resolution
- Construction of it
- view it, check it, submit it (8thgrade drop box – Tech Class)
- submit folder with all pics used (psds cropped)

Photoshop Collage
- 11″x17″ at 240 ppi
- build a collage of your pics
- can change the sizes, positions but not the cropping
- move, resize tools
- layers, blending option on layers
- using text (title and your name)
- using character palette

Tuesday, Aug 11

kekamisa — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:52:34 +0000

Extensions worksheet
- complete

Project – First Day of School Aug 6th
- Using 10 photos, capture the moments of the day
- Include captions to enhance, give meaning to the pictures

Use of Bridge

Using Camera Raw
- adjusting lighting

Photoshop
- cropping at 4×6
- things to keep in mind when cropping
- save file as a psd, using numbers 1- to indicate the order of the pictures, when viewed
- when to save as a tif

Friday, Aug 7

kekamisa — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 19:10:21 +0000

Extensions
- define use

Set up Photoshop – color settings
How to browse – using Bridge
Metadata
-what’s this
-how to add caption or descriptor
-add your first name as descriptor writer

How to crop a size 4″x6″
Importance of cropping
Idea of thirds

First Day Project
10 photos
4×6
with descriptors