Week 18

December 21-23, 2009

Create Tiltes for Illustrator & Photoshop
640 pixels by 480 pixels 72 resolution



Finnish up any photoshop assignments.

Week 10 Cutout.jpg
Week 11 10texts.jpg
Week 12 Business_Card.jpg
Week 12 Brushes1.jpg
Week 12 Brushes2.jpg
Week 12 Brushes3.jpg
Week 13a Postcard_front.jpg
Week 13a Postcard_back.jpg
Week 13b Postcard_3D.jpg
Week 14 Five Digital Images
Week 15a webheader1.jpg
Week 15a webheader2.jpg
Week 15a webheader3.jpg
Week 15b Collage.jpg
Week 16 Digitalart1.jpg
Week 16 Digitalart2.jpg
Week 16 Digitalart3.jpg
Week 17 Scratch.jpg
Week 18 Photoshop Title

Week 17

December 14-18, 2009

Scratch





From scratch create a image. Use Filters, Gradients, some brushes. Add detail and make it look good.


-Scratch 50

Week 16

December 7 - 11, 2009

Digital Art


Digital Pictures

Instructions: Bring in 5 or more pictures from home. Do not use images from the Internet or out of magazines or published works. These pictures must be images that have have been created from scratch or you have taken the pictures from a camera.

Create 3 different art pieces with your images. You are welcome to use filters, brushes, or any other techniques you have learned online.Make it your own.

Size: 10 in. x 7.5 in. 200 resolution

Save As...
-digitalart1.psd
-digitalart2.psd
-digitalart3.psd (On the third one use at least 4 of you images)

week 15b

November 30 - December 4, 2009

Collage

Download a minum of 6 images that are related and create a collage. Use Text for a tilte, brushes filter effects layer styles or anything else to make your collage look good.

Size: 10 inches x 7.5 inches 200 Resolution
Save As:
-Collage.psd
-Collage.jpg

Week 15a

November 30 - December 4, 2009

Create a 3 Web Header for Hillcrest High School



Size 800 pixels x 150 pixels 72 resolution
Save As:
-Header.psd
-Header1.jpg
-Header2.jpg
-Header3.jpg

Hillcrest Gallery


Hillcrest Logo's

Week 14

November 23-25, 2009

Instructions: Bring in 5 or more pictures from home. Do not use images from the Internet or out of magazines or published works. These pictures must be images that have have been created from scratch or you have taken the pictures from a camera.

Bring in pictures to scan or download pictures from a digital camera or disk.

Digital Pictures

Week 13

November 16-20, 2009

Postcard: Front & Back
Size: 6" x 4" 200 resolution
Description: Use rules and guides to layout boarders for a post card. Use any image you want and place in text that relates to the image. Create both a back and front for the post card.
Save Files: 8lastnameFI_postcard.psd
8lastnameFI_postcardback.jpg
8lastnameFI_postcardfront.jpg



Rulers & Guides


Grouping to Create back & front for Postcard


Create 3D Post Card

From Photoshop

Week 12

Novermber 9-13, 2009

Download 10 Photoshop brush libraries from the Internet. You will create 3 different images only using brushes, paint buckets, gradients and filter effects.



Assignments
-Brushes 100 pts. (6" x 4" 200 res)

Brushes: Downloading & Loading


Brushes Effects


Brush Glows


Creating Brushes & Using Preset Manger

Week 11

November 2-6, 2009

10 Texts: Come up with a theme and type ten words related to your theme. Use different different fonts, layer styles to apply glows and shadow, and other effects.



Text Tool


Layer Styles


Text & Shapes Tool


Business Card
-Logo
-Name
-Job Title
-Address
-Phone
-Email
-website



Assignments
-10text.psd 50 pts. (6"x4" 200 res)
-businesscard.psd 50 pts. (3"x2" 200 res)

Week 10

October 26-29, 2009


Cutout: Use three images and combine them using a Mask Layer.


Assignment
-Cutout 100pts.

Photoshop Mask Layer

Week 9b

Fix it

Click on the slide show to download image then use Photoshop to fix and touch up the images.

From Photoshop

Assignment
-fixit 50pts

Clone Stamp Tool


Touch ups & adding color using layer blends


Distort


Liquify Filter

week 9a

Melon Head

Using the melon man image create a melon man using layers.





Assignment
-Melon man 100 pts.

Video Tutorials

Move & Rectangular Marquee Tools



Layers



Free Transform



Magic Wand Tool

Week 8

October 12-16, 2009

Photoshop



Create 5 textures using filters in photoshop.
Start out by creating a 5" x 5" image 200 resolution.
Start by going to filters/render/clouds. Then experiment with all the different filter effects. Each texture you create use a minimum of 5 filter effect. On the 6th texture, open an image of yourself and use the liquify filter effect to distort yourself.



Photoshop Hot Keys
-Add Color : Command + B (Color Balance)

-Change color : Command + U (Hue/Saturation)






Assignment
-Texture1.psd 20 pt.
-Texture2.psd 20 pt.
-Texture3.psd 20 pt.
-Texture4.psd 20 pt.
-Texture5.psd 20 pt.

-Texture6.psd 20 pt. (Distorted image of yourself)

Photoshop Filter


Photoshop Liquify Filter

Week 8

Oct. 12-16, 2009

Use iPhoto to create a portfolio. Take screen shots of all your illustrator assignments.

Screen shot: shift + command + 4. click hold and drag with your mouse over the area you want to take a screen shot.

Portfolio
-Name Tag
-Summer Image
-5 new H designs
-5 buisness Logos
-Game Logo
-Game Character
-level 1
-level 2
-box design

Week 7

October 6-9, 2009

Finishing up in Illustrator this week. Complete your game and create a box cover design for your game to be packaged and sold. Include a front and back, add price tag, bar code, platforms the game is played on. Also include an overview of the game on the back of the box.

-Box Cover Design 100pts.

Week 6

September 28-30, 2009 (Fall Break)

This week work on your first & second levels of your game. Don't forget to add detail. It's the little things that will make your game look good. Everything must be created in Illustrator, although get ideas from others in the class or on the Internet.

-Level 1 50pts.
-Level 2 50pts.

Week 5

You have just been hired to design a video game. Come up with a name, logo, then create your character.

-Game Name 25pts.
-Game Logo 25pts.
-Game 1st character 50pts.



Name of and tile or logo.


First Level


Live Paint Bucket & Selection Tools





Layers & Grouping

Week 4

Create your own business and design five different variations of your logo.

Your logo must be a vector art graphics, no images on your logo. You can trace with the pen tool or download fonts to get clip art if you want.



-5 logos 100pts

Week 3

This year Hillcrest High School is hosting a Student wide competition to design a new "H" that will go on the cover of the yearbook.New tools we learned this week are the Gradient and Type Tools.

From hhsmultimedia

Using Illustrator use the the Type Tool to design 5 different "H" designs. Use the Internet to download fonts (dafont.com) creat outlines, to manipulate and design your best "H".

-Logo Assignment: take one experience from your summer and draw a picture of it. Vacations, jobs what ever you did this summer.

Assignments
-Logos.ai 50pt
Make a screen shot (shift+Command+4) of your best design and turn it into Mr. Freeman. Save file as 8_LastnameFI_H

Illustrator Gradient Tool




Illustrator Type Tool

Week 2

This week we explored the Pen Tool and how to manipulate points and create full shapes.
-Pen Tool assignment you need to draw your name with the pen tool and make complete shapes to add color and also add some detailed objects to make it look good.


-Summer Assignment: take one experience from your summer and draw a picture of it. Vacations, jobs what ever you did this summer.

Assignments
-PenTool.ai 50pt
-Summer.ai 50pt


Video Tutoral: Pen Tool


Video Tutoral: Pen Assignment.

Week 1

August 26 - 31, 2009

Started learning Illustrator. Illustrator is a Vector based tool used to create logos, clip art, t-shirt designs, and many other graphics. Learned how to use the Selection Tool, Moving objects, creating rectangles, ellipses, changing color of the fill and stroke, Duplicating, rotating. Went over the Zoom tool, Align, and Pathfinder.





Assignments:
-Disclosure 50 pts.
-Basics 25 pts.

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