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TODAY -
REVIEW: Your practice should include: MOVE tool and MARQUEE tool, LAYERS (unlock, turn on/off visibility, select), CUT/COPY/PASTE, EDIT>Transform>Scale and Rotate, CROP, HISTORY. Review WORKFLOW (saving a master psd file, save for web). Review COLOR MODES and BIT DEPTH/RESOLUTION - -make sure you understand that!
AND START: collecting images, playing with ideas (in your sketchbook) for your collages.
Previously - -
We need to finish up our sticky notes (fine tune, adjusting, etc.) and post everything to our pages on the Wiki.
First, do you have all your images on SEPARATE LAYERS in ONE PHOTOSHOP .PSD file?
NO: review the select/move tutorial and check out the cut/copy/paste tutorial
YES: go on to EXPORT the layers to individual .JPG files
Next, open an account at slide.com, and put each of your images into a slide show. Paste the slideshow onto your wiki page.
COURSE OVERVIEW
What the course is about?
Here's my current little chart on Multimedia, and here's another one. (Previous incarnations: An older interactive chart about 'Multimedia', and here's another: an Overview of Multimedia (PDF format, 3.7MB - - a little dated, but what this course is based on)
Production Component - Digital Tools
Design Component - Theory and History
Interactive Multimedia Sequence - 3110, 3711, 4713, 4930, 4943
The Wiki Tutorial
Welcome to The Wiki!
The Lab - Not Used to a Mac - what do I do?
Intro - Visual Literacy, Design, and Vocabulary
Frameworks for Design
Your Visual Vocabulary
Part 1 - Bitmap Fundamentals (PhotoShop)
Bitmaps and Vectors
Color Modes and File Formats
PhotoShop
Photoshop Work Flow
Inputs: photos, digital media, native sources
Output: Master files, saving for particular applications
Photoshop Interface - Getting to know your way around it.
Selections, Moving Pixels, and Working with Layers
Cut, Copy, Paste
Layers: Duplicating, Arranging, Opacity, Merging, Layer Modes, Masks
Image Adjustments:
Image Manipulations: Filters & Effects
Actions and Automation
Making a Layer Mask
More Advanced Techniques and Recipes
• Custom Header for Wordpress Blog
• Background graphic for web page
• Inline graphic for web page
• Navigation Bar for web page
Part 2 - Vector Fundamentals (Illustrator)
Illustrator Big Picture: The Bezier Curve
Letterforms and Type
Clipping Path
Pathfinder
How Illustrator and Photoshop work together
Compound Paths
Illustrator, Text Layout, and Typography
Trace Bitmap
Part 3 - Visual Design History
Graphic Design History Overview
Modern Art (Cubism, Surrealism, Expressionism)
DADA and the Avant-Garde
Typography and Futurism
Dada photomontage
Illustration and Poster Design (1905-1930s)
Constructivism
DeStijl
Logo Art and Symbols
Bauhaus
The New Typography
Design in the 50s and 60s - 70s
International Design: the Formation of the New York School
More Swiss Design
The Blue Note Album Covers
Impact of Advertising and Art Direction
Visual Directions in Modern Art - Late 1940's to the 1970's
Rise of PostModernism
Digital Design
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