The Headline Goes Right Here
Posted on January 16th, 2013
This is my first Photoshop Exercise…it’s a masking exercise and the purpose is to take away the “fear factor.”
This is my first Photoshop Exercise…it’s a masking exercise and the purpose is to take away the “fear factor.”
Before you come to class or in the first 90 minutes:
Tonight’s class will consist of instruction on how to set up your document and begin the layout process for your portfolio book. You will be expected to make an appointment to visit the OCPW studio to print and bind your final project prior to Dec. 10th where you will have hands-on experience in the production process.
White Space read Chapter 15, pp. 219-243
Tonight we will conduct a critique of the greeting card project, followed by a discussion of printing, papers and print finishes. We will use the remaining time for Q&A about the Final Project and Lab.
Tonight we will jump between Adobe Illustrator and InDesign, examining how each addresses multiple “pages” in a single document. We review Illustrator typography and artboards, and then move to InDesign where we’ll pay particular attention to the features that will facilitate the production of your greeting cards and your final project, which will be a “portfolio” book that includes all the work you have done in this class.
For the purposes of our final project, we’ll refer to any multiple page publication as a “book.”
The minimum number of pages in your book should be 16 pages including front, back and inside covers. You can, of course, go over the 16-page minimum.
The book is an art and design portfolio. Please include every project and exercise that we did during the semester. The accompanying text should explain the objectives of the project and an overview of what you learned from the project. Your book can also include projects you worked on outside of class during this semester.
Step 1: Create a Dummy book. You’ll create a “mock up” of the finished product, beginning with either the minimum, or anticipated number of pages. Use your Dummy to plan out page numbering and content, remembering that even pages are always on the right and odds on the left.
Step 2: Choose a ‘Style/Format’ for your book. Examples: Magazine, Newspaper, Comic book, Newsletter, Novel, Picture book, etc. Your book should include the appropriate sections that comprise the style of book that you have chosen. For example, a book is not printed on the inside front cover, while a magazine is. A book has a title page and the copyright page is on the reverse or in book language, “verso.”
Step 3: Choose the appropriate type of bindery for the type of book you’ll be creating. Consideration should be given to the way in which the book will be handled and used by the intended readership. The type of binding determines the publication’s final page count and dictates the size paper and style of printer or printing press on which the book is printed. Bindery and usage are of critical importance in the production of the artwork in InDesign, the final step before outputting PDF files to send to “the printer.”
In designing the look of your book, you will be choosing everything! This may be the last time you are given so many choices, which means…let those creative juices flow. Among your choices as a designer are:
Tonight we will concentrate on typography and artboards in Adobe Illustrator. We’ll examine the difference between type as text vs. type as object, and study its relationship to the “compound path.” We’ll review your greeting card thumbnails, and explore how to prepare the greeting card for printing and finishing.
Mid-term-essay due this week.
White Space read Chapter 6, 7, 8, pp. 57–110
In tonight’s class we will review what we have learned in Illustrator, adding:
…as well as discuss the Shepard Fairey/Manny Garcia scenario so as to gain a better understanding of the legal issues faced by graphic artists.
You should be well on your way to filling up your journals with clippings of art and design you aspire to create, as well as designs that don’t work so well. As we discuss graphic styles, you should be deciding on the themed designs for your four-card greeting card set. Remember, the first step is sketching out thumbnails, so you need to begin a folder for your Greeting Card assignment, posted last week. Today, I’ve included a link to the details for the assignment.
Objectives: Use Adobe Illustrator to create four illustrations that demonstrate a visual theme and continuity among the “set.”
Next week:
Objectives: Demonstrate an understanding of intellectual property rights and copyright law as they apply to digital and media arts. You may illustrate with images. Minimum length – 1250 words
Tonight we will be discussing your progress on your self-portrait posters. This will involve checking your folders to make sure that you have an assignment sheet and that you understand the assignment and its purpose. We’ll also look at your thumbnails and brainstorming ideas. Bring the journals you have been keeping. Don’t forget your cameras and the cable to the computer just in case you will need it. Some of you may be ready to work on your self-portrait on the computer, scanner or at the very least, research and organize any digital images you might want to use.
We will also be reviewing the two photo retouching assignments which will be due at the beginning of class next week, Oct. 3rd. Be sure to print a “before” and “after” of both images. Files should be submitted in a completed folder. All requirements for turning in assignments are detailed in the syllabus. The proper way to assemble a folder is illustrated here.
This evening’s lecture is an introduction to Painting in Photoshop.
READING:
The following two readings are optional:
