Good morning! Here's how the final exam is going to work:
1. Finish and e-mail in your review sheet (1/4 of your grade) to ameliareiffhill@gmail.com
2. Go to carbonmade.com and sign up for a free portfolio account.
3. Fill your portfolio with at least 12 images of work from this class under the Projects tab. Make sure to "save for web" as jpeg or gif files so they upload properly. You can organize them in up to 5 groups. (1/2 of your grade)
4. Customize your porfolio's design under the personalize tab.
5. Click on the About tab and completely fill it out, including skills you've learned in this class.
6. Under the "About You" section, Write a 1-page (3+ paragraph) essay about your work in Graphic Design, what graphic design is, and what you've learned this semester. Include at least 3 concepts from the review sheet (1/4 of your grade)
7. Once you finish, click on "view your portfolio" at the top and copy and paste the URL (address at the top bar) into a comment on this blog entry.
Then you're done! You can independently research the graphic design of the internet/movies/video games with any time remaining. Graphic design is everywhere!
I'll see you at graduation!
Connecting and collaborating Cesar Chavez Graphic Design colleagues.
May 26, 2011
May 24, 2011
Review for finals!
Download Final Review
Download it, fill it out, and e-mail it to me!
(ameliareiffhill@gmail.com)
This will count as part of your final exam grade; the easy part.
It is open-notes, open-skecthbook, and open-internet.
However, it is an individual assignment and everything must be IN YOUR OWN WORDS to get credit. That means copy+paste doesn't work. Reword it in your own way.
Some resources to read up on topics you may have forgotten are:
bitmap versus vector images
illustrator info
website info
css info
graphic design
principles of design
Download it, fill it out, and e-mail it to me!
(ameliareiffhill@gmail.com)
This will count as part of your final exam grade; the easy part.
It is open-notes, open-skecthbook, and open-internet.
However, it is an individual assignment and everything must be IN YOUR OWN WORDS to get credit. That means copy+paste doesn't work. Reword it in your own way.
Some resources to read up on topics you may have forgotten are:
bitmap versus vector images
illustrator info
website info
css info
graphic design
principles of design
May 11, 2011
Create your skateboard
Open a new file in photoshop or illustrator(Photoshop if you want to collage it mostly, Illustrator if you want to draw it mostly)
size: 7.75 inches by 31.75 inches
resolution: 200 dpi
Then make a mockup of your skateboard (plan of how you want it to look) including colors and fonts you want. This will be Due at the end of class Thursday.
May 6, 2011
Finish and submit underage drinking posters!
- Finish your poster and "save as" a JPEG.
- post it to your blog with a paragraph about Unity. If you have trouble uploading the image, try making it a smaller file (in Photoshop, go to Image>Image size) and saving it as a jpeg again.
- comment on this blog entry so Ms. Hill can grade you on it
- email your poster as a JPEG attachment to Ms. Hill (ameliareiffhill@gmail.com) OPTIONAL; only do this if you want it to be entered in the scholarship competition. You must include your full name, address, and phone number.
due at the end of the period today!
If you finish early, research skateboard deck designs to help prepare for our next project.
May 4, 2011
Layout Practice
1. open Adobe Photoshop
2. in the menu, go to file> new
3. under preset, chose "US Paper" to get the correct size. Give it the name
4. copy and paste your images into your new file.
5. make text layers for nay text you want to use
6. FREE TRANSFORM the layers to move things around and manipulate your layout
7. play around with at least 6 different layouts
2. in the menu, go to file> new
3. under preset, chose "US Paper" to get the correct size. Give it the name
4. copy and paste your images into your new file.
5. make text layers for nay text you want to use
6. FREE TRANSFORM the layers to move things around and manipulate your layout
7. play around with at least 6 different layouts
May 3, 2011
Poster Competition
Today we are collecting all necessary source images for our posters!
Review the FULL CONTEST INFORMATION, then begin collecting your images. Remember all source images must be free of copyright (i.e. in the public domain), OR you must own the copyright (i.e. you drew the picture/took the photograph).
free stock photography
username: lobogd
password: lobogd
If you need more, the wikipedia list of photos in the public domain is a great place to start.
Or, simply google "copyright-free images"
Finally, Flickr has a huge resource of user-uploaded photos that the photographers have released under creative commons licensing (which means you can use it as long as you credit the photographer, usually). Check those out here.
Review the FULL CONTEST INFORMATION, then begin collecting your images. Remember all source images must be free of copyright (i.e. in the public domain), OR you must own the copyright (i.e. you drew the picture/took the photograph).
free stock photography
username: lobogd
password: lobogd
If you need more, the wikipedia list of photos in the public domain is a great place to start.
Or, simply google "copyright-free images"
Finally, Flickr has a huge resource of user-uploaded photos that the photographers have released under creative commons licensing (which means you can use it as long as you credit the photographer, usually). Check those out here.
April 25, 2011
Javascripts and Applets (oh, you fancy, huh?)
Today we're going to give our websites just a little extra flair.
Pick which Javascript applet you'd like to use, and follow the instructions on that page to incorporate it within one of your html sites. Have fun!
Pick which Javascript applet you'd like to use, and follow the instructions on that page to incorporate it within one of your html sites. Have fun!
- photo gallery
- games
- slideshow
- fancier menus
- search box
- fancy cursor effects
- clocks and countdowns
- calendars
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