Final

Here are the folders for the final exam. Good luck and thank you for being such a great class! If you have trouble downloading the folders, go to Dropbox and look for the folder named rasvec_final.zip.

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Classwork and Homework for Week 14

Be sure to finish your photo retouching for next week.

Study for the final, which will cover all of the skills we have studied and used in class this semester.

Please put your projects into individual folders in your dropbox folder, titled properly with the project name. If you redo something, pleaseĀ labelĀ that particular folder with the word REGRADE so I know to do so.

Projects we have done this semester:

  • Project 1: Self Portrait in Photoshop
  • Project 2: Icons
  • Project 3: Personal Logo
  • Project 4: Collage
  • Project 5: Election Poster
  • Project 6: Photo Retouching
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Classwork and Homework for Week 13

I am at the hospital becoming a mom, so Prof. Ritter will sub for me today, luckily. Woo hoo!

Project #5: Election Poster

These are due today, so put them in your folders and be ready for critique.

Project #6: Photo Retouching

You will search for and find a large image of a person on the internet. Be sure it’s a photo that can be improved. You will then retouch that photo to make that person look the best they can, using the techniques covered in class. You will present the before and after stateĀ togetherĀ in one document.

Specs:

Final should be a Photoshop file
150 pixels per inch, RGB
File size: 1200 pixels by 800 pixles

Here is a short presentation on retouching.

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Work for Week 12

Classwork:

Quiz files

Download these files for the in-class work session. We will be examining the means of manipulating color in Photoshop and Illustrator.

Homework:

Project 5: Election Poster

Using Illustrator and Photoshop, create a poster for someone you wish was running for president.

  • The title must be vector
  • The background must be raster
  • The image should be 800px by 1000px
  • The final file should be a Photoshop file, 150ppi

This project is dueĀ December 5

 

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Classwork for Week Eleven

Today, we will talk about our posters and critique our collages.

Next week, we will have a quiz covering the techniques we have learned since the midterm.

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Classwork for Week 10

Your collages are due next Wednesday.

Here is theĀ presentationĀ on election posters.

Today we will cover:

  • Photoshop: color and adjustment layers
  • Here is a picture we will all work with for this demo

Here is a video for you to watch. We will watch a few Lynda videos today.

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Homework for Week 10

Project 5: Election Poster

Using Illustrator and Photoshop, create a poster for someone you wish was running for president.

  • The title must be vector
  • The background must be raster
  • The image should be 800px by 1000px
  • The final file should be a Photoshop file, 150ppi

This project is dueĀ December 5

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Homework for Week Eight

Finalize your personal logos. Be sure to refine them as much as you can. You will be presenting your work to the class one by one, so be prepared to speak about the logo.

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Midterm

Here is the midterm. When you are done, save the files in a folder with your name on it and dropbox it into your personal folder.

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Homework for Week SIx

Next week is the Midterm. You need to prepare for it by going over all we have covered in terms of techniques.

We will have lab time for the rest of next week’s class, so continue working on your brand. Please have your 3 ideas ready for critique.

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