In class Fri Nov 13th

 

Music of the day 

 

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Hand in Assignment 2

Vector Image in Wood

description:
your black and white images  or drawings from Adobe Capture.

What’s Due:

Six final BxW SVG files emailed to the professor!

 

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Review Images for Assignment 2

 

Photoshop Day 2

Selection Tools

- making a selection

- cut, copy, paste

Move Tool

Clone Stamp

Colors

Gradient

Smudge Tool

Type Tool

Vector Tools

Image Resolution

Photoshop is a "bitmap" based image editor. This means images are broken down into tiny squares called pixels. These pixels are measured on the X and Y axis.

When we want to print an image we need to think about the images resolution. Resolution is described by how many pixel there are in one inch.

180 dpi - lowest printing resolution

300 - 600 dpi - professional printing resolution

Resizing images in Photoshop

* Situation: you are applying for a grant or show and the application states that images are required to be1920 pixels on the largest size.

? How can you find out the current size of you image?

? How can you change the size of your image?

Go to Image --- Image Size

From this window you can see the images current size in inches, pixels, mm, or cm. You change the size and/or resolution in this window. You can also lock the proportions to keep your images from looking distorted. 

Saving Files in Photoshop

File Types

PSD - Working File: specific uncompressed file type which contains all the images information

JPEG - Finished File: universal compressed file type

All files in Photoshop need to be "flattened" before they can be saved as a JPEG.

 

 

 

 

Creating Artist Trading Card (ATC) in Photoshop.

 
1) create a new 2.5" x 3.5" document at 180 dpi (resolution) ---- File New

2) use "save as" to save the document 8 times as "temp-1.psd", "temp-2.psd", "temp-3.psd".....

3) find images on the internet and save them to your desktop. *Make sure to use the advanced search function to search for "Large" Images only

4) open your images in Photoshop and "Copy" and "Paste" them into your Template file. You should have 3 persons,places, and/or things, 1 texture and 1 layer of color.

5) move and alter your layers ----- Try "erasing", changing the "blend mode" of a layer, "selecting" and "deleting", using "adjustments" and "filters"

6) when finished save the file as a .PSD (These files will need to be "Flattened" to be saved as the final JPEG file.)

Assignment 3

ART116 Spr 2020

Artist Trading Cards

description:

For this project you will be creating 'Artist Trading Cards' also known as ATCs. The creation of ATCs by artist comes from a long history of artists trading small samples of their work with other artist or were sold to make a little extra cash. They were very popular with Impressionistic era artists. The cards are generally 2.5" x 3.5" big and are either unique or are created in small editions.

some useful links:

ATC Wike

ATC collection

whats due:

- 8 different Artist Trading Cards, 2.5" x 3.5" in size at 180dpi.

- each card shows examples of your ability to manipulate images using Photoshop

- each card should have a total of at least 5 layers. 3 persons,places, and/or things layers, 1 texture layer and 1 layer of color.

- All your cards files need to be uploaded as flattened 'jpegs' to the Google class assignment album.

What should you do?

This is an open project. Be creative, express yourself. Find your style, create something retro-cool, urban chic, surreal abstraction, whatever, just create 8 images you are proud of.

What’s Due:

First due date: Fri Nov 20th 2020

Your 8 images uploaded to the class Google Albums. Label your card files with your first and last name and a number.

Example - joevonstengel-1.jpg, joevonstengel-2.jpg. Save as JPEG file format.

Second due date: day of the final

Print your two best cards 16 times each. Cut them out and sign them. Have them ready for the final

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