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Class:

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Use WordPress to create your own portfolio blog

50 Points
Due Dec 16

For the final project, go to www.wordpress.com and set up your own website/blog and show us 3 of your best pieces of work.  Include text to tell us why you liked it.

Steps:
1.  Go to www.wordpress.com
2.  Set up a website as a blog.
3.  Make a post or multiple posts and upload images of your best 3 pieces and write why you liked those pieces.
4.  Be ready to show to class at end of period.

You will have to convert ANY Adobe file, like Illustrator, into a file format ready for the web.

You need to have all your work in file formats that can be displayed in a browser - JPG, PNG or GIF. (Remember the animation?  Remember we had to save as a GIF format?)

As a review, JPEG, PNG and GIF are file formats that compress the original image and put it into a format that can be displayed by browsers from multiple companies.  In other words, you do not need special software to view the file.  JPEG will compress your file but it will also reduce the file size, nice for sending files over communication lines but not nice if you want to preserve the quality of your photos.  PNG has become popular in the last few years because it is "lossless".  Supposedly you will not lose quality.

STEPS to make Adobe Files into Web Ready Files:
1.  Open Finder,

and start to organize your files on your computer.

Place all of your content in various folders into your DOCUMENTS folder.

Place all your content into smaller folders for each exercise, like 5_last_first_15x

2.  Open Adobe Illustrator,
3.  Open all of your Illustrator work from the first semester and go to File > Save for Web..

4.  If you have multiple pieces of art in a file, or you want to break up an Illustration, you need to make or edit your art boards.  Click the Artboard icon.

The 3rd art board in my file will be saved because it is "selected".  If you click on the other art boards, you can then go to File > Save for Web... and those art boards will be saved as JPEG or what ever format you select.

5.  You need to try to get your images to a size roughly 1000px x whatever.  In other words, make your images that are super big (over 1000px wide) smaller and the smaller ones you can decide to make them bigger or not.  A smaller image may be better to leave small.

Good Luck!

Exercise 27 Update - What a completed piece should look like

Notice how clean and well placed the images.

Notice how there is some kind of precision...not exactly but close...

Exercise 27 - A Scavenger Hunt!

Wait for worksheet and presentation to see what to do today.

Be ready to move...

How to turn in:

1. Take photos
2. Import Photos
3. Start a new Photoshop file 8.5x11 and make it either portrait or landscape (tall or wide)
4. Use Photoshop to open photos 1 at a time and crop to get the part you want.
5. Save the file as period#_lastname_firstname_27x

Download the List Here

File clean up and preparation for a web portfolio

Today you will want to spend time preparing your files for your own Portfolio to be on the web.

You need to have all your work in file formats that can be displayed in a browser - JPG, PNG or GIF. (Remember the animation?  Remember we had to save as a GIF format?)

As a review, JPEG, PNG and GIF are file formats that compress the original image and put it into a format that can be displayed by browsers from multiple companies.  In other words, you do not need special software to view the file.  JPEG will compress your file but it will also reduce the file size, nice for sending files over communication lines but not nice if you want to preserve the quality of your photos.  PNG has become popular in the last few years because it is "lossless".  Supposedly you will not lose quality.

STEPS:
1.  Open Finder,

and start to organize your files on your computer.

Place all of your content in various folders into your DOCUMENTS folder.

Place all your content into smaller folders for each exercise, like 5_last_first_15x

2.  Open Adobe Illustrator,
3.  Open all of your Illustrator work from the first semester and go to File > Save for Web..

4.  If you have multiple pieces of art in a file, or you want to break up an Illustration, you need to make or edit your art boards.  Click the Artboard icon.

The 3rd art board in my file will be saved because it is "selected".  If you click on the other art boards, you can then go to File > Save for Web... and those art boards will be saved as JPEG or what ever format you select.

5.  You need to try to get your images to a size roughly 1000px x whatever.  In other words, make your images that are super big (over 1000px wide) smaller and the smaller ones you can decide to make them bigger or not.  A smaller image may be better to leave small.

Good Luck!

Exercise 26 - Your Own Magazine Cover

Due December 5
100 Points

Have you ever wanted to be famous?  No?!?  Well, that's o.k. but if you have ---- now is your chance!

Requirements:
Use Adobe Photoshop to make a magazine cover.

Use a camera to put your own self on the cover.  If you do not want to put yourself then find someone to put or find a nice image to use, for example an architecture magazine.  NO BLURRY PHOTOS OR GRAINY IMAGES ALLOWED.  Get the big big big images - please!

Use free fonts on the web (Font Book, remember?) to add articles.

1.  The page must be 8.5" x 11"
2.  The cover must have a title (you can put yourself on a magazine that exists now or create your own magazine.  You can also do special edition issues, like a one time only concert.)
3.  The cover must have at least 4 pretend "articles" that someone might find inside using different fonts.
4.  You must save the project to your computer and go to File>Save for Web... and save as a JPEG to turn in.
4.  Name the file name: period#_lastname_firstname_26x.  

5.  Put the file into the Mr. Komar DropBox

Remember - to get credit, you must have some custom fonts, and it must be a JPEG!!!

Gallery Updated

Click Here to See More...

Exercise 25 - Stop Motion Animation Part 2

Due December 4
100 Points

Class,

Requirements
You are to make an animation using a SQUARE, a TRIANGLE and a CIRCLE.  YOU MAY USE DRAWINGS, LEGOS, CUT OUTS, a drawing from Illustrator brought into Photoshop that you illustrate with a background in Photoshop or some other combination.

You may have additional "characters".

There must be some kind of interaction between these three geometric objects.

Please try to animate for about 15 seconds or at least 50 images.  

Rules:
1.  Animations must not be bigger than 800 px by 600 px.  When you go to File > Save for Web... make sure it is a GIF and make sure the width is 800px and the height is 600px.

2.  The file turned into the Dropbox must be a GIF -- not the photoshop file.  You must test the GIF file in Safari to be sure you can see an animation running over and over before turning in.  Make sure you have "forever" turned on in the Timeline settings.

If you want an alternate assignment, you may try drawing a picture in Adobe Illustrator.  The picture must be a tracing of some kind of object, person or place.  Something with nice details.

Exercise 24 - Stop Motion Animation

100 Points
Due End of 12/2


Summary
You and a partner(s) are to come up with a creative series of still photos, that when you put them into Photoshop as layers, and convert that to a frame animation, will reveal something new.

Remember, because this is NOT video, you are not constrained by having to shoot a long shot.  You can have the camera move or the subject or both.

Steps
1.  Take Photos
2.  Bring the images back into Photoshop through Bridge and turn the photos into Layers.

3.  Make sure you go to Window > Timeline

4.  Click on the little button in the upper right corner of the Timeline animation window and "Make Frames From Layers."  If your frames are in the correct order, your animation will work.

5.  Save as an animated GIF by going to File Save For Web...

6.  Save As Period#_lastname_firstname_24x.gif

Exercise 23 - Design your own iPhone App Icon

Due: November 21

100 Points

Today you will design an icon for an app that you create!

Requirements:

1.  Use the Photoshop template found in the Mr. Komar Shared Folder/CMT/App Design for Exercise 23.

2.  Make an App Icon.

3.  Type a 1 paragraph description of the app and what it will do in Microsoft Word.

4.  Save the photoshop file and the Word document to a FOLDER called period#_lastname_firstname_23x.

Steps:

1.  Look for 2 files in the Mr. Komar Shared Folder under Ex 17:

      a.  App Icon Template [3.3].atn

      b.  App Icon Template [3.3].psd

2.  Copy both to your computer.

3.  Double click on the 1st file, App Icon Template [3.3].atn.  The .atn file is what makes the necessary "action" which you will use later to export the different sized graphics.

4.  Open Photoshop.  Then open the .psd file, App Icon Template [3.3].psd

5.  Draw a design in Illustrator and bring in image.  Draw, save and go to Photoshop and "File > Place", or import image you already made this semester, or import a photo...you decide.  

6.  Look in the Layers panel.  See the layer that says, "Edit me and ..."?  Double click on the graphic on that layer box...yes the little graphic.  

7.  You then get a BIG version of the box to put in your design...I put in a Whale Shark.

8.  When you are happy with the design, go to File > Save..., then close the file and your original template will update with your design.  

9.  If you want to export the different icon sizes to show your friends and family, go to Window > Actions...

See the one that says "Icon Export"?  Click on one of those and press the button that looks like a triangle.

10.  A Window comes up confirming the settings...just go with the ones preselected.

11.  Save them to FOLDER called period#_lastname_firstname_23x along with the original photoshop file.

12.  Open up Microsoft Word in your Applications > Microsoft Office folder.

13.  Type 1 paragraph describing what you app will do.

14.  Save the file to the same folder above and turn it all in!

Exercise 22 - Angles

Low Angle	High Angle
Eye Level	Muli Angle - Same Object

Your assignment is to photograph from various angles.  You must have one of the photographs that you present to be from multiple angles of the same object.

Turn in a contact sheet with the following:

1.  Low Angle

2.  High Angle

3.  Eye Level

3.  Same object from 3 angles

Exercise 21 - Shadows

	Paul Strand, Wall Street, 1915
	László Moholy-Nagy, Woman with Child
	Tumacacori, AZ
	De Chirico, Giorgio, 1888-1978.  Mystery and Melancholy of a Street. 1914.

100 Points

Assignment:
Go photograph shadows.  Shadows without the object that cast the shadow and object with its shadow.  Shadows that are a mystery and shadows that help define space.

You must have at least 3 photos that demonstrate shadows.

1.  A photo with the object casting the shadow.
2.  A photo of the shadow without the object casting the shadow.
3.  A photo with a shadow that leads the eye out of the image.

You have 30 minutes.

Make a contact sheet titled period#_lastname_firstname_21x.jpg and put into dropbox.

Exercise 20: Photograph Texture

100 Points
Due November 13


For today, I want you to go photograph "texture".

Use the "Macro" setting on your camera to get as close as you can to a surface -- without blurry!

Find 3 patterns:
1. regular or repeating
2.  irregular or not repeating 
3.  simply hard to identify

Choose your best 3, make a contact sheet in Photoshop and save it as period#_lastname_firstname_20x.jpg 
(Save the file as a JPEG format file and turn into Mr. Komar Dropbox)

Update to Graphic Gallery

Basic Rules of Photo Composition...

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Exercise 19 - 5 More Rules of Composition

Due November 5
100 Points

Watch the presentation (Click Here to download) and then go out and take photos to fulfill the check list.

Return to your computer and select 5 photos that represent each item of the list, make a contact photo sheet and turn in as

period#_lastname_firstname_19x

Exercise 18 - Basic Rules of Photography Composition Part 1

100 Points

	Simplicity
	Rules of Third
	Balance
	Framing
	Lines

Five Basic Rules of Shot Composition Assignment

DIRECTIONS: Shoot photographs of each of the Five Basic Rules of Shot Composition. You should shoot several photographs for each of these rules so that you can choose your best, but you will only turn in one of each. All of these photographs must be shot outside (exterior). When you have completed shooting the images, you will edit and resize them later on the computer. EACH PERSON MUST HAVE ONE PHOTO FROM ALL THE CATEGORIES. 

• Download the presentation here if you want to review the terms with images.
• Download the assignment check list here.

Steps: 1.  Listen to presentation 2.  Check out camera and go get your photos.  Take extra so you have a choice. 3.  Put photos on computer. 4.  Make a Contact sheet from Adobe Bridge or Adobe Photoshop by choosing your favorite photos for each category.  Go in order of what is listed on the assignment sheet.  First, simplicity, then rules of third, and so on. 5. Turn in Contact Sheet as period#_lastname_firstname_18x