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  • Class Task #10 Portfolio Professionalism Grade

    Sunday, June 1st, 2008

    As stated during the year I will be providing a grade for the professionalism of your portfolio. This grade will be based on the following criteria.

    Spelling and Grammar
    Neatness of typography
    (font sizes, colours, line spacing is uniform and pleasing)
    All elements of a class task are in a single post.
    All elements of an assignment are in a [...]

  • Class Task #9 - Art of Printmaking

    Monday, April 14th, 2008

    DUE: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 - Late marks in effect.
    Before we move into our next assignment (personal logo/tattoo), we are going to take a look at the art of printmaking.
    Task: Using Illustrator along with the provided newsletter layout design template create a newsletter on printmaking.
    Download these notes: art_of_printmaking.pdf
    Retrieve this template: printmaking_newsletter.ai
    (in the pick up folder [...]

  • Class Task #8c - Pathfinder Palette

    Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

    [The Pathfinder Palette]

    Task: Starting with two overlapping shapes,  experiment and compare the different shape  and pathfinder modes  in the pathfinder palette. Use the following tutorial as your guide. Label each of the images that you create with the shape/pathfinder mode you used.
    The following tutorial was created by Joe Harrison.
    1. Create a Shape.

    2. Select it with the BLACK arrow. HOLD SHIFT and drag [...]

  • Class Task #8b - The Pen Tool (cont.)

    Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

    Let’s continue to explore the ways of creating objects in illustrator by revisiting the [pen tool] as well as looking experimenting with the pathfinder palette.
    Task: Start fresh with a fresh document. Follow the instructions to continue experimenting with illustrator. Post your results.
    [The Pen Tool] 

    While this tool takes time to master it is very valuable for creating shapes that are [...]

  • Class Task #8a - Illustrator Intro

    Sunday, March 16th, 2008

    The general setup of Illustrator is similar to photoshop .
    The difference however is that you are now dealing with nodes and paths rather than pixels.
    Therefore, the selection tools would be used to select either full objects with nodes and paths, or selecting specific nodes to control where the paths start and stop.
    [Selection Tool] - The [...]

  • Class Task #7 - Layer Masks…Like Face Masks

    Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

    Think of layer masks in photoshop like masks you would wear on your face. A mask that you wear, covers certain areas so that we can’t see those parts of your face. Yet, other areas like your eyes will show right through.
    Masks are nice because it allows us to easily make changes and not destruct our original image [...]

  • Class Task #6 - Photo Editing Challenge

    Friday, February 8th, 2008

    For today’s class task I’d like to challenge you to figure out a solution to the following problems on your own.
    *Hints* (though there are many ways)
    You will probably select an area, copy and paste an area, flip horizontal maybe flip vertical, rotate. Then to clean up you may even use an [eraser] with a soft edge, or [...]

  • Class Task #5 - Born Into Brothels

    Monday, February 4th, 2008

    Media arts is used as a form of communication for many reasons. One of which is to  express, share, “be” change. For this task i’d like use our blogs to share our own thoughts on change and gather information to use for future projects.
    Answer the following 7 questions…
    1) How did you enjoy the film? What stood [...]

  • Class Task #4 - Understanding Resolution

    Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

    The dots per inch (dpi) represents the number of individual dots within one inch of space in a print out. The more dots there are the clearer and more detailed a picture can be. This is no different than me asking you to draw a person using no more than 6 lines with your pencil, and [...]

  • Class Task #3 - The Selection Tools

    Monday, January 7th, 2008

    See here www.angieshen.com/race
    Notice that my head used for this animation was isolated and removed from a photograph. There are many ways to do this. One way is by using selection tools. In today’s class task I want to go over the various selection tools. 
    Task: Put the fruit bowl on a white background 3 times.

    Download the fruit bowl and isolate [...]

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