DMA102 - Color & Graphic Design
Your Midterm Project: Social Awareness Poster Is DUE
Week 8 (March 8)
- Quickmasking Techniques (Colorizing a BW Picture)
- Homework: Carefully choose a picture to recolorize with the techniques taught in today's lesson.
If the picture is color, use a BW adjustment layer to convert it to BW, then recolorize it using the techniques.
Week 7 (March 1)
- Work on Poster
Week 6 (Mon. Feb. 22)
- Photoshop Brushes
- Sample Skater Image
Week 5 (Thurs. Feb 18 - Monday Schedule)
- Photoshop's Type Tools
- Review the Textbook Chapter on Photoshop's Type Tools
Week 4 (Feb. 8)
- Complete the "UrbanNEWS Tabloid Cover". View Lesson...
- Extra: Sneek Peek into Photoshop Brushes
Week 3 (Feb. 1)
- Part 1: "Mystery Toast
. Go to the Lesson...
- Blending Modes
- Converting for Smart Filters
- Using the Lasso Tool
- Layer Masking
- Using the Transform to Distort a Layer
- Textures
- Homework #1: Using the techniques taught, create a concept that involves blending an image into a texture. Your final design must be at least 1,000px in width or height. Try searching the StockXchange site first (sxc.hu)
I will check your homework the next time we meet for class.
- Part 2: "UrbanNEWS Tabloid Cover". View Lesson...
- Using Guides
- Type Tool
- Font
- Color
- Size
- Tracking, Kerning, Leading
- Shape Tools
- Rectangle Shape Tool
- Line Tool
- Ellipse Tool
- Clipping Layers
- Type Tool
- Using Guides
Week 2 (Jan. 27)
- Layer Masking & Adjustment Layers Exercises
Week 1 (Jan. 25)
- Photoshop Interface overview
- Basic Selection Exercises
Extra Credit Tutorials
You can earn up to 10 points for the semester by completing 1 online Photoshop tutorial per week. Choose a tutorial from one of the sites listed below. After you complete the tutorial, save the file to your flash drive AND print out the tutorial instructions. You can do 1 tutorial per week -- up to ten tutorials for the semester.
Choose from any of these Photoshop Tutorial Sites:
Pixel2Life Photoshop Tutorials
Photoshop Guru's: Beginner's Tutorials
50 Tutorials for Beginners
PS Lover Tutorials
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Course Textbook:
"Photoshop CS4 Visual Quickstart" (Required)Paperback: 456 pages; Peachpit Press
ISBN-10: 0321563654 / ISBN-13: 978-0321563651
Course Syllabus: Download a PDF of the Syllabus.
Handout: What You Will Need for This Class

