October 11, 2017
What’s due for this class?
- Final inked version of your Pattern Mashup on a piece of 9″x12″ bristol board, based on your finalized preparatory compositions. Come prepared to present your work!
- Post to the blog, Sound Visualizations: Phase 2
- Your Glossument Book with at least (2) glossary words visualized in the graphic style of your choosing.
- Materials needed: Flash/jump drive and/or access to Dropbox/Google Drive
Glossument Check-in (15 minutes)
- Present your Glossument Book with at least (2) glossary words visualized in the graphic style of your choosing.
- Next Thursday is our mid-semester milestone!
Peer Critique
In groups of 3, present your finished inked mashups.
- Present and analyze your finished work in terms of concept, craft, what you learned, and the design process.
- State your name, your understanding of the project goals (ie: what is the point?), which parts are successful and which parts need more work.
- When critiquing other student’s work, clearly describe what works and what doesn’t work using the project vocabulary: Line, Rhythm, Repetition, Variety, Pattern, Unity, Grid, Rule of Thirds, Economy
- Write down your feedback in your notebook and then refine it in a comment.
- Work together to get your Sound Visualizations: Phase 2 work posted and peer critique comments posted
Lab: Scanning and preparing digital files
SCAN:
- Create a folder on your drive called FirstInitalLastNameMashup.
- Scan your finished inked Pattern Mashup (300dpi, grayscale, jpg).
- Save/rename this hi-res file FirstInitalLastNameMashupHIRES.jpg to the folder you just created.
- If you completed and submitted your completed Inked Mashup in class, find your scan HERE.
DEMO PREP in Photoshop:
- We will do this together in class. TAKE NOTES, so that you can complete the work independently for the next class.
- Download the MashupPrepDEMO folder to experiment with this technique. (To download the MashupPrepDEMO
Folder, check/select the folder and choose download from the right menu)
Your Mashup Prep in Photoshop:
- Following the method we walked through in class, complete the following….
- From the folder you created earlier, FirstInitalLastNameMashup, open your scan in Photoshop.
- Rename it FirstInitalLastNameMashupPrep.jpg and save it to the same folder.
- Make the following adjustments:
- Image > Image Size: 72 dpi, 1280 wide x “XXXX” high (the height will depend the size of your mashup scan)
- Image > Mode > RGB Color
- Image > Image Rotation 90deg (horizontal/landscape), if needed.
- SAVE AGAIN (Make sure you don’t save over your original hi-res file!!!)
- Create a new file in Photoshop:
- File > New
- Image Preset (HDV/HDTV720) / Image size: 72dpi, 1280 wide x 720 high
- Color Mode: RGB
- Save the file FirstInitalLastNameMashup.psd to your project folder.
- Select All > Copy your FirstInitalLastNameMashupPrep.jpg and Paste into your new file, FirstInitalLastNameMashup.psd
- With the pasted layer selected, press Command+T (Edit > Free Transform).
- A bounding box will appear around your image.
- Grab the lower right square and hold down the Shift key (to restrain proportions) while dragging toward the center of the box.
- Drag until the bottom of the image lines up with the bottom of the Canvas.
- Save your file.
- Next complete the same procedure we practiced in class. Divide up your mashup image into individual square layers.
- Using the rectangle marquee tool “copy” (Command+C) and “paste in place” (Command+Shift+V) each pattern square on a new layer for use in your animation.
Homework
- Complete Animated Mashup Prep
- Find your scanned hi-res file for animation in this Dropbox folder.
NOTE: If you didn’t turn in your mashup, plan to have it scanned at 300dpi at FedEx/Kinkos, Staples or any copy center with a good scanner. You can also scan at City Tech Computer Labs. - Complete PREP in Photoshop following notes from class demo and above.
- Save to your Dropbox and/or portable drive.
- Find your scanned hi-res file for animation in this Dropbox folder.
- We will animate and add audio to your digital mashup file next class. Come prepared to work!