January 14th

Good morning everyone!

Today we are going to start our culminating activity! Please be aware this will be due at the end of class on Friday (you have 4 full days to work on this). I will hand out an information sheet about this in class today. This project is your summative and therefore worth 30% of your mark. Put the same effort into this as you would an exam. This project will be done entirely during class time and will not interfere with your studying. 

January 13th

At the beginning of class, you can finish up some of your work from yesterday (finish working on your postcards from last class-make sure they are the best that they can be!) When you are done, please work at the following:

Understanding Resolution

Read this post on Resolution by photographer Frank Phillips, and then answer the questions below on your blog.
Please cut and paste and questions into your blog first.

1. What is a pixel? What is a megapixel?
2. How many pixels would a 2048 x 1536 image produce? (Hint: use your calculator!) How many megapixels? (Hint: Round this number)
3. What are some advantages of having higher resolution images to work with? List three.
4.How many pixels per inch (ppi) does a computer monitor display? How many ppi does a printed image have?

5. What is the rule for calculating the print out size of an on-screen image?
Fun with Pixels! Create your own Pixel Art!


Go to pixie to create your own pixel art.
Read helpful tips and tricks here.  Post your creation on your blog with an explanation of your design.

January 10th

Hello all!

Today I'm going to refresh your memory with some old content and we are going to do a final project which involves a little photography, a little photoshop, a little indesign, and if you wish, a little illustrator!

You are going to make a set of 3 postcards with your own original photos (remember what a good photo means....composition, exposure, DOF, etc. ). After this you will import them into photoshop and do the basic workflow we learned way back in November (tonality, colour balance, vibrancy). It will be important that we save our photos as CMYK and as TIFF files instead of jpegs. Then you will create postcard templates in indesign and the rest will be history.

You will have today and Monday's class to work on this project before we dive into our culminating activity.

January 8th

Hello everyone!

On the brochure, you must include:

-Why attend Rockway
-the four pillars
-academics
-athletics
-arts
-something about the Communications Technology Course (could be inside acadmeics)
-images
-paragraphs
-bullets
-a text wrap
-a consistent flow

January 6th

Hello and Welcome Back!

Before the break we were working with inDesign CS6. We watched the following youtube tutorial and working through it together as a class. On the last day of classes, I was away and you were asked to work on this at your own pace. Today we will catch up on what we missed, you will have time to finish this if you didn't, and for those of you are all caught up, we will play with text wrapping today.

Text wrapping is an essential part of inDesign and it takes your brochures, posters, flyers, etc. from mediocre to a professional level. It is important to know how tow wrap around bounding boxes and around object shapes. Today we will create a new document, fill it with placeholder text, and experiment with wrapping text around 4 difference objects:

-a photograph (preferably one that you took earlier in the year)
-an object with a transparent background (you will need to use photoshop for this!
-an original vector logo (you will need to create one in illustrator with a transparent background)
-a unique typography path (you will need to create one ill illustrator and it will have to have a transparent background)