Week 3
February 1 or 2
This Week’s Lecture Video Stream and Download Link
First things first! Our GCOM 330 Online Community is here!
JOIN NOW.
http://gcom330.ning.com/
- All 330 students are required to join and participate.
- This is part of your “Attendance and Participation” grade.
- Your TA Chris Hopkins will moderate, along with me.
When you join, you must upload a face pic (or avatar or favorite pet etc.). You are given the freedom to create your own blog, go for it, feel free to post photoshop-related stuff too! ALSO, check in every few days, see what your fellow GCOM 330 students are up to, check out their profiles, their blogs, and COMMENT, join in, PARTICIPATE! ...and help each other....
Powered by Ning, it all begins now...
http://gcom330.ning.com/
Lecture Topics covered:
Image essentials; vector vs. bitmap formats; file sizes and resolution; pixels, pixels, and more pixels!
Graphic Design: The New Basics
Rhythm and Balance
Also check out this link, large portions of the Graphic Design: The New Basics book as a Google Book.
There are pages omitted, but a lot of the first part of the book is at this link!
also check out these:
Principles of Design: Balance
Principles of Good Design: Balance
repetition - Google Search
rhythm - Google Search
Birds on the Wires on Vimeo The power lines and birds show repetition and rhythm.
Rhythm, Repetition, and Visual Balance in action!
Watch this very cool Pet Shop Boys music video created by dutch digital artist Han Hoogerbrugge, who built this entirely in Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, and After Effects.
Music Video: Pet Shop Boys - “Love Etc.”
Speaking of music videos, here is the link to the Fall 2011 music video that four sections of GCOM 330 students created. Check it out!
Assignments:
Exploring Photoshop: READ chapter 3: Image Essentials; complete lesson: Playing with Pixels (page 46)
Graphic Design New Basics: READ the chapter on Rhythm and Balance (begins on page 28).
What's Due?
Create your own "chap3L1_yourname.psd" (repeat: put your name on this “saved as” document!) per the chapter through Page 52 BUT USE ANOTHER IMAGE FOR THE LAYER MASK, NOT THE OCEAN.TIF and email to me. MAKE SURE YOU PATTERN ALL THE TILES TOO!
1 pt. off if you do not pattern all the tiles, and 2 pts off if you do not use another image for the background.
ALSO, read pages 53-57, and for lab practice (no need to send in) do some more photoshop practice by doing the "exploring on your own" at the bottom of page 53.
ALSO, 1 Hour Practice Drill:
Go to the handouts & downloads page and download the 5 MB file Week 3 Practice Photos. Do not send in, these are for lab practice.
Open up the four “penny” images and the four “Norway” images, and zoom in and examine the quality of each of them. In Photoshop, go to Image in the Menu bar, then Image Size and look at the image size of the various images and see the differences more pixels make.
PRACTICE MAKING SELECTIONS WITH THE MAGIC WAND AND THE QUICK SELECTION TOOLS.
Open up the leaf images, use the tools above to extract them, and moving them over to the sky photos. Find your own pics! Try out these tools, because next week, will be a Selectalooza Extravanganza, so your practice this week will bode you well.
All I want for grading is the "chap3L1_yourname.psd" you create above from the book, through Page 52 BUT USE ANOTHER IMAGE FOR THE LAYER MASK, NOT THE OCEAN.TIF and email to me.
Finally, I scanned that photoshop shortcut keys on the keyboard layout (see below) and tossed to the handouts & downloads page.
What is the Best File Format to Save Your Images In?
PSD • TIFF • JPEG • GIF • PNG ?????
(Courtesy of Jodi Friedman of MCP Actions)
As a photographer you shoot in Raw or Jpeg, or sometimes both. Then you edit. You may start in Lightroom or Adobe Camera Raw, but eventually you may end up in Photoshop doing more detailed editing of your photographs. In time, you come up with the “perfect” edit. Now it is time to save. What do you do? Do you save as a PSD, Tiff, Jpeg, Gif, Png or something else?
Here are a few of the most common formats and why you may or may not want to use them:
PSD
- You will want to save as a Photoshop PSD when you have many layers that you want to preserve.
- Saving this way will retain adjustment layers, your masks, shapes, clipping paths, layer styles, blending modes.
- Useful if you need to maintain transparency.
- The downsides to PSDs the large size and the compatibility.
- Only those with Photoshop will be able to view them, and you will need to save another way for printing.
- You cannot share on the web as a PSD.
TIFF
- This targeted file format is the highest quality and is excellent for print as there is no loss in quality
- Retains information in layers, depending how you save it.
- The downsides are the extremely large file size and you cannot display on the web in this format.
- Lossless format so you will retain information from your images as you re-open and re-save.
JPEG
- The Joint Photographic Experts Group format is the most common type. It is viewable by all and can be used for print and the web.
- When saving as a jpg, you decide what quality you desire from a 1-12.
- The biggest downsize is that the jpeg format is lossy. Each time you open and save, the image compresses and you lose a small amount of information.
- Another downside is that layers are flattened upon saving so you lose the ability to go back to past edits to tweak.
GIF
- The Graphics Interchange Format is great for web graphics with animation.
- The file size is very small so these files load fast on the web.
- The downsides are limited colors and does not handle photographs well. No recommended for print work.
- Lossless format so you will retain information from your images as you re-open and re-save.
PNG
- The Portable Network Graphics format also creates smaller file size but without the quality loss of a GIF.
- Often used for graphics instead of GIF.
- Lossless format so you will retain information from your images as you re-open and re-save.
- You can share on the web.
Watch this video on Photoshop's Blending Modes, very cool.
(it was made for CS3, it is virtually the same in CS5)
http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/video_workshop/?id=vid0012
Since we’re here, check out the loads of goodness here:
Adobe - Photoshop CS5 tutorial : Photoshop and Lightroom key concepts
AdobeTV OMG!
Hey check these links out, TONS of resources for the designer...
http://www.positivespaceblog.com/archives/pdf-documents-designer/
but wait!!! there's more!
http://www.positivespaceblog.com/archives/30-more-pdf-documents/
Watch the Film « The Cat Piano
The Cat Piano is an 8-minute short film by The People’s Republic of Animation, co-directed by Eddie White and Ari Gibson, and produced by Jessica Brentnall. The story is told in the form of a poem written by Eddie White, which is narrated by iconic Australian artist Nick Cave. The film’s co-investors were the Bigpond Adelaide Film Festival and The South Australian Film Corporation.
The film’s graphic 2D look is achieved by animating the entire film by hand in Adobe Photoshop, drawing with Wacom tablets directly into the computer. This highly versatile technique of animation is quickly becoming a signature style of The People’s Republic of Animation.
Repetition:
Rythym:
What’s the difference?