1-15-19

today:

1. if you haven’t finished your cow and flying saucer image and put it on your digital portfolio that you made in Google Docs.
2. still working on your This Doesn’t Belong image?  Keep going.
3. upload your new image to your portfolio when you are done.

If you have finished your This Doesn’t Belong let’s jump to the next skill: layer masking.  We will work with these images together.  Then you get to create your very own Time Travel image.

Download these images for layer masking:

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1-14-19

today:

1. finish your cow and flying saucer image and put it on your digital portfolio that you made in Google Docs.
2. make your very own image by following the guidelines for This Doesn’t Belong – click here for details.
3. upload your new image to your portfolio when you are done.

Next skill: layer masking.  Download these images for layer masking:

1-10-19

today –

1. This semester you won’t use Dropbox to turn in your work.   We will use a digital portfolio.  Click here for details.
2. Saving your work – you will save your work to your school network drive. Also known as your H drive.  I will show you how to find it.  Anything you save on the hard drive of these computers will be erased.

Goal – remember the bus stop prank video that we watched in class?  Let’s work towards doing this during a lunch in a few weeks.  It’s the Lunch Project.

Photoshop skills needed for the Lunch Project:
1. selecting an object.
2. using quick mask.
3. placing an object in a new image.
4. working with layers – including naming layers.
5. adjusting brightness, contract and colors.
5. distort, warp.

Your first assignment – click here for This Doesn’t Belong.  You have a choice:

1. If you feel ready for This Doesn’t Belong then practice with these three files below (cow, farm and flying saucer).  Then try This Doesn’t Belong on your own.

     2. If you want to follow along and do one with me then we will do it together.  This is our goal:

Start by downloading these three files first:

1-9-2019

Welcome (back) to Computer Graphics.

We are looking forward to working with you this semester.

Classroom expectations:
-be on time and ready to learn.  Your progress – and grade – in this class are based on your effort and performance.
-respect other people, the classroom and the tools.
-place your phones in the phone hotel as you enter.
-no food or drink near the computers.  Yes, water is a drink.
-no games.
-we can see and record what you do on your computer.

The semester ahead:
-laser cutting
-3d printing
-green screen – still and video
-Photoshop…always Photoshop

Begin by taking this quick survey so we can learn more about what you know and what you want to learn.  Click here for the survey.

6-8-2018

today-

BACK UP YOUR FILES before school ends.  Why?
1. these computers will be replaced and anything saved on the hard drive will be GONE. Forever.
2. if you are graduating or leaving Drake files saved on your network account will be erased.

How do you backup your files?
1. email them to yourself
2. upload them to your Google Drive (use your personal account if you are graduating)
3. upload to Dropbox
4. copy them to a flash drive
5. print each one out and put it in a binder.  But why?

Final Project description – due at the end of our final exam session.

Final Project rubric – my expectation is that you will use the next two block period, Monday’s 35 minute class and the final to complete the final project.

6-1-2018

Good day all- Happy Friday!!

Today’s goal is to for you to continue your work on your Photoshop work.

If you can’t remember what you are doing – here’s the list.  Choose one thing from each column. 

This is due at the end of class on Monday.

At the end of the class period please print out your work even if it is NOT DONE.  If you are working on animation you don’t get to share.

5-25-2018

today’s work – animated transformation

download these two images and open one up in Photoshop.