Welcome back!
Weeks #4, 5, 6 & 7 – here we are!
Photoshop Continued
The Elements of Design – A Video Description: Enjoy! See the Elements in action in this great lil’ video.
This post will reflect a 4-week time frame as we delve into assignment #1 part 2 and assignment #2 – The Post-Card Design Adventure Series!
First things first though, let’s see how everyone is doing.
I will be introducing Assignment #2 – AKA – “the Postcard Project” on 3/6. A class video recording for Assignment 2’s tutorial will be placed under the Assignment #2 page for that individual assignment along with the assignment specifications.
***please don’t move on to assignment #2 until all aspects of assignment #1 are completed..
We will get well versed working with the photoshop pen tool, electronic imaging, cutting out images, compositing and creating graphic assets. We will also be creating and working with various file types and bringing our ideas into photoshop to produce the finished designs.
Im a big fan of iterations and revisions! We will discuss using multiple art boards and the iteration process while our work flow is in process.
*This Week’s Exercise – Cutting out Images in Photoshop / Making Graphic Assets: Cutting out images in various fragments is a task that all graphic designers will face on a regular basis. Learning various methods for cutting out images is a necessity. We will explore, experiment and share a few methods on how.
Practice practice! As practice for the week of 3/6 while working on the postcard project – you may wish to find 3-5 images that you would like to cut out / extract from existing images, look for various curves and edges that are both attractive and challenging.
Students will select and practice from images taken from a public domain, OER or creative commons sources on the Internet or they may use images that they have on their devices. Again, We have a huge selection of OER Resources on our class resources page here too
A vintage postcard example from New York!
Video Screening Tutorials: Cutting out images in Photoshop (Pen Tool examples)
These tutorials above will help get you started with our class exercise, but ultimately, you will need to master the pen tool in both photoshop and illustrator for the cleanest vector cut-outs.
**Are you looking for a photoshop psd. file template example to create along with, format and submit your postcard? (Photoshop newbies can edit and change the layers as you need to) Those with experience should make the template themselves – Click HERE
(Is there a specific tutorial that you learned from recently or over time? Share the URL link with a description of your experience in the comments section below)
Graphic Designer and inspiration of the week!
Paula Scher! (please get to know her work!)
Graphic Design Trends for 2021
