Welcome to MMA100 Week #2!
Here is this week’s useful information and class resources:
Did you miss Week #1’s Post? Go Here
We began talking about our first assignment / project here in MMA 100 last week via discussion and will start our second class by reviewing the project specs. We will discuss the critique process and presenting our work in process.
We will spend our class time working on the Postcard project. We will get familiar with our work stations, get started with adobe photoshop, electronic imaging, scanning / photo documenting images and artwork, creating and working with various file types and bringing our ideas into photoshop to produce the finished design.
*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.
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
(This exercise/technique will be applied to the post card project).
Video Screening: Cutting out images in Photoshop (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. The video below is a great tutorial.
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)
What are some of today’s trends in Graphic Design? Lets take a look at this video below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcc1VyGvaYk
Vocabulary to explore for next week – The Elements & Principles of Design
