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 Topic: IT 145The new items published under this topic are as follows.
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Photoshop Final Items |
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Some things to study for the photoshop final exam (may be on there but not limited too):
Animate a gif
Photomerge
Resize a Photo
Add a drop shadow
Vanishing Point Filter
Layer Masks
Replace a color
Photoshop Contest! Bring your creativity!
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IT145 5/4 - Make-Up |
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No new stuff today. This time is just for review and for making up work. I will allow everyone 1 make-up assignment that you can turn in next week. For those having medical excuses you can make those up +1. This helps everyone out. The final will not have a study guide. Just go over the techniques we have used since mid-term. The final is comprehensive, but if you didn't get the pre-mid-term stuff then I don't see how you could have gotten anything since then.
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IT145 3/9 - Plug it in...Plug it in |
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 Wow another monster night in the Photoshop class! Sorry for having to cram so much in but seeing as we have lost a ton of class time there really is no other way to do it. I'll try and back off some after spring break to give you all a chance to work in the lab.
To start off we took nearly 30 min to figure out how to post our pictures to the web site. Listen folks, in 2 weeks nobody tried posting until about an hour before class. Come on how do you expect to learn without trying! Also 99% of everyone's problem stemmed from mis-spellings. If you can't figure out what you named a file and then manage to type it back out, heaven help you. To me that is like naming your kid and then forgetting how to spell its name. Please take the time and type out the url of your picture name before trying to post it, if it works and then you can't post to the website, YOU DIDN'T TYPE THE URL CORRECTLY!
As for the topics we covered, today was based on learning layers, plug-ins and brushes. Here are the tools I went over in the order they were presented in class:
Dodge,Burn, Sponge Tools
Red Eye Reduction Tool
Lens Correction Filter
Vanishing Point Filter (Note: I figured out the crashing problem, see notes)
Flaming Pear's Flood and Freebies Plug-ins
Brushes and how to load and unload them (tutorial included)
Layer Tutorials - Layer masking and wedding pop out. (tutorials included)
Please download the super huge zip file located in the downloads section. It is categorized on each subject and tutorials in either txt or doc format are included with several of them. The Freebies plug-in has a html help file with it.
Note: I had problems with the vanishing point filter all day and of course it crashed several times in class. I suspected it had something to do with a video driver, I was partially right. For those of you running Windows 7 or Vista you must turn off the Aero Theme to your desktop (the transparent taskbars). Do this by right clicking the desktop and choosing Personalize and then choosing windows 7 basic theme. Once you do this the vanishing point filter will work perfectly without crashing.
Homework: You will owe me 7 pics. One for each of the topics EXCEPT dodge,burn, sponge, and lens correction.
Min (1) pic each for Red Eye, Vanishing Point, Flood, Freebies, Do the brush tutorial that is in the center of the doc included in the brush folder, wedding pop out, and the layer masking tutorial.
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IT145 - Long Time No See |
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Wow long time no see. First class in 2 weeks and will end up being the only one for another 2 weeks since we have assessment day on the 2nd. I will do my best to have video tutorials on everything I went over but right now I'm fighting not having a voice. It holds out for only about 2 hours a day now. I am getting better but my throat is suffering a bit.
Tonight I tired to jam pack in several items. I started the class by demonstrating the power of Adobe Bridge. You may not find it useful if you only deal with a few photos, however the more you gather the better it becomes especially since it will bulk modify pics very quickly.
We also had a little tutorial on what FTP is. You should download Filezilla from the downloads section and use it up upload your photoshop pics to the web server. Remember the code to get your pictures to show up on my website is
<img src="http://www.scorchedsilicon.com/users/username/yourpic.jpg">
If you added a directory to your ftp your code will look something like:
<img src="http://www.scorchedsilicon.com/users/username/dirname/pic.jpg">
We then took the time to sign up for an account on my website. Remember your user name on the site does not equal your user name for the ftp service. I had to set up the ftp ahead of time and used your first and last names as the user name (no spaces) and your S number for the password. Whatever account you created will only allow you to post the pics to the photoshop contests.
The tools that I used this evening were: the type tools, the horizontal and vertical type mask tools, free transform with warp, clone stamp, spot healing, healing brush, patch tool, and I also showed off using layers and the blending options so you can create drop shadows and such.
The homework is as follows:
(1) Text Mask Logo as demonstrated in class (make it a little spiffier then I did)
(1) Fix-a-Pic - I don't care what picture you fix but use the tools shown and include the original so I can compare how you did.
(1) Free transform a photo and superimpose it onto a jumbotron/tv/anything you want
(1) Remove graffiti from a wall (pics included if you can't find any)
(3) Photoshop contests listed.
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IT145 1/27 - Mad Selectin Skillz!! |
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Wow huge class tonight! All 21 people showed up. Lots of laptop users. I was disappointed a little in seeing that a 1/4th of the class was still installing Photoshop. That should have been done a week ago folks. It's been posted on my website for a while now. You lost valuable instruction time waiting on an install. Let's come prepared next time please.
Well after a little intro we started with our selection tools. These will be your most used tools in Photoshop. We went over the use of the marquee tools, the lasso tools, and the magnifying glass.
I've uploaded several pis to the downloads section that were used in the demo. I also have last year's video tutorials online in the screencast section if you don't remember how to do something. CS3 (the version the videos were done in) and CS4 do not differ enough to matter in the video. They will both work the same.
Your homework will consist of removing the backgrounds from the dollar bill and the coin from the demo pics. You will also turn in the 2 other pics of the fried food and fruit. You must de-construct those by pulling the pieces away from one another or you can copy them over into a blank document. Put all your work into a clearly labeled folder with your name on it on your USB drive. Be ready to turn it in at the beginning of class.
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IT145 1/19 |
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Big class! Lot's O' new people. Room will be tight so if you want to use your own laptop and move to the center of the room that is fine with me. There are no books for this class but I have 2 suggested readings:
Adobe Photoshop CS4 Classroom in a Book
978-0-321-57379-7
Adobe Photoshop CS4 How-Tos 100 Essential Techniques
978-0-321-57782-5
Also if you have a favorite mouse or a nice mouse pad, you may want to bring that. The CS4 trial edition is in the downloads section. It is only good for a month so after that you will either need to purchase it or start coming to my lab during office hours or open times. Get ready to enjoy a nice class.
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IT145 4/27 |
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Well to round things out with photoshop I wanted to show you how to install and use differnt brushes. These really do make quite a difference when your creating designs and backgrounds. I've posted a text file with links in it to several sites where you can get some awesome free brushes. Your homework was to create 2 logos for a business you wanted to start using any style of brush. You are to also use the brushes to create a background for a magazine cover (tutorial in the links). And finally to continue to work on the BBQ sauce logo.
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IT145 |
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Well I started out the evening with a problem. I based my lecture on CS3 Enhanced edition, which was not installed on the machines at school. So that lecture went out the window. Since Earth Day is coming up I wanted to do some tutorials based around that subject. I've listed Earth, Wind & Fire tutorials in the assignments section.
As a side project I have a guy that wants a BBQ sauce label for a mason jar. He wants it called Two HillJacks BBQ Sauce. You will have from now until the last day of class to come up with a good logo. Take this assignment seriously. Remember if you use anything based off someone else's work make sure it has the CC license that allows for use in a commercial venture.
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I would have some cool story to write up and tell but right now my brain is totally dead. We went over a revised topic calendar and I pulled a few things that we don't have the means to do in class. I also added in a few items that I thought we should cover and somehow I had listed an extra day of class that didn't exist. (Go figure!)
Well I decided to throttle back some so that everyone could catch a little breather. Tonight's demos were very easy and you should be able to pic them up very quickly. I showed how to resize an image (pay attention to how big it is in the first place). I then showed how to resize the image canvas. The super easy tools of the evening were the count, notes, and ruler tools. The next up were the eraser, magic eraser, and background eraser tools. They require a little finesse when being used.
OMG!! I can see now why I have been putting off grading the photoshop class's homework. What a train wreck it is! The first homework basically you got points just for turning in the work. 4 pics = 100 points = 25 points each. Not to hard. The next was the same deal only I took a little off if it looked like you could have done better. I don't know what is going on but my blog clearly shows exactly the number of pics you are to turn in and I'm not getting them. The 3rd homework was graded a little on quality and a lot on if you just turned something in.....not many people did!? I can't understand you had 2 weeks to do 7 pics. BTW I gave a separate grade for the photoshop contest pics. If you turned them in and posted to the website you got credit. Otherwise 0 for you.