MINOR Assignments

Friday, Jan 21st - Happy Friday

Assignment: Twinning!!

What would it look like if you "twinned" with another person in your class? 

1. Take a photo of someone in your class and take one of you. 
2. Pose for the photos with the white or simple background, match the pose, face straight forward, like you are taking a passport photo.
3. Use your layering skills to morph yourself and another person. 
4. Now the idea is complete believably (as opposed to coneheads).

STEPS:

1. Download portraits of you and your classmate
2. Crop them to 3" wide x 4" high - 200ppi
3. Use similar skills that you did with the Mutant Me project - layers, erasing on layers, color correction
4. Give your new creepy twin a combo-celebrity name like Brangelina, Kimye, Bennifer
5. Save each photo as a JPEG
6. Open the 3 JPEGS and combine them into ONE Photoshop file (You + Classmate = Creepy Twin) 
1. Use alignment/distribution tool to line up and space images
2. Saves as JPEG and Post to your blog (Majors)
3. MAJOR GRADE
7. You will be graded on smoothness, believability, creativity, neatness, use of tools in Photopea.com.
8. Upload your original photos of yourself and classmate and your final images to your Google Classroom Assignment
9. Tell me about who you took a photo of and about your new creation (minimum 3-5 sentences)
10. Upload your layered files (PSD) to your Google Drive.

DUE: Monday, 1/24 by End of Block

Thurs Jan 6th

Today we are going to work in another free online software similar to Adobe Photoshop. Complete the following tutorial. Post to your Google Classroom assignment. Due Beginning of Block Friday 12/7

Easy Pixlr.com Double Exposure Tutorial

Create a double exposure effect using Pixlr editor. In this quick double exposure portrait tutorial show you how to create a double exposure effect using several images, masking and layer modes.

1. Download any 2 photos you find on the internet (school appropriate) or you can use photos you have taken.
2. The photos should relate to each other in some way.
3. You will creating this assignment in PIXLR.COM
4. Follow the video Tutorial above (https://youtu.be/ieHAXDtcY1A)
5. When complete - Post original 2 photos and your final photo to the Google Class assignment for a MINOR GRADE
6. Due Friday, Jasn 7th by 9am
7. Message me with any issues.

Monday 12/20

OLD FASHIONED HAND TINTED EFFECT

Due end of block Tuesday 12/21

• Research and download an image from the internet, perferably similar to the example in this tutorial. When searching for you image, in google images, select TOOLS - SIZE - LARGE
• Follow the directions
• When complete, post JPEG to Google Classroom and PSD files to Minor assignments in your Google Drive

Weds 12/15

PHOTO LOGO ASSIGNMENT Instructions: 

1. You will create a PHOTO LOGO with Your Name
2. Download two (2) images, 1 of YOU or YOU & YOUR FAMILY (yes, you have to) and one about something you like.
3. Follow the tutorial video and make your own Photo Logo
4. In the text section (see video) you will write your FIRSTNAME LASTNAME
5. Be Creative, choose a FONT that looks interesting and is legible. Add drop shadows, strokes, any filters you would like.
6. You will be graded on:
• Following instructions
• Neatness
• Professional looking final piece
• Creativeness
• Turning in on-time
7. When complete, EXPORT as PNG and Post to the Google Classroom Assignment
8. Due by End of Block Weds 12/15

FRIDAY 9/17 to FRIDAY 9/24:  

Assignment: Design Your Own Font

Today we will begin a 3-4 day project.

1. Friday: Design on Paper
2. Monday: Begin Designing in Adobe Illustrator

Design your own font from Paper to Screen

https://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/the-basics-of-drawing-type-creating-your-own-handwritten-font--cms-23089

Materials you will need:

• Blank white paper
• Pencil (Mechanical preferably)
• Eraser

25 Capital
25 Lowercase
0-9
5 extra characters (!,$,#,{, +  etc...)

Step 1: Design Your Hand Drawn letters and numbers on graph paper

TO CONVERT HEIC to JPEG use:  https://convertio.co/

Step 2: After you have HAND DRAWN your letters, make your Font usable:

1. Create your font in Illustrator
2. take photo of your design, trace each letter in Illustrator
3. After you have created your Font Alphabet (Individually traced, letters A-Z, numbers 0-9, and the other characters) you will need to save each letter individually as a SVG file 
4. In illustrator, create a new document that is 2" by 2" with 67 artboards
5. place each individual character on each artboard
6. Before saving, select each letter and Click:
7. Object -> Expand -> Press Okay
8. then go to your Pathfinder window and click -> Unite

Save each individual letter/character as a SVG file

STEP 3:  Make your FONT from your SVG files

Save each individual letter/character as a SVG file
Go to https://icomoon.io/app/#/select
>Click on IMPORT ICONS

Select the Folder where you saved your 67 SVG files

>SELECT all by clicking CTRL+A
>CLICK OK

If this screen pops up - FIX YOUR LETTERS that you had not used the EXPAND option in Adboe Illustrator

> Click the Menu button on the right side of your Set

> Click SELECT ALL

> Click GENERATE FONT

Change code icons to correct Key Stroke (example for number 1 type 1, for Capital A type SHIFT+a)

After you change all the small boxes to the correct keystroke, > click the icon next to GENERATE FONT

Change the Name of Your Font (example: YourNameFont)

> Click the X on the right corner

> Click DOWNLOAD

> A Zip file of your font will be downloaded. Find the downloaded folder

> Right click on the folder, > Click EXTRACT ALL, > Click EXTRACT

Located and Open the Extracted Files

Open Folder Labeled: FONTS

Locate file TYPE - TrueTYPE font

>RIGHT CLICK, > CLICK Preview

UPLOAD to GOOGLE CLASSROOM for MAJOR GRADE

OPTION 1 

Go to Google Classroom Assignment:

> Click ADD / Create

> Upload your TRUE TYPE FONT (located in the Font Folder in the Download you just extracted)

> Click TURN-IN

-1.5 pts for every font character missing or not correct - MAJOR GRADE

 

OPTION 2: 

Create PDF and Upload to Google Classroom:

Locate Extracted Font File

Locate TRUE TYPE FONT

> RIGHT CLICK 

> CLICK Preview screen will open, 

> CLICK Print - SELECT > Print as a PDF

> CLICK, ADOBE PDF 

> Click PREFERENCES, 

> Uncheck RELY ON SYSTEM FONTS

> CLICK OK

Post PDF to Google Classroom Assignment for MAJOR GRADE

You are not able to install the font on your desktop or chromebook but you can on a personal computer at home. If you would like to install at home, I recommend you upload your file to Google Drive and Download onto your personal device.

Weds, 9/14: 

Cheeseburger, Cheeseburger, Cheeseburger...

Make a cheeseburger using shapes and colors. 

You have 1 class block to complete this assignment.

• Open Adobe Illustrator
• Click FILE, New
• On the NEW DOCUMENT SCREEN
• Name:  YourFirstName_Burger
• New Doc Profile: PRINT
• Size: Letter
• CLICK - OK
• Now using any tool you can figure out - play around with Illustrator and create a cheeseburger.
• Save AI (adobe Illustrator File) to your desktop
• Upload to your Google Drive
• EXPORT file for Blogger and Google Classroom Assignment, 
• click FILE
• Click EXPORT
• click the desktop icon, 
• on bottom drop menu (SAVE as type) select, PNG
• click use artboards
• click SAVE
• Upload your Cheeseburger to the blog
• Check out to your classmates blogs and comment on at least 2
• This is a MINOR grade - you have 1 class to complete, but since we had assemblies yesterday I know some of you need extra time to finish Monday's project. Both Assignments will be due by FRIDAY, 9/17 at beginning of class.

 Illustrator Tutorials

Watch the following 4 tutorials (about 9 mins each):

Panels & Workspaces in Adobe Illustrator

http://youtu.be/2E9oGKd0Ayg

Artboards in Adobe Illustrator

http://youtu.be/9GbLm_WXWwk

Vector basics | Selection & Direct selection tool

http://youtu.be/GFY0_EMVYDw

Fill & Stroke effects in Adobe Illustrator (9 mins)

http://youtu.be/xhATZA88zC4