Visual Information - the info graphic
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Photoshop Example: Worth 1000
Photoshop Basics
- Starting the Program / Quit
Whats Where?
Hot Keys
- Opening a file
- Save / Save As a file
- Windows
- File --- New
* Resoultion
72 dpi traditional screen resolution
180 dpi lowest printing resolution
300 dpi + good printing resolution
600 dpi + high resolution printing
* File Types
Working File Types
---- Photoshop = .PSD = working file, the one you keep forever
End Product Files
---- JPEG = .JPG = web and email (Flickr) file
---- GIFF = .GIF = web file
---- TIFF = .TIF = full quality print file
--- RAW = .RAW = raw camera data uncompressed file
---- Portable Document File = .PDF = compressed print file
Setting Preferences
Photoshop -- Preferences -- General
View
- Rulers, Grids & Guides
- Show
- Snap
Laying out a design in Photoshop
before Photoshop
1) what paper size do you need?
2) single or multiple designs on a the page?
in Photoshop
3) set size and resolution of the image
4) define print area using 'guides'
* Offset press - requires all cut lines, the bleed and image area to fit within the paper size (can print on anything thats flat)
* Laser Printer - unprintable boarder 1/4" on all sides *
-- standard sizes 8.5x11",8.5x14", 11x17"
* Inkjet printer - unprintable boarder 1/4" on all side *
-- standard sizes 8.5x11",8.5x14", 11x17", 19" wide, 24" wide, 36" wide, 42" wide
5) Define the middle
6) save as a template file named appropriately as a .psd.
ex LP_cover_Template.psd
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Upload your Stickers to the Google Album I emailed you a link to last night!
Review Stickers, pic the best.
Rework best sticker for Tuesday!
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Project 2
ART213 SPR 2020
Virtual Record Shop
description:
For this project you will appropriate images you find online through the process outlined below. The images and text you appropriate will be make up the bands name, album name and the base image used to create a CD cover for a fake band for the music genre of your choice. This project is an exploration of appropriation, manipulation, research & layout and design. We will consider the meaning attached to images through context and our own expectations created through societal influence.
When downloading images for this project, Make sure you download the full size image!
Make sure to save your work often. Use the 'Save As' option to save a duplicate of your file (just change the file name). When you are finished with your image go to File --- Export --- Save for Web (Legacy), and save your image as a JPEG, 80% quality. Do not check any other boxes. Save your images using this naming convention: yourname_01.jpg, yourname_02.jpg. (ie... jvonstengel_01.jpg)
* to be successful with this project it will be important for you to do Google searches for examples of album covers for the genre you decide to bas your CD cover on.
The Process
1 - Go to "wikipedia." Hit Random...
The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.
2 - Go to "Random quotations"
The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.
3 - Go to flickr and click on explore
or click https://www.flickr.com/explore
To get the photo, multiply the number of the CD cover by 2 and count until you get tot the photo. This is your album cover image.
4 - Pick a music genre that you think would go well with the album name, band name and/or image you got. Research the aesthetics used in album covers for that music genre using a Google search
5 - Create a template for a CD cover and save it as a PSD
6 - Use Photoshop to assemble the text and image on the template.
7 - Manipulate the text and images to create a visual that follows the aesthetic use of visual elements for the genre of music you chose
5 - Create a template for a CD cover and save it as a PSD
6 - Use Photoshop to assemble the text and image on the template.
7 - Manipulate the text and images to create a visual that follows the aesthetic use of visual elements for the genre of music you chose
8 - Save your designs as explained above
9 - Create 8 different Album Covers
9 - Create 8 different Album Covers
10 - Hand them in to Joe on your USB thumb drive
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