Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Review exercises




The review exercises include three assignments. They are, the vase assignment, the Monet assignment and the bug morphing assignment. Examples of the three are provided in this post.

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Assignments due December 13

The following assignments should be posted for marking prior to the winter break.

1. Multi panel assignment
2. Two graphics for the tshirt assignment
3. Yearbook spread
4. Illustrator guitar graphic

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Multi-panel Assignment


The multi-panel assignment should have the following design elements: A background the has a colour scheme that repeats in all the panels, an image that is repeated in a variety of ways throughout the various pages, space for type and space for images that will be placed on the backgournd.

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Downlaoding font

Down loading font with the school server can be done in the following steps:

1. Locate font that you wish to download.
2. Save on prompt to desktop
3. Locate zip folder on desktop and right click to unzip….use extract all.
4. Click next until you reach finish and then click finish.
5. You will see an open folder with the type file in it.
6. With the existing file open, open the C:Drive folder click Windows then to Font folder.
7. Drag the downloaded font from the zip folder to the Fonts folder
8. Restart the program that you are using and you will find the font that you have downloaded in the fonts list. It will be located in the list in Alpha order.

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

End of Term Composition Exam






Provide a commentary on the four images and demonstrate that you can discuss and compare these images in terms of: rule of thirds, balance, movement,leading lines, center of attention, dynamic composition, and compositional narrative. Be specific and use examples within the images to when discussing each of the above terms.

Use your blog for the final draft. Check spelling and sentence structure before posting your writing.

Monday, November 1, 2010

Cover Design



Make sure that you have completed this assignment for your final end of term. Cover must have the following elements: Graphic that clearly relates to the story or theme, background that is consistent with the mood of the novel or genre, title, portrait, logo, bar code, and writtem auto biography of the author....this is you...make it up.

Monday, September 20, 2010

Layers Desert Scene Sept 20/2010



In this photoraph,I duplicated the layer and darkened the foreground layer using levels. Then I erased the foreground layer to allow the lighter background to shine through. Finally, I flattened the image and dogged and burned in areas that needed to be enhanced in both the foreground and background.