Class Hours: 10:05 – 2:40
Mr. Bohmann | wbohmann@ewsd.org
10:05 Today’s Notes & Attendance
- Three day weekend ahead
- Class Mtgs (1:20-1:50) for EHS Seniors – you are excused to attend – Auditorium (Lion, MJ)
- Our Manifesto from yesterday
- Custom Workstations? Yes! I am giving you a $25-30 budget to pimp out your desk! Nice to be in GAWD2
10:10 Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Illustrator is a vector graphics program. Vector graphics are scalable and do
not lose quality as they are sized up and down. Logos, web icons, clip art are all excellent for scalability because they do not contain pixels.
Adobe Photoshop is raster based and uses pixels to create images. Photoshop is an
excellent tool for editing and creating photos and raster based art.
Take a look at the difference below and look at the different kids of filetypes:
Throughout this year we will be building media for the web and for games so we’ll be using both Adobe products (Illustrator and Photoshop) extensively. We’ll also get familiar with Adobe Bridge for file management and Camera Raw for adjusting levels of our photos and pixel manipulation.
Let’s jump in to Illustrator. We’ll Today we’ll explore:
Essentials or Essential Classic workspace
Art boards / Customizing Art boards
Selection tools, shape tools and pen tools practice
Alignment Practice
Colors, lines and text basics
Layers
Transform: Scale & Rotate | transform each
Pen Tool allows you to make flowing Bezier curves. The longer the handle, the more power in the curve
Using the modifier key ALT will break the path. Begin by pressing and pulling when using the pen tool.
Use the Curvature Pen Tool to Draw straight lines and smooth curves with precision and ease instead of drawing and modifying paths using Bezier curves.
Lines and Curves Practice
We’ll also look at color.adobe.com for interesting color palettes and look the Extract Theme feature for getting access to your favorite color palettes.
10:50 Morning Break (10 minutes)
11:00 Optimizing the User Experience with Good Design …
C.R.A.P stands for contrast, repetition, alignment and proximity. These are the four principles of design used by graphic designers, web designers and digital learning experts. Good UX (stands for User Experience) and Good UI (User Interaction) include these principles.
C.R.A.P. Cheat Sheet
Activity – C.R.A.P Scavenger Hunt and Illustrator Tool Blitz
Smart Guides and Rulers
Working in Adobe Illustrator: Deliverables
- Set up a new document 640 x 480 pixels (create 4 art boards), RGB
- Identify a design principle for each art board, add text to identify it
- Find a good example of each principle (could be from a video game, movie poster, app, book cover, website and place on the correct art board
- For at least one of your principles – create it yourself – you recreate something you find in your search
- Test out effects and tools as you create your document
- As you add items to your art board, keep CRAP in mind for your whole document
- 11:45 we’ll do a gallery walk of your work.
Save as PDF: Filename: CRAP_Lastname and drop in the dropbox in Google Classroom.
11:55 Lunch
12:25 English with Mx. Yopp
1:10 Afternoon Break
1:25 Speed Design
1:45 Wacom Tablets and Illustrator & Pimp Your Desk items
Break out that tablet, set up your drivers and do some practicing. I’ll rotate around…
- Shape and Shape Builder Tool – Practice Basic Shapes and Robot
- Scaling, Rotating, Duplicating
- Pen Tool – Practice Grid
- Curvature Pen Tool – Practice Whale Thing public folders
- Alignment – Alignment worksheet
- Self guided tutorials for refreshers – Adobe Tutorials
You can find what you need in the CAWD2 public folders / Adobe Resources / AI Basics
The italic words are the names of the files in the public folders. *After Opening a File, Do a File/Save As and place in your Google Drive or Desktop for working/practicing
2:10 Dailies
2:15 Library Tour
- Interlibrary loans
- AV assistance (cameras, video cameras, audio tools, etc..)
- Databases
- Pathfinders (for topic searches)
- Makerspace (3D printer, Cricut, Letter Press, Book Binding, Crafts)
- Laminating
- Printing
- Audio Books
- and of course – Books!