MRS. QUICK'S GRAPHIC DESIGN - Intro to Photoshop

MRS. QUICK'S GRAPHIC DESIGN

Assignment: Remove background and pop art effect

3/12/2020

Objective: Remove the background from a photo. Then, apply the Pop Art Effect to the photo.

Tasks:
1) Background removal demonstration
2) Complete removal
3) Pop Art demonstration
4) Complete Pop Art

Background removal:
1) Find a photo online with an obvious person, animal or object.
2) Select the subject with the Quick Selection Tool or try the Select and Mask option (if it will work correctly)
3) Apply a layer mask to remove the background.

Pop Art Tutorial:
1) Convert your layer to a smart object and apply a threshold adjustment.
2) FIll in unwanted portions with white on a new layer
3) Add a new gradient map adjustment layer with a color combo of your choice.
4) Add a new texture fill layer and set it to multiply, overlay, or softlight at about 20 percent opacity. Alternatively, you can use a stock texture photo like concrete or a wall.

Assignment: Finish Skateboard

3/10/2020

Objective: Finish your Skateboard assignment and complete any projects up to date that you have not finished. If you are done, you may play the games listed below or free-play in Photoshop.

Tasks:
1) Skateboard.
2) Remain assignments completion.

Previous Assignments:
- Pixel Art
- Selective Color
- Image in Text
- Low Poly
- Coloring Page

Games:
Google Quick Draw
Brand Logo Color Game - "Brandeen"
Arial versus Helvetica
Kill Comic Sans
The Kerning Game
Color Challenge
Color Game 1
Color Game 3

Assignment: Skateboard competition

3/6/2020

Objective: Skateboard design competition! The winner of this competition will be referred to as "Master (First Name)" all day and subsequently will receive high fives whenever they please. Create a skateboard design from the file below. It is a Photoshop file. Do anything you please. You may use my tablets - or not - or what ever you like.

*IF* you finish early (which makes me think you didn't try), you may play Google Quickdraw.

How to Free Transform and Image:
- Find an image online, right click and "copy image"
- Go to Edit -> Paste to place the image on the canvas
- Press Ctrl + T to begin to Free Transform
- Hold down shift
- Drag the cursor to the corner and adjust to the size you would like.
- Press Enter to get out of Free Transform

skateboard_design.psd
File Size:	2728 kb
File Type:	psd

Assignment: Coloring pages

3/2/2020

Objective: Find a coloring page online and color it with the Wacom drawing tablet.

Tasks:
1) Google search "Coloring Page". Make sure that it's a high enough resolution.
2) Right click on the page to "copy image"
3) Open Photoshop, and create a new document.
4) Paste the coloring page in the document.
5) Go to Image -> Mode -> and select RGB
6) Create a new layer.
7) Go to Window -> Swatches to open up the swatches panel
8) Use the paint bucket tool to fill in the blank spaces.

Assignment: Review

2/28/2020

Objective: Recreate one of the assignments we've already created in class.

Assignment options:
- Pixel art
- Selective Color
- Image in Text
- Low Poly

Alternate Assignment: Timelapse videos

2/27/2020

Objective: Watch the time lapse videos below.

assignment: low poly effect

2/24/2020

Objective: Create your own low poly effect using a photo of yourself, an animal or a picture of someone from google.

Tasks:
1) Watch demonstration
2) Find Photo
3) Begin assignment

Tutorial:
1) Select image from the internet and copy it
2) Create a new document in Photoshop
3) Paste the photo in the document
4) Select your polygonal lasso tool
5) Create a ploygon
6) Select Filter -> Blur -> Average
7) Create another polygon
8) Hold Alt + Ctrl + F to apply the blur/average filter to the image.
9) Continue creating the image by creating a polygon and applying the Alt + Ctrl + F shortcut for the blue/average.

assignment: Image in text

2/20/2020

Objective: After following along with the demonstration, use a clipping mask to place your image into a text box

Tasks:
1) Demonstration
2) Create text effect

Tutorial:

File -> New (create new document)
Select the type tool and type in your word
Select Window and down to character
Adjust the size of the font to a much larger size
Choose a font that is bold
Adjust the spacing in between the letters by placing the cursor between the letters and holding ALT
Make sure Layer 1 is above the text
Right click on Layer 1 and click create clipping mask. You can adjust the photo to how you like
Select the adjustment layer icon (at the bottom of the layers panel)
Select a color for the background
Done!

Assignment: Selective Color

2/18/2020

Objective: Create a selective color photo in Photoshop by adding a black & white adjustment layer and using the eraser to add back in the color

Tasks:
1) Watch demonstration
2) Begin selective color project
3) Reference tutorial and video below

Tutorial:

Find an image online to edit.
Right click on image and select the "copy image" option.
Open Photoshop and start a new document. Select create, then edit -> paste.
Go to Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Black & White
Use your eraser tool with white selected as the color to paint color back into the image.
You can toggle through black and white to add color and remove color.

Assignment: Pixel art

2/12/2020

Objective: After viewing the demonstration, create a pixel art image in Photoshop.
Vocab: Pixels, Resolution, Color Palette

Tasks:
1) Demonstration
2) Watch Video (optional)
3) Create pixel art in Photoshop
4) Save project to Pixel Art folder titled as "FirstNameLastNamePixelArt"

How to setup a document for Pixel Art:
1) Go to File -> New
2) Set Width and Height as 50 pixels. Set the resolution to 72.
3) Go to Edit -> Preferences -> Guides, Grids and Slices
4) Change Gridline Every to 1 Pixel
5) If Grid is not showing, go to View -> Show -> Grid
6) Select Pencil Tool (underneath the brush tool) and start coloring!