Directions for Monday and Tuesday 9/21-20/2009

Fireworks 8
For the next two days you will be working in a graphics program called Fireworks(all programs/macromedia).

The order of the tutorials is on the class page. and the videos can be found in the student shared folder. You should have fireworks open and the video pause the video and work along as you watch. If you have any questions please post them here in the comments. you can log in using your google accounts.
Click here to go to the Fireworks page and get started.

Directions For Monday-Tuesday 4/27&28 2009

Some of you still need to finish up your final Sketch-up Project. Make sure you have landscape as part of your finished product.



After you finish your Sketch-up Project you will need to get a few documents ready to print for the Art show. Please do not print until Wednesday when I am back. Have the following images in publisher and ready to print. You will need to export images of your sketch-up projects and then insert them into publisher.

• Choose 2 pictures of your skecth-up projects and insert image in to a publisher document and make the picure full page.


• Choose 2 of your favorite Gimp edits and insert them in to a publisher document. You can put two on one page or create two seprate documents. We will be printing and matting all of these on Wednesday so please have the publisher documents saved and ready to print for Wednesday.

Done with all of the above? Please notice I have added an Inkscape page to the class web site please go ther to see what you will be working on next. CLICK HERE

Gimp Test Tasks

Gif Task

Create an animated .gif using the pictures in the share folder "Test Assets". Your finished .gif must be posted on your blog. 

Layers Task

Please create a similar banner in gimp. Here are the specs.

1. Background layer has a width of 400 and a hight of 200

2.You may choose what you like for the background

3. "B" Size: 73 Pattern Fill:Warning!\

4. "X" Size: 102 Gradient Fill: Your Choice 

5. You should have Three seprate layers 

6. Please call me over to grade

Gimp Edits For Wed-Thursday

First Task - Pan's Labyrinth Edit

Again this this is a tutorial  from YouTube the original can be viewed here. I did not feel I needed to do another video for this tutorial. The pictures you need for this edit can be found in the shared folder (Gimp-Hands & Eyes)

Second Task- Advanced Pop Art Edit

This edit is a more advanced version of the first pop art edit we worked through. You can use one of the photos you took or I have created a shared folder titled "Pop Art Pics" that you contains pictures that I thought may make good pop art. Click here to view the tutorial.

Third Task- Texture 

Face

You will need your head shot and a texture photo for this task. There are some textures in the shared folder for you to use. Click here for the tutorial

Gimp Tutorials

Photo Edits

For Monday Tuesday and Wednesday you 

will be working in GIMP. There are a series on tutorials that will teach you some cool edits. You 

will post all of your work on your blog as you finish each edit. All video tutorials can be found in you classes shared folder.

1st Tutorial-Layers

This tutorial consists of two videos first click here to watch a video from YouTube discussing the use of layers. Once you have watched the first video go to the shared file and watch the video titled "layer banner".

2nd Tutorial- Pop-Art

The video can be found in the shared folder you will need to open your head shot in gimp before starting this tutorial. Once you have finished this tutorial please post your finished product on to your blog. Please title the post "Pop Art" and provide a brief description of the tools used. Orginal tutorial here

3rd Tutorial- Animated GIF

The video can be found in the shared folder. Remember to provide a description of your work. Orignal tutorial here

Last Task- Animated GIF 200

Use what you learned in the previous tutorial to create an GIF that cycles thru the action photos you took. Hint you may need to change the cycle speed.

You should be able to get through these by the end of class on wed. 

See you Thursday

Photo Settings

1. Exposure Settings- This alows you to brighten pictures with out using the flash. The top photo was taken using a high exposure setting and the bottom was a low. 

2. Super Macro

3. ISO Settings- please post a link with more info about this setting 

4. Drive Mode

5. Color Settings

For each of the settings Please post the photos you took and a brief discription of the mode used.

Flock Post

Explore this browser and make comparisons to Internet Explorer. 

1. List and describe 3 features of Flock that you discovered and why they would be usefull to you.

2. Find one article dicussing Flock and comparing it to other browsers. Post a link to the article and provide an abstract. 

Directions for Monday 1/12/08

Access Projects

You need to work hard to finish up your Access projects they will be due at the end of the period on Tuesday. If you need help with your queries Aubrey and Cameron should be able to help. 

Make sure you bring your grade sheet to class on Tuesday, an easy 15 points. 

See you Tuesday.