Finished Calendar

When you have finished all the pieces of your calendar:

Dates pages for each month

5 Holiday Icons

1 work of art for each month totally 12

1 cover design

You are ready to use InDesign to put together your calendar.

Follow the directions in class to put together all the pieces.

Create a back page that contains all the works of art only and your personal logo. The works of art should be 20% of the original size.

When the back page is complete, package the entire document and turn in the package to the turnstile and the pdf into canvas.

 

 

Calendar Artwork

Using either your OWN photographs or your own illustrations and Photoshop create the top artwork portion of the calendar. Including in that portion of the design the name of the each month.

Holiday Icons

Choose 5 Holidays. (Birthday, Fourth of July, etc.)

Make 1 document with 5 artboards.

Make one icon for each (5) Holidays that matches the style of your calendar.

Calendar Dates

Using Illustrator set up the layout for the dates pages for each month of the year.

When you are finished your artwork will be at the top (photograph or illustration) and the dates will be at the bottom.

You can set up your document on Letter Size Paper that is landscape 11″ x 8.5″

 

 

After your paper is set up the first step is to make boxes or circles that will represent each day. You start with 7 shapes across, that are aligned. See below:

 

You need a total of at least 5 weeks but you could have 6.

 

You want to lock the current layer and make a new one for the numbers

 

Then design your numbers, you want the template for all the months to be perfect so make sure you don’t skip any numbers. Also don’t make them in one long text box, make them individual text entries. You will be moving and shifting them.

Once you have your design set up add the days of the week at the top.

 

Double check that it is all correct. Now you are going to duplicate your artboards.

 

The artboard panel can be found under Window – artboards

 

 

Double click on the word artboard1 and change it to January.

 

 

Make sure none of your layers are locked. While holding the option key  and using the artboard tool, click on January and drag a copy to make February.

 

Now you are ready to shift numbers.

As a added time saver, use the hints below to save work and time.

Remember 30 days has September, April, June and November, all the rest have 31 except for February, it has 28.

Also the following months start on the same day of the week:

Sunday – April, July

Monday – January, October

Tuesday – May

Wednesday – August

Thursday – February, March, November

Friday – June

Saturday – September, December

So if you made January, October is all set, just duplicate it.

 

Fantasy World Background

The pre-school class asked for some background designs for reading time. They want us to create some fantasy worlds that can change based on the type of story.

Using photoshop create and imaginary world.Please find a minimum of 5 LARGE images from the internet, they can NOT be scary, the finished results are for small children.

The document size should be 17″ wide by 11″ height at 300 resolution in CMYK mode (we will be printing the final result).

Here are some examples of images I found below. I also downloaded some brushes from Brusheezy.com

Sunset Horizon Desktop Background

 

After combining all the images and changing some layer styles and blending areas of the photos together, I came up with something like this:

All Aboard Bakery Logo Contest

Digital Art and Design 4 – Blog List

Gabe Ayers – http://beafreeghost.wordpress.com/

Manny Baez-Feliciano – http://mannybaezblog.wordpress.com/

Garrett Brooks – http://carpediemdesignssite.wordpress.com/

Adriahna Cornell – http://addiecornell.wordpress.com

Patrick Dukes – http://patrickdukes88.wordpress.com

Kenzie Fillet – http://blancciiu.wordpress.com

Alec Gibson – http://somesunset.wordpress.com

Daiquon Guy – http://daiquonguy.wordpress.com/

Nicholas Hale – http://nickhale98.wordpress.com

Justin Hurd – http://hurdworks.wordpress.com/

Daniel Lancaster – http://daniellancasterdigitalart.wordpress.com/

Nicolas Mcateer – http://nicolasmcateer.wordpress.com/

Myles McDaniel – http://mylesaustin.wordpress.com

Ivan Mora – http://www3381.wordpress.com/

Ivan Morales – http://ivanandresmorales.wordpress.com/

Tina Nguyen – http://wintina.wordpress.com

Jasmine Patterson – http://jspatterson99.wordpress.com

Timothy Patterson –

Eduardo Ramos Camacho – http://ereswey.wordpress.com/

Aleeyah Sidden – http://aleeyahsidden.wordpress.com

Jeremy Smith – http://smithcomics.wordpress.com

Drew Tutkus – http://drewtutkus1.wordpress.com

Parker Wilson – http://parkerwilson132.wordpress.com

Coleman Yeager – http://yeagmastercinema.wordpress.com/

Digital 2 Final Presentation

Design an Intro Graphic and Slogan Graphic:

1. Design an Intro graphic that includes your name on a NEW document that is

1920px x 1080px at 72 resolution by going to File->New Document

2. Use the Text tool to write your name, first and last.

3. You can add any graphics or pictures to this intro, but if your name is hard to read, points will be taken off.

4. When done creating your graphic, save it to your desktop as Intro Graphic

 

 

Present all your work IN ORDER

The list of projects in your final presentation is below. Create a folder on your desktop called FINAL WORK, save all of your final projects into this folder.

(save all your work as JPG)

Project List

1. Intro Graphic
2. About Me Portrait Project
3. Robot Day
4. Best Principle of Design Photograph
5. Changing Teeth, Before and After
6. Healing Brush, Before and After
7. Liquify Before and After
8. Changing Eye Color Before and After
9. Changing Hair Color Before and After
10. Retouching Final You Before and After
11. Eye Art
12. Photo Restoration – Antique Photo – Before and After
13. Own Photo Restoration – Before and After
14. Environmental Portrait
15. Digital Landscape Painting
16. Photo Illustration
17. Double Exposure
18. DVD cover Design
19. Billboard Designs – 4
20. Surrealistic Portrait
21. Surrealistic Animal Face
22. Surrealistic Hybrid Animals
23. PhotoStory 1
24. PhotoStory 2
25. PhotoStory 3
26. *Panorama
27. Final Campaign – Logo Design
28. Final Campaign – Design Brief (Design this page)
29. Final Campaign – Storefront Design
30. Final Campaign – Product
31. Final Campaign – Magazine Ad
32. Final Campaign – Website Homepage
33. *T-Shirt Project

 

Organized 

2. Label all the files (numbers should be listed as 01,02,03,04,05,06,07,08,09,10,11 etc.)

Before  After 

3. You need an MP3 of your favorite song (this must have clean lyrics, if explicit lyrics are used in your final project YOU WILL FAIL THE FINAL). If you find your song on youtube.com you can download the song using this link:

http://www.youtube-mp3.org/ (Links to an external site.)

5. Find your song on youtube.com

5. Copy the url address (an example ishttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMU0tzLwhbE) 
6. Paste it in the box and click convert Video

8. Click Convert Video
9. Click the Download link
   

10. The MP3 file should download to your Finder – Downloads folder

11. LISTEN to the song and make sure there are NO explicit lyrics

12. Open Adobe Photoshop – It should be on your doc but if it isn’t, go to your Finder – applications folder – Adobe Photoshop CC – Adobe Photoshop CC.app

13. Go to File –New – Choose Film & Video

14. Set the video settings to HDTV 1080p/29.97, RGB, White Background

Click OK

13. Go to the folder with your final work on it, set the program and the folder side by side so you can see both the application and the contents of your folder.
14. Shift and select all of your files for your portfolio from the FINAL WORK folder.
15. Drag all the files to your new document.
16. They come in one at a time. 
17. Set the size of each photo on your new document, then press enter, it should bring up the second file.

They will overlapp, that is OK

Repeat the process until all of your files are on the new document.

You should have a layer for each image. (You will have way more than I have shown below)

15. Go Layer by Layer and Make sure they are in the right place

20. Go to Window – Timeline

21.Click on the middle of the button “Create Video Timeline”

——–If it does not say Create Video Timeline, hit the down arrow on the right of Create Frame Animation and choose Create Video Timeline.

It should look like this but with many more layers

22. Each Layer or Slide should last for about 2:00f which is 2 seconds.

——You Can Zoom in and out of your timeline using the little slider on the bottom left 

There is no fast way to do this, you need to grab the right edge of the purple rectangle and drag it left. 

23. All of the video layers must be set to 2:00f

Once you have done this you need to stagger each video layer by dragging the purple box to look like stairs. Remember the first one should be your graphic intro page so that should be at the bottom of the stack and showing first.

– Do Not add Transitions!!!!

To Add Music in the bottom left of the video timeline there is an audio track.

Click the music note drop down arrow.

Choose Add Audio –

Navigate to your .mp3 downloaded file. It should look something like this:

25. Go to File – Export – Render Video

26. When you are finished with your project upload the finished .mp4 to canvas for presentation

Non Trad Poster Ideas

Click on this link to see the poster designs: NonTradBannerIdeas

They might be really large you may need to zoom out to view.

Final Presentation

Student Sample Portfolio

helenahubbard_final.mp4

 

Portfolio Presentation

Design an Intro that includes your name – In Illustrator

Choose a song to download and play with your final presentation (Your song must NOT have explicit lyrics, if you turn in a project with explicit lyrics you WILL fail the final)

 

Present all your work IN ORDER

 

1. Intro to you Page – (this is a new project Design this in illustrator using your first name)
2. Animal Shapes
3. Apple – Clipping Masks (2)
4. Pen Tool Exercise
5. Personal Logo
6. Stationery Designs – Business Card, Letterhead, Envelope
7. 8up Business Cards
8. Robot
9. Notepad Paper Design
10. 4up Notepad Layout
11. Notepad Photograph
12. Playing Card
13. Typography Design Project
14. Client Logo Sketches
15. Client Logo
16. Type as Illustration (Favorite 2)
17. Button Sketches
18. Button Designs on Computer
19. Button Product
20. Technical Drawing
21. Pattern Design
22. Pattern In County Shape
23. Personal Cartoon Avatar
24. Tea Box Logo Design
25. Barcode
26. Nutrition Facts
27. Tea Box Packaging Design
28. Bottle Label Logo
29. Bottle Label Design
30. Bottle Photograph
31. 3D bottle
32. Bottle Advertisment Poster
33. Cereal Box Logo
34. Cereal Box Design
35. Cereal Box Photographs 
36. Vector Self Portrait
37. Sunburst
38. Design Challenge
39. Calendar Artwork – 12
40. Comic book Page Design
41. Terms Poster Design
42. T-Shirt Design
43. T-Shirt Photograph
44. Add anything you made in your extra time

 

How To FINAL PRESENTATION

 

1. Go to canvas or your desktop and organize all the above files. Put all the files in the a folder called Final Work on your desktop.

 

2. Label all the files (numbers should be listed as 01,02,03,,04,05,06,07,08,09,10,11 etc.)

 

3. You need an MP3 of your favorite song (this must have clean lyrics, if explicit lyrics are used in your final project YOU WILL FAIL THE FINAL). If you find your song on youtube.com you can download the song using this link:

http://www.youtube-mp3.org/ (Links to an external site.)

 

5. Find your song on youtube.com

5. Copy the url address (an example ishttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMU0tzLwhbE)
6. Go to the site http://www.youtube-mp3.org/
7. Paste it in the box and click convert Video

8. Click Convert Video
9. Click the Download link

10. The MP3 file should download to your Finder – Downloads folder

 

11. LISTEN to the song and make sure there are NO explicit lyrics

12. Open Adobe Photoshop – It should be on your doc but if it isn’t, go to your Finder – applications folder – Adobe Photoshop CC – Adobe Photoshop CC.app

13. Go to File –New – Choose Film & Video

14. Set the video settings to HDTV 1080p/29.97, RGB, White Background

Click OK

Go to File – Place

Navigate to your Final Work Folder on your desktop

 

Navigate to the folder on your desktop called Final Work

Holding Shift on your keyboard, select the first file then scroll to the bottom of the list and click the last file – This will select all the files in your folder. You should have more than my example folder.

 

Drag all the files into your photoshop video document.

You will get a Place Window that looks like this:

Click OK

All your images will overlap.  You will have a big X over each photo, just keep clicking OK and Enter, OK and Enter

If you would like to change the size of any of your images or the placement this is the time to do that.

 

Go to Window – Timeline

 

23.Click on the button “Create Video Timeline”

Choose Create Video Timeline, Then CLICK ON create video Timeline.

 

It should look like this but with many more layers

 

 

24. Each Layer or Slide should last for about 2:00f which is about 30 seconds.

 

25. Drag the end and the beginning of the purple box to the correct timing for each layer.

Click and drag them like stairs, so they alternate slides viewing.

When finished it should look like this:

 

26. Add your music to the Audio Track by clicking on the music note

it should look like this:

27. You need to end the song when your video ends so you scroll all the way to the right at the end of the  song and drag back this little icon to match with your last slide.

28. FIRST SAVE YOUR FILE – Just in case your document crashes during rendering.

28. Then Go to File – Export – Render Video

 

 

29. When you are finished with your project let the instructor know, it will be collected for your presentation.