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Week 28 Projects and Objectives

3/17/2013

 
Crunch Week - This is our final week to finish this year's yearbook. A number of photo sessions are scheduled. We have tracked those areas that we need to work on this week and they are listed on the class' white board. Try to keep this board up-to-date with anything that you feel could use improvement. We're trying to create the best book ever done at PIckering and we need everyone thinking and analyzing how we can improve over past issues.

Theory This Week  - One area that we are going to be stressing this week is the concept of creating page layouts that will print and transfer well. This means using Preflight Profiles in InDesign. Download this preflight document and we'll be discussing how this profile can help us avoid pitfalls in getting our book to the publisher and saving time and money by avoiding mistakes.

Our Workflow -  for creating pages must be consistent and mirrors what is done in industry. Here are the basic steps:
  1. Copy images from the server to your computer. You can use Bridge to do this so that you're only copying those images that you will definitely use in your layouts. Pick the BEST images you can find. If you can't find them - take them!
  2. Create a separate folder for each page layout you'll be working on. Move all images, logos and graphics into the folder so that all items that go on a page are together in one place. This organization step is critical!
  3. Create a new InDesign Document - 8.5" x 11, .25" margins, .125" bleed, and if you're doing a two-page spread, create three pages in your document. This way we'll be able to see both the left and right side of the pages together.
  4. Create your layout. You can use and adapt the templates that are located on Tucker's Resources to get started. SAVE OFTEN - every five minutes is a good rule of thumb for saving.
  5. Place your original photos into graphic frames by selecting the frame then choosing File>Place
  6. Scale ALL images proportionally - you can set this to occur for all frames on your page by selecting all of them and choosing Object>Fitting>Frame Fitting Options>Fill Frame Proportionally. This will prevent us from stretching images. They don't look good using that method.
  7. The placed pictures are unedited at this point. They are not the correct resolution for printing. They might be light or dark or have a color cast. They are simply linked jpeg files at this point. The next steps are really important to get right.
  8. Determine the actual size of the images by clicking on them with the white arrow selection tool or clicking on the resize circle. Open Transform from the tool menu and mark down the width of the image. Make sure that you're not seeing the width of the frame when you do this.
  9. Control-click on the image and choose>edit with Photoshop. This will launch Photoshop and open the image you just sized in InDesign.
  10. Choose Image>Image Size. This will open a dialog box that you will use to resize the image. Use the width you marked down in InDesign and choose Auto… and select 133 line, best setting. Photoshop will reset the resolution so that it's perfect.
  11. Fix Color cast, lighten the image to bring out darker details if necessary using levels or brightness/contrast layer adjustments. Flatten the image down.
  12. Choose Filter>Sharpen>Smart Sharpen and set the sharpening to 80 with a radius of 1. If you click on the preview you will see a before/after of how details like hair and eyes really come into much better view.
  13. Choose Image>Mode>CMYK Color - this will allow our printer to separate the four process colors.
  14. Choose File>Save as and save as a tiff file.
  15. Return to InDesign and relink your edited photo to replace the jpeg file. Redo these steps for each image on your page making sure that you're getting the correct size for each image!

Week 27 Projects & Objectives

3/9/2013

 
We have a busy couple of weeks coming up. We have started putting together designs for this year's yearbook in order to make this important deadline. A number of photo shoots need to occur this week. This Tuesday afternoon our seniors will be taking the hands-on part of the NOCTI exams. We all will be doing some practice exercises to make sure we're comfortable with tasks that may appear in the exam. These tasks include:
  • Straightening an image using Photoshop's new crop/straighten tool.
  • Removing color cast and color-correcting an image.
  • Creating a logo trace in Adobe Illustrator.
Make sure that you're checking your student email accounts regularly as a number of working Google documents have been shared with you. If you haven't indicated which pages you would like to work on yet, do so early in the day on Monday. Everyone will be called upon to do the hard work that is necessary to create a memorable yearbook.
Please let me know if you have any issues getting to the following yearbook tools:
  • Tucker's Resources>2013 Shield Assets>Yearbook Templates
  • Google Docs>2013 Layout Guide Spreadsheet
  • Google Docs>AM or PM Media Blitz Presentation

We'll be using this reference to complete the creation of our yearbook. Please download this first thing on Monday. It will help you understand how designing for print production differs from how we would design for digital web or electronic documents.

Week 26 Projects & Objectives

3/3/2013

 
I'm beginning the week at a conference in Hershey. I presented a session on QR Codes this morning and on Monday I'll be presenting with Ms. Kleinfelter and Mrs. Moylan. As a result, I will not be in class on Monday. I'm going to let you choose your project today - but I expect all of you to post a finished work by the end of class. 


Here are your choices for today:

Create Your Own Font: One of the presenters I worked with this morning (Christine DiPaulo) shared this terrific website that allows you to create your own font. The site is called Fonstruct. What I'd like you to do before the end of class is this:
  1. Create a free account on Fontstruct. Look at some of the fonts that others have created and that you can download.
  2. Create either an uppercase or lowercase version of your first and last name. I recommend zooming in to see the fine details of the font you're creating. There are basic tutorials that will show you how to use bricks of various shapes to create your dream font. Post a screen capture of the lettershapes that you create.
  3. Make sure you save the project on the site and you mark down both your username and password so you can return to finish this on Tuesday. It would be a good idea to bookmark this site as you'll probably want to work with this a lot more!

Create two mousepad designs:
If you won a mousepad kit in the past week or two, create the design for your mousepad. The design can be created in either Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop. The finished dimension is 9.25 in. x 7.75 in. If you're working in Photoshop, you'll need a resolution between 200 and 300 pixels per inch. Post a screen capture of your finished design. Make sure you save the finished file to your hard drive. If you didn’t win a mousepad, I’ll give a kit to any student that also submits a yearbook cover design today.

Create a band, then create a band logo
This is a project we did several years ago and I'd like to see what you can do with this design challenge. Google "name my band" and try out a few of the suggested name creators. Decide on a name and then using Adobe Illustrator, create a two or three color logo for your new band. You'll need to create thumbnails for generating ideas and then expand one thumbnail for a full design in Illustrator.


If you didn't make a journal entry on Friday - I'll let you make it up on Monday - but it has to show the projects we worked on last week. Don't waste time!


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