In class tue Feb 20th

Barbara Kruger: Crossing the line between Design and Art

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Pattern examples from past classes 

Steps in the Graphic Design Process:

• Analyze the audience.
• Determine the purpose of your message.
• Decide where and how your message will appear (whether it will be a printed publication, presentation, or web site).
• Establish goals.
• Organize text and graphics.
• Choose an appropriate format and layout.
• Select appropriate typefaces, type sizes, type styles, and spacing.
• Add and manipulate graphics.
• Organize text and graphics.
• Proofread
• Refine and fine-tune.

Layout in Photoshop

- Preferences

- Guides, Rulers & Grids

- Unprintable boarder

- templates

- single page, multipage, 3d (box)

Patterns

William Morris 1834 -1896,  English Textile Designer

William Morris wallpaper

Colourlovers.com

Photoshop basics

- Opening a File

* DPI

- Image size - used to change the amount of pixels in the image

- Canvas size - used to add extra pixels to the image

- Save:

* File Types

--- Photoshop .PSD file is your working file (keep this forever)

--- JPEG file is a 'Flattened' and Compressed file

How to make a Pattern in Photoshop

1. Find an image

2. crop as you wish

3. Double the hight of the canvas. Center your image at the bottom of the canvas.

4. Cut and Paste your image onto a new layer

5. Edit-->Transform-->Rotate-->Flip on the horizontal your new layer

6. Move your new layer to the top of the image

7. Flatten the Image

Ding!! Your Pattern is done.

* try doubling the size of the width and repeating the process to extend your pattern.

Try to make some patterns in class.

*You need to create 12 hi-rez patterns for the assignment!

Proj 2 & 3 Due Thur Feb 22nd