Remember to make a JPEG copy of all your work for your portfolio!

Class,
Remember to make a JPEG copy of all of your Adobe InDesign projects for your portfolio!

When you have a project open, say the Newsletter (Exercise 8), go to File > Export 

and then be sure to choose JPEG as the format.  Save it to your desktop, or documents or wherever you can find it later to add to your portfolio website (remember at the end of Semester 1?)

St. Valentine's Day Extra Credit - Make it and turn it in today! (2/13 and 2/14)

Class,

In honor of St. Valentine's Day, you may create a drawing for "your sweetheart".  Use Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop and have fun, experiment with the brush tool, import and "place" an image from the internet or do what ever you feel inspires you!

Remember that we are at school so keep it "appropriate".

You only have today (February 13 (or 14 if you are period 1, 3, and 7) to do it.

Name it as period#_lastname_firstname_ec.ai and put it into the Mr. Komar dropbox.

The above images were from a classmate of yours...

Exercise 7 and 8 pushed out one class day to make way for the Extra Credit

Class,
Exercise 7 is now due 2/14
Exercise 8 is now due 2/18

Good Luck.

Exercise 8 - Newsletter, due 2/15

EXERCISE 8 NEWSLETTER

BACKGROUND

Newsletters take many forms.  You have been asked to make a newsletter that has both text and overlapping graphics.  In this exercise, you will learn how to get text to go around graphics and to be on top of graphics.

You will find the files for the exercise in the Mr. Komar Shared folder.

Due 2/15

Exercise 7 - Sporting Event Ticket due 2/8

Background

For this lesson you assemble two master pages and two page spread. The end product in this project is a pair of sample tickets, one for basketball and one for a motocross event.  They are the same in layout and style.  Only the event information, color and background image differ.  A strategic use of master pages eliminates all duplication of effort.  

If you want extra credit – make one or both of the tickets for your own event.  However your graphic will have to look good so be sure to use Object > Fitting to make sure the image fits correctly.  You can do it!

Extra Credit -- Design your own T-Shirt

Class,
In case you missed the listing on the class board, you may design your own T-Shirt at http://www.customink.com.  

This will be for 15 extra points.  That could be difference between a grade in the future.


Go to the Design Lab link

You must have something in it that is YOUR OWN DESIGN.  You can upload Adobe Illustrator files and not even need to turn them into JPEGs.

When you are done, go to "print this"

You will be asked for a file name and email.  Give it a fake email account like blah@gmail.com if you do not want to use your own. 

The next page lets you "print it out"











When you print it out, choose "Save as PDF..."


Save the file as period#_lastname_firstname_ec.pdf and put it in the good ol' Mr. Komar Dropbox.

Exercise 6 – Project Proposal, Due 2/5

EXERCISE 6 – Project Proposal

Due 2/5

BACKGROUND

For this InDesign lesson you will assemble a 4-page. black-and-white publication. This project proposal presents an architect's plan for the development of a community facility within the coast town of Bella Coola. Located in British Columbia the western-most province of Canada, Bella Coola is named for the people who have in habited the region for uncounted generations.  To establish a base for this multipage publication, you will assemble a master page. Once assembled, this master page will make it possible to place text and graphics elements, column guides, and page-number markers (for automatic page numbering on every page within the proposal publication automatically.  In this exercise, you will begin assembling by setting up the document, including guides, margins, columns, and layers. 

You will find the instructions and files to insert in the Mr. Komar Shared folder under "06 Project Proposal"

Here is how the final publication will appear: