Next we  will continue on to the software known as After Effects read chapters 18, 19 and 20  on the Digital_foundations Wiki.
http://wiki.digital-foundations.net/index.php?title=Chapter_18_CC18

The following is a pdf containing terminology for Adobe After Effects

Motion Graphics Terms

motion-graphics-terms2

and study the following questions:

• What kind of project might you use Adobe Animate or Adobe After Effects for?
• What file types are associated with “After Effects”?
• Does “After Effects” use vector or raster graphics?
• What are key frames?
• What is “tweening” (transitions)? Provide an example of how tweening is used from our reading.
• What is the frame rate of an animation? What units is it measured in? What happens if you change it?
• What is the timeline? How do we use it to adjust pacing?

After completing our classwork on photoshop I am giving those who are interested an extra credit assignment: If you come to lab and complete the project in  Chapter 10 on your own and turn in your assignment to me it will be worth an additional 10 points (same as a quiz!) I look forward to seeing your happy faces during lab time. Yes you could also do the project at home if you download the software from Adobe.com and use the student discount.

I also will want to see the final product on your usb drive so that I can inspect your work on the individual layers (i.e. save the.psd)

Okay, you’ve all come very far in the space of four lessons now we are going to take another leap forward. Next you will all learn how to make a basic web page and edit it using Adobe Dreamweaver, but first you will read Chapter 12,  because I want you to understand some concepts in this chapter on editing graphics for the web as well as Chapter 15, Chapter 16 through Chapter 17 as there will be a quiz.

STUDY QUESTIONS:

• According to our authors what is the difference between a .gif file and a .jpeg
• Be able to define the following terms:

1. an optimized file format
2. root folder
3. domain name
4. URL
5. hosting plan
6. server
7. universal Link
8. relative link

• What does URL stand for? How do we define it and how is does it differ from a domain?
• What does WYSIWYG stand for? What is one advantage of using a WYSIWYG program like Dreamweaver to create webpages?
• How could you construct a web page if you didn’t have Dreamweaver?
• What does “split view” show you in Dreamweaver?
• Identify two or more ways you can use hyperlinks when building a website. (What can you link from? What can you link to?)
• Identify two or more ways you can incorporate  an image when building a webpage.
• When constructing a web page, how can you separate the page’s style from its content? Why would you want to?
• What is CSS? Identify two ways in which it can be utilized.
• What code or language is this? What are the the words inside the <> brackets called?

For next class we will dive a little deeper into Adobe Photoshop and it’s inner workings, through our readings and the exercises we will see just why this software package has become the industry standard for Digital Image Editing. To that end we will read Chapter 9, Chapter 10, and Chapter 11 which covers using layers, repetition and cloning and non destructive editing.

Also you might want to review Chapter 7 and Chapter 8 because we may need to be running through some of those the exercises that we did not get to fully complete today.(I will be adding another post which will utilize the images from the chapters so we can easily save them from our blog in class for tomorrows exercises)

also if you did not read it yet, the link for Xtine Burrough’s article can be found here:  http://designeducator.info/?p=193 (there might be a study question about it being reused today).

STUDY  QUESTIONS: (you’ll notice that some of these questions are repeated from last week)

1. What are  the main points that xtine burrough makes in her blog post about email communication?
2. If you wanted to duplicate one part of an image and use it to cover up another part, how could you do that in Photoshop?
3. What do we mean by screen resolution? Why is this sometime preferable?
4. If are working on an image with multiple layers, how do you know which layer you are working on at any given time?
5. How are Clipping masks in Photoshop and Illustrator similar?
6. What does it mean to edit “non-destructively”? What is one technique that allows you to edit non-destructively?
7. If you were going to use Adobe Photoshop to edit a portrait, for instance, to remove red spots on a persons skin, why would you want to make a copy of the background layer first?
8. What can you use “masking” for?
9. What effect does it have to adjust the “opacity” slider in the layers palette?
10. What are “adjustment layers”? How are they different from regular image layers? What kinds of things are adjustment layers good for (why would you use them)?
11. What does the “unsharp mask” filter do? (Chapter 8)
12. Describe a non-destructive technique for making an image appear black and white in Photoshop. Why is this preferable to using the black and white setting on your camera or in the scanner settings?
13. When you are working on a file in Photoshop, why should you save it as a PSD instead of a JPG?

I want you all to try to use lab time to complete chapter 5 exercises 2, 3 and 4 … it is not a lot exercise 4 you make changes to the file you make for exercise 3 and then do a save as and give it a separate file name changing 3 to 4. I f you come during my tutoring hours I will provide assistance.