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Week Seven: November 9-13
DUE November 11: Assignment 5
Weekly Checklist
Monday, November 2
GAMEPLAN
- Note - you can click Effect/Crop Marks to make them automatically
- Textures - Photoshop
- Filters and Effects
- Graphic Effects
- Building illustrations
- Banner & button ideas
- Task 2: Effects/Filters/Textures
- Assignment 6
DISCUSSION
Effects
- Alter an object's appearance but not path
- Most Illustrator effects are vector
- Non-vector: drop shadow, inner and outer glows, feather, Photoshop
- Can target a layer, sub layer, or an object
- Has a gallery
Filters
- Alter an object path
- Has a gallery too
- Acts like Photoshop filters, with sketching, etc.
Play
- Pathfinder effects: Don't actually affect the path but appear to
- Glow effects
- Scribble
- Shadow
- Roughen
- Twist
Photoshop Effects/filters
- Need to rasterize Illustrator vector object to use
- Object/Rasterize
Appearance and Graphic Styles
- Apply multiple fills, strokes, opacity appearance (not path)
- Objects or layers
- Are editable
- Separate graphic styles palette
Themes (for banner/button concepts)
- Think consistency in color, fonts, layout
- Aim for a put-together look
- Consider the possible audience when brainstorming ideas
Banner/Buttons
- Banner should have a mix of layers, opacities, colors, textures/graphics, and text
- Logotype cand be added for site identification
- Buttons can be stand-alone or basic and rollover
Demos/Examples
TO DO
- Read Chapters 11 & 12
- Play with 3D Extrude and Bevel effects described starting on page 334 and lighting described starting page 342.
- Use a copy of the icons you created for Assignment 3 to play with graphic styles described starting on page 360
- Task 2: Filter effects, 15 points, due Monday, November 16.
ASSIGNMENT 6
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Wednesday, November 11
NO CLASS - Veteran's Day
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