Last three weeks

Start working on your next three week assignments.

Editors need you icon designs at the end of this week (thats friday).

Assignments for this three weeks

• Blog Safety Check
• Completed Yearbook Page #1 Approval Sheet
• Completed Yearbook Page #2 Approval Sheet
• Yearbook OoC Photos (50+)
• Yearbook OoC Poll
• Yearbook OoC Sales
• Independent Photography Assignment
• Independent Photoshop Assignment

Multimedia

Color Models
Still confused on RGB and CMYK? Learn more about CMYk & RGB. I found another interesting article, but only RGB. Try mixing the different colors of light and pigment in this online applet.




Download this Pages document on the Color Models CMYK and RGB.

Easy RGB

Color Conversion

Color Conversion Calculator

Play with the calculators above. Each calculator gives the same data, use whichever you find the most useful. Notice, red is already filled out for you. Can you figure out where I got those numbers? Try recreating red to figure out where they all came from in the calculators. In the document, fill in the tables for each color, using the calculators. When finished, screenshot each color model and post them on your blog. 

Photoshop: Food Face

You Are What You Eat

For the next project, you will need to catalog the different things you eat for about a week. This project will be explained in more depth at the start of class.

Collect images of the different foods you've eaten. If you can find them on solid color backgrounds, it will be easier. Next, take another photo of yourself in photobooth, and open it in photoshop. Open up your food images in Photoshop as well, and using the lasso tool, magic wand tool, or just the simple eraser, try to separate the food from the background. Try to create a portrait of yourself from the foods you've eaten.

We'll continue this through next week, allowing you to slowly build up more foods to use for your portrait. Look at some examples below of food art. If you haven't finished the other photoshop stuff, you can work on it once you get to a stopping point for the day.

This will be a project, so you will need each part of the design cycle. Investigate, Plan, Create, Evaluate.

What's a collage? The internet seems confused on it. There are many people who think just a collection of pictures side by side is a collage. Luckily, those who create tutorials for photoshop seem to know what they're talking about. 


Some Food Collages


Check out Giuseppe Arcimboldo to see more examples.

Welcome Back

Hope you had a nice holiday.

The three week period ended last week. Anything you haven't finished yet? If so, you need to show it to me TODAY! Many of you are missing quite a few things. Check what's past due and make sure you haven't missed anything. If there are any blanks in the book, then that assignment isn't affecting your grade yet, and hopefully you've already gotten it taken care of.

Here's a link to the post regarding assignments for the the three weeks.

Welcome Back

Hope you had a nice holiday.

The three week period ended last week. Anything you haven't finished yet? If so, you need to show it to me TODAY! Check what's past due and make sure you haven't missed anything. If there are any blanks in the book, then there's something that I'd like you to fix on it (or if it's the freechoice tutorial for multimedia, then I'm still waiting for you to post your work).

Next class we'll get started on our Photoshop Project. You'll have some homework that goes along with it.

Done? Check out the
RGB & CMYK Keynote Presentation

Nov 21 & 22

Use today to complete previous assignments. 

Robotics

Today & Friday, I want you guys to create some plans. What are you planning?

Show me on your blog what your able to get completed:

Couple things:
Sensors
Plan how you'll show me that you can get all four sensors to work (independently or multiple at a time is up to you).

The Course
I want you guys to design the course. We're going to start talking about robots in space, and so the theme for the course is a robotic rover on Mars. So, plan what would your robot would do on Mars (collecting data and samples). Also, start planning and designing the course and obstacles. Your welcome to do some research regarding robots in space and Mars to aid you. I'd like to see some sketches of the different planned obstacles and course layouts.

Their is one sort of twist to this challenge. When you guys are programming, you'll need to use the sensors in the programming. While there are a lot of things we can do in space with robots, and we can steer them to some degree, we certainly can't accurately land a craft or robot in an exact location, only in a general area. As such, when your robot is to complete the challenge, it will be placed in a general location but not always in the exact same spot. By using your different sensors, you should be able to get your robot to do what it needs to.

Final Robot
Start planning the design for your robot to effectively complete objectives related to to data collection for this task. I'd like to see some sketches of what your robot might look like. Remember, the course is being designed by multiple groups, so the final course will likely be a blending of them. A couple different designs would be useful.

Next Presentation
If your stuck on the previous things, you can also start looking into what you want to present on next.

Multimedia

If you are still working on the previous tutorials, get those finished first.

Next, we need to start talking about color spaces.
Tell me about CMYK & RGB (in your own words, of course).

Heres a few things that may be videos that may help, start at the top and work your way down:

• CMYK
• RGB
• Misadventures of CMYK
• Interactive RGB Game
• Color Modes
• RGB & CMYK
• Additive vs Subtractive
• RGB v CMYK

How far did you have to go down the list to understand what the acronyms CMYK and RGB stand for? What do they acronyms stand for and what are they? When do we use them? How does CMYK work, and how does that compare to how RGB works? One of these videos says one is better than the other, do you agree?
As always, you are welcome to check out other resources on the internet too.

Photoshop Tutorial
There's SO much photoshop can do. For our big project, we'll be creating a collage (more about that later), but we're not quite ready yet. With how much photoshop can do, I don't want to limit your perceptions of it, nor limit your own creativity. I'll give you a little bit of freedom and let you decide the next tutorial you want to complete. Not sure where to begin? Try using words like beginner photoshop tutorials in the search engine of your choosing. You'll find tons of neat things you can do. Try to find one that you can work on for a good amount of time and teach you some new skills. Don't choose something too simple, but don't choose something way beyond your skill level either.

Show me your finished results and provide a link to the tutorial you used. Even if your unsuccessful and decide to switch tutorials, show me what you tried to do and your results. I can only grade what you provide evidence of.

All Finished?
If you have everything complete you should have SIX photoshop images on your blog:

• Experimenting with Photoshop (whatever you created the first class day when you were given time to experiment and play with photoshop)
• Free-form Pen Drawing of a free stock/public domain Photo
• Free-form Pen Drawing from a Photobooth distorted image of yourself
• Andy Warhol-esque Image of a free stock/public domain Photo
• Andy Warhol-esque Image from a Photobooth distorted image of yourself
• Free-Choice Tutorial

In addition, you should have fixed your illustrator projects to have all four parts of the design cycle evident, and have the self analysis on your blog.

Lastly, you should also have the Explaining File Types post on your blog, which was an assignment last six weeks that got pushed back due to many of you not noticing it while you worked on your Illustrator Projects.