1.5.10

Warm Up - 10min

POTD
QOTD:
Have you ever taken a final exam B4? What study strategies did you use? Were they effective? Who taught you how to study? Do you feel uneasy about tests? Why do you think that is?

Downloads of the day:
- Favorite Magazine or Book Cover (for review, optional if you already did one)
- a barcode

Part 1: Final Exam Update - 10 min
- Distribute Test Questions Study Guide
Format
part 1 - multiple choice (all questions may be on test)
part 2 - project based (prezi + photoshop & illustrator)

Part 2: Prezi Review 20 min
- Logging in
- Creating New
Zooming in/out
Place
Media
Text
Frame
Line
Path
Screenshot

TASK:
Create a basic prezi that incorporates the following:
text
frames
lines
media/image
a path

TAKE A SCREENSHOT (CMMD + SHIFT + 4) AND POST TO YOUR BLOG

Part 3: Complete Magazine/Book Cover or review/study for test - 60 min

Last week was: Too strict with the Magazine cover. The whole finding fonts part and trying to match up the pixels was way too intense.

Instead:

---------REMOVING BACKGROUND------------

Use photoshop to remove the background from your cover model (yourself). Export the image as a gif to preserve transparency. (review for test)

- take a picture of yourself in photo booth
- drag your image to the desktop and close photo booth
- open image of yourself in photoshop
- in your toolbox double click the hand tool
- make a duplicate layer

- in your layers window mute the bottom layer (turn off the eye)
- (optional step: go to Image>adjustments>Levels and adjust your lighting)
- from your toolbox select the magic wand tool or quick selection tool
- with your magic wand or QST click on the background of your image, if you want more of your background to be selected, INCREASE the - - TOLERANCE, or use the quick selection tool and short bursts to select more of the background
- delete your entire background, you should see the checkered background representing transparency.
- (optional step: in your toolbox use the crop tool to remove some of the extra space around your portrait.)
- Time to save. Go to File>Save for Web & Devices
- Change to GIF and SAVE to your desktop (DO NOT CLOSE PHOTOSHOP, just minimize it)
you can now drag your saved image into your Illustrator document at any time!

------------------------OPEN YOUR MAGAZINE COVER IN ILLUSTRATOR--------------------

Before you add that image to illustrator let’s first open your mag cover in illustrator and set up some guides.

- drag your mouse from the side and top ruler to create a new guide line (blue line)
- drag these above, below and to the side of any text that you see on your magazine cover

---------( OPTIONAL ADD A BACKGROUND COLOR)----------

- from your toolbox choose the rectangle tool (m)

- choose a fill color

- draw a rectangle that covers your entire background

-------------------------FONTS AND TEXT---------------------------

Look at the fonts used on the original cover. What colors, sizes and how many different styles of font were used? Use the same or similar styles on your cover. You can choose to use real headlines from current events, or fake one that you just made up!

-----------------FINAL TOUCHES-----------------

- add your bar code
- add the Price, issue and date