Using both Pixlr/Sumopaint (for photo manipulation) AND Inkscape (for text and final layout), create a promotional poster for a fictitious event. Make it a BIG EVENT! Remember, your main grading criteria are:
1. Be informative 2. Be attractive/eye-catching 3. Number of processes 4. Skillful photo editing and typesetting This assignment must be submitted for grading in three parts: 1. One page containing the unedited photos you used 2. One page containing the edited versions of your photos (edited in Photoshop, Pixlr or Sumo) 3. One page containing the final Inkscape version with text and any other effects that were done
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Our Inkscape quiz will require students to perform the following functions while using the softwar in real time:
1. Setup a workspace using Document Properties [FILE > DOCUMENT PROPERTIES > Choose dimensions, background color, orientation, etc.] 2. Import an image file (jpg, tif, png, etc.) [FILE > IMPORT > Select an image that you've already saved.] 3. Draw basic (2-D, not Create 3-D Boxes) geometric and freeform shapes [On the left-hand toolbox bar, select the RECTANGLE tool (blue-ish square button). Move your cursor into the workspace. Press and hold left mouse button and drag the cursor, making your rectangle the size and proportions you want.] 4. Put text to path [Type something using the TEXT tool (the "A" button on the left-hand toolbox bar). Then, somewhere else on your workspace, draw a 2-D shape, spiral or free-hand line (using the pencil tool on the left-hand toolbox bar). You will then have two objects on the page, the text and the line. Using the SELECT tool (the black arrow at the top of the left-hand tool box bar), click on one of the objects. You will know that the object is selected when eight arrows surround the object. Then select the second object with the SELECT tool by clicking on it while holding down SHIFT. Once both objects are selected, click TEXT on the top command bar. From the dropdown menu, click PUT ON PATH.] 5. Change the Colors of objects [SELECT an object you've drawn. From the top command bar click on OBJECT. From the drop down menu click STROKE AND FILL. A toolbox will open on the right-hand side of your screen. Experiment with the FILL (color of the object) and STROKE (outline) variations. 6. Apply Filters to objects [SELECT an object you've drawn. From the top command bar, click FILTERS. Experiment with the MANY different visual effects you can get by applying the various filters to it.] DATES FOR THE QUIZ ARE AS FOLLOWS: PERIOD 3a: MONDAY, OCTOBER 23rd (MOVED TO WEDNESDAY, OCT 25) PERIODS 6b & 7b: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24th (MOVED TO THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26) STUDENTS WILL BE SEATED AT A COMPUTER, WORKING IN InkScape WHILE PROMPTED BY ME TO EXECUTE THE COMMANDS Any students who have not yet printed and submitted Assignments 4, 5, 6 and 7 may send them to me via email at [email protected] by the end of school Monday, October 16th.
Emails MUST include a subject line written EXACTLY as the example below or the work will not be graded. - Last name written in all caps - First intitial lowercase - P# written in parentheses EXAMPLE: LOUGHRANd(7) Please read the articles found through the links below. There will be a quiz on them. I will announce the date for the quiz in class.
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__en.wikipedia.org_wiki_Barack-5FObama-5F-2522Hope-2522-5Fposter&d=DwICAg&c=xqeeNFbi0oBFbe4IznK4e--5GG6Clqq80LVi1AqPhGE&r=xMGYbE_ZBbi9j1LzVO1ZKmskXqWcvtTnBxhftFNPIsU&m=8iOrADWxR6OD4wifBv7fuomIbnrbLdBDtugHXh40rvQ&s=yfL-IPqga1of7iw97QlTu48WolsI3eDGPZikS17Y550&e= https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.ethicsingraphicdesign.org_was-2Dshepard-2Dfaireys-2Duse-2Dfair_&d=DwICAg&c=xqeeNFbi0oBFbe4IznK4e--5GG6Clqq80LVi1AqPhGE&r=xMGYbE_ZBbi9j1LzVO1ZKmskXqWcvtTnBxhftFNPIsU&m=6kzKWqdM6bNfQ0CXi4LlqCTm4Un65ALvdsJoMtLIxoI&s=OG3PCWpa3oDUXv8SR7qrLa9rwHONl6SMv3IwGliy5dc&e= Assignment #11
A good logo is a unique, creative, eye-catching and informative image or symbol that represents an organization, institution or business. Often logos are stylized photographic images that have been edited in Photoshop which are then imported into a vector-based drawing program like Adobe Illustrator or CorelDraw for final layout with text. Your assignment is to create an idea for a fictitious company or organization OR choose an existing company or organization. Design (or redesign) five different logos for that company. The process of creating your logos should begin with editing a photo in a raster-based program like Pixlr, Sumo or Photoshop. That image should then be saved and imported into a vector-based program like svg-editor, janvas, vectr, vectormagic or method-draw (or search online for "free online vector graphics software") in order to add text and create the final layout. In doing so, be creative with the fonts you use, font colors, styles, placement, etc. Examples of this assignment are attached below. Try this drawing program for our upcoming assignments that require SVG software:
http://editor.method.ac/ Assignment #10 Create an art forgery. Select a famous painter (artist), someone whose work sells for millions of dollars. If you're not sure who such a person is, Google it. Then select 4 or 5 of his or her well-known paintings. Working in Pixlr, Sumo, Photoshop, etc., copy/cut and paste objects or parts of each of those well-known paintings to create a new composition (painting). Your "new" painting should not be able to be recognized as any one of the original paintings, but a new work made of the bits and pieces of the artist's known paintings. This is similar in a way to what art forgery artists do. They make paintings that look so much like the paintings of famous artists that they are thought to be "lost works" (paintings the artist made that the world did not know existed and were "discovered"). These artworks are often inspected by experts and usually found to be fakes. But sometimes these fakes are accepted by the world as genuine and sell for millions of dollars. It is estimated that as much as 10% of the art in museums around the world is counterfeit. The painting on the left is the fake I made as an example. The smaller paintings on the right are Van Gogh's real paintings that I got all my bits and pieces from. |
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