Week Two

This week you will create a blog site which will be an ongoing project which you will add to, edit, and continue to personalize.

Web projects will include searching and downloading images. Uploading images.

Photoshop: we will open up images, cut copy and past, color and contrast adjustment, layer arrangement, scaling, saving and exporting.

Hardware: proper use of your USB thumb-drive.

Assignments:

1. Open and save image as jpeg from project two from last week.

2. Create a blog site on www.blogger.com.

A. Use your gmail user name and password to create a new account.

B. Upload jpeg image of project 2 to a blog, and describe in sufficient detail why you chose the image and how you achieved your results. Then post this as your first blog.

C. Email me your blog web address. _____.blogspot.com.

3. Photoshop: poster project that describes where you are from. Use at least five images and text to create a poster of where you are from. (For print purposes create poster at 8.5 x 11in.)

A. Do a google image search for images that will help you in describing where you are from. Copy images to folder for this project.

B. Open images using photoshop, and create a new file for your poster at 8.5 x 11in, at 72 Dpi.

C. Use color, contrast, free transform tools to adjust your images.

D. Use the layer tool to arrange the position of your images on the canvas.

E. Use the text tool to add text to your poster.

F. While working on you poster save work as a photoshop file (.psd) and when do a save and as and create a copy as a jpeg image file (.jpg)

4. Post completed poster to your blog by next Sunday evening at 5pm.