Today’s Plan:
- Work List #1 Clarification
- Your Questions
- Photoshop Fundamentals
- Homework
Work List #1 Clarification
Sorry about the confusion regarding the first Work List due date. Hopefully you saw my email this weekend clarifying that the project will now be due before class on Wednesday. We will watch those projects in Wednesday’s class. Afterwards, we will discuss the Schroeppel reading and I will layout the second Work List assignment.
Your Questions
One person asked:
I’m concerned that if (or, in my opinion, when) the University goes fully online, completing the projects in this class are going to become impossible–especially without access to the school’s technology. I don’t think this is something that you can help me with (I need to call Apple) but my Mac won’t even let me download iMovie.
Let me say that if we go fully online, then I understand that many of you will not have access to Adobe Premiere, or a computer that could even be capable of running it. Expectations will change. I forsee two paths:
- You use a lightweight, open-source editor like OpenShot
- We use video editing apps designed for a smart phone or tablet
We will find a way to make this work.
Someone else asked: “How do you stop being anxious around technology?”
Let me tell a quick story.
Someone else commented: “Im afraid of shooting myself in a video, and scared of stepping out of my comfort zone.”
Photoshop Phundamentals
There’s a number of topics that I would like to cover today. First, some nuts and bolts stuff, including image/canvas size, image resolution, and file types. Second, I want to show you how to display a grid. Third, some basic alterations: cropping and lighting/color adjustments. Fourth, some image editing tricks (magic eraser). Fifth, we want to work with text. Finally, I want to work a bit with layers. We’ll see how far we get through this today–we might carry working with Photoshop over until Friday.
Photoshop isn’t necessarily the best tool for making a flyer–particularly because it isn’t set up for direct printing (though I have a tutorial below that walks us through–sort of–making a flyer). BUT Photoshop is great for making mock-ups–imagining the layout for a print document before you assemble it in InDesign (because it is easier to play around in Photoshop).
I have created a drive folder with the images we will be using for today.
Nuts and Bolts: Image Size, Resolution, Display a Grid
For this part of the tutorial, we will use these images:
- guinness-sleeping.jpg [image size, canvas size, units of measurement]
- Turn on a grid
Cropping, Adjusting Light and Color
For this part of the tutorial, we will use these images:
- Let’s try cropping a few images
- 02Start.tif; pp. 38-41
Some Basic Image Editing / “Healing”
For this part of the tutorial, we will use these images:
- Keep working in 02Start, pp. 44-45
- Image
Working with Text / Layers
For this part of the tutorial, we will use these images:
- Lesson 4 files
- Image
Two Quick Tutorials
For this part of the tutorial, we will use these images:
Homework
Due Wednesday:
- Read the Schroeppel chapter 2 on Composition. There’s about 10 guidelines in there for outlining a video, and we’ll identify those in Wednesday’s class
- Submit Work List #1 before class starts
Note that Friday’s assignment will be to complete the Adobe Premiere Classroom in a Book chapter 5, Essentials of Video Editing. You’ll submit screenshots after a few different exercises via Canvas.
