A-201 Demo : Tracing Image

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If your client bring a hand drawing sketch or some art works to you to create, and they want the new art work to match the sketch exactly the same, live trace will be the right way to go. Let’s prepare a good quality sketch, scan it, and get it ready for live tracing. You […]

A-201_Project-1: Easter Egg
A-201_Project-2: Magnet Design

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Project-1: Easter Egg Objective: Utilize Adobe Illustrator CS6 to create four Easter Eggs. Carly Robison Jordan Tremain About the first project, let’s begin the process step by step: 1. Finding your inspirations, and starting your brainstorming • You may manipulate a photo or other images, but have to trace the photo elements in Illustrator 2. […]

A-201 Exercise: Tracing art works
with the Pen Tool_FA’12

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Let’s explore the Pen Tool in our first exercise. First of all, let’s get started with following activities A. Drawing straight lines B. Drawing curves C. Converting corners and curves D. Getting familiar with Pen tool, Exercise: Tracing art works with the Pen Tool family • Pen tool (P) • Add Anchor Point Tool (+) […]

A-201 Demos: Understanding Illustrator CS6 and Related File Formats

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Demo-1: Understanding Illustrator’s Control Panel: http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-illustrator-cs6/understanding-the-control-panel/ Demo-2: Understanding Illustrator File Formats: • ~.ai Adobe Illustrator File (when double click, opens the file by Adobe Illustrator • ~.eps (Adobe Illustrator EPS File): The EPS file type is primarily associated with ‘Encapsulated PostScript’. There are two distinct types of .EPs files, one of which is a vector based […]

A-201_Preferred Hardware

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Truman Art Department computer labs (OP 1210 & OP1224) have equipped 40 brand new iMac computers. However, if you are a visual communication major, a MacBook Pro laptop, or an iMac, with the following specifications is preferred: 15″ MacBook Pro – 2.6GHz 2.6GHz Intel Core i7 (quad-core) with Turbo Boost up to 3.3GHz 4GB DDR3 […]

Course Guide : A-201_Fall 2012

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A-201 Catalog Description: Art-201 – Design Software and Process is a three credit hours studio class with an emphasis on design software and process. It is a foundation class of the Visual Communication field. The core of the course is developing and preparing computer skills in the contemporary digital environment. Course Level: Entry-level visual communications […]

Course Schedule & Office Hours
A-201_Fall 2012

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Class Meets: MWF / 3:30 – 5:20 p.m. Date Range: August 24 – Dec 14 Office Hours: MWF: 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. TT: 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. / 4:20-5:20 p.m. Classroom: OP1224 Office: OP1231 Mobile: 601-234-5558 Phone: 660-785-4457 (w) E-mail: pxstudio@gmail.com URL: www.pxstudio.us