A-201: Modifying Letterforms
in Photoshop CS6

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1. Cmd N to create a new file (11X5, Resolution: 300, BG: White) 2. Type OHIO by using Type Tool, (Window > Character: Arial 200 pt, yellow) 3. Choose Shape Tool (with Custom Shape Tool) 4. With selecting the custom shape tool, find a shape, drag the new shape above letter O 5. Cmd J […]

P1–Student Work_A-201 / Fall 2012

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Art-201 / Project-1_Selected Student Works Top Three – Student Rating: 1st.: Zhaoli Ge 2nd.: Jeeju Jung 3rd.: Ling-chuan Chen Online Presentation: http://www.flickr.com/photos/_pxstudio/galleries/72157631562765341/with/7986559875/#photo_7986559875

Illustrating Words
in Photoshop CS6

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Today’s demonstrations: • How to combine type and shape (Photoshop) • How to insert pictures into type (Photoshop) • How to modify letterforms (Photoshop CS6 • How to drop a shadow for text (Photoshop) • How to add a stroke for text (Photoshop) • How to emboss the type (Photoshop) • How to apply an […]

A-201 Prepress: Understanding Font

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• OpenType Font is a new standard font created by Adobe and Microsoft. It’s a truly cross platform font. ~.otf • TrueType (TT) Font is an outline font standard developed by Apple in the late 1980s as a competitor to Adobe’s Type 1 fonts used in PostScript. TrueType has become the most common format for […]

A-201 EX: Creating Clipping Masks
& Duplicating a Shape
Using the Rotate Tool

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When working with images or other digital illustrations, Adobe Illustrator provides a quick way to create a mask. Select the image and aboved text, then Cmd 7. Exercise-1: Create an illustration based clipping mask in class. Please check your textbook at page 315 if you have further question after the classroom tutorial. You may use this […]

More Inspirations for Project-1_A-201

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http://qvectors.net http://www.computerarts.co.uk/gallery http://www.flickr.com/groups/pysanky/pool Let’s take a look how to wrap a graphic around a 3D object in Adobe Illustrator: http://tv.adobe.com/watch/layers-tv/episode-94/

Note to VisCom Students
and Print Monitors

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Make sure to prepare your printing files with PDF format as color printing to the Large Format Inkjet Printers is only done with PDF documents. If printing to sheet-fed printers, make sure the paper turned in to the Print Monitor matches the size of page set up in the PDF document. Check-list to students and […]

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 […]