*Illustrated Words ~ Illustrator Portrait ~ Intro to Typography ~ Propaganda Poster ~ T-Shirt Design ~ Inner vs. Outer Self ~InDesign Booklet~ Monogram/Alphabet*
WelcomeIn this course you will be given the opportunity to discover what digital design (better known as graphic design) is and learn the practical applications of your artistic skills. High school students who love art are especially concerned about whether or not they will be able to support themselves as artists. This course will challenge you to use your creative artistic skills while also learning the basics necessary to pursue the field of graphic design where, one day, you could professionally combine your love of art with your everyday work. For this class, you will need to have an open mind, enjoy problem solving, and not being afraid of making mistakes!
Course Objectives: • To analyze and create original solutions for graphic design assignments. • To introduce the tools, materials, and vocabulary of graphic design. • To be able to use the Adobe CS5 Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign) efficiently and effectively. • To learn the commercial applications for fine art skills. • Learn how to effectively use ArtRage as a tool for both ideation as well as projects. Printers print color onto paper using the CMYK color mode only. This is a four color mode that utilizes the colors cyan, magenta, yellow and black in various amounts to create all of the necessary colors when printing images. It is a subtractive process, which means that each additional unique color means more light is removed, or absorbed, to create colors. When the first three colors are added together, the result is not pure black, but rather a very dark brown. The K color, or black, is used to completely remove light from the printed picture, which is why the eye perceives the color as black
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Student ProjectsRGB is the color scheme that is associated with electronic displays, such as CRT, LCD monitors, digital cameras and scanners. It is an additive type of color mode, that combines the primary colors, red, green and blue, in various degrees to create a variety of different colors. When all three of the colors are combined and displayed to their full extent, the result is a pure white. When all three colors are combined to the lowest degree, or value, the result is black. Software such as photo editing programs use the RGB color mode because it offers the widest range of colors.
Why Convert Color Modes?The RGB scheme has a greater range of colors than CMYK and can produce colors that are more vivid and vibrant. These colors are beyond the range of CMYK to reproduce and will come out darker and more dull in print than what is seen on the monitor or display. Because the RGB color mode has the full range of colors, documents shown in CMYK mode will always show up precisely on-screen. RGB colors, however, will not necessarily appear in print as they do on-screen. To accurately print the document or image, it must be converted from its original RGB format to CMYK. It is possible to do this by using software such as Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator.
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