living the american dream

If you had to design your dream house, what would it look like?

FIRST - Begin sketching the ideal layout using pen and paper or digital means. Here are some websites you might try:

1. Floorplanner.com
2. Gliffy.com - press "floorplan" to get started
3. inspiration software (network applications)

SECOND - Create an inspiration board which showcases your dream house vision. You must include the following:

1. Screen shots of your house plan (2 D & 3D)
2. a view of a house interior you want to match your house's style (use the links below)
3. images of the interior features (lighting, furniture, color schemes)
4. images of the setting (where would this house be?)

THIRD - Print 3-5 examples of house exteriors you like. We will be using this image as a jumping off point for a drawing/painting so try and get clear views when possible.

Search these links to get an idea of the STYLE of house you like:

1. About.com House Style Guide
2. Realtor.com guide to house styles
3. Old House styles

Now that you know your favorite styles, search these sites for EXAMPLES of cool house images. Gather a minimum of 6 examples. The following sites are good starting points:

1. Amazing Plans Site
2. House Plan Gallery
3. Houseplans.com
4. coolhouseplans.com
5. ehouseplans.com
6. architectualdesigns.com
7. globalhouseplans.com
8. houseplans.net
9. southern living house plans
10. planhouse.com

... and many more!

DUAL IDENTITIES ACCORDION BOOK

view grading criteria here.


accordion book project

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ASSIGNMENT WORK SCHEDULE

Monday 9/13 –

• analog digital paintings (4)
• introduce assignment
• decide on theme
• take photos to import
• freewriting

Wednesday 9/15 –

• Take photos to import
• Bring freewriting to photograph/scan
• Continue working on book composition
• Begin covers

Friday 9/17 –

• Finish books
• Finish covers
• Double check grade criteria
• Brainstorm “little extras”
• Turn in (digitally) one photoshop sample

Tuesday 9/21 –

• Print and assemble books
• Add “little extras”

Thursday 9/23 – BOOKS DUE

creating your own brushes - step by step

ACCESSING THE NETWORK SPACE & SETTING UP YOUR FOLDER
1. open the RBHS share space (network applications > rbhs share)
2. click on art basics (students)
3. click on your block's folder
4. create a personal folder by right clicking and then selecting new folder
5. type your name

LOCATING YOUR BRUSH IMAGES AND MOVING THEM TO YOUR FOLDER
1. click on the folder marked mark making photos to open
2. view the folder in thumbnail view (view > thumbnails)
3. locate your photos
4. copy and paste (ctrl c = copy, ctrl v = paste) your photos into your folder

EDITING YOUR PHOTOS
1. open your photo by double clicking it
2. click edit pictures (near top)
3. click color, slide the saturation bar all the way to the left
4. click the backwards arrow to go back to the edit options
5.  click brightness and contrast
6. adjust your brightness and contrast so you have a high contrast image

GET YOUR IMAGE INTO PHOTOSHOP
1. open Photoshop
2. drag the icon for your photo directly into your photoshop workspace (just drag and drop)
3. click image > image size (top menu bar)
4. change your image size to 8 x 10 inches
5. follow the directions in the previous post to make your custom brushes

COLOR OPTIONS
kuler.adobe.com
http://www.colourlovers.com/

Create your own photoshop brushes

To learn how to create your own photoshop brushes click here

Getting to know photoshop

What is Photoshop?

Photoshop is the leading digital image editing application for the Internet, print, and other new media disciplines. It is embraced by millions of graphic artists, print designers, visual communicators, and regular people like you. It's likely that nearly every picture you've seen (such as posters, book covers, magazine pictures, and brochures) has either been created or edited by Photoshop. The powerful tools used to enhance and edit these pictures are also capable for use in the digital world including the infinite possibilities of the Internet. (source)

Let's get started!

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Photoshop Bootcamp

Open Adobe Photoshop (on most computers it is Start > Adobe > Photoshop)

1. CREATE A NEW FILE:

• Size: make sure you have your document in INCHES not pixels
• set your size to 5 x 7 inches (vertical format), or 7 x 5 inches (horizontal format)
  
• Resolution: 150
  
• Mode: RGB

2. GET TO KNOW YOUR TOOLBAR: experiment with the buttons to explore your options!

• University of Texas Photoshop Tutorial PDF
  
• Scribd tutorial (nice online book with examples)

3. IMPORT IMAGES: Search for images to copy and paste into document

1. Locate an image (Google image search works well but try other sites as well)
2. To Copy: Right click the image and select COPY OR click the image and select CONTROL + C (shortcut)
3. To Paste: Click the layer you want the image pasted onto, select FILE> PASTE OR select CONTROL + V (shortcut) 

4. ADD LAYERS: Add new layers by clicking the button (on layers palette) 

Video: What are layers?

5. SELECTION TOOLS: First, look at the area you want to select. Use the selection tool appropriate to your selection area by answering the questions below…

• A -- Is the area all of the same color? (or does it have large pieces which are the same color) If so use the magic wand tool
  
• B -- Could the area be cut out in a geometric shape? If so use the shape selection tool
  

If neither A or B apply you’ll probably want to use the quick mask tool or the magnetic lasso.

Video: Selection tool tutorial

7. FILTERS – filters are these wonderful special effects that you can apply to your photos.

• In order to do so you need to first make sure you have an area selected (see steps 6 &;7)
  
• Select FILTER from the menu on the top of the page

8. CHANGING SIZE/TRANSFORMING IMAGES (FILE >TRANSFORM)

• To make them bigger or smaller (TRANSFORM > SCALE or CONTROL + T)
  
• To Rotate images press control T and move cursor beyond the bounds of the image until the cursor turns into rotating arrows, then spin your image as you see fit
  
• To Flip (TRANFORM > FLIP [then choose horizontal or vertical])

9. ADDING TEXT: use the text tool bar, select your font/size, type in text box. More about this in the video here

10. FLATTENING IMAGES: Flattening your image takes all of the layers and compresses them into one (decreasing file size) – DO THIS ONLY IF YOU DON’T NEED TO MANIPULATE IMAGES FURTHER

• Select LAYER > FLATTEN IMAGE

PHOTOSHOP 101

CLICK HERE FOR LINK TO ASSIGNMENT GUIDE

What is Photoshop?

Photoshop is the leading digital image editing application for the Internet, print, and other new media disciplines. It is embraced by millions of graphic artists, print designers, visual communicators, and regular people like you. It's likely that nearly every picture you've seen (such as posters, book covers, magazine pictures, and brochures) has either been created or edited by Photoshop. The powerful tools used to enhance and edit these pictures are also capable for use in the digital world including the infinite possibilities of the Internet. (source)

Let's get started!

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Photoshop Bootcamp

Open Adobe Photoshop (on most computers it is Start > Adobe > Photoshop)

1. CREATE A NEW FILE:

• Size: make sure you have your document in INCHES not pixels
  
• Resolution: 72 (low), 300 (high)
  
• Mode: RGB
  

2. GET TO KNOW YOUR TOOLBAR: experiment with the buttons to explore your options!

• University of Texas Photoshop Tutorial PDF
  
• Scribd tutorial (nice online book with examples)

3. IMPORT IMAGES: Search for images to copy and paste into document

From Internet *	From Scanner (printed material)
Locate an image (Google image search works well but try other sites as well) To Copy: Right click the image and select COPY OR click the image and select CONTROL + C (shortcut) To Paste: Click the layer you want the image pasted onto, select FILE> PASTE OR select CONTROL + V (shortcut)	Put image on scanner bed Click FILE > IMPORT wait for image to pre-scan if image is okay press ACCEPT the image will now be imported into photoshop

4. ADD LAYERS: Add new layers by clicking the button (on layers palette)

• Video: What are layers?
  

5. SELECTION TOOLS: First, look at the area you want to select. Use the selection tool appropriate to your selection area by answering the questions below…

• A -- Is the area all of the same color? (or does it have large pieces which are the same color) If so use the magic wand tool
  
• B -- Could the area be cut out in a geometric shape? If so use the shape selection tool
  

If neither A or B apply you’ll probably want to use the quick mask tool or the magnetic lasso.

Using Quick Mask Mode: Quick mask allows you to color in the areas you want to keep in an image, and select everything else (generally to be deleted). It really comes in handy for complicated shapes because you can vary your coloring tools so much. Here’s how to do it..

• Select the quick mask mode button. You’ll know you’re in quick mask because your file name (bar at the top of the screen) will say “Quick Mask”
  
• Select a tool to “color” with. I’d recommend using the paintbrush and/or paint bucket tool.
  
• Color in all of the areas you want to keep. Make your brush size smaller or larger to get all of those hard to reach itty bitty areas.w
  
• Once you have it all shaded you need to get out of quick mask mode. To do this press this button – Now the outside area should be selected.

• Video: Selection tool tutorial
  

7. FILTERS – filters are these wonderful special effects that you can apply to your photos.

• In order to do so you need to first make sure you have an area selected (see steps 6 & 7)
  
• Select FILTER from the menu on the top of the page

8. TRANSFORMING IMAGES (FILE > TRANSFORM)

• To make them bigger or smaller (TRANSFORM> SCALE or CONTROL + T)
  
• To Rotate images press control T and move cursor beyond the bounds of the image until the cursor turns into rotating arrows, then spin your image as you see fit
  
• To Flip (TRANFORM > FLIP [then choose horizontal or vertical])

9. ADDING TEXT: use the text tool bar, select your font/size, type in text box. More about this in the video here

10. FLATTENING IMAGES: Flattening your image takes all of the layers and compresses them into one (decreasing file size) – DO THIS ONLY IF YOU DON’T NEED TO MANIPULATE IMAGES FURTHER

• Select LAYER > FLATTEN IMAGE
  

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Good resources and tutorials for beginners

University of Washington General Tutorial

Personal Symbol Project

Artistic Research: Browse the following sites for examples of symbols. Record your favorite examples in your sketchbook (you may print the complicated ones). Also write down the symbol's origin and meaning.

1. Symbols.com
2. Other resources on symbols
3. Symbols in Christian Art & Architecture
4. Symbols in Art
5. Aboriginal symbols
6. Symbolism in flowers
7. Animal symbolism
8. Celtic symbols
9. Chinese symbols
10. Egyptian symbols
11. Egyptian heiroglyphs (NOVA site)
12. Traffic symbols
13. Math symbols
14. Music symbols
15. Adinkra (african) symbols
16. Another Adinkra site
17. Tattoo symbols index
18. Chinese zodiac symbols
19. Astrological signs
20. American Sign Language signs (words)
21. Native American Symbols

Can you think of other symbol systems or links? Let me know by posting! Thanks!