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​​ ==This will be my wiki for everyone to use while I am working with the Beginning Digital classes. I will be posting assignments and other information as we continue through the semester. Posting comments and images on the blog will still be expected weekly! If anyone needs to contact me after school hours, my email address is rcadams123@gmail.com. == = =

=Ok, let's jump right in and get started!!! = = = = = = = = = =__Monday, February 22nd.__ = =I want you to continue working on BOTH posters - Events and Public Service. Public Service poster will be due Tuesday 23rd. I want it uploaded to the server as usual. = = = =Reminder: Public Service posters are to be 9x12@300 and will be worth 250 points. Event posters are also to be 9x12@300 and will be worth 150 points. Both posters are to be flattened and turned in to the correct folder ON TIME. The rubrics, for both posters, that are posted on Mr. Myers' wiki are still valid. =

**__Tuesday, February 23rd. __ **
 * Your Public Service poster is due. Now onto the next project...

​__Wed, February 24th/Thursday, February 25th.__ This will be a little different but it will give you a chance to use all of your Photoshop tools that you have acquired and also to use your creativity. If done correctly, these can end up being very cool images!! **



**These are to be 9x12@300 again. First, I want you to pick a famous artist from the past. It can be anyone - for example Da Vinci, Picasso, or Van Gogh. Pick an image ****that speaks to you ... It can be a painting, drawing, sketch, etc. It must be appropriate - no figure studies. I must approve the image before you begin. Then I want you to save the image and, using Photoshop, change <span style="color: #050505; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 186.34%;"> it and make it your own. This can be done in many many <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 121%;">ways including scale, skew, color, vectors, pen, layers, cropping, masks, collage - pretty much anything you can think of. Maybe you layer your image with a contemporary image, maybe you use vectors to make it more cartoon like. The possibilities are endless!! I want you to use AT LEAST THREE different tools. Tools such as cropping do not count in your three unless it is extreme. Do NOT flatten your images before you are finished to avoid having to start over when something is not flowing correctly!! After we talk and I give you the ok to turn in this project, then you will flatten the image before submitting it. I will give you about 2 weeks to do this project, and will set a due date after the first week of working. I will be grading you on how much effort you are putting into these and also how CREATIVE you are being! If you have an idea but do not know how to make it happen - simply ask. I am here to help with any part of this but I want the ideas to be yours. So start thinking and brainstorming and HAVE FUN with this!!!! Create something you are proud of. **



<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">The second project that we will begin is a studio assignment. This will be a little different than how you have worked in the studio before. The title of this project is called "The Parts of the Whole Equal the Sum" - so what does that mean? After turning in an idea sheet on what your object will be and having approval, then I want you to bring in your object to begin shooting. You will set the lights up to create the highlights and shadows that you are desiring to capture. Then you will pick an angle and shoot 30-40 pictures, depending on the size of your object, to capture the object as a whole. I want you to move about the object with the camera, coming in closer and coming back farther on some parts. Although no single image will capture the whole object, or even half of it, when you place the images together you will be able to see the object as a whole. After shooting is complete, I will upload the images and get them to you. You are then to take the images to Photoshop and arrange them to make the whole object. You may tweak the photos most anyway you would like. However, I do want all the photos in the final piece to be the same size. I want you to use a minimum of TWO Photoshop tools to complete this image. Again, DO NOT flatten your image until I have approved it to be submitted. When approved, you will flatten the image and submit them normally. They are to be the same, 9x12 @300, that you are used to. I will be grading significantly on EFFORT, both within the shooting process and the Photoshop process, on CREATIVITY, in your ideas for the object and how you shoot it and also how you use Photoshop to complete the image, and finally on COMMUNICATION with me throughout the entire project. Can't wait to see what you can come up with - so go get started!

__<span style="color: #00a5ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 168%;">Monday, March 8th __ <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 132%;"> Hey guys! Ok I will be at the doctor in West Palm for my leg today and Tuesday. I need yall to please WORK for Mrs. Cocke. She will still be taking an effort grade everyday. Sorry this will be a longer post just so I can get everything to yall.

Don’t forget that Friday is the end of the 3rd nine weeks - finish Events Posters and this is the last week to make up a class in AO to get effort grades back!!!!!!!!!!

Continue working on your Master Copies. I would love to be able to give yall an extra grade for the 3rd nine weeks if we finish these up before Friday! Please don’t turn these into the server and please don’t flatten until I am back and have talked with you about it individually.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 144%;">Idea Sheets for Parts of the Whole are due to me Tuesday night at the latest. My email address is at the top of my wiki so feel free to email me your idea sheet. I need your name, class period, a description of what the object is, its relative size, and any other details about color or texture. I will write you back to let you know if it is approved or not. If you have already given me an idea sheet and I didn’t say anything to you about it, then it is approved. If you had more than one idea or want to change your idea also email me. Please bring your objects in starting Wed/Thurs depending on your class period.

We are going to take a break for just a day and do something pretty open on Photoshop. I have uploaded a picture of Mr. Myers to the server… I want yall to copy - DO NOT CHANGE THE ORIGINAL IMAGE ON THE SERVER - then do whatever, appropriately, you want to him! Basically just have fun and decorate him. Maybe he becomes a pirate, maybe his head is placed onto an animal’s body - totally open. Feel free to use text boxes if you want to write a message to him. I am going to burn them to cds by class and take them to him. Just thought it would give him a laugh and give yall a break for a day! Please finish these up by Friday even if it means you stop working on other stuff for a day to do it. Make the images no larger than 7 inches on the longest side.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 108%;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">For the 4 of you who shot your Parts of the Whole pictures on Friday - they are all uploaded to the server! Please take those <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 131.04%;">and start working on the final composition. I want all the images to be the same size but you may change colors or things like that in each image if you want. Try to follow lines from one image to the next to make it flow. Don’t forget - you don’t have to see the whole object and the final composition will not make the exact shape of your object. For now, just leave the background around the individual images white. You will make the final composition 8x10 @ 300. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> Work hard and if there are any questions at all about any of it - my email goes straight to my cell phone. I should be able to get back to your email very quickly so that you can keep working. I will be in the air from 12:45 to 1:40 and then from 3:00 to 4:40 on Tuesday so I won’t have my phone during those times.

__<span style="color: #bd35d4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 132%;">Tuesday, March 9th​ __ <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 145.2%;"> Keep working on everything that I posted for Monday - Master Copies, Decorating Myers, Parts of the Whole Idea Sheet, and Parts of the Whole Project.

Here is the next project - it is what Mr. Myers had planned for yall. All of your instructions are on his wiki under the projects link. It is called Rauschenberg Collage.

Go ahead and start on your idea sheets as explained on his wiki. If anyone gets this far before I am back, just email me the idea sheet.

I will see yall Wed/Thurs, email me if you need anything!!!!

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 * __ Monday 12th / Tuesday 13th __

Hey Guys! I am in West Palm at the doctor until Tuesday afternoon. Keep working on your Rauschenberg collages. Make sure to change everything into black and whites, play with layers, do color overlays, and finally finish with the white brush strokes. If you need more ideas, take a look back at past examples. Don’t be afraid of covering over entire areas with the brush strokes. If you finish and turn it in, PLEASE make sure that you are looking at the size. It needs to be 16 by 20 @ 300.

If you finish, start on the next project! This will be making a banner for SPHSdigital2.blogspot.com. Whoever creates the best banner will have it featured as the banner for the site for the next year! You may use any tools that you know how to use!! However, if you take an image from the internet, you MUST change it enough to make it your own instead of just copying someone else's image! Make it 4 by 10 @ 300. Email me if yall need ANYTHING!!!!! Have a great, productive two days!**