Portfolio Check

By tomorrow I would like you to have your Quarter Portfolios ready for grading.
Soon I will look over your portfolios and have a brief conference with you about your work and grade.

First- make sure you complete your Quarter Reflection
Next - make sure your portfolio has everything on this list for a B

Last- check which day next week you have a conference with me.

Today our target is: I feel confident using adobe programs and online tools to make digital art.

So we will spend the next week or so learning to control a new tool, the Wacom Tablet.

Project Goal: Create at least one image in Photoshop, using brushes, that shows hand rendering over a photograph or integrated with a photograph. 

Using a reference photo

integrated with a photo

But before that, we play (purposefully explore technical media skills).

Can you:

Set up the right size file (8x10, 300 resolution, CMYK)

Right click to choose brush size/type

Find the Brush palette to control options and pressure

Create a new layer(s) to draw on

Fill a layer with color for ground

Lock your reference layer/ adjust opacity for easy viewing

Control value of your brush

Control color of your brush

Find new brushes to use in Brush Presets (Gear in Brush palette)

Find new brushes online to load into PSD