Lesson 7 - Shape, Styles, Apply Image, Photoshop Brushes, Clarifying the Complex

Week 7 • Spring Semester 2018 • Feb. 19-25, 2018
  • ​Assignments due on or before Feb. 26, 2018
  • ​Presidents' Day - Monday, Feb 19, 2018 - USU Holiday
  • ​Reminder - It's a Monday Class Schedule on Tuesday, Feb 20, 2018 - No face to face class - work online this week!​
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Lesson 7 sections:    7-1    7-2    7-3    7-4    7-5     7-JFF    7-IDEA
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Silent Echoes by Nathan Smith
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Shaman's Journey by Nathan Smith - an image I created using styles I created. I'll share them with you later in this lesson.
Description:
Onward and upward!  You're doing so well. Today we'll learn more about shape in design. We will dive into learning photoshop brushes and styles in depth. We'll practice using channels to extract objects from their backgrounds - using a powerful dialog - apply image! Finally we'll review last week's reading assignment - clarifying complexity in graphic design.
Objectives
  1. Elements of Art and Design: Shape
  2. Review: Styles
  3. Using the Apply Image dialog
  4. Review: Photoshop brushes in depth
  5. Clarifying complexity in graphic design
Review - Critiques - Share Techniques - Gallery 6
​All assignments, rubrics, required readings, exercise files, etc. are in Week 7's module in Canvas
Real World Experience - An Opportunity To Work on a Real Project!
Page last updated February 14, 2018.  This lesson combines my own work (images, text, videos) which are ©2018 by Nathan Smith.  All other images, videos, and cited text sources are curated from the internet, and are publicly available.