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ONLINE/HYBRID 2021 (YEAR ONE) PRINCIPLES OF ART, MEDIA & COMMUNICATIONS

1.  Who are you ? Students createdPersonal Collages using Google Slides.  

Google Slide functions and options.  In addition to learning basic functions of Google Classroom and Google Slides, students were introduced to photo resource websites.

2. Hands down . . . generating ideas is best on paper.

The best ideas begin with simple tools like pencil, paper, pen, and other art tools.

3. Photo Transformation....let's learn the adjustments.

Ps - Students are introduced to Photoshop virtually using a system called Remote PC. This first assignment takes things slow as students adjust to the Remote PC system and begin to learn the Photoshop Interface. For this assignment, students learn about and experiment with adjustments which include brightness/contrast, levels, curves, exposure, vibrance, hue/saturation, color balance, black & white, photo filters, channel mixer, color lookup, invert, posterize, threshold adjustment, selective color, and gradient maps.  Every student started with the same photo but ended with something one of a kind.

4. Tis the season . . . winter photo makeovers.

Ps - Practice with adjustments to transform or improve the look of winter photos taken on our first snow day of the year. 

5. One beautiful landscape . . . eight amazing views.

Ps - Create New: paste embed, scale, transform, copy, paste, flip horizontal, crop, layer, new adjustment layers: brightness/contrast, levels, curves, exposure, vibrance, hue/saturation, color balance, black & white, photo filters, channel mixer, color lookup, invert, posterize, threshold adjustment, selective color, and gradient maps.  

6. More Photo Transforms

7. Two Together . . . finding that perfect World!

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Ps - Select Subject, New Adjustment Layers, Editing & Blending Modes

8. Merging ideas and images to a place Beyond Collage.

Ps - Select Subject and Masking, New Adjustment Layers, Editing, Blending Modes, Opacity, Eraser Tool, Multiple Images.

9. Artistic filtering . . . taking ordinary to extraordinary!

Ps - Flatten Image, Filter Gallery: Artistic, Brush Strokes, Distort, Sketch, Stylize and Texture

10. The Word is out . . . put on your Masks!  (It's not what you think.)

Ps - Place Embedded/Linked, Clipping Masks, Smart Objects, Text, Effects/Layer Styles (FX)

11. WithMasks in fashion, let's get expressive!  

Ps - Place Embedded/Linked, Clipping Masks, Smart Objects, Text, Effects/Layer Styles (FX)

12. Selecting the right tools canProduce such amazing results!  

Ps - Selection Tools, Eraser Tools, Free Transform/Warp, Copy/Paste/Layer, Effects (FX)

13. Life's distortions of shapes, gradients and brushstrokes are the abstract imperfections that turn ordinary into Model!  

Ps - Shapes, gradients, brushstrokes, and filters.

14. Beautiful Creatures by Design. 

Ps - Selection tools, transform tools, erasers, blending modes.

15. Old to new . . . exciting possibilities with photo restoration.

Ps - Cloning stamps, healing brushes, curves, and unsharpen masks.  For colorizing, layers and transparencies.

16. I can make a giraffe dance, can you?  

Ps - Edit>Puppet Warp

17. The Good, the Bad and the ugly!  Or is it pretty? Beauty is afterall in the eyes of the beholder.

Ps - Dodge, Burn and Liquify Filter. Students were invited to use their own pictures.  

18. Dali inspired Surrealism . . . delving into the depths of our subconscious.

Ps - Selection tools, transform tools, erasers, blending modes.

19. Digital Painting . . . choice of colors, brushes, blending . . . the possibilities are endless!

Ps - Brushes, brush settings, eyedropper tool, pencil, layers, mixer brush tool, smudge tool.

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1. Illustrator jumpstart . . . time to shape up!

Ai - Shapes, shape builder, gradients, strokes and fills

2. Just an easy landscape.

Ai - Shapes, pen/pencil tool, gradients, strokes and fills

3. Up, up and away!

4. City designers . . . plans for great living!

Ai - Putting things together . . . shapes, lines, gradients, strokes, fills, transform.

5. Low Poly Portraits . . . 

6. Educational oloring Page . . . 

7. Inspirational Posters . . . 

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