By The End Of The Week...

...you will have completed:

• Introductions

• Discussion about the class, culture and what we'll be doing

• Talking about personalized learning

• Started learning about and using Photoshop

• Snack Food Day Friday - Bring in your favorite...

Monday August 19th

• Discussion about your learning style profile.

• Make sure yourAbout You Questionnaire is turned in and was answered thoroughly and honestly.

• Last, did you check this page on What Video Game Design is?

Tuesday August 20th

• Taking Photos

• Introduction To Adobe Photoshop and Experienced Photoshop

Wednesday August 21st

• Editing Photos - Learning About Type (19.04, 18.02)

• Flip Face Project ​ 

• Introduction To Adobe Photoshop and Experienced Photoshop 

Thursday August 22nd​

• Editing Photos - Learning About Type

• Flip Face Project ​

• Who I Am Project

• Introduction To Adobe Photoshop and Experienced Photoshop

Friday August 23rd

• WORKSHOP - What is Graphic Design as it relates to Gaming?

  PBS OffBook - Video Games

  PBS OffBook - The Creativity of Indie Games

• The Best and Worst of Graphic Design in Games​

• Snack food day 

• Class Check In - What Have We Learned

• Introduction To Adobe Photoshop and Experienced Photoshop

Goals and Scales For Commercial & Digital Arts

*coming soon*

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State Standards For Design For Gaming

Printing Your Files & Saving Files For Web

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We have a Lexmark Laser Printer (C790):

• After you press print, a dialogue box will pop up.

• Be sure the Lexmark C790 Printer is selected.

• Check the orientation of your paper is correct (Portrait or Landscape)

• Be sure to scroll down a bit and check the SCALE TO FIT MEDIA box.

• Print to the Lexmark (Copy 2) printer

Saving For Web In Photoshop

• Open your work. Select all. Choose EDIT, then COPY MERGED

• Create a new file and size, then paste what you just copied.

• Make sure your file is resized.

• Make sure your file has no white around it and it's cropped.

• With your file open, go to FILE - SAVE FOR WEB & DEVICES (Legacy)

• In the upper right corner, select the JPEG option and make sure it's set to HIGH QUALITY

• In the lower left corner, you 'll see the file tag JPEG and a time it take to load in seconds. It should be under 100 seconds.

• Choose SAVE and select your block folder.