MON: iMovie soft start & Photoshop Portfolio time

iMovie SOFT START: The weeks ahead...

Between now and the end of the year you will be making three movies.  The success of these films will depend on how much you prepare and do outside of class. Much of this work is to be done during the Portfolio Defense Minimum Days.  As we work to finish our Photoshop Portfolios we also need to spend some time thinking about what films you will want to make in these three categories:

• How-To: What do you know how to do that you can teach someone to do completely in a minute or less?
• Public Service Announcement: What issues do you care about? Can you explain why others should care about any of them in 2 minutes or less?
• Featurette: If you could make any short film what would it be?
• School appropriate
• 3-5 minutes
• Only SCRIPTED, Edited films
• no "YouTube" style videos (no day in the life, no unboxing, no ASMR, no video gameplay, no extemporaneous films of any kind )

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You have FOUR Classes 
to complete your 
Photoshop Portfolio

Work Order:

• First: Figure out which REQUIRED** Photoshop images you have already done
• Students who have been keeping up will likely have at least 6 of the 9 images already done
• Second: Figure out which of the ones that you have already completed need to be worked on some more.  
• Third: Think about which independent projects you are going to attempt 
• 1 for a "B", 2 or more for higher than a "B"
• Fourth: Plan out your time for the remaining classes 
• Plan how you are going to accomplish the goals you set out for yourself in the 2nd and 3rd steps.
• Last: Get to work
• ReWorking or completing old REQUIRED** PORTFOLIO projects
• Conceiving and completing your independent projects
• Exporting JPG's of your completed Portfolio Images
• Uploading the required files to the correct Google Classroom Assignment.

HOW you get HELP! 

• First: Ask yourself for help first
• Try to figure it out, if you learned the skill you can solve the puzzle!
• Look at the PSD you already did that includes that skill - it migh jog your memory!
• Use your resources; go back and watch the part of the tutorial for the skill you are struggling with; Google your problem and see if the answer pops up!
• Second: Quietly ask others in your POD if they can help you
• Third: Call John over for a consultation

Remember: 
BACK-UP your files & RESTART your computer @ the END of the class

Announcements:

• All work is due Friday, April 19th 

**Required Photoshop Portfolio Images

To be considered for a "B"

• FROM the Skill TUTORIALS
• The BEST tutorial image that you did before the Pier & The Archway (PSD & JPEG only - NO Source Files)
• The image of the "Pier & The Archway on the Ocean" (from THIS tutorial) (PSD & JPEG only - NO Source Files)
• FROM the Portfolio TUTORIALS  
• A TEXT Portrait (PSD & JPEG only - NO Source Files)
• A CRACKED SKIN Portrait  (PSD & JPEG only - NO Source Files)
• A COLORIZED BLACK AND WHITE portrait using the skin-tone palette from a different color image (PSD & JPEG only - NO Source Files)
• FROM the Sub Day Portfolio Challenges
• ONE of your three Sub Day images (PSD & JPEG only - NO Source Files)
• FROM Independent Work
• ONE "approved" Independent Tutorial or Freestyle Image (PSD and SOURCE images - this will be turned in SEPARATE from the rest of your Portfolio)

To be considered for higher than a "B"

1. An ADDITIONAL one or more "approved" Independent Tutorial or Freestyle Image (PSD and SOURCE images - this will be turned in SEPARATE from the rest of your Portfolio)

**Independant Project Guidelines [Requirements] 

• Video Tutorial based Independent Projects for your Portfolio
• Complex independent tutorials that YOU find on the web
• Approved in advance
• Multi layer
• More than 20 minutes of video instruction for single tutorial
• Does NOT start with a PSD file as its base
• Must submit all files and url of tutorial for credit to Google Classroom
• Final file must be named as follows
• First LastName - P# - Name of Artifact - Complete.PSD
• so John might name a file
• John Kittredge - P1 - Baby Godzilla Tutorial - Complete.PSD
• Fully Independent Freestyle Photoshop projects
• Approved in advance
• Multi-Layer [5+/- as appropriate and approved]
• Uses Masks - has no erasures
• Has sophisticated selections using select and mask to feather and shift edges as appropriate
• Is color corrected & balanced so that the layers look natural together
• For advanced grades
• Uses warps and fills to fundamentally alter the geometry of the underlying images 
• Advanced techniques must be provable as a change from originally submitted images.
• Finished project looks unified and neat - not like a collage of pictures stuck together
• Must submit all files used for credit to Google Classroom
• Final file must be named as follows
• First LastName - P# - Name of Artifact - Complete.PSD
• so John might name a file
• John Kittredge - P1 - Bad Hedgehog, no Camaro - Complete.PSD

THU-FRI: Photoshop Portfolio Workshop Time

You have FIVE Classes to complete 

your Photoshop Portfolio

 **The REQUIRED Images 

are listed below ** 

Work Order:

• First: Figure out which REQUIRED Photoshop images you have already done
• Students who have been keeping up will likely have at least 6 of the 9 images already done
• Second: Figure out which of the ones that you have already completed need to be worked on some more.  
• Third: Think about which independent projects you are going to attempt 
• 1 for a "B", 2 or more for higher than a "B"
• Fourth: Plan out your time for the next six classes 
• Plan how you are going to accomplish the goals you set out for yourself in the 2nd and 3rd steps.
• Last: Get to work
• ReWorking or completing old REQUIRED PORTFOLIO projects
• Conceiving and completing your independent projects
• Exporting JPG's of your completed Portfolio Images
• Uploading the required files to the correct Google Classroom Assignment.

HOW you get HELP! 

• First: Ask yourself for help first
• Try to figure it out, if you learned the skill you can solve the puzzle!
• Look at the PSD you already did that includes that skill - it migh jog your memory!
• Use your resources; go back and watch the part of the tutorial for the skill you are struggling with; Google your problem and see if the answer pops up!
• Second: Quietly ask others in your POD if they can help you
• Third: Call John over for a consultation

Remember: 
BACK-UP your files & RESTART your computer @ the END of the class

Announcements:

• All work is due Friday, April 19th 

**Required Photoshop 

**Portfolio Images

To be considered for a "B"

1. The BEST tutorial image that you did (PSD & JPEG only - NO Source Files)
2. The image of the Pier & The Archway on the Ocean (from THIS tutorial) (PSD & JPEG only - NO Source Files)
3. A TEXT Portrait (PSD & JPEG only - NO Source Files)
4. A CRACKED SKIN Portrait  (PSD & JPEG only - NO Source Files)
5. A COLORIZED BLACK AND WHITE portrait using the skin-tone palette from a different color image (PSD & JPEG only - NO Source Files)
6. ONE of your three Sub Day images (PSD & JPEG only - NO Source Files)
7. ONE "approved" Independent Tutorial or Freestyle Image (PSD and SOURCE images - this will be turned in SEPARATE from the rest of your Portfolio)

To be considered for higher than a "B"

1. An ADDITIONAL one or more "approved" Independent Tutorial or Freestyle Image (PSD and SOURCE images - this will be turned in SEPARATE from the rest of your Portfolio)

**Independant Project Guidelines

• Video Tutorial based Independent Projects for your Portfolio
• Complex independent tutorials that YOU find on the web
• Approved in advance
• Multi layer
• More than 20 minutes of video instruction for single tutorial
• Does NOT start with a PSD file as its base
• Must submit all files and url of tutorial for credit to Google Classroom
• Final file must be named as follows
• First LastName - P# - Name of Artifact - Complete.PSD
• so John might name a file
• John Kittredge - P1 - Baby Godzilla Tutorial - Complete.PSD
• Fully Independent Freestyle Photoshop projects
• Approved in advance
• Multi-Layer [5+/- as appropriate and approved]
• Uses Masks - has no erasures
• Has sophisticated selections using select and mask to feather and shift edges as appropriate
• Is color corrected & balanced so that the layers look natural together
• For advanced grades
• Uses warps and fills to fundamentally alter the geometry of the underlying images 
• Advanced techniques must be provable as a change from originally submitted images.
• Finished project looks unified and neat - not like a collage of pictures stuck together
• Must submit all files used for credit to Google Classroom
• Final file must be named as follows
• First LastName - P# - Name of Artifact - Complete.PSD
• so John might name a file
• John Kittredge - P1 - Bad Hedgehog, no Camaro - Complete.PSD

FRI/MON/TUE: Photoshop CHALLENGE & continuing with Portfolio Projects

You have three classes (2.5 hours TOTAL) to complete the Photoshop Challenges LISTED BELOW
You MAY get quiet help in your POD only, and you may use any internet tutorial resource that you wish 
Students attempting an advanced grade should take less than the full three days for the challenges and produce MORE work than that*
When you have completed the Challenge do these things in this order:

 1: Be CERTAIN that you have done the Challenges to the best of your ability
 2: Complete all missing tutorials
 3: *Continue with REQUIRED Portfolio Tutorial Projects
 4: *Continue with INDIVIDUAL Portfolio Tutorial or Freestyle Projects

THERE IS A CONTAINER OF 

HEADPHONES NEAR JOHN'S DESK

YOU MAY CHECK THEM OUT W/O COLLATERAL

IF YOU DON'T RETURN THEM WE WON'T HAVE THEM

AND WE NEED THEM

BACK-UP your files &

RESTART your computer @  

the END of the class

Announcements:

• All work is due TUESDAY, April 9th 
• We will look at your results together the following class.
• If you are off task and the sub reports you I will assume you think you are a master of these skills and I will grade you accordingly

Photoshop Challenge (s)

• Finish as many & as much as you can on the Sub days
• Use the quality criteria from the "Fully Independent Photoshop projects" section below*

• Final file must be named as follows

• First LastName - P# - Name of Artifact - Complete.PSD
• so John might name his files:
• John Kittredge - P1 - Ad for Hair So Smoooth - Complete.PSD
• John Kittredge - P3 - My and my Buds @ Van Halen concert - Complete.PSD
• John Kittredge - P5 - Puppy Crush - Complete.PSD

•  SUBMIT ALL SOURCE FILES with your completed PSD TO YOUR GOOGLE CLASSROOM: FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS THERE
• PERIOD 5 Classroom Code =  oye09g
• PERIOD 4 Classroom Code =  b5sqmm
• PERIOD 3 Classroom Code =  8lww1e
• PERIOD 1 Classroom Code =  sg67qw3

• Challenge #1
• Create an ad (like from a magazine, or online) for a real product that you LOVE
• Include a high quality image of the product
• take the photo yourself?
• Do NOT copy an existing advertisement for that same product
• You MAY take inspiration from other advertisements
• Make us want to buy it by making it visually  appealing
• Add in ideas and images to sell your brand
• Use color, light, & shadow to make the image appealing
• Add TEXT to the image as appropriate 
• MOST ads have text but not all
• Challenge #2
• Create an image of yourself and at least two of your friends in one of these places [EACH person from a separate photo and on a separate layer]
• Backstage at a famous person/group's concert
• In the stands at a sporting event
• In a FAMOUS MOMENT FROM HISTORY (Your audience needs to clearly understand what that moment is)
• Challenge #3
• Create an unexpected image of something nice (baby, puppy, kitten, you choose) doing something awful!
• You may use these example ideas or come up with something horribly wonderful on your own.
• Baby as Godzilla destroying a city
• Puppy crushing people with its puppy butt
• Kitten eating the faces from zombie people
• Puppy decapitating someone with its wagging tail

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Continue from here when done with challenges

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Introduction to Photoshop - Phase THREE: 
From here forward you may use your own images if you wish and/or propose an independent project or non-curated tutorial
Complete the THREE portfolio videos linked below
Continue with Independent Projects or Tutorials

Portfolio Projects

• Independent learning, tutorials, & projects

• Curated Tutorial Artifacts for your Portfolio
• The quantity and quality of the projects in your portfolio will determine your artistic & technical grades
• Curated projects - (may or may NOT come with downloadable files - be creative)
• Make COOL TEXT PORTRAITS in 5 EASY steps!
• Create Realistic Cracked Skin in Photoshop
• His files don't work, use your own "person" and click here to get the cracked texture
• Colorize Black and White with Realism in Photoshop
• Fascinating and not all that difficult!
• Don't forget to get rid of the watermarks.
• ...more to be added
• INDEPENDENT Tutorial Projects for your Portfolio
• Complex independent tutorials
• Approved in advance
• Multi layer
• More than 20 minutes of video for single tutorial
• Does NOT start with a PSD
• Must submit all files and url of tutorial for credit to Google Classroom
• Final file must be named as follows
• First LastName - P# - Name of Artifact - Complete.PSD
• so John might name a file
• John Kittredge - P1 - Baby Godzilla Tutorial - Complete.PSD
• *Fully Independent photoshop projects
• Approved in advance
• Multi-Layer [5+/- as appropriate and approved]
• Uses Masks - has no erasures
• Has sophisticated selections using select and mask to feather and shift edges as appropriate
• Is color corrected & balanced so that the layers look natural together
• For advanced grades
• Uses warps and fills to fundamentally alter the geometry of the underlying images 
• Advanced techniques must be provable as a change from originally submitted images.
• Finished project looks unified and neat - not like a collage of pictures stuck together
• Must submit all files used for credit to Google Classroom
• Final file must be named as follows
• First LastName - P# - Name of Artifact - Complete.PSD
• so John might name a file
• John Kittredge - P1 - Bad Hedgehog, no Camaro - Complete.PSD

WED/THU: Photoshop Day 18 - Independent Lessons (& work choices)

You should be done with all of the required tutorials by now... 
if NOT go back to an earlier blog post & start there. "Binder Check" for files THIS Week - complete all tutorials
This week & "next" we 

are working on our 

Independent Portfolio Artifacts
detailed below...

BACK-UP your files &

RESTART your computer @  

the END of the class

Announcements:

• You have a SUB for John this FRIDAY and the MONDAY & TUESDAY  after Spring Break.  
• You will receive a THREE DAY PHOTOSHOP project in class on Friday.
• You must complete the entire project on the sub days
• You will be able to collect materials over Spring Break if you wish 
• It will be Due Tuesday, April 9th.  
• We will look at your results together the following class.

Unit Reminders & Resources:

• Complete ALL missing past videos before continuing with this list
• Previous Tutorials are found starting HERE!
• SAVE every document you work on for EVERY tutorial
• You will need them for "binder checks"
• Watermarked source images are ok in certain circumstances. 
• For additional skills videos they are ok if they don't detract from the learning or demonstration of the skill.  
• For portfolio projects you must REMOVE any watermarks.

Agenda:

• Introduction to Photoshop - Phase THREE: 
• From here forward you may use your own images if you wish and/or propose an independent project or non-curated tutorial
• Complete the THREE portfolio videos linked below
• Continue with Independent Projects or Tutorials

Portfolio Projects
Independent learning, tutorials, & projects

• Curated Tutorial Artifacts for your Portfolio
• The quantity and quality of the projects in your portfolio will determine your artistic & technical grades
• Curated projects - (may or may NOT come with downloadable files - be creative)
• Make COOL TEXT PORTRAITS in 5 EASY steps!
• Create Realistic Cracked Skin in Photoshop
• His files don't work, use your own "person" and click here to get the cracked texture
• Colorize Black and White with Realism in Photoshop
• Fascinating and not all that difficult!
• ...more to be added
• Approved INDEPENDENT Projects for your Portfolio
• All independent work will include a complete written reflection detailing all salient actions that you took.
• Complex independent tutorials
• Complicated (over 20 minute) project tutorials from Youtube and elsewhere that use your skills in new ways or introduce new skills
• Approved in advance
• Multi layer
• More than 20 minutes of video for single tutorial
• Does NOT start with a PSD
• Must submit all files and url of tutorial for credit to Google Classroom
• Final file must be named as follows
• First LastName - P# - Name of Artifact - Complete.PSD
• so John might name a file
• John Kittredge - P1 - Baby Godzilla Tutorial - Complete.PSD
• Fully Independent photoshop projects
• Approved in advance
• Multi-Layer [5+/- as appropriate and approved]
• Layer MASKS (no "erasing")
• Has sophisticated selections using select and mask to feather and shift edges as appropriate
• Is color corrected & balanced so that the layers look natural together
• For advanced grades
• Uses object removal, warps and fills to fundamentally alter the substance or geometry of the underlying images 
• Advanced techniques must be provable as a change from originally submitted images.
• Finished project looks unified and neat - not like a collage of pictures stuck together
• Must submit all files used for credit to Google Classroom
• Final file must be named as follows
• First LastName - P# - Name of Artifact - Complete.PSD
• so John might name a file
• John Kittredge - P1 - Bad Hedgehog, no Camaro - Complete.PSD
• Uses warps and fills to fundamentally alter the geometry of the underlying images 
• Advanced techniques must be provable as a change from originally submitted images.
• Finished project looks unified and neat - not like a collage of pictures stuck together
• Must submit all files used for credit to Google Classroom
• Final file must be named as follows
• First LastName - P# - Name of Artifact - Complete.PSD
• so John might name a file
• John Kittredge - P1 - Bad Hedgehog, no Camaro - Complete.PSD

Mon/Tue: Photoshop Day 17 - Independent Lessons (& work choices)

You should be done with all of the required tutorials by now... 
if NOT go back to an earlier blog post & start there. "Binder Check" for files THIS Week - complete all tutorials
This week & "next" we 

are working on our 

Independent Portfolio Artifacts
detailed below...

BACK-UP your files &

RESTART your computer @  

the END of the class

Announcements:

• You have a SUB for John this FRIDAY and the MONDAY & TUESDAY  after Spring Break.  
• You will receive a THREE DAY PHOTOSHOP project in class on Friday.
• You must complete the entire project on the sub days
• You will be able to collect materials over Spring Break if you wish 
• It will be Due Tuesday, April 9th.  
• We will look at your results together the following class.

Unit Reminders & Resources:

• Complete ALL missing past videos before continuing with this list
• Previous Tutorials are found starting HERE!
• Get TWO full days ahead before you work on personal or extra credit projects 
• SAVE every document you work on for EVERY tutorial
• You will need them for "binder checks"
• Watermarked source images are ok in certain circumstances. 
• For additional skills videos they are ok if they don't detract from the learning or demonstration of the skill.  
• For portfolio projects you must REMOVE any watermarks.

Agenda:

• Introduction to Photoshop - Phase THREE: 
• Independent learning, tutorials, & projects
• From here forward you may use your own images if you wish and/or propose an independent project or non-curated tutorial
• Complete the THREE portfolio videos linked below
• Continue with Independent Projects or Tutorials

Remaining Skill videos

• It is recommended that you do these but they are NOT required. Additional Skill videos for Extra Credit
• Curated projects/skill videos - (may or may NOT come with downloadable files - be creative)
• Stretch Complex Images with Buildings or Trees
• We are 1 Photoshop version behind so...  In the part with the lady on the beach (you will know when you get there) the new "Content Aware fill DIALOG BOX" doesn't exist.
• How To Remove ANYTHING From a Photo In Photoshop
• This one has some COOL shortcuts and good general information and practice but you need to use your own photos (or locate watermarked versions of the stock photos used). JOHN learned something when he went through this video!

Portfolio Projects

• Curated Tutorial Artifacts for your Portfolio
• The quantity and quality of the projects in your portfolio will determine your artistic & technical grades
• Curated projects - (may or may NOT come with downloadable files - be creative)
• Make COOL TEXT PORTRAITS in 5 EASY steps!
• Create Realistic Cracked Skin in Photoshop
• His files don't work, use your own "person" and click here to get the cracked texture
• Colorize Black and White with Realism in Photoshop
• Fascinating and not all that difficult!
• ...more to be added
• Approved INDEPENDENT Projects for your Portfolio
• All independent work will include a complete written reflection detailing all salient actions that you took.
• Complex independent tutorials
• Complicated (over 20 minute) project tutorials from Youtube and elsewhere that use your skills in new ways or introduce new skills
• Approved in advance
• Multi layer
• More than 20 minutes of video for single tutorial
• Does NOT start with a PSD
• Must submit all files and url of tutorial for credit to Google Classroom
• Final file must be named as follows
• First LastName - P# - Name of Artifact - Complete.PSD
• so John might name a file
• John Kittredge - P1 - Baby Godzilla Tutorial - Complete.PSD
• Fully Independent photoshop projects
• Approved in advance
• Multi-Layer [5+/- as appropriate and approved]
• Layer MASKS (no "erasing")
• Has sophisticated selections using select and mask to feather and shift edges as appropriate
• Is color corrected & balanced so that the layers look natural together
• For advanced grades
• Uses object removal, warps and fills to fundamentally alter the substance or geometry of the underlying images 
• Advanced techniques must be provable as a change from originally submitted images.
• Finished project looks unified and neat - not like a collage of pictures stuck together
• Must submit all files used for credit to Google Classroom
• Final file must be named as follows
• First LastName - P# - Name of Artifact - Complete.PSD
• so John might name a file
• John Kittredge - P1 - Bad Hedgehog, no Camaro - Complete.PSD

WED/THU: Photoshop Day 16 - Independent Lessons (& work choices)

Resume Photoshop where 
you left off last class 
IF you are "in the green" you may...

• work on IMPORTANT work for another class
• work on your Youth Law application but... write your essay question answers in Google docs FIRST!

"Binder Check" for files Next Week 

BACK-UP your files &

RESTART your computer @  

the END of the class

Announcements:

• NO SCHOOL FRIDAY
• Youth Law Academy links: 
• The application -  tinyurl.com/yla2019app
• The presentation - tinyurl.com/yla2019presentation

Unit Reminders & Resources:

• Complete ALL missing past videos before continuing with this list
• Previous Tutorials are found starting HERE!
• Get TWO full days ahead before you work on personal or extra credit projects 
• SAVE every document you work on for EVERY tutorial
• You will need them for "binder checks"
• HEADPHONES:HEADPHONES:HEADPHONES
• A limited number of headphones are available to check out with collateral (Cell Phone or $5 or more dollars) come early if you need them
• I just purchased some $3 headphones.  
• Starting Friday you can buy them. 
• No, I don't have change.
• Watermarked source images are ok in certain circumstances. 
• For additional skills videos they are ok if they don't detract from the learning or demonstration of the skill.  
• For portfolio projects you must REMOVE any watermarks.

Agenda:

• Introduction to Photoshop - Phase TWO: 
• Intermediate Skill Videos
• Curated & Self Directed [Ongoing++]
• TUTORIALS: Do them in this order...
• Use the Archive on the LEFT to locate older lessons
• INDIVIDUAL video lessons
• (the following have NEXT & BACK links at end of pages that match the links below)
• Composite photos [3/13 & 15] Wed/Thu/Fri
• Build a composite with layer masks
• Combine images with a smooth transition
• Create a composite with blend modes
• Learn how to create a unifying color treatment for a composite.
• PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER
• Creative compositing techniques for combining images in Photoshop. [3/20]
• ...more to be added
• The quality and completeness of the basic & intermediate skill videos & your deportment during independent work time will determine your work habit grades

From here forward you may use your own images if you wish and/or propose an independent project or non-curated tutorial

• Additional Skill videos for Extra Credit
• Curated projects/skill videos - (may or may NOT come with downloadable files - be creative)
• Stretch Complex Images with Buildings or Trees
• We are 1 Photoshop version behind so...  In the part with the lady on the beach (you will know when you get there) the new "Content Aware fill DIALOG BOX" doesn't exist.
• How To Remove ANYTHING From a Photo In Photoshop
• This one has some COOL shortcuts and good general information and practice but you need to use your own photos (or locate watermarked versions of the stock photos used). JOHN learned something when he went through this video!
• ...more to be added
• Creating your Photoshop Artifacts for your Portfolio
• The quantity and quality of the projects in your portfolio will determine your artistic & technical grades
• Curated projects - (may or may NOT come with downloadable files - be creative)
• Make COOL TEXT PORTRAITS in 5 EASY steps!
• Create Realistic Cracked Skin in Photoshop
• His files don't work, use your own "person" and click here to get the cracked texture
• Colorize Black and White with Realism in Photoshop
• Fascinating and not all that difficult!
• ...more to be added
• and/or
• Approved INDEPENDENT Projects