Class Schedule

Week 1

Tuesday

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• Introductions. Go over syllabus.
• Samples.
• Page Layout, Windows, Menus & Views.
  

Chapters 1–4

Friday

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Week 2

Tuesday (1/22)

• Vectors, rasters, paths and anchor points.
• Selecting, moving, copying, locking, hiding, grouping, and arranging shapes.
• Making Objects: shape tools, line tools.
• Transformation tools, distort tools, warp.
• Reshaping objects, splitting, joining, slicing & dicing.

• Exercise: Arrangement puzzle.
• Exercise: Still Life.

Chapters 5–8

Friday (1/25)

• Fills & Strokes, swatches, colors, eyedropper, bucket
• The Pen tool.
  

• Exercise: Sea Shapes & Animal Shapes

Chapter 9–10

Week 3

Tuesday (1/29)

• Quiz
• Pen tool continued.
• Finish Sea & Animal Shapes exercises
  
• Layers & Templates
  

• Exercise: Beach Scene
• Exercise: Layer puzzel (face)

Chapter 11

Friday (2/1)

• Gradients, Meshes & Blends
• Homework: Bring photos of animals to class next week!

• Exercise: Gradient Still Life

Chapters 18

Week 4

Tuesday (2/5)

• Quiz (10 pts.)
• Design development (thumnails, roughs, scanning, etc).

• Begin Project 1: Animal Logo.

Friday (2/8)

• Work day: Animal Logo Project continues.

Week 5

Tuesday (2/11)

• Text Tools & Type effects.
• Animal Logo Project continues.

• Exercise: Text tools

Chapters 12–13

Friday (2/15)

• Animal Logo Project continues.

Week 6

Tuesday (2/19)

• Animal Logo Project Due.
• Custom color
• Patterns & Brushes
  

• Begin Project 2: Product Label: thumbnails & roughs

Chapters 9 & 15

Friday (2/22)

• Work day

• Product Label: roughs due.

Week 7

Tuesday (2/25)

• Pathfinders

• Product Label continues.

Chapter 17

Friday (2/29)

Week 8

Tuesday (3/4)

• Product Label Project Due.
• Acquiring Images
• Masks & Transparency

• .Begin Project 3: Editorial Illustration

Chapter 14–18

Friday (3/7)

Week 9

Tuesday (3/11)

• Effects and Filters

Chapter 22

Friday (3/14)

Week 10

Tuesday (3/18)

• Appearances/Styles

Chapter 19

Friday (3/21)

Week 11

Tuesday (3/25)

Friday (3/28)