Graphic Design and Illustration

Chapter 3 teaches us eight Photoshop quick fixes for common problems, plus several ways to isolate specific content within an image.  Chapter 3 includes Lesson 5 and Lesson 6.

The students will be introduced to Adobe Photoshop CC

TEKS – 1A-B, 2A-G, 3, 4, 5, 6A-B, 7A-D, 8A-E, 9A-E, 10, 11A-H

Activity – Lesson 5: Key skills include using the Red Eye tool, brightening a too dark image, combining multiple images into a panorama, applying blur, using the Content-Aware Move tool, and correcting for a number of camera lens defects. Lesson 6: Key skills include creating and refining masks to isolate content, using Puppet Warp to manipulate an image, and loading and isolating channels to make selections.

Materials – Learning Graphic Design and Illustration by Andrew Faulkner, Conrad Chavez, and Brian Wood

Evaluation – Lesson 5 Projects, Lesson 6 Projects, and Chapter 3 Test