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Tips for Chapter 6 (color models) in Foundations

Chapter 6 in Foundations of Digital Art has a few “quirks” that will likely present unnecessary stumbling blocks for you. Here are the three sticky points that I encountered:

Change the Foreground color.
Change the Foreground color.

Page 118: “Double-click the Foreground color chip at the bottom left of the Tools panel.” She is talking about this (see image at right):

Page 119: “Drag the blue layer to Create a new layer icon.” You can just right-click on a layer and select “Duplicate layer” to create a copy of it.

Page 120:  “Press the Lock icon in the Layers panel to lock the transparent parts of the cyan layer.” Actually you press the “Lock transparent pixels” icon, circled below:

Lock transparent pixels.
Lock transparent pixels.

Do your best to get through Chapters 4-6 for Wednesday. Whatever you have left to do, bring it to class on Wednesday, and bring your Foundations textbook, as well.

Wrapping up week 5

VIsual resumes due

I’m looking forward to seeing your final version of Project #2 on Friday. Please remember the project has four components. You will have to follow directions carefully to avoid losing points for things like incorrect file formats. Review assignment guidelines here.

You’ll want to allow enough time to write your project narrative. I expect this narrative to show the time and attention that you would give to any college writing assignment worth 15% of your grade: please proofread, think carefully about what points you will make, and structure the document with intention. I don’t expect this narrative to be overly formal in tone or diction; write in the first person, but please be coherent and analytical.

If you use any graphics from the internet or templates of any kind in your project, please include a list of your sources in a note on Blackboard.

get ready for photoshop

It will♫come in like a wrecking ball♫ if you are totally new to Photoshop — i.e. if you have never used this application before. We will have some homework assignments to help build Photoshop skills, but I would suggest going through some tutorials on your own before next week.