Intro to Digital Media – Extra Credit
Due Friday 7/16/2010 .:. 7:40am on BLOG
Project: Design A Book Cover:
Technical: To gain a basic understanding of raster based digital imaging software and the technology, terminology, and techniques associated with it.
Conceptual: To explore how images and text generate a range of ideas and emotions, and to better understand how design and text can be utilized to market and advertise particular products.
References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Brody - Work of Neville Brody
http://www.davidcarsondesign.com – Work of David Carson
http://www.miltonglaser.com – Milton Glaser (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Glaser )
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html - Library of Congress
http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials.htm - Great Photoshop tutorials
Vocabulary: Raster, Pixel, PPI, Resolution, Color Mode, RGB, CMYK, Bit Depth, Histogram,
Levels, Curves, JPG, GIF, TIFF, Interpolation, Layers, Adjustment Layer, Layer Mask,
Appropriate, Effects
Materials: Digital camera (with necessary cables), web images, and a computer with Adobe Photoshop. A tripod and cable release for your camera may be helpful.
Process:
1. Pick a literary genre for your book layout (i.e. romance, horror, biography, memoir, textbook, comic/illustrated novel, western, mystery, etc.)
2. Using Photoshop / Illustrator, develop and create a title for your novel. Try to utilize or create a text that is suggestive of your genre and the book’s supposed contents.
3. Using a digital camera or by downloading images from the web or that you created, upload images into a Photoshop document. Again, create and utilize images that contextualize your piece within a particular genre. Must distort images that are not original.
4. Begin layout of text and images in application.
Dimension: 9x6inches (save for web & devices)
5. Using the application’s tools, combine your individual parts into one final piece.
6. When complete, please upload piece to blog with brief synopsis of your book.
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