November
27
Layer
Basics -- grade
- Creating
and Viewing Layers
- Selecting
and removing artwork on a layer
- Rearranging
layers
- Changing
the opacity and mode of a layer
- Setting
Blending Options
- Linking
Layers
- Adding
a gradient to a layer
- Adding
Text
- Applying
a Layer Style
- Flattening
and saving files
Complete
Layer Lesson -- handout in class
03Start.psd &
Clock.psd -- right click on this link
and save target to your folder. See
final image
when
you are finished....
Creating
a Circuit Board Face -- access this URL and find the
tutorial
http://www.planetphotoshop.com/tutorials.html
Sponsored by NAPP
Using the Displace filter
Final
image can be seen on the last page of the tutorial packet.
November
28/29
Introduce
Mutant Assignment --
special
thanks to Barbara Christopher, Eisenhower High School
Rubric funphoto.html
assignment
- Fun
Photo Tutorial -- complete
this assignment Before the End of class Friday.
-- grade (If absent, make-up
in tutorials no later than Tuesday, December 4)
Homework --
Bring a picture to scan in class on next Monday.
November
30
Warm-up -- Create
a mutant folder in your classwork folder
on the student server. All files that
are associated with this project should be saved to this folder.
- Mutant
Assignment -read carefully. Right click on
link and save to your classwork/mutant folder for
future reference if you wish.
- Major
Project. Due
December 11

This site allows
teachers and students to use images which do not infringe
copyright. Note: images on Google or Altavista
can be illegally obtained. Many projects oblige students
to comply with copyright and incorporate images .... this
site makes this objective possible.
- Mutant rubric
Homework/Followup: Plan
mutant. Create storyboard using the required images. Sketch
each and list filename.
December 3
warm-up --
copy/paste lastnamefirstinitiafunphoto.jpg to the @dropbox
during the first five minutes of class.
daily grade -- folder structure
- Mutant
Assignment -read carefully.
Major Project.
Due
December 11

This site allows
teachers and students to use images which do not infringe
copyright. Note: images on Google or Altavista can be
illegally obtained. Many projects oblige students to
comply with copyright and incorporate images .... this
site makes this objective possible.
- Mutant rubric
Homework/Followup: Review
rough draft of your mutant story that was done in class
on November 20.
The article should
be
tell a detailed story about the life of your mutant. The
story
should
be imaginative
and
give creative
background
information on your unusual creature. Make the story fun and
interesting.
This should be written in Word and saved int he classwork/mutant
folder. Spell check and proof read.
Put your name and period at the top of the document. Save the
file as lastnamefirstinitialmutant.doc.-
for a grade
December
4 - 11
mutant.psd
-- should be close to completion. Save file for the web.
Filename MUST be mutant.jpg saved to your classwork/mutant
folder.
classwork/mutant/index.html
-- create the index.html for
your mutant project.
- open
a browser window, right click to view source to open notepad.
- open
the mutant.html file found in the @pickup folder.
- read
the contents. You will replace the text in this document
with the text from your mutant.doc file. You can change the
title and the header if you wish.
- look
at the image link. You mutant.jpg should be visible. If the
dimensions are not correct, then you probably did not follow
the size requirements in the handout. Please check.
- save
file as index.html to your classwork/mutant folder.
December
12/13
Photoshop
Test -- Quizstar
Review
for midterm
Final Exam
Review --
Exam
Overview
handout given
in class December 12/14
FTP
portion of final exam
Objective--
Publish Mutant Web Site
Activities:
Students will restructure the whstech website.
In the folder
on the whstech server, rename web to first.
FTP
address: ftp://whstech.com
Username: (studentfolder)@whstech.com
Password: same as the one you use on the student server
remote
site: whstech.com local site: Wsidehs-rs05\(your folder)
URL: http://whstech.com/(folder
on the student server)/mutant/
FTP USING INTERNET EXPLORER
This tutorial
is a review from your first web site. You may need to review
it. You will need to use the
class FTP
address and
your login and password. (See above information).
Directions for
final
- Open your folder
on the student server. Resize to half screen and move to
the RIGHT side of the screen. This is your local site.
- Open IE6. Resize
to half screen and move tot he LEFT side of screen. This
is your remote site.
- Type ftp://whstech.com
in the address bar.
- Type (your folder)@whstech.com
in the User name blank. (see below)
Use your student server password.

- Right click on
web folder on the remote server (left side) and rename
to first.
- Move the mutant
folder from the local server to remote by dragging with
the mouse while holding the left mouse button down.
- Check URL: http://whstech.com/(yourfolder)/mutant/
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