Pineapple Collage
We’re going to make a simple collage by cutting and pasting pieces of photos into a composite image. Time: 60 minutes
Intermediate
A Deck of Cards
In this exercise you will design a couple of cards from a full deck of cards. Together with the class we’ll design all 52 playing cards. To get a playable deck of cards, we need to set out some rules and guidelines as a framework. Within this framework you’re free to do whatever you like. …
A Simple Booklet
You’re going to create a simple booklet with styled headings and body text. This exercise is a basic guide, you can add more complexity and customization to the booklet by adding more pages, more images, and more style variations. You can experiment with different layouts, typography, color, and image manipulation options and explore other features …
Clipping Masks
The terms Clipping Path and Clipping Mask are used interchangeably and mean more or less the same thing. This is a shape (a vector) that serves as a mask and thus shows or hides other objects underneath. The outer line of this shape is called the clipping path.
Graphic Identity
The first thing we need to design is an outline for the graphic identity that will be used in our visual communication for the upcoming open day. This identity contains the following elements: Font Type(s) Sizes Headings Color scheme One, two or three colors Logo / word mark Vector Layout-guideline for Poster portrait Poster landscape …
Movie poster: double exposure
Before the computer era, a double exposure image was created by literally exposing the same negative twice. This resulted in kind of ghostly images, the end result of which was always an (uncontrolable) suprise. Nowadays Photoshop offers much more control over this process. Time: 90 minutes
Girl at the beach
This exercise takes the concept of masking to where it becomes very useful. Consider selecting individual strands of hair, blowing in the wind. None of the selection tools can do it, but masks can. Here’s how. Time: 60 minutes
Pulling a sketch from the paper
When you scan your sketches and edit them in Photoshop, you may encounter the need to ‘lift’ the sketch from the paper. That is: you want your sketch in a layer of its own, including all transparency but without the white pixels of the paper. Here’s how. Time: 30 minutes Steps Open sketch.JPG in Photoshop …
Low poly
You’ll make a low poly portrait in Illustrator. This is done by drawing little triangles with the Pen Tool in Illustrator. Here you see some examples of low poly portraits. This 9 minute video explains how it’s done. TIPS Use a photograph with a high light-dark contrast, this will give the best result. To quickly …
Burn the house down
You’re going to make an image of burning letters, such as the ones in this example. The objective is to create a realistic effect.You must use a similar setting–with a floor and a wall–but you are free to use your own (high-res) textures. You’re also free to choose any font and to write whatever you …