Monday, April 6, 2015

Newspaper layout notes

Broadsheets- Taller than is wide 2" by 1"0
Tabloid- square shape 1" by 1"

Elements Of A Page
Photos
Headlines
Lines
Boxes
Teasers
Flag- the flag projects the image
Folio -date, page number, section title, name of paper, volume number
teaser- used to grave your attention
Byline-Name of writer, job title,
Jump line- shows where a story continues or where a story starts
story dividers- lines or boxes
Infographics- Charts, maps, timelines, diagrams
Placement- BAsed on importance

Wednesday, January 21, 2015

First Photoshop practice

 Newspaper photo














Yearbook photo

Web photo

Photoshop Notes

SAVE AS
Rename your image
Make sure the images
saved as a .jpg at the
highest (maximum) image
quality.

SAVE- you do not have to rename
the image at this point
Save often and regulary.

NESTLE- tools are stacked
on each other- to access those tools you have to
left click and hold.

Command + = To zoom in
command - = To zoom out
Command o = to open
command v=to paste

ADJUSTING LEVELS
>image>adjustments>levels
Channel Blue
Channel Green
Channel Red
Moved just the black and white
bars

ADJUSTING CONTRAST
Channel RGB - moved just the grey
bar (just a little lighter)

TO CROP
Select the cropping tool and then click and drag the area you want to crop.


RESOLUTION
yearbook= 300
newspaper=150
web=72

Friday, January 16, 2015

Photoshop question

1. Who uses Photoshop? (What kinds of jobs do they have?)
Magazine designers
2. List THREE TOOLS (or purposes) that photographers use in Photoshop? (Watch the video a couple of times to get the full list.)To make somebody look better, To edit a photo , to make a photo brighter


3. What are TWO EXAMPLES of other things you can use the latest version (Creative Cloud) of Photoshop to do? Change filters , copy an image 

Magazine Essential Parts

Theres the masthead, Dateline,Main image, model credit, cover line, main cover, bar code, cover lines selling line, left third