Class:MFA Illustration 2018/Week 4

Last Week

• Intro to Gear pt2

This Week

• Backup Plan!
  • Time Machine
  • Super Duper
  • Cloud Backup
• Your Computer
  • OS X
  • Keeping things running
• Scanning 101
  • Pepping & scanning drawings
• Digitally Coloring in Ps

Notes

Backup Plans

1. Manual Backup
   • Free
   • You have to do it
2. Apple Time Machine
   • You already have it if you are using OS X 10.5 or later.
   • You need to have a dedicated external (or internal hard drive for this).
   • You can also consider a dedicated wireless Time Capsule as the storage device: http://www.apple.com/timecapsule/
3. Backup Software
   • Super Duper http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html
   • carbon copy pro
     • Can use most features for free, all featured for $30.
4. Cloud Backup
   • Carbonite http://www.carbonite.com
   • Backblaze https://www.backblaze.com/

Online File Storage

• Email it to yourself
  • Gmail has 32mb limit
  • There is also google drive?
• dropbox - https://db.tt/usQuGwKR
• google drive
• yousendit - http://www.yousendit.com/
• wetransfer - http://wetransfer.com

Mouse & Tablets

• Do you need a mouse?
  • These are good: Logitech Wireless Anywhere Mouse http://amzn.to/PIjj9M
• Tablets
  • Wacom, go for smooth over size.
  • Intous 5 http://amzn.to/PUs2Jo
• Astropad!
  • Turn your iPad Pro into a tablet
  • http://astropad.com/

OS X 101

• Users
• Files
• Your Library
  • User folder (Shift - Command - G "~/Library")

Shortcuts

• Finder:
  • New window: command - n
  • View as icon: command - 1
  • View as list: command - 2
  • View as column: command - 3

Things to remember about healthy computers

• Keep 20% of the drive empty
• If you run out of Memory == BAD
• If your taxing the CPU == BAD
• How do you know this?
  • Install Menu Meters
  • http://www.ragingmenace.com/
  • Or built-in "Activity Monitor"
• Keep your hard drive clean
  • Grand Perspective
  • http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/
• Maintenance Scripts
  • Monthly, Weekly, Daily
  • http://www.maintain.se/cocktail
  • http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/11582/onyx

Do this every week!

1. Run disk utility Verify
2. Run cocktail http://www.maintain.se/cocktail
   • Pilot, turn on all the options
   • restart
3. Clear ALL caches
   • joshua HD > Library > Caches >
   • joshua HD > System > Library > Caches >
   • joshua HD > [username] > Library > Caches >
4. Restart
5. Delete trash

Photoshop Stuff

• http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/family/
• http://photoshoptips.net/
• http://morris-photographics.com/photoshop/shortcuts/

Photoshop Key Commands

• http://help.adobe.com/en_US/photoshop/cs/using/WSD578BD7D-07BC-46f6-AAC2-6E491E8AD818a.html

Adobe Global Key Commands

• Spacebar = pan
• Spacebar - Command = Zoom In
• Spacebar - Command - Option = Zoom Out
• F = toggles through view modes
• Command + ; = hide guides
• Bigger Brush - ]
• Smaller Brush - ]

Prep and color scanned drawings

• http://blog.choppingblock.com/2009/10/photoshop-prep-color-scanned-drawings/

Video Notes

• Hard drives & cloud storage question <- Selective sync demo
• Cloud backup options (review), tablet options, Astropad and Luna demo
• Handy Mac utilities overview links: click here
• Overview of basic healthy Mac/computer stuff
• Things to do every week to keep your Mac happy and speedy
• Photoshop assignment review & scanning best practices
• How to scan and prep your drawings for coloring in Photoshop

Assignment

• Review the techniques and videos from class this week.

1. On paper, create a new 5" by 5" drawing about "shadow", you will be digitally coloring it.
   • Draw, Scan and digitally color your shadow drawing for class next week.
   • Bring your layered photoshop file to class or upload it to the Google Drive folder: svaMFAI_xx-homework-Shadow-Scan-and-Color
2. Additionally, I would like you to use Adobe Sketch or Adobe Draw to create a 2nd drawing about shadow.
   • Bring your Sketch/Draw file or upload it to the Google Drive folder: svaMFAI_20171016-homework-Shadow-Scan-and-Color