Class:MFA Illustration Master/Week 8

Last Week

• What's new in Photoshop
• Project Review
• Animation in Photoshop

This Week

• Animation Project Review
• Color calibration discussion
• Printing in Photoshop overview

Notes

• The color calibration hardware I showed this week:
  • http://xritephoto.com/i1display-pro

• Onsight has great color evaluation images:
  • http://www.on-sight.com/downloads/

Assignment

Use the techniques reinforced in class over the past few weeks to create a new hand illustrated, scanned, composited and colored composition for the next class.

• Compositions should be 6" x 6"
• Subject matter is up to you
• Should be a composite image, multiple colored drawings from paper or iPad assembled into one psd illustration

And Then:

• Your task is to also bring two printed copies of your composition.
• Find our use a high quality printing paper (Epson, Ilford, Red River, Moab, etc...).
• Each print should be centered on 8.5" x 11" sheets of paper.
• Each print should have written notation on the front or back:
  • Paper Manufacturer / Paper Type
  • Printer Manufacturer / Model
  • Print settings if possible
• This is the ideal week to experiment with print settings, write em down!
  • Try different papers (matte, glossy, luster, bright, natural, warm, cool, and so on).
  • Try different printers
• One print should be your best attempt at a perfect exhibition print.
• The other should be more exploratory
• I will not accept prints on cheap/standard printer paper

We created a Photoshop file containing square printers marks and color bars. In Photoshop you can place your art in the center and print your files with the crop and color bars. https://www.dropbox.com/s/g8fijsiyq4f7q1g/print-marks-6x6.zip?dl=0

Bring with you to class and upload to Google Drive:

• One layered photoshop files.
• Two fabulous prints with color bars (above).

Please continue to work on the iPad as well.