Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Web Publishing Assessment Activity 3: Testing Your Website

Web Publishing Assessment Activity 3: Testing Your Website

Web Publishing Assessment Activity 2: Designing, producing and publishing your own website

Web Publishing Learning Activity 6: Publishing to a server using Dreamweaver FTP

Web Publishing Learning Activity 6: Publishing to a server using Dreamweaver FTP

Web Publishing Learning Activity 5: Using Google Webfonts

Web Publishing Learning Activity 5: Using Google Webfonts

Web Publishing Learning Activity 4: Introduction to Dreamweaver

Web Publishing Learning Activity 4: Introduction to Dreamweaver

Web Publishing Learning Activity 3: Designing a site map

Web Publishing Learning Activity 3: Designing a site map

Web Publishing Assessment Activity 1: Online client needs survey

Web Publishing Assessment Activity 1: Online client needs survey

Web Publishing Learning Activity 2: Develop a client needs survey

Web Publishing Learning Activity 2: Develop a client needs survey

Topic 8 Web Publishing Learning Activity 1

Topic 8 Web Publishing Learning Activity 1: Research Assignment

Topic 7 Assessment Activity 2 OH&S: Role Play / Publish to Slideshare

Topic 7 Assessment Activity 2 OH&S: Role Play / Publish to Slideshare

Learning Activity 2: OH&S Design a Custom Workstation

Learning Activity 2: OH&S Design a Custom Workstation

Topic 7 Learning Activity 1: OH&S Research Assignment

Topic 7 Learning Activity 1: OH&S Research Assignment

Topic 7 Assessment Activity 1: Role Play as a web design business sole operator

Topic 7 Assessment Activity 1: Role Play as a web design business sole operator

Topic 7 Learning Activity 1: Industry Research Assignment

Topic 7 Learning Activity 1: Industry Research Assignment

Writing & Creative Thinking for Multimedia Assessment Activity 4

Writing & Creative Thinking for Multimedia Assessment Activity 4: Summarise a Podcast

Writing & Creative Thinking for Multimedia Assessment Activity 3

Writing & Creative Thinking for Multimedia Assessment Activity 3: Research

Writing & Creative Thinking for Multimedia Assessment Activity 1 Brainstorm / MindMap

Writing & Creative Thinking for Multimedia Assessment Activity 1
Brainstorm / Mind Map

Topic 6: Writing & Creative Thinking for Multimedia Learning Activity 8

Writing & Creative Thinking for Multimedia Learning Activity 8: Describe 5 Online Writng Tools

Topic 6: Writing & Creative Thinking for Multimedia Learning Activity 7: Project Brief

Topic 6: Writing & Creative Thinking for Multimedia Learning Activity 7: Project Brief

Topic 6: Writing & Creative Thinking for Multimedia Learning Activity 6: User Profile Survey

Topic 6: Writing & Creative Thinking for Multimedia Learning Activity 6: User Profile Survey

Topic 6: Writing & Creative Thinking for Multimedia Learning Activity 1 to 5: Research

Topic 6: Writing & Creative Thinking for Multimedia Learning Activity 1 to 5: Research

2D 2D Animation Assessment Activity: Flash Advertisement

2D Animation Assessment Activity: Flash Advertisement

2D Animation Assessment Activity: Self-Portrait using Rotoscoping

2D Animation Assessment Activity: Self-Portrait using Rotoscoping

2D Animation Assessment Activity: Animate to Dialogue

2D Animation Assessment Activity: Animate to Dialogue

2D Animation Assessment Activity: 7 Deadly Sins

2D Animation Assessment Activity: 7 Deadly Sins

2D Animation Learning Activity 10

2D Animation Learning Activity 10: Rotoscope a Video Sequence

2D Animation Learning Activity 9

2D Animation Learning Activity 9: Animate a Famous Quote

2D Animation Learning Activity 8

2D Animation Learning Activity 8: Bringing Text to Life

2D Animation Learning Activity 5,6,7

2D Animation Learning Activity 5,6,7: Tweening & Motion Curves

2D Animation Learning Activity 4

2D Animation Learning Activity 4: Keyframe Animation

2D Animation Learning Activity 3

2D Animation Learning Activity 3: Animate your Apples

2D Animation Learning Activity 2

2D Animation Activity 2: Short-Answer Questions

2D Animation 1

This lesson introduces the new user to the tools in Flash.

Flash is similar in appearance to a lot of modern graphics /animation applications; Adobe Photoshop follows a similar user-interface...the palettes look the same between programs.

Digital Imaging Assessment Activity: Hero Shots

Digital Imaging Assessment Activity: Hero Shots

To test your ability with Photoshop and your understanding of Design Fundamentals you need to produce (design & create) 5 "hero shots" to fit into the 5 web pages

Digital Imaging Assessment Activity : Populating a web page wireframe

Digital Imaging Assessment Activity : Populating a web page wireframe

A lot of the output of a junior web designer is to re-purpose provided content. In this assessment you need to work with an existing wireframe.

Digital Imaging Learning Activity 11: Shooting Motion

Digital Imaging Learning Activity 11: Shooting Motion

Learning Activity 11: Shooting motion (approx 2 hrs)

Take 5 shots; moving vehicles, joggers/skateboarders/ toast popping from a toaster (there's a challenge!) and flowing water.

The goal here is to maintain the subject in focus and blur the background or in the case of the water, make it look like silk.

Choose the best 3 to submit as 1920 px wide, 72dpi jpg using the assignment tool

Digital Imaging Learning Activity 10: The amazing PNG format

Digital Imaging Learning Activity 10: The amazing PNG format

Digital Imaging Learning Activity 9: Making backgrounds for web pages

Digital Imaging Learning Activity 9: Making backgrounds for web pages

Digital Imaging Learning Activity 8: Web image formats

Learning Activity 8: Web image formats

The "green lifestyle" is the hot topic at the moment, take 10 photos that reflect the notion of "being green".

Combine these into a single image, 1920x1080, 72 dpi, RGB.

Consider the tone or colour/saturation/ sharpness and adjust if necessary.

Digital Imaging Learning Activity 7: Combining Images using Layer Masks

Learning Activity 7: Combining Images using Layer Masks (6 hrs)

This activity alows you to practice making selections, working with layers, creating Layer Masks, using the gradient tool (to make the linear fade effect), working with type and saving for the web.

Learning Activity 6: Making Selections & Combining Images (Approx. 5 hrs.)

From the Lesson 2 resource, watch the lesson3sel.flv video (it's 15mins/ 46MB and you'll need an .flv player to play it).

It's created for Photoshop 8 CS but all the basics of making selections and rubber-stamping translate well to newer versions.

Digital Learning Activity 5: Adjusting Levels

Digital Learning Activity 5: Adjusting Levels

Learning Activity 5: Approx 2 hrs
Adjustment Levels
Introduction
The goal of this activity is to move the shadows towards the dark-end of the range and the highlights to the light end of the range. This will give you an image with more detail across the range from dark to light. More detail = more interest.

Digital Imaging Learning Activity 4: Cropping an Image

Digital Imaging Learning Activity 4: Cropping an Image

Lesson 4:

Image metadata, more advanced camera handling & final digital imaging assessment.

This lesson introduces you to getting more out of your camera, working with image metadata and finally an assessment where you need to demonstrate your understanding of Photoshop/ digital imaging by prodcuing a web page wireframe (mock-up) and populate the hero shots of 5 web pages.

Digital Imaging Learning Activity 3: Tell a story with a flatbed scan

Digital Imaging Learning Activity 3: Tell a story with a flatbed scan

Lesson 3: Producing images for the web

One of the convenient things about working with digital images for the web is that they're all 72dpi , RGB and either jpg, gif or png format files. If you're in the print/ pre-press field you have to grapple with all sorts of file formats.

This lesson introduces you to the issues related to preparing images for web publishing.

Topic 4 Digital Imaging Laerning Activity 2: Resampling and Resizing Photos

Topic 4 Digital Imaging Laerning Activity 2: Resampling and Resizing Photos

This module introduces you to working with digital images with a focus on production issues such as working to a creative brief, acquiring the images, getting the images into your computer and processing the images ready for output to a specific platform.

designer using photoshop The tool of choice here is Adobe Photoshop (Wikipedia link), the most popular software used by industry to process/ create & edit digital images for print & web.