Final Class Posting

Please make sure that you have completed ALL the requirements of the blog pages regarding your work. What to print, what to add to your web site, all work on your P drive in project folders, etc. If I can't find your work in the proper location you will NOT receive a grade for the work.

Make sure that your personal web site has been updated to include ALL the necessary elements, images, etc. Make sure that you have work on each page as required.

Look back through the class blog to make SURE you have met all the requirements.

If you have waited until the last minute to do everything I have no sympathy.

Do NOT delete work from your P drive. I will be checking your P drive before I post my final grades.

Remember to do the Creative Commons assignment from yesterday. Make SURE you send me the link to review your work. Again, if you are not prepared, no sympathy!

EVERY page of your personal web site should showcase some of your work. We made pages for each application: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, etc. Convert the native files to jpg format and you can add the element to your personal web site.

Protecting Your Intellectual Property

The Creative Commons License's are used to give everyday people like you and me ways to protect our intellectual property. We can 'license' our creative work so that other people can use our work without our permission or give us credit for our work.

The steps to license your work are really very simple:
create an account in Flickr
Upload your images
Once the images have been uploaded you will 'edit' the permissions and privacy so that you set the Create Common license level that you want to use
Remember that you can not take credit for someone else's work and you don't want someone else to take credit for your work - if this happens then you are breaking the law (or someone else is)

All of the 'self-created' images for this class that you uploaded to your personal web site must be uploaded to Flickr
After uploading you are to TAG all the images as: MCCormickGraphicDesign
Next you are to set the Creative Common License for each image

Please see this link in Flickr and make sure that you understand the guidelines BEFORE you upload. This is a serious step for designers. You want to make sure that you are protected. http://www.flickr.com/help/guidelines/

March 13 Post - Additions to Your Personal Web Site

Today you are going to add several more elements to your personal web page:

Sign on to Quizlet and bring up your online B final exam flash cards. Name the new page on your Weebly web site Quizlet. Add the Exam Quizlet flash card set.

Add a page to the web site for adding your reflections of this class. Create a new page on your web site named Reflections.

Use this page to answer the following:

1. Favorite things about class
2. Goals you accomplished in class
3. Things you would change about class
4. How you will use the things you learned

Add your picture to your web site. You can add the picture anyplace on your personal web site contains the following:

Your logo
Add a page to the web site to include work from other classes that you want to showcase( use the scanner if you need to)

Sharing Personal Site Form

Adding Examples of Your Work To Your Personal Web Site

Today you will be adding examples of your work to your personal web site. You want to add your work as a way of showcasing your great skills.

Before adding the work you will need to convert the application specific files to a file type that can be opened by anyone. Afterall, you can not know that everyone looking at your work will have the Adobe design applications.

Export InDesign files to JPG format. Once you have exported the file you can then upload into the photo gallery element on your web site.

To begin you are to add the following in a photo gallery on your web site:
Snap, Sniggle and Ring-A-Ding (packet 1)
Money & Savings Bank (packet 2)
Identity Theft (packet 3)
Beautiful Morning  (packet 4)
Fun In The Sun (packet 5)
Regional Football (packet 6)

In addition to the above you are to add the following to your photo gallery:
Blurred Rally Car
Blurred Thunderbird
Blurred Plane

Skateboarding
Black and White Flowers
Lake
Mist
Bridge

March 9 Blog Posting

Please make sure that all of the assignments are finished. You will be creating your portfolio next week and you will be adding your work, including the Web Page assignment.

Lots to review for the exam.

If finished work on KeyTrain.

February 28 Blog Post

Using the new images added to the S drive:

Add masking to create realistic looking fog. Make sure that you are paying attention to natural shadows and also make sure that you are paying attention to the objects in the image that are close to the front of the picture.

There will be a QUIZ on Friday using panning and masking.