Tuesday, February 28, 2012

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.

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Blog Posting for February 21

Please complete the 'panning' process for both the 'plane' and 'thunderbird' image located on the S drive. You will then send me the 'flattened' images to my email. Brenda.mccormick@bedford.k12.mi.us

After completing the panning exercise on both images you need to add to your Quizlet flash card set answering the following questions:

Which of the following is not something you can do using Adobe InDesign?
a. create and place text c. store items
b. take and arrange photographs d. create hyperlinks

What do we call the color samples in InDesign?

What appears just above the horizontal ruler and includes the document name, the current magnification level of the document, and a Close button you can click to close the document? In InDesign.
a. Application bar c. Control panel
b. document tab d. Tools panel

Which of the following sits at the top of the workspace and includes several menus?
a. Panels panel c. Application bar
b. pasteboard d. document tab

What do we call small floating windows that contain options for working with selected objects?
a. panels c. tools
b. menus d. bars

Where is the control panel?

Which of the following does not appear on the Interactivity workspace?
a. Hyperlinks panel c. Page Transitions panel
b. Tools panel d. Buttons panel

You can save your document settings in the ____ dialog box for future use.
a. Save Settings c. Custom Document
b. Save Document d. New Document

Which of the following are what we use to create multiple-page documents?
a. facing pages c. margin lines
b. spreads d. all of the above

What is a preset?

What are margin guides?

What is another name for panels?

What is the term for combining panel groups into one large panel?

Guides have what seems like a magnetic pull that causes objects such as text or graphics to ____, or exactly align, to them.

What should you press to align a guide exactly on a ruler mark?

What is the term for anything that can be selected, including text boxes, logos, pictures, simple shapes and lines, and even guides?

In this blog comment on the following prompts:

If you are working toward a career as a print or Web designer, knowledge of InDesign is a must. Why?

What are some of the main things you can do with InDesign? Be specific and use correct terminology.