Fall Quarter 2008
Welcome back.
The Letterpress movie
Looking at resources: Pocket Pal, Taz Tally, Deke McClelland, AdobeTV.
A look at the raster image, pixels, resolution, bit depth, and raster image processors.
Read the Pocket Pal: pages 24-34, Introduction to the Printing Process
We will our discussion of light and the additive and subtractive primaries. We will create a CMYK and an RGB painting.
Discuss the printing processes.
Start viewing the tutorial: Photoshop CS3 Color Correction
with: Taz Tally. We will discuss chapters 1-3 next week.
Discuss the printing processes.
Paper resources, basic sizes and basis weights
Discuss chapters 1-3 in Photoshop CS3 Color Correction
with: Taz Tally.
We will perform some in-class photo adjustments.
View the Color Correction chapters 4-6 for discussion next week.
Halftones: screens of amplitude modulated dots and the random spattering of same-sized dots in stochastic, frequency modulated, dots. We'll make dots with the laser printer.
Practice with color correction skills; image adjustments, resolution, straightening, etc.
View the Color Correction chapters 7-9 for discussion next week.
More practice. We will use targets to dial-in the neutral colors.
The Art Director has sent us photos (photos to correct, in the Pickup folder) from the Johnston Printing photo shoot. Your job, make them ready for printing.
Turn in your corrected and adjusted Johnston photos by the end of class. Practice color correction skills from chapters 7-9.
View chapter 10 and the conclusion for Thursday.
Review of Color Correction.
Begin viewing InDesign CS3 Prepress Essentials
with: Taz Tally; chapters 1-3
Discuss chapter 1-3 of InDesign CS3 Prepress Essentials.
View InDesign CS3 Prepress Essentials; chapters 4-6
Visiting the resources available from printers. File preparation guides, downloadable profiles, and the secret language of printers.
View the AdobeTV video by Lisa Niday: Escaping Murphy's Law-What your customers need to know about transparency in InDesign.
Best Practices Smackdown! Taz and Lisa do not agree on which file format is best. Who will win?
View InDesign CS3 Prepress Essentials; chapters 7-9 for next Thursday.
Review of sizing and fitting images into your layouts.
Holiday
View InDesign CS3 Prepress Essentials; chapters 10-11 for next week.
Discussing the ink options and image adustments from chapters 7-9.
Discuss chapters 10-11.
View InDesign CS3 Prepress Essentials; chapters 12-13 for next week.
Discussion of chapters 12 and 13.
Practice with PDF options.
Holiday
Review.
Review.
Review.
Finals week