DIGITAL DESIGN STUDIO TIMELINE
QUARTER 1
General classroom information
Create/Update of Digital Portfolio (Wix, Blogger)
Principles of Design
Photoshop – Adobe Revealed Photoshop Book
 Tools
 Workspace
 Text Manipulation
 Layer Basics
 Basic Photo Corrections
 Retouching and Repairing Digital Photos and Images
 Working with Selections—Content Aware
 Working with Color Techniques (blending, gradient)
 Working with Text
 Editing/Resizing/Cropping Images
 2D vs. 3D—use 3D tool to create pop
 Filters
 Animation
 Camera Raw
Project Suggestions:
 Name in Pictures
 Avatar
 Halloween—make into aliens, monsters, etc.; Jen’s haunted houses
 Downloaded brushes/make your own brush
 Design your own snowboard or surfboard
 Perspective
 Magazine Cover/Cereal Boxes
 Morphing/Animal Morph
 Posters
 Colorization
 Cars (make a Disney Car from a real car pic)
 Indy Car
 Coloring Book
 Andy Warhol – Photoshop Cookbook
 Animation Project
QUARTER 2
Illustrator – Adobe Illustrator Revealed
 Tools
 Workspace
 Vector Graphics vs. ___________ Graphics
 Text manipulation (gradients, masking, typing on path)
 Drawing and Composing
 Transforming (compound and clipping mask)
 Layers management
 Live Trace
 Working with multiple art boards
 Exporting, saving and printing
 Using Symbols
 Brushes
 Importing text into document
 Color, Patterns, Swatches and Gradients
 Special Effects
 Anchor points
Project Suggestions:
 Caricatures using Shapes
 T-shirt
 License Plate/Bumper Sticker
 Name Mask
 Legos
 License Plate
 Weaving a Ribbon Through Text
 Weaving a Ribbon Through Text
 Logos
InDesign – Adobe InDesign Revealed
 Workspace
 Tools
 Text
 Setting Up Document, Master Pages
 Frames
 Color
 Manage Integration of graphics programs
 Creating Graphics,
Project- Suggestions:
 Collage
 Text in a Graphic Shape
 Travel Brochure/Menu
 CD Covers/Table Tent
 Yearbook Feature Page

Newspaper Article
QUARTER 3:
Advanced Photoshop – Adobe Revealed Photoshop Chapter 8 and beyond
 Quick and channel mask - view, modify and load a saved mask using Channel panel
 Correct and adjust color
 Intricate selections – Extract command
 Gradient mask
 Create clipping groups
 Utilize snapshots
 Create layer groupings/sets
 Advanced Animation
 Adjustment layers and use non- destructive color and tonal adjustments
 Knockout layers
 Designing with multiple images
 Production tricks and techniques
 Creating special effects
 Blending modes
 Create and apply color effects, color corrections, filters and layers
 3D
 Creating Images for the Web
 Working with Animation, Video & Photography – Movie Maker
 Photo story/Music Studio
Project Suggestions:
 Filmstrips
 NAME mask using adjustment layers, masking (Adobe Advanced Photoshop Revealed)
 Integrating Illustrator with Photoshop – Chapter 2 (AAPR Book)
 Text Project
 Photoshop Online Tutorials
 Final Four Logo Project
QUARTER 4:
Advanced Illustrator - Adobe Illustrator Revealed
 Recoloring Artwork and Working with Transparency, Effects, and Graphic Styles
 Creating and Designing Graphs
 Creating 3D Objects, Perspective
 Drawing with Symbols
 Preparing Graphics for the Web
Advanced Illustrator - Suggested Projects
 Children’s Restaurant menu or placemat
 Team or Play Poster
 Trace their own Picture
 Monster
 Logo Text
 Medallion
Advanced InDesign - Adobe InDesign Revealed
 Exploring Effects and Advanced Techniques
 Working with Tabs and Tables
 Making Books, Tables of Contents, and Indexes
 Preparing, Packaging, and Exporting Documents for Print
 Creating an Interactive Document
Advanced InDesign – Suggested Projects
 Brochure – Place, NCAA Tournament brochure, Disney, Sports Team
Adobe Acrobat
 Create, Capture, and Export PDF Documents
 Design, Create and Edit Forms
 Exporting PDF files to text files and image file format
 Create PDF using Acrobat Distiller
 Capture PDF document from scanner
 Capture PDF document from WEB site
 Navigation Techniques
 Demonstrating Editing Techniques
 Incorporate Multimedia Elements
 Optimize a PDF file
Adobe Acrobat – Suggested Projects
Create a portfolio of their work in Acrobat
Integration of all utilized graphic design programs –
Movie Maker