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- Mudbone
I'm looking for some assignments to give students particularly in photoshop and illustrator. What are some assignments that any students here have had to complete in your courses?
- ********0
Hmmm.... convert images in magazines to vector illustrations.
- D_Dot0
how long have they been using Adobe products?
- mcLeod0
like oeuf said
when i first took an illustrator class we had to pick a cartoon or a photo and trace it. that instruction and experience with bezier curves right off the bat was priceless.
- ********0
Make sure they trace the lines and place the points on transparents with a felt marker first. And then, go in Illustrator, scan in the transparent and reproduce. The second time, do it, but without the transparent... Straight on the scanned photo.
- brandelec0
recreate a photo in illustrator.
with gradients mesh and everything, you're students will love you.
- buddylee0
I'm currently helping a school district here in AZ come up with curriculum for their upcoming computer/design class. And here are the recommendations I've made thus far:
For Adobe Illustrator:
Purchase some coloring books and have the students trace the line art. Also, fills the with plently of examples of work done using the various applications.
For Adobe Photoshop:
Computer Arts mag. always has great tutorials to complete. Try obstaining a subscription to this rgeat publication.
- ********0
Yeah, tropical fishes... with gradient mesh... That was long.
- motokiss0
oh man i hated first year, that fuckin pen tool made me wanna drop out. Now i realize why my prof drove it into us that the pen tool is the main tool
All great ideas have been mentioned already. The colouring book is great to start with. Having them trace it and color it for illiustrator.
Also drive the most important tools into your students such as the history tool cause without it man i would have been screwed. Just make them redesign web pages and what not, helped me with tools i didnt know.
- Bluejam0
photoshop
convert a roy lichtenstein piece into a van gogh and vice versa.illustrator
draw a three panel comic on paper and then convert into digital. you could even get 'em to alter the panels to do effects like those listed here...
- fate0
Off-topic, but why do you still use Node based drawing? I mean flash has a pretty intuitive set-up for just manipulating lines the way you want (yes I realize it's node based beziers in truth)
- kbags0
File > Open > Paint Bucket > Select Primary Color Black >
PAINT IT BLACK.
- atomica0
photoshop: focus on clipping, and cleaning up. back in school my first ps class involved getting an image (photo, mag clipping, etc.) then destroying it a bit, wrinkling, ripping, sometimes burning - then take it into photoshop and make it like new, and/or even better. I know with clipping paths we did several pieces, one that was a pretty sharp object (easy), then a person (intermediate), then an animal with lots of fur (a bit more of a task). I thought that was pretty helpful and gave a well rounded use of how to extract images from images. For illustrator I go with everyone elses reccomendation, make them trace a photo, once realistically, and once stylistically, that will help.