Engineering - Week 10: 3/30-4/3

Goose Creek Family Festival

Creative Cloud: (3pts) - Due Monday 3/30

Login to the Creative Cloud app and open "Your Work" to find the "Goose Creek Association" folder in your shared documents. Open your team's folder and find your own name to view your graphic designs. Be sure that your first illustrator file is uploaded here. If it is not, then go to "Select Files" and choose them from your computer. Please contact me right away if you are unable to access the Creative Cloud or Illustrator. Both are available as apps for ipad (full version) and iphone (condensed version).

Remember: You should also have a screenshot of your graphic design posted on the Engineering Classroom Forum with your Progress, Issues, and Goals. I will troubleshoot everything you expressed in these comments during our zoom meeting on Tuesday so be sure you provide detailed explanations.

Next, you will need to test the commenting feature. You can also access this on the Creative Cloud app. Review every one of your classmates' design folders. When you click on their illustrator files, you will see the comment section. Find the @ symbol and select your own name in the dropdown menu to confirm that you viewed each one. This comment feature will be an important way to communicate information about your files moving forward.

UPDATE: The comment feature is not working consistently, so just be sure you know how to navigate to each of your classmate’s illustrator files.

Now, search for additional reference visuals to work with in Illustrator relating to your interactive display. Select 3-5 images and share them with your team in the "Reference Visuals" folder on Creative Cloud. We will use these in our next live Illustrator Tutorial using the Image Trace Panel during our zoom time on Tuesday.

Tuesday, 3/31

Zoom In @ 9AM: https://foxcroft.zoom.us/s/3232918222 - NOTE: Session will be recorded

• First Illustrator Tutorial Q&A: Tracing with the Pen Tool

• Based on "Issues and Goals" posted in the classroom forum, we will review shortcuts for the pen tool, and I will also introduce the eye dropper, paintbush, and gradient tools for greater control over color and texture.

• NEW ILLUSTRATOR TUTORIAL: Image Trace Panel

(the instructional video is currently loading below...I apologize for the delay)

Notes:

• Open the Image and click on it with the "Selection Tool"

• At the top of the screen, click on the "Image Trace"button

• You will find the panel button just to the left or go to "Window > Image Trace Panel"

• Open up the advanced options so you can tweak your tracing for the desired effect

• Click "Expand" at the top of the screen to separate the objects

• Use the Direct Selection Tool to select and delete unnecessary traced elements

MOBILE DEVICE INSTRUCTIONS:

Download the Adobe Draw app so you can practice tracing an image by hand with the paint brush tool. Also, there is. an Adobe Capture app that will auto trace an image using the shape feature. A tutorial is included below.

Click here to also see how Adobe Draw and Adobe Capture can be used together.

Creative Cloud: (2pts) - Due Wednesday, 4/1

Create your own graphic using the Image Trace Panel in Illustrator and save it inside your Creative Cloud folder. Confirm that you have viewed your teammate's designs by creating a new comment with your username.

Classroom Forum: (3pts) - Due Thursday, 4/2

Create a new post titled, "Week 10: Image Trace Panel" and add a screenshot of the image(s) you have been working on tracing this week with an explanation of:

PROGRESS - what specific steps did you follow in Illustrator?

ISSUES - what problems did you face or questions do you have in working with this program?

GOALS - what will be your next steps to improve and expand on your design?

Classroom Forum Comments: (2pts) - Due Friday, 4/3 Review all of your classmates' posts and provide constructive feedback on two or more of their graphic designs. Explain what you think was the most successful and why. Outline new approaches and other things for them to consider as well. Be sure not to repeat any one else's comments.