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Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator

Course Description

This course will provide students with the knowledge required to apply design principles to the multimedia areas of graphics and illustration. Professional quality software titles, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator, will be utilized to prepare students for creating dynamic, interactive content to be used in both print and web based applications.

Course Layout

This course is set up to teach Adobe Photoshop Creative Cloud for the first half of instruction and Adobe Illustrator Creative Cloud for the second half of instruction. Following the course work at the end of each quarter, there will be a cumulative final for that piece of software. The course is designed to prepare students for Adobe Certification exams which can be taken after completion of Advanced Photoshop.

Course Syllabus Packet

The course syllabus and classroom rules & procedures can be viewed online or downloaded below using Adobe Acrobat:

• Syllabus (.pdf)

Photoshop

1. Get Started with Photoshop

   • Schoology - Chapter 1

2. Paint, Select, and Move Pixels

   • Schoology - Chapter 2

3. Work with layers 

   • Schoology - Chapter 3

4. Work with Type and Gradients

   • Schoology - Chapter 4

Photoshop Final Project

Illustrator

1. Getting to know Illustrator

   • Schoology - Chapter 1

2. Creating Text and Gradients

   • Schoology - Chapter 2

3. Drawing and Composing an Illustration

   • Schoology - Chapter 3

4. Transforming and Distorting Objects

   • Schoology - Chapter 4

Illustrator Final Project

Mr. John Dietrick | Emmaus High School | 500 Macungie Ave. | Emmaus, PA 18049 |

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