Power Quote Quiz

Project Scenario:

So things are going well at work! The boss loves your work and decides to use your skill to create a motivational poster series that she wants to give to clients. (She just joined this self-help group and she’s really excited about it!) You’re tasked with finding a positive character trait (courage, honesty, compassion, responsibility, etc) and creating a small poster with that word and a quote related to it. She doesn’t want to use any photos in the image, just text! See what you can do to impress her!

Project Objective:

Create a Character poster.

Specifications:

• The Document must be 8.5 wide × 11 inches tall @300 in CMYK

• Choose a word that is positive and encouraging.

• The image must include a solid fill layer as a background. Hint: Pick background color, select background layer, then command or control, DELETE key to place color on background.

• The image must have both horizontal and vertical text layers

  • Add guides to your image by going to the "View" menu and selecting "Rulers" Click, hold and Drag from inside the ruler to grab and place a guide on your canvas. - Place a guide line at one inch (1") from left and 1 1/2" from top

• Use Layer Styles by accessing the "Layers" pull down menu at the top of the Photoshop screen to add a number of effects to your type. Click OK to save the style or Cancel to return to canvas.

  • Note: As one views the Poster, they will immediately be drawn to look at the character trait on the left. They will be interested in the much smaller font (18 pt.) to the right and want to read it. Then they will find the quote interesting and wonder who said that and come closer to notice the author of the quote in 12-14 font size.

• Place your full name and block # in the lower right corner of the project in 12 pt. font named Arial.

• Spell check! Edit pull down menu.

• Save the image as a photoshop document (.psd) called ”PowerQuote_LastName per#” in your Gmail documents folder (i.e. PowerQu-smith2.psd)

• Save image as a .jpg file as well. This one please email to the instructor for credit. Be sure the add "Character Poster" in the email title.

• Print a copy to the Color computer. Turn into folder on stool near teacher's desk.

• Upload .jpg into your Sway

• Due date 10/13/2017, prior to leaving the Comm Tech classroom/lab.

• Possible 30 pts.

Concepts Learned:

• Document setup for Print

• Create a new fill layer

• Understand vectors

• Enter, edit, and format text

• Change horizontal scale of a text layer

• Understand fonts and when to use which types

• Understand layer styles and styles (they’re 2 different things!)

• Apply default styles and save a layer style

• Show rulers, add guides

• View in print size and soft proofing

• Save for web and as .psd

Materials/Equipment:

• • Computer Workstation

  • Adobe Photoshop

Resources/References:

• • Software Tutorials and User’s Guides

  • Tutorial books in the design library

Guidelines:

• • Make sure you understand all the ways to manipulate text on the image.

  • USE GUIDES!!! learn to use them to control your image and help in layout.

Evaluation:

Does the layout look creative? Did you include horizontal text? Did you learn how to scale the text?

Enrichment:

• • Develop another poster with the same quote and a different layout.

  • Develop other posters with other quotes and character traits.

  • Develop a poster that has an important message that YOU believe in!