Final Exam GDI

Your Exam will begin using Adobe Photoshop.

1. Create a Project folder in your documents/on your desktop named GDI Final.
2. Download and save the image falcon-final.jpg from the bottom of this page.
3. Use the quick select tool to remove the white from around the falcon, and then save the file in a format that allow for transparent backgrounds.

Next, open up Illustrator.

1. Download the file final-base.ai, and save it in your project folder.
2. Place the falcon image into the document, and be sure to embed it.
3. Size the Falcon down to where his width is about one-half the document's width.
4. Using the Pen tool, trace the object in the lower right corner. You can only use 4 anchor points in doing so; it is 15 points off per extra anchor point.
5. When you have completed the path, fill this object with a gradient that starts out as white in the upper left corner and transitions to a gray from to the lower right corner.
6. Draw a black rectangle that covers the entire artboard, and then send it to the back of your artboard.
7. Double-click on the fill color swatch on your tools panel, and then set it to the following values: C: 12, M:20, Y:59 K:17
8. Click and drag that swatch over to your swatches panel.
9. Select all objects EXCEPT the falcon, and then use the live paint tool to paint the right-hand side of the rectangle with this swatch, leaving the left-hand side black.
10. Expand your live paint group when done, and then ungroup these objects.
11. Add the text as seen, using the following settings:
    1. FALCONS: Font - Niagara Solid, with character settings of 100% horizontal and 150% vertical scale, tracking value of 100, and 130 point font size.
    2. 2014: Niagara Solid, character settings of 100% vertical / horizontal scale, tracking value of 200, 80 point font size.
    3. This is our time: Font - Gill Sans MT, Tracking value of 5, 125% vertical scale, 100% vertical scale, 20 point font size.
12. Re-arrange your artwork so that it is stacked/ordered as seen in the final product.
13. Turn the word Falcons to Outlines, and then use the Direct Select tool to re-shape the edges of the F, a, l, and c as seen in the finished product.
14. Be sure that all blacks used in your design are 'Rich' blacks, according to the CMYK color settings.
15. Flag me down to grade your finished product.