Lesson 4 - Photoshop Type and Typography
Experience:
Once you understand the fundamentals of using type in Photoshop, as well as understanding basic principles of typography, you are ready to incorporate the principles of contrast, repetition, alignment, and proximity in designing a poster or flyer that uses both image and type. The experience this week will be to create a motivational display for middle school students that uses both text and image. This will be the first of 10 exhibits you'll create for your portfolio!
Once you understand the fundamentals of using type in Photoshop, as well as understanding basic principles of typography, you are ready to incorporate the principles of contrast, repetition, alignment, and proximity in designing a poster or flyer that uses both image and type. The experience this week will be to create a motivational display for middle school students that uses both text and image. This will be the first of 10 exhibits you'll create for your portfolio!
Here are some examples from previous students! They may spark some ideas for your own motivational display! The ideas below were focused on digital displays for middle and high school students who are part of the USU Gear Up grant program.
USU Canvas Resources and Assignment for this week...
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USU students, all the assignments, discussions, exercise files, reading assignments for lesson 4 will be found in Canvas - Lesson 4 Module. See the image at right.
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If you're not a registered USU student, and you are working through this lesson on your own, links to the exercise files are provided within the lesson.
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Objectives:
Section 04-A (Monday)
Create your online portfolio. Finish up your portfolio exhibit 1 and submit. Be sure you also put the URL for your portfolio exhibit in the assignment comments.
Section 04-A (Monday)
- A few important fundamentals principles of typography
- Use the type tools - point type and area type (also called paragraph type)
- Using the Character and Paragraph panels
- Alignments and Grids for designing layouts
- Managing, Installing, Uninstalling Fonts
- Typing along a path - Introducing shape tools
- Clipping an image inside type - Introducing a clipping mask
- Warping type - introducing the free transform function
- The Creative Process
- Creating a Contact Sheet
- Optional - Just for Fun of Learning
Create your online portfolio. Finish up your portfolio exhibit 1 and submit. Be sure you also put the URL for your portfolio exhibit in the assignment comments.
View Assignment Scoring Rubrics for Lesson 4
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This week, your assignment is to create a portfolio exhibit that uses both text and images - specifically a motivational poster. Click the image at right to see my portfolio exhibit attempt at doing this.
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This page last updated July 9, 2020. This lesson combines my own work (images, text, videos) which are ©2020 by Nathan Smith. All other images, videos, and cited text sources are curated from the internet, and are publicly available.
