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 graphic that uses both image and type. The challenge for your first portfolio exhibit is to combine graphics and text together in a pleasing design. I would suggest choosing one of the following to make this a real and meaningful assignment:
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 graphic that uses both image and type. The challenge for your first portfolio exhibit is to combine graphics and text together in a pleasing design. I would suggest choosing one of the following to make this a real and meaningful assignment:
- Choose to take on one of the real world projects listed in that section of our class website.
- For those of you who are working, create a design that would benefit you, your business, or your customers at your workplace.
- Create a design that would be used in your USU department or college.
- Create a design that would be used in your church or volunteer organization.
Here are some examples from previous students! They may spark some ideas! The ideas below were focused on digital displays for middle and high school students who are part of the USU Gear Up grant program (one of the real world projects).
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.
Image and text combine to make an attractive bookmark for Monument Valley. Click image to see this and others.
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This week, your assignment is to create a portfolio exhibit that uses both text and images. Click the image at right to see my portfolio exhibit attempt at doing this.
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Lesson 4: 04-A 04-B 04-C 04-D This page last updated February 8, 2021. This lesson combines my own work (images, text, videos) which are ©2021 by Nathan Smith. All other images, videos, and cited text sources are curated from the internet, and are publicly available. |
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