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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!
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...

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.

​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.
Objectives:
Section 04-A (Monday)
  • A few fundamentals principles of typography
  • Introducing point type & area type and other basic type tool skills
Section 04-B (Tuesday)
  • Typing along a path - Introducing shape tools
  • Clipping an image inside type - Introducing a clipping mask
  • Warping type - introducing the free transform function
Section 04-C (Wednesday)
  • Using the Character and Paragraph panels
  • Alignments and Grids for designing layouts
  • Managing, Installing, Uninstalling Fonts
Section 04-D (Thursday)
  • The Creative Process
  • Creating a Contact Sheet
  • Optional - Just for Fun of Learning
Friday-Weekend (Practice!)
​Finish up your portfolio exhibit and submit.
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Photoshop settings for web optimizing your exhibit photos
This week - be sure to set up your online ePortfolio and send me a message in Canvas inBox with the URL! Instructions are given in the Final Project section of this website. I will then add your portfolio link on the Portfolio page.
This page last updated October 4, 2019.  This lesson combines my own work (images, text, videos) which are ©2019 by Nathan Smith.  All other images, videos, and cited text sources are curated from the internet, and are publicly available.