Typography+Project

Photoshop Typography ===**What you need to do: ** === ===Create a NEW Photoshop canvas dimensions 8 x 4 inches (it can be larger but has to be at least these dimensions) === > Pick a font, something unique, perhaps one that has to do with your theme. Type your first name as big as you can make fit!
 * Make sure background contents is set to WHITE and Color Mode is set to RGB
 * Create a new folder DD1/Projects called “typography” and save there.

Choose a THEME (animals, food, flowers, anything you like)
===Place your pictures/graphics (should be one or the other, no mixing!) so that they interact with your letters. ===
 * Search for usable pictures online; be sure they are good quality and, they all need to be the same type of graphic—either all cartoons or all photographs or all clipart-ish stuff… not a variety).
 * Save all the pictures you want to use in the typography folder you created.
 * Open the pictures in Photoshop, using the various techniques you’ve been shown or have discovered on your own, move the individual images over to the canvas with your typed name. Try to use magnetic lasso, quick selection, magic wand, and various other selection tools to select your images.

You are creating a layered object.
 * Each of your pictures/graphics should ‘sit’ on one of the serifs, stems, spines, or descenders of your chosen fonts. (look at the graphic if you don’t know what serifs, stems, etc. are)
 * Remember, the goal is to create an original and creative Typography Font Art. Your name should be covered with pictures/graphics, but should still be recognizable!
 * Use warp, Liquefy, or other distortion techniques to make the images appear to wrap around or interact with the letters (or vice versa).
 * Once you have met all the above requirements you may personalize your work by changing the background color, adding a background image (remember to maintain your theme), or other techniques you would like to try to make it yours.


 * Save your PHOTOSHOP FILE (.psd)…then do a FILE, SAVE AS and save your project as a “yourlastnametypography.JPG” and "Turn In" on Edmodo. **


 * **Criteria ** || **Points **  ||  **Deductions **  ||
 * Canvas Size 8” wide-4” tall || 5 ||   ||
 * A unique font was used or one that matches your theme || 5 ||   ||
 * Easily identifiable THEME || 10 ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; vertical-align: baseline;">High Quality pictures/graphics || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">10 ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; vertical-align: baseline;">Backgrounds removed from all images—overall quality of selections || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">10 ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; vertical-align: baseline;">Pictures/graphics placed on required portions of the font (serifs, stems, spines, descenders) || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">10 ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; vertical-align: baseline;">Name still recognizable || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">10 ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; vertical-align: baseline;">Shows effort (you use creativity and take pride in your work) || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">10 ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; vertical-align: baseline;">Saved as Photoshop document (PSD) || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">10 ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; vertical-align: baseline;">Saved as JPG with correct name and uploaded to your wiki on it's own page || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">10 ||   ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; vertical-align: baseline;">Total Points ** ||  **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; vertical-align: baseline;">90 **  ||   ||
 * > **Points possible for this project**
 * (what will you do to get those 10 points?)** ||> **100** ||  ||

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial; vertical-align: baseline;">Some excellent examples of past student work: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: 'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Arial; vertical-align: baseline;">