Exercise9 Image Output

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f	Exercise 9 – Image Output
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	§ This is a formative assessment instrument § You must be rated ‘Competent’ in this assessment item.
Learning Outcomes	Learning Outcomes 7 & 8.
Outline	Each semester you will be required to submit your folios and major projects in digital as well as printed form. In this exercise you will learn how to prepare the images for digital submission. This should be read in conjunction with the ‘Digital Submission Requirements’ document. You will need to submit – Your original unmodified source files (ie jpeg or RAW files straight out of the camera), The final images as high resolution print ready jpeg files, Low res versions of the final images suitable for a slideshow using the supplied template. You will also learn how to prepare your images for printing.
Tasks	1) Log on to your workstation using the student login. a) Name : student Password : student 2) Answer the following questions :- a) What are the pixel dimensions of the computer monitor ? 1920x1200 b) How big is an A4 page in cm ? 21x29.7 Get the Source Files 3) Create a folder on the desktop called ‘Working’ as follows :- a) Click on the desktop to activate the Finder b) Select ‘File->New Folder’ in the Finder menu bar c) Type in ‘Working’ and press ‘return’ 4) Copy the files ‘P123456.jpg’ and ‘P123457.jpg’ from eLearn into the Working folder. These represent your source files that you have captured with your camera. 5) Copy the file Slideshow_Template.psd from eLearn into your Working folder. Edit File 1 6) Open ‘P123456.jpg’ into Photoshop. 7) Add a text layer that says ‘This file has been edited’ 8) Save the image as a Photoshop .psd file in the same folder. Prepare File 1 for Printing 9) Flatten the image by selecting ‘Layer -> Flatten Image’. 10) Resize the image to fit on an A4 page with a resolution of 300ppi. 11) Select ‘File->Save As…’ and save the image as IM1-‘yourfirstname’_’yourlastname’-01 print.jpg with a quality factor of 10 in the same folder. PaulL Prepare File 1 for Screen Viewing 12) Resize the image to have a height of 1000 pixels. 13) Open the file Slideshow_Template.psd. drag Note: If it opens as a new tab then it away so you can see both images on the screen 14) Click on the image you just resized. 15) Select the Move tool at the top of the tool palette. 16) Click and drag the image onto the Slideshow_Template. 17) Drag it to a suitable location on the template. 18) Select ‘Layer->Layer Style->Stroke…’ and add a 2 pixel wide white border to your image layer to separate it from the black background. 19) Select the Text tool on the tool palette. 20) Edit the text to replace with your name, and with the name of the image eg ‘Boats 1’. 21) Select ‘File->Save As…’ to save the image as IM1-‘yourfirstname’_’yourlastname’-01 screen.jpg with a quality factor of 10 in the Working folder. Prepare Image 2 22) Repeat steps 6 to 21 for the second image file. Prepare a Canvas for Printing the 2 Images The Epson printer uses a roll of paper 60cm wide. You cannot send your images separately to the printer, but must combine your images onto a single canvas for printing. 23) Create a new Photoshop document that is 60cm wide and the length you need to fit all your images on – in this case 35cm. It needs to be 300ppi (to match the files you have prepared above) with a white background. 24) Display the rulers. 25) Click on the top ruler and drag down to position a guide line near the bottom of the canvas. 26) Select ‘View -> Snap To -> Guides’ 27) Open the 2 print files you created above. 28) Use the ‘Move’ tool to drag both images onto the white background and position them with some white space around them. When they get close to the Guide line they will snap into position. You may need to rotate them to fit them neatly on the canvas. 29) Save this file in your Working folder as ‘Boats-Print.psd’. This file is now ready for printing on the Epson printer. Prepare the Images for Digital Submission 30) Create a folder on the desktop called ‘yourname’-Ex09. 31) Double-click on the folder to open it. 32) Create 3 subfolders called ‘Yourfirstname_Yourlastname’, ForPrint and Slideshow. 33) Copy the source image files, P123456.jpg and P123457.jpg, into the folder called ‘Yourfirstname_Yourlastname’. 34) Copy the print files into the ‘ForPrint’ folder. 35) Copy the screen files into the ‘Slideshow’ folder. Submit the Images 36) Copy the entire ‘yourname’-Ex09 folder onto your USB drive. 37) Take your USB to the teachers computer and do the following - a) Copy the folder ‘Yourfirstname Yourlastname’ containing the source files to the folder ‘Imaging 1/Source’ on the desktop. b) Copy the files in your ForPrint folder to the folder ‘Imaging 1/HiRes’ c) Copy the files in your Slideshow folder to the folder ‘Imaging 1/Screen’ Cleanup 38) Delete the folder called ‘yourname’-Ex09 from the computer. 39) Shutdown the computer.