- Waking Life - film excerpt and documentary
- Trim and laminate Press IDs
- Students describe final ideas for projects, plus see ad production notes below
- Complete wall drawing!
Ad Production Notes
1. Note on resolution for the final project: 6 pieces of letter sized paper arranged 3 wide by 2 high has overall dimensions of 23.5" wide by 21.5", assuming a 0.5 inch margin per letter-size sheet. If an image were to cover the entire area and assuming a target resolution of 150 dpi, the size of the image would need to be 23.5x150 = 3525 pixels by 21.5 x 150 = 3225 pixels. This is equivalent to an uncompressed image size of 3525 x 3225 x 24 bits per pixel = 272 million bits = 272/(8 bits per byte) = 34 megabytes. Your image will be much smaller than this due to compression but we are still looking at an image of several megabytes. Also - that depending on the format of your ad, it will not necessarilly fill the entire area.
2. Note on scanning for the final project. If you were to use for example, a 10-inch high magazine ad, at what resolution should you scan it? Let's assume you want to fill the longest dimension of your poster which is 23.5 inches at a resolution of 150 dpi, then we'd need to scan the ad at (23.5/10) x 150 = 350 dpi (a standard scan of 300 dpi would be OK for this project).
Any scan from a newspaper or magazine must be despeckled to remove the dot pattern. In Photoshop go to Filter > Noise > Despeckle
3. To remove text or other unwanted elements from an image use the rubber stamp tool in Photoshop 
. Option click on the source area, then click on the target area.
4. Illustrator artboard size. Set your artboard in Illustrator to 30" x 30" or larger.
5. Before giving to someone else to print: MAKE SURE IMAGES ARE EMBEDDED (OR ALSO PROVIDE THE LINKED IMAGE) AND CHANGE ALL TYPE TO OUTLINES
