6th Grade: OCS Click Title Design

Students were given the opportunity to design a logo to be displayed at the top of the OCS Click website. Students were to use their Photoshop knowledge as well as tutorials to create an interesting text effect for their title.

Here are the top 4 designs that I will be rotating for the next couple of months.

Gaby F.

Meghan M.

Sam H.

Chase M.

Text Effects Tutorials

Chrome Text Effect
Gold Text Effect
Simple Stylish Text
Cardiac Rate Text Effect
Earth Text Effect

2011 6th Grade Spring Show Cover Designs

 

The chosen cover designs! Congratulations Chris and Megan!

Here are some more of the cover designs. Great job everyone!

(More to be posted when complete.)

Project: OCS Program Design

Objectives/Goals:

• To become more proficient with the Photoshop tools as well as finding a creative use of the tools to achieve an interesting design.
• To be responsible in following copyright laws when using digital images from stock photo websites.
• To use principles of design to create an appealing cover for the spring program.To create a cover that communicates the theme of the Spring Show.

Theme:

Lower School is based on 1960’s music and is called “Feelin’ Groovy”
Let’s take a look at the 1960’s…

The Style

Art

Musical Elements

 

Color

Procedures:
1. Review over the project.  You must use images from public domain websites to follow copyright laws.
2. Open Photoshop. Go to Open > New. Make sure to set up the size of your document Width 5.5 inches and Height 8.5 inches and 120 resolution. This is the size of the program cover and it will keep you from working too small. 
3. Create the background texture. You will choose a texture BittBox: Free Texture Tuesday. You may want something that is not to rough of a texture. Click on the image of the texture and once you get to the largest picture file, right-mouse click over the image and save it to your folder. Open the image in Photoshop and move it into your program cover file.
4. Create a gradient using colors that fit the style of the 60’s. Select the gradient tool and click and drag onto a new layer. Use a Blend Mode to blend the gradient to the texture.
Gradient Tool (Toolbar) and Options at the top of window (open the color palettes showing 1960’s color to use in your gradient colors.)
Blend Mode – found in the Layers Palette


5. Layering brushes. I have added some brushes to a folder called RetroLibraray. These brushes are to help you with your design. you may use some of the brushes to stamp over the background. Make sure to stamp each brush on to a new layer.
Brushes Tool (Toolbar) and Palette
Foreground and Background color are used to change the color of the Brushes.

6. Layer retro objects. There is a Photoshop file in the RetroLibrary called retroObjects that have black and white images of objects like a record, turntable, microphone, etc. These can be dropped into your program design. You can add a gradient, image adjustment to give the object some color.
Image > Adjustments > Gradient Map (open the color palettes showing 1960’s color to use in your gradient colors.)
 
Grading

• Idea/Concept
• Composition
• Meeting the Objectives/Goals
• Craftsmanship

Project worth 100 points. The student whose program cover gets picked to be used for the Spring Show will receive an extra 10 points.

6th Grade: About Me Prezi’s

One of the 6th grade projects this year was to create a Prezi. To start simple I had them create an “About Me” Prezi describing 5 facts about them. There expected to add images to each fact and to create a path. Here are a few examples.

Zane about me on Prezi

Aubrey About Me on Prezi

Chase M. About Me on Prezi

6th Grade - Comic Life: Destination Comic

I recently found out about the Comic Life software from K-5 Computer. We recently got the program downloaded and I had the kids create a comic about a place they have visited or would like to visit someday. They are really loving this program and this project. I am posting the finished projects here and in the 6th grade tab. Enjoy!

Graphic Portrait

 

This is a simple tutorial on using image adjustments to make a colorful, graphic image.

Activity: Picture Blend

3D Text Maker

 

There is this great website call 3DTextMaker.com. It is free and allows you to create animated 3d text images. Just go the website and pick a font, color, size and animated affect. The website will generate the .gif file, just right mouse click and save the image on your computer.