Course detail
Computer Graphics II - Adobe
FSI-YPA-AAcad. year: 2012/2013
These classes serve the purpose of intensifying knowledge of work with both the vectorial (Adobe Illustrator) and the bitmaps (Adobe Photoshop) files. Creation of multipages' documents and printed matters (Adobe InDesign). Course includes work with stroke, layers, masks, transformations, selections, covers etc. 2D graphics in the Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop platforms.
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Offered to foreign students
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Resulting evaluation consists of evaluations on projects, tasks and a test. In total it will be possible to aquire 100 points. Resulting classification will be defined by the ECTS scale.
If some of the projects and test are awarded less than half of the maximum pts., final evaluation of the course is "failed".
According to the article No. 13 of Study and Examination Rules of Brno University of Technology ECTS evaluation degree scale is used. . If some of the projects are awarded less than 50 pts., final evaluation of the course is "failed". The course is evaluated with the following grades: ECTS EVALUATION DEGREES / PTS. RATING / NUMERIC RATING: A / 100 - 90 / 1 / Excellent; B /89 - 80 / 1,5 / Very good; C / 79 - 70 / 2 / Good; D / 69 - 60 / Satisfactory; E / 59 - 50 / Sufficient; F / 49 - 0 / 4 / Failed.
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Basic literature
Weinmann E., Lourekas P.: Adobe Illustrator CS. - 2005, ISBN 80-251-0572-5
Willmore B.: Velká kniha Adobe Photoshop 7.0. - 2003, ISBN 80-722-6745-0
Recommended reading
Willmore B.: Velká kniha k Adobe Photoshop CS. - 2005, ISBN 80-251-0531-8
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Computer-assisted exercise
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Syllabus
2nd Adobe Illustrator 2 - vector panel, tracing bitmaps, effects
3rd Adobe Illustrator 2 - the definition of custom color options, brushes, symbols, fill, spray, clipping mask, the mask transparency
4th Adobe Illustrator 2 - advanced transformation tools, transformation with envelopes, using transformation network perspective, smooth transitions between objects
5th Adobe Illustrator 2 - Export, prepress, the concepts of "fallout", "Overlay" "spot color", "Flattener", "Font Embedding", "color profile" using Adobe Acrobat
6th Adobe Photoshop 2 - Summary of knowledge - basics of Adobe Photoshop, starting a new project, working with layers, selections, drawing and basic retouching techniques
7th Adobe Photoshop 2 - raster and vector masks, vector objects, paths, advanced features of Brush tool
8th Adobe Photoshop 2 - layer styles, special types of layers and Adjustment Layers, Channels
9th Adobe Photoshop 2 - export tools, preparing graphics for the web, 3D tools, animation
10th Adobe InDesign - familiarity with the environment of Adobe InDesign, philosophy of work, starting a new project, the layout of the main tools, files, prepare multi-page document
11th Adobe InDesign - a tool for creating graphical objects, object properties, transformation, text paragraphs, work with embedded graphic objects, cropping
12th Adobe InDesign - master pages, character and paragraph styles, text, rate, flow, GREP
13th Adobe InDesign - creating a list automatically generated text in the anchor text, document preparation for print, export, printing brochures