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Assignment:
Seamed Background Tiles - 30 points
You
will be creating a collection of sample web page backgrounds,
in
the form of SEAMED tiles, to demonstrate your new skills
in Photoshop 6.0.
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Part
1:
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File
and Folder Structure
- In
your portfolio folder, make
a folder called backgroundtiles
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Creating
the Background Tiles
- Step
1 - Open Photoshop
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2 - Go to FILE menu, choose NEW
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3 - Choose settings as follows:
- set
measurement units to pixels
- width=100 pixels,
- height=100
pixels,
- resolution=72
dpi,
- mode=RGB
color,
- contents=transparent
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4 - Select fill tool (paintcan, may hide under gradient)
- Step
5 - Use colorpicker to choose a web-safe color
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6 - Fill your canvas with color or with a gradient
- Step
7 - Use the filter in texture category called texturizer
to add texture
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8 - Experiment by adding other filters and adjusting their settings
- Step
9 - Save your layered psd file as background_tiles.psd in
your web_design folder
- Step
10 - Repeat this process on new layers until you have a six
(6) sample
tiles (1 per layer) to display in your portfolio
- They
should be distinctly different - not just a color change
- Step
11 - When all 6 tiles are ready, hide all but 1 layer...
- Go
to FILE menu,
choose SAVE
FOR WEB -
use gif or jpg format as appropriate (whichever looks better
and
will load faster)
- Save
into the your
new folder called background_tiles
- Name
each tile descriptively
- Repeat
with the next layer...
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Evaluation
When
you have finished all six (6) tiles and have used "Save
for Web" to place the finished products into your background_tiles
folder, please start the "Tiles
Display" assignment
THESE
TILES MUST BE DISTINCTLY DIFFERENT FROM EACH OTHER OR YOU WILL NOT
RECEIVE CREDIT!!!
This
assignment is worth 30 participation points - 4 per tile and 6 for
the display tablepage.
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