Digital Tools-Assignment 7: Image making with Live Trace.

This is Brittany's Collage Assignment
Jo's Collage is intruiging too!

This assignment is similar to the "AnythingGoes" Photoshop Assignment, in that you will be utilizing all the tools you have learned so far in illustrator to create an interesting, dynamic graphic image. It will also be an opportunity for you to further develop your point of view as it relates to your subject. The assignment requires that you do a little research too, in this way you will see what other people are saying about you topic. Your research should be guided by the perspective that has been developing while you have been visually exploring your topic.

Part 1 Research your topic on the web.

1. Using the advanced google search, look for articles that seem to be of interest to you. Read through a couple of websites and pick an article(s) that you feel gives you new insights and builds on your interest in your subject.
2. Post on your blog a description (in your words) of the article(s) you read, name the new insights you learned from reading this article(s).
3. Include in your post links to the article(s), along with the title and author.

Part 2 Live Trace an Image (For help with Live Trace refer to the post:
"Changing a Bitmap Image to a Vector Graphic"

1. Choose an image either of your own or an image off the web that relates to your topic. (remember in either case it must be a large file.
2. Place this image in an illustrator file (remember to uncheck the link box.)
3. Live Trace the image. You have the option of tracing it in any way you want, there are a lots of options to choose from. Look on the right of the Live Trace Button in the Control Panel. (Photo high/low fidelity will give you a trace most accurate to a photograph-though difficult to edit.)
4. Once you have placed the image then Expand and Ungroup it, in order to edit the image.
5. From here you can now use Live Paint to change the look of the image, as well as other tools you have practiced and learned in illustrator.

Part 3 Create a collage of your work. You collage should reflect something about your point of view that you are researching.

1. Use the "Live Traced" image, and the edits you have made to it, the background for your collage.
2. Go ahead and Place your logos and your sketched images in new layers. You will use these new layers to create a collage with your Live Traced/Live Paint image. This is the place to be really creative with opacity, transparency tools, gradients and so on:

• Use the opacity tool to create contrast,
• Use the affects to dramatize parts of your image.
  
• Rotate and skew parts to give a sense of motion.
• Create multiples and repeat parts to create a feeling of rhythm.
  
• Play with the intensity of colors to create a mood.
• Use text...etc...

DUE Next Week


Post to Your Blog: (Remember to format for the web!!!)

1. A description of the article you read. (Include the link for the article.)
2. A post of the original image you Live Traced (Include a link if this is not your image.)
3. A post of the Live Traced version of the Original Image.

1. DUE at the end of Class: A post of the collaged image you created in Illustrator, this will be used as the basis for you cover page for your final project.

POST to Server at THE END OF CLASS

1 pdf file with pages showing your four logos, our traced gradient illustraton and you collage.