Welcome Day 1

Intro to the class

*What is this class about?
*Syllabus
*What kind of games are we making?*What do you need for the class?

• Downloadable Book on Amazon
• Journal / Sketchbook
• A Board Game

How to use a Mac

Turning on the Mac
- Login
- Restart
- Shutdown

The Finder (navigating the Mac)
- Loging In
- The Desktop
- Main Hard Drive
- Applications
- the Dock

- Creating a New Folder

- Deleting Files & Folders
-- Emptying the Trash

- Cut/Copy/Past
- Network Drive - lab-drive.local

USB Thumbdrives
- Where to plug it in
- Ejecting your drive

Web Browsers on the Mac
- Safari
- Chrome


Play Games
- Real Game of Life
- Dungeon 
- Dungeons & Dragons Character Building


Understand and Discuss Games

- What are the basics: # of players, Game Time?

- What is the Theme?

- What are the Game Mechanics?

- What are the Roles?

- What is the Style of Play?

- What are the Exceptions?

Intro to Photoshop

Free Photoshop
- Fire Alpaca & the Gimp


Photoshop Basics 1
- Starting the Program / Quit

Whats Where?

Hot Keys

- Opening a file
-- Browse in Bridge or Mini Bridge
- Save / Save As a file
- Windows
- File --> New


* Resoultion
72 dpi traditional screen resolution
180 dpi lowest printing resolution
300 dpi + good printing resolution
600 dpi + high resolution printing


* File Types
- File Types
---- Photoshop = .PSD = working file, the one you keep forever

-- End Product Files
---- JPEG = .JPG = web and email (Flickr) file
---- GIFF = .GIF = web file
---- TIFF = .TIF = full quality print file
--- RAW = .RAW = raw camera data uncompressed file
---- Portable Document File = .PDF = compressed print file


Setting Preferences
Photoshop --> Preferences --> General

View
- Rulers, Grids & Guides
- Show
- Snap


Laying out a design in Photoshop
before Photoshop
1) paper size
2) single or multiple designs on the page?

in Photoshop
3) size and resolution
4) define print area 
* Offset press - requires cut lines, a bleed and image area to fit within the paper size (print on anything thats flat)
* Laser Printer -  1/4",1/4",1/4", 3/8th"
-- standard sizes 8.5x11",8.5x14", 11x17"
* Inkjet printer -  1/4",1/4",1/4", 3/8th"
-- standard sizes 8.5x11",8.5x14", 11x17", 19" wide, 24" wide, 36" wide, 42" wide
5) Define the Middle
6) save as a template file named appropriately as a .psd 
ex LP_cover_Template.psd


Walk Through. Creating 1.5"x2" mini cards on an 8.5"x11" piece of paper.


Assignment:
create a template for the following list:
- 11"x17" Game Board
- 8.5"x11" Pamphlet Page
- 2.5"x3.5" Cards on an 8.5"x11" piece of paper 
- 2"x2" Card on an 8.5"x11" piece of paper 

* Resolution should be 300 dpi at size
* Use "guides" to designate the print area



Work on Assignment