Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Today's assignment

JMC59 – In Class Exercise
Total Point Value: 10 points

• Find a partner

• Either from a magazine, a newspaper or a hall posting, find a design that exhibits CRAP

• Scan the design for electronic display (72 ppi) and return it to the place you found it
• Use your individual log-in on the scanning computer, or you won’t have access
• Use the Image Capture application (in the application folder)

• Open an InDesign document, letter size (8.5 x 11, portrait orientation)

• Place the scan in your document
• Adjust the size of the image so that you have room to include text on the page

• Create a text frame and type a brief explanation of how the design exhibits CRAP

• Save the InDesign document as “LastnameLastnameSCAN” on your desktop or documents folder

• Export the document from InDesign as a jpeg named “LastnameLastnameSCAN” on your desktop or documents folder
• File>Export…>Format: JPEG then click Save
• In the Export JPEG dialog box, set Quality: Medium and Resolution (ppi): 72. Others remain as defaults. Click Export

• Place jpeg file in the 59Langager Turn-in folder

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