A Reminder About Submitting Roughs

I just wanted to remind you that your roughs must be approved by me before you create final art for your pieces this semester.

A couple of students have sent me final art for pieces for which I haven't seen any rough sketches.

From now on I will only accept final artwork if I have seen and approved a rough sketch of it.

Thanks for your attention to this!

Tips for Composing Beautiful Images

These images are taken from the book Composing Pictures by Donald W Graham.

Live Trace Settings for Illustrator CS5

These are the settings I use to get the best results from Live Trace.

Adding Halftone in Illustrator

Option drag the shape you want to add texture to.

Select the Gradient Tool and fill the shape with a gradient.

One end is 50% black with an opacity of 100%.

The other end is white with an opacity of 0%.

Go to Effect > Pixelate > Colour Halftone

Max Radius 6

It should look like this.

Go Object > Rasterize > Bitmap at 300ppi

Then Live Trace with these settings

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recolour and drag back over the original shape.