27 lessons, grouped by unit. Search by topic, aim, or keyword:
Unit 5: Welcome to Year Two 1 lessons
Unit 6: Intro to 3D Design 1 lessons
Unit 7: Meet Photoshop (Before You Touch It) 1 lessons
Unit 8: Getting Comfortable in Photoshop 1 lessons
Unit 9: Photoshop Production Projects 5 lessons
- Lesson 5: Traditional Recipe Poster — How do we design a poster that shares a family or cultural recipe using design principles and Photoshop? 4 Days
- Lesson 6: Pin Making Using Photoshop — How do we design a small-scale wearable graphic (a pin) in Photoshop? 3 Days
- Lesson 7: Creating Business Cards with Photoshop — How do we design a professional business card that represents a personal or invented brand? 3 Days
- Lesson 8: Ink Portrait — How do we combine images using selections, masking, and layer opacity to create a stylized ink portrait? 3 Days
- Lesson 9: Creating Vectors & Adding Pizzazz in Photoshop — How do vector shapes differ from raster images, and how can filters and layer styles add polish to a design? 2 Days
Unit 9.5: Extension & Enrichment (Optional) 6 lessons
- Lesson 10: Photo Manipulation Challenge: Surreal Composite — How do we combine multiple images into one surreal, believable scene using everything we've learned this semester? 2 Days
- Lesson 11: Typography Poster Remix — How can we apply stronger typography and layout principles to improve an earlier project? 2 Days
- Lesson 12: Intro to Illustrator: Getting Started — What is Adobe Illustrator, and how is it different from Photoshop? 2 Days
- Lesson 13: Peer Critique & Revision Sprint — How does structured peer feedback help us improve our strongest projects? 2 Days
- Lesson 14: Career Connections: Meet a Working Designer — What does a real working designer's day-to-day job actually look like? 2 Days
- Lesson 15: Intro to Motion: Animated GIFs in Photoshop — How do we use Photoshop's Timeline panel to build a simple looping animation? 2 Days
Unit 10: Sharing Your Work 1 lessons
Unit 11: Certification Prep 1 lessons
Unit 12: Going Further 10 lessons
- Lesson 18: The ACP Exam: Take It For Real — After all that practice, what does it actually feel like to sit the real Adobe Certified Professional exam? 1 Day
- Lesson 19: Intro to Video: Your First Timeline Edit — Everything you know about layers and time already applies to video -- so what happens when we add motion? 4 Days
- Lesson 20: Deeper Illustrator: A Personal Mark or Logo — What does it take to design a mark that could genuinely represent you? 3 Days
- Lesson 21: Passion Project: Design Something You Actually Want — What happens when the brief is entirely your own choice? 5 Days
- Lesson 22: Passion Project Critique & Revision — What does this project become with one more real round of feedback? 2 Days
- Lesson 23: Career Deep-Dive: Matching Yourself to a Path — How does my actual work right now compare to what a real entry-level design job expects? 2 Days
- Lesson 24: Expanding Your Portfolio Website — How do we make sure a growing body of work still reads as organized, not cluttered? 3 Days
- Lesson 25: Design History Preview: One Movement, One Reinterpretation — What can looking at design history teach us before we spend a whole year studying it? 3 Days
- Lesson 26: Adding Motion: Your First Keyframe Animation — Your video timeline edit already moved clips through time -- what happens when a single object moves, fades, or grows within one clip instead? 2 Days
- Lesson 27: Second-Year Send-Off: Portfolio Review & Summer Plan — Looking back at two full years, what does the evidence actually show about how far you've come? 3 Days