Midterm Checklist

Software	Photoshop	Illustrator	Quark
Environment	Menus File, Image, Select, Filter, View, Window Windows Open Tools, Options, Swatches, History, Layers, Paths, Brushes Tools: Rotate, Crop, Selection Marquees, Eraser, Nudge, Foreground and background color, Quick mask mode, Cloning stamp Concepts Masking, Select inverse, Cloning, Clipping paths, Layer effects (double click on the layer,) Flatten Image	Menus Object (transform, lock, arrange) View, Window Windows Open Tools, Type (character/paragraph, tab ruler,) Color/Swatches, Layers, Align/ Pathfinder/Transform Tools: Path selector, Object Selector, Pen tool, Add/Delete/Convert anchor point, Page tool, Rotate/Reflect Concepts: Paths, Locking/hiding/dragging layers, Preview command, Create outlines from text,	Menus Style Menus (Character Attributes--all things font related; Paragraph Attributes--formats, alignment, tabs, rules Windows Open Tools, Measurements, Document Layout, Colors Tools: text box, image Box, type tool (T), paragraph flow tool Concepts page size, margins (facing pages/inside-the binding side, and outside margins) placing images, type (see below,) textwrap, outlines, determining size of illustrations Windows Open in InDesign: Tabs, Character, Paragraph, Swatches, Pages, Layers, Text Wrap, Align
Common Tools	Common Tools: Scale, Free Transform, Layers
		Common Tools: Place Image, Character/Paragraph Attributes, Align
	Common Tools: Window options (at the top, left hand corner of the windows, underneath the arrow icon,) Color Menus, Magnifying Glass, Rotate
Purpose	Photoshop was originally created for color correction. Many of the items under the "Edit--Adjust..." menu are powerful color correction tools. It is advised that you do not use the "auto" function ever, but experiment with the color correction tools (use a book) until you undertand what they do.	Illustrator was once primarilly used for drawing, however, die-hard fans claim this program to be better than any page layout program when it comes to non-book projects. It has powerful image editing, and text tools that make it, oddly, a synthesis of the two programs. It is not used for color correction, or photo cropping, though.	Type - Anatomy, Units of measurement/markup (the font name, type style, type size, leading amount, kerned areas and amount of kerning, tracking, horizontal width,) Standard conventions, Character vs. paragraph level edits, Proportion Paragraph -Accepted point sizes, Line lengths, Margins, Styles, Paragraph flow Document - Heirarchical layout structures (Most important, or necessary items most visible--like titles, or chapter headings, etc. Least visually important, though still worth printing get smallest, least visible treatment--like footnotes or photocredits, etc.)
Bitmap/Vector Association	Bitmap images require higher resolutions and anti-aliasing for a smooth appearance	Vector-based graphics on the other hand are mathematically described and appear smooth at any size or resolution.	Neither. It handles the page layout of vector and raster images
Important!!	Understand the difference between print d.p.i. (300) and web d.p.i. (72) when setting up a new document
CMYK/RGB	Understand to use CMYK color mode when making print images, and RGB when making web images	same choices here	This is a printed document softwre and presumes CMYK
Important!!			all of your image files, and font files are called "linked documents" and need to be kept with the file at all times
Images for Print	When creating images for print, save as a .tiff, when making images for web save as .jpg	When creating images for print, you can try placing the exported .eps directly into the Quark file. If you are having trouble printing, copy and paste your image into a photoshop document (300dpi.) Use a clipping path if necessary.	Always save in the native file format. (InDesign and Pagemaker will allow you to save as a PDF so you can disseminate to a broader public.) All large presses accept Mac Quark documents.
*Specific things you need to know:*	The difference between the "Save" and "Save As" command. How to set the "Preferences" to suit your project (It's under the Edit Menu) The many different ways you can employ your "shift--constrain" to your advantage Your standard key commands: Command/Control S=Save; A=Select all; C=Copy; V=Paste; X=Cut; Z=Undo one move
*Specific things I want to see demonstrated in your book:*	Masked Image Clipping path Text wrap Inspired font selection and manipulation Proper dpi for your images A symbol, icon, or logo drawn in Illustrator with the minimum amount of points (do not use the trace, or other similar functions)