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Welcome to the creative world of Adobe Photoshop CC 2019!
What is Adobe Photoshop? Only the most incredible raster graphics program ever!
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All work is due on Friday.
Class projects and exercises account for 100% of your grade.
Welcome to Digital Media/Mutimedia Foundations 1!
1. Why is it imperative that tradtional arts be fluent in Adobe software?
2. What are layers in Phtoshop and why are they crucial to the success of a piece?
3. How do keyboard shortcuts streamline a Creative's workflow?
Syllabus, Expectations, Get on Adobe.
Create a "food family" using the file provided.
You may also seek outside sources for content if you wish.
You must add a background using only food items.
SIZE: Letter, 8.5 x 11"
Please open your Food Family exercise and continue working on it.
Create a Surreal Collage which tells a story. The story can be one that you made up, an experience, or a dream/goal you have.
1. How does Pablo Picasso's Cubist movement still affect the way artists think about composition today?
2. What are actions in Photoshop? How are they used and how do they lend themselves to help increase productivity?
1. Your work for the art show! This includes everything you want printed in both jpg and psd form. Make sure the work is in the folder with your name on it!
2. Portrait cubes- 5 cubes completed to the best of your ability. Your grade will reflect perceived effort as always!
Let's try a new action for fun!!!! Check the week 19 folder for the file!
Make sure that you do not forget to turn in all of the work that is listed above before you leave today! Thank you for all of your hard work!
Please continue working on your cube portraits. Due Friday!
Actions take 2! Let' work together to make these actions work in a more successful way. PLEASE FOLLOW ALONG before giving up.
Let's retry the exercise I assigned yesterday along with the new actions I've provided. Use the same file naming protocol as yesterday. Let's make our own action!
I have added some new actions in the week 19 folder I would like you to try along with a template for a new project called: CUBE PORTRAITS!
In essence, this is a portrait series where you are cropping out the details and characteristics of your subject to show who they really. You will be using the frame tool and clipping masks to make this work!
While my examples are in black and white, you may use color on your cubes to create variety. We will be constructing these cubes and arranging them to create a sculptural photographic wonder!
Create a total of 5 cube portraits.
Choose a variety of subjects for this project. Yes, you may use existing photos, you have many to work with!
You may add any effects or filters/adjustments to the cubes you create, i.e.- duotone, hue/saturation/ black and white, etc.
Crop out the details of the subject which you find most interesting or those characteristics which would define them the best.
You do have to design the tabs.
Remove the Cube_template.png when finished.
As we slide into 2019, we are also in our last week of this course. You have all done so well and I will miss all of you!
Please consider taking Digital Design 2 next time you have an open elective on your schedule!
What are Photoshop actions?Photoshop actions come in the .ATN file format and put simply, actions are a series of steps that have been recorded by their creator. This sequence of steps can then be reapplied at any time, which allows you to recreate the end result without having to go through each individual step every time. Think of them as short cuts.
Why are Photoshop actions useful?Actions are great because they not only save time, but they significantly speed up your workflow. When you install a professional action in Photoshop, you are essentially getting the expertise of the person that created the action right on your computer. You can bypass hours of frustration and instead have fun playing around with different looks at the click of a button. For the novice, the ease of use and instant gratification of actions can be an important step in learning to embrace Photoshop. And if you're interested in learning more, you can always dig into the individual layers of the actions to see how the original creator did certain things.
Take two photos of your own and use the actions I've provided to create images you can use for the art show! Please note that these images must be high res so make sure to change the resolution settings under Image-> Image size to make sure you get the most out of each action!
1. How does Hockney's work still have validity in the contemporary art world?
Work on Hockney pieces due Thursday.
Let's watch Hockney in action! This is how he make his joiners!
Work due for the week- Please place in shared week 18 Folder on Drive.
I wish you a very happy and safe holiday break!
1. What are the elements of design and how can a designer use them to make judgements about the success of a piece?
2. Why are copyright laws so important to be aware of?
3. What are duotones, tritones, quadtones?
4. How do the principles of design aid the photographer with composition choices?
Color Theory and ACA Testing Continues!
What are monotones, duotones, tritones, and quadtones?
In Photoshop, duotone refers to monotones, tritones, and quadtones as well as duotones. Monotones are grayscale images printed with a single, non-black ink. Duotones, tritones, and quadtones are grayscale images printed with two, three, and four inks. In these images, colored inks, rather than different shades of gray, are used to reproduce tinted grays.
Duotones increase the tonal range of a grayscale image. Although a grayscale reproduction can display up to 256 levels of gray, a printing press can reproduce only about 50 levels of gray per ink. For this reason, a grayscale image printed with only black ink can look significantly coarser than the same image printed with two, three, or four inks, each individual ink reproducing up to 50 levels of gray.
Sometimes duotones are printed using a black ink and a gray ink—the black for shadows and the gray for midtones and highlights. More frequently, duotones are printed using a colored ink for the highlight color. This technique produces an image with a slight tint and significantly increases the dynamic range of the image. Duotones are ideal for two‑color print jobs with a spot color (such as a PANTONE Color) used for accent.
Because duotones use different color inks to reproduce different gray levels, they are treated in Photoshop as single-channel, 8‑bit, grayscale images. In Duotone mode, you do not have direct access to the individual image channels (as in RGB, CMYK, and Lab modes). Instead, you manipulate the channels through the curves in the Duotone Options dialog box.
PLEASE NOTE: Thjs is just ONE of many ways to create duotones. You will be shown another way to do this tomorrow!
How about some fun with 3-D?
Once you have created your 3-D effect, use the 3-D glasses provided to check your work. Not every image works that well so you may have to search a bit or use your own image!
In case you missed it, here is a video!
a picture or relief carving on three panels, typically hinged together side by side and used as an altarpiece.
a set of three associated artistic, literary, or musical works intended to be appreciated together.
One set of images can be from the Public Domain Resources provided.- I will be checking!
The second set must be your own image/s.
You will be making two documents total.
Follow Hockney's style of taking photos to make "Fragmented Images" of your subjects. Play with adjustments, size, variety, proportion, etc.
To make this project more of a collaboration with Hockney, let's add a modern twist. Since you are all well-versed in photo manipulation a la textures, filters, duotones, adjustments, etc, add even more personality by using these tools! Challenge yourself to transcend the minimum requirements!
Size: 13x 19" or 19 x 13"
Please begin working on your Hockey pieces or continue to finish up projects from earlier this week.
Lab time to shoot photos and work on assignments.
ID-lastname_duo 7, 8, 9 etc.
If you do not do this correctly, your work will not be graded.
4. How do the principles of design aid the photographer with compositon choices?
As stated above, color theory will continue as we create two new projects!
However, for some of you, preparing for the ACA Exam will be your main focus.
The following students are expected to test on Friday.
If you miss Friday, you will test on Monday or when you return. The expectation of all students enrolled in this course is that everyone will prepare for and then take the ACA exam. This is your final grade. Whatever your past experience with tests of this caliber may be, you need to look forward and understand that you CAN and WILL pass with some effort. You can start preparing yourself now by going to GMETRIX and logging in. If your name is listed above, you should be doing this right now.
- Work on Color Shift Project- Presentation is in the week 16 folder.
Agenda: Exam tomorrow! Prep at home- You can do it!
Agenda: Lab time for those who have passed the exam.
1. What benefits are there to earning certification in Photoshop?
2. Why is important to be able to problem solve using Adobe software?
3. How can channel mixing in Photoshop help create new and exciting color outcomes?
Today we will be creating an account on this certification prep website. If you already have an account, let's make sure that you remember all of your log in info and be certain that you can access your account!
The goal is to get all of you certified by winter break!
Practice for ACA Exam- We will test tomorrow in order to give you a chance to look at the material and provide you with the opportunity to test again. Next month and once more in January.
Please go through the study guides I provide you and highlight the answers. Follow along, this is the only thing you should be working on now.
Then, it will be your job to take some Gmetrix practice exams at home.
Please go to the following website if you are ready to test and or have not made an account with Certiport before.
2. Completing your 2nd mandala.
It is NOT appropriate to be doing anything else at this time.
If you do not place your folder in the shared week 15 folder, I cannot grade it therefore you will not earn points.
Thank you for your consideration and have a nice weekend!
1. What are the differences between RGB and CMYK color modes?
2. Why is it crucial to know what the intent of a project before setting up a document?
Monday, 11/12- Veteran's Day, thank someone who has served for their service!
Please come up to learn about color modes!
Please open the following image in Photoshop and wait for further instructions.
Then, using the same image, convert to CMYK Color Mode. See which color mode you prefer!
Overlapping these images will create new colors and illusions that will be pretty nifty.
White usually works best as a background for these types of challenges, but experiment with as many options as you see fit!
Select: “Search for works I can modify, adapt, or build upon.
1. Collect your images from the sources listed above.
3. Use RGB Color Channel process- choose one channel per image.
4. follow steps to create mandala.
5. Choose either black or white as the background.
1. How does use of the pen tool enable the designer to create such clean selections?
2. What is an example of a subject which would not work for the pen tool?
3. How do the color decisions made in Lobo's work help to give the viewer a sense of place and energy?
Continue to work on your second pop art piece- Lobo Pop Art- Ask Mrs, G to let you borrow a camera if need be and refer to the presentation inside the week 13 folder that has been shared with you.
Here are the specs in case you forgot!
1. What are the differences between raster and vector graphics?
2. What are the benefits to learning how to use the pen tool?
3. How does Lobo's version of Pop Art reflect the time we live in?
Then open your Pop Art 1 image and finish it up.
Intro to the pen tool!
recreate the penguin using only vector tools.
Add a background, accessorize, even use different colors if you wish!
Read more about the pen tool here.
Come up front for demo and intro to new project- LOBO POP ART!
Using yourself as the focal point, create a 24 x 36" poster to re-imagine yourself as a pop culture icon. Add images that are specific to who you are, what you like, where you are from, or anything you seem as symbolic to you as a person. Use vector shapes behind your images to further enhance and explain more about who you are.
Choose a color scheme which matches the personality or location of your reference image/s.
Please show me the photo you will be sing as your main subject or allow me to help you get your photo taken!
I want to give you feedback on these pieces before you submit them and we send them to print.
BR: Please open your Movie Poster again last day for edits!
Lab time to make final changes to the movie poster before we move on tomorrow.
In order to get full creit for this poster, all elements must be present. Refer to spec for details.
Here is another link to refer to!
Using a portrait of someone you admire, create a Pop Art image of them a la Warhol/Lichtenstein. Although there are dozens of ways to create these types of portraits, please use the steps provided to ensure a successful outcome. Tutorial attached below.
ID:lastname_pop1.psd, jpg- You MUST get your portrait approved by Mrs. Bennett BEFORE beginning.
Please open your Bowie Practice piece.
Take/find a photo of you or someone you admire/adore.
1. How does the consideration of using visual hierarchy help the viewer and the designer connect?
Multiples of Me Project- Cameras are unavailable today due to unforeseen events but will be available tomorrow.
Work on your movie poster. Here is a link to movei movie poster inspiration.This is the final week for the poster so make it right, put in your best effort and remember the specs!
Open the files below and choose one human, one animal.
Using the class cameras, have a partner station the camera in one set location in order to take several photos of you in different positions.
Use those photos to compile a story of sorts which stars you appearing at least 5 times.
refer to the presentation at the bottom of this web page.
Have fun! Get creative! Don't move the camera!
1. What are paragraph and character styles in Photoshop and how can they be of help to designers?
2. Why are typefaces choices so powerful yet so overlooked as an element to consider?
Let's finish our billing blocks using character and paragraph styles!
Intro to type. What is appropriate? What is not?
Finish up billing block, continue to work on poster, etc.
1. How can type make or break a piece of art?
2. How can the healing tools help create hybrid creatures?
Let's make a plan for the Movie Poster!
Let's talk about Visual Hierarchy.
1. How do the photo restoration tools help a designer to create realistic looking illusions?
2. How can the Liquify Filter make subjects unrecognizable?
3. What is puppet warp and how does this tool work?
4. What are displacement maps and how are they created?
Please make a folder on your desktop titled: lastname_week 7. To all you sticklers- I forgot to send a folder for week 6 but week 7 has already been shared.
Catch up day! Work on low poly project or if you need to complete your restoration project, today is the day!
located at the bottom of this page.
Tomorrow we learn some new tools!
Let's learn some new tools!
Please open up the following files in Photoshop and await instruction.
Lab time to learn new tools. Make sure to save all exercises and place in your week 7 folder.
Unite the two files to show your understanding of how clipping masks work.
Open the following files and wait.
Combine to create a displacement map on JB's face.
A displacement map is a grayscale version of an image saved as a Photoshop file. The Displace filter then uses the displacement map essentially as an applied texture. The black areas are the low points and the light areas are the high points of the contours of the original image.
Lab time to complete exercises.
1. What does "overworking pixels" mean and how can you avoid this mistake?
2. How do the use of adjustments save the designer time and aggravation when restoring old photos?
Work on Black and White Photo Restoration Project- Due Friday. Please keep in mind that you absolutely must use adjustments and create duplicate layer before doing anything in case pixels get too messy.
4. You placed your name under the bottom right of the restored photo.
If you are finished with that, work on the following tutorial.
1. Why is photo restoration such a valuable skill?
2. What other uses might the healing tools in Photoshop serve beyond photo restoration?
3. What is hand coloring and can it be done non-destructively?
Photo Restoration Bootcamp begins today!
Now that you know how to use the restoration tools, restore this image of the woman to its original glory. Make sure to zoom in to get all of the scratches and scrapes on the surface. Do not overwork your pixels!
If you have completed both of the exercises listed above, please begin searching for a photo that you would like to restore for your portfolio.
The Library of Congress is an excellent resource for this type of thing.
Click here to connect to the LOC website.
Go to Daguerreotypes as they seem to have the most damage.
You may choose a family photo in need of repair. Make sure to choose one that is rather damaged so that you get the most bang for your buck! If you choose a family photo, you may scan it here or you could scan it at home and email it to yourself.
Ask your parents or grandparents for help. This is an awesome gift to love to someone who has everything and only costs you your time.
Please open your woman_before.jpg file and continue restoring it.
to get credit for week 5.
Let's learn to add color using adjustment layers.
Finally, I will introduce the new project.
Complete Tractor and Woman After exercises.
Open the file titled: Torn_photo.jpg located at the bottom of the page.
Do your best to work from the existing file. Turn black and white, restore, then add color back into it as demonstrated in class. Remember that cmd +j duplicates a selection onto another layer.
Start with exercises first. They are due tomorrow.
In your downtime look for a photo to restore for final project from sites listed above, but do not start the project until I approve your photo. Send to me when you find it via email and I will let you know if it works.
Let's set up your Black and White Photo Restoration Document for your final project for this unit!
1. What is symmetrical balance?
2. What is asymmetrical balance?
3.What is a gradient overlay?
4. Why does Low Poly art have such a strong presence in the digital world?
-Continuing to learn about contemporary designers to create 2 works of art that will reflect on current design movements.
Please create a new folder on your desktop titled: lastname_week 4. We have a very short but full week ahead!
Work on completing Low Poly Portrait #1 and then begin #2.
Please begin working on your second low poly piece if you have not done so already.
* If both pieces are complete, you may do 1 extra piece for extra credit. You may use this for your portfolio so you can choose your subject.
If you have completed everything, you may start searching for an image to restore. Use one of your own or choose a portrait from one of the resources listed below.
-Learning about contemporary designers to create 2 works of art that will reflect on current design movements.
We will start with the symmetrical animal portrait first.
Make sure to drag your photo reference onto your new canvas AFTER it has been approved. Low quality images will result in a terrible project and no one wants that!
Lab time to begin working on Low Poly part 1.
Lab time to work on Low Poly Portraits.
Photo retakes today as needed.
2nd portrait and final Low Poly 1 are due next Friday.
1. What is a raster graphic?
2. What are smart objects and why would a designer use them?
How do blending modes help create amazing effects so effortlessly?
3. What is the difference between destructive and non-destructive editing?
Lab time to work on collage- Do not forget to include yourself!
Follow along as I instruct you on what to do with this glorious creature.
Follow along as I show you how to select this bunny and place it in an environment.
Intro to the awesome Adjustments Panel!
The tools on the Adjustments Panel are another excellent way to make Non-Destructive edits to your work and can make or break a piece.
Lab time to work on collage.
1. Why is it important for Creatives of all types to understand how to digitally manipulate photographs?
2. What is a raster graphic?
3. What are smart objects and why would a designer use them?
Welcome to Digital Arts Imaging 1!
I'M YOUR HOST, MRS. B!
Open you files from yesterday and await instruction.
Agenda: Complete your Food Family.
Congrats, you just completed your first Photoshop piece!
Combine the two images and manipulate them by experimenting with blending modes and adjustments I show you today.
Use a multitude of images to create an interactive surreal collage all about you. You must appear in the collage at least 3 times and your collage should be nice a full.
Don't just paste a bunch of images together and call it a day. Challenge yourself to have each element you add have a purpose. Make sure that one element leads to the other.
Think about Visual Hierarchy. What is the most important element in this piece? What do you value the most? Make that element the largest. Secondary imagery can be smaller, images that you consider less important than that should be even smaller, and so on and so on.
Please open your Surreal Collage and continue working on it.
Lab time to work on Collage. New project assigned on Tuesday.
1. Why is an exhibition of your art to be treated with respect and responsibility?
2. What is the most professional way to carry yourself in an art exhibition?
Nothing to turn in this week! Your preparation for the show as well as the participation and finally, your artist statement is what you will be evaluated on this week.
We will be in the lab and studio finishing up projects and installing the show. Points will be awarded for making final edits to pieces and preparing them for print, and display.
Monday: Busy week ahead. productivity is crucial!
Look through your traditional work and take out your strongest pieces.
Place all of your pieces, labels and the artist statement into the manila folder I will provide you with.
1. Why does certification matter?
Br: Let's make a Certiport account! Go to this website and please use the same credentials you used for Gmetrix!
Complete Color Collage, unfinished work you would like to see displayed in the art show.
1. How will knowledge of color theory help aid your design decisions in the future when working with clients or for a firm?
2. How does earning ACA certification and college credit look to a potential employer? How does proof of those two things set you apart from others in the work force?
ID-lastname_color1.psd, jpg- This was due last Friday but if you were practicing on Gmetrix as you should have been this may not have gotten done, so turn it in today as it will be your last opportunity!
4. I will also be grading you on how much practice testing you have been doing. SO make sure you have been on Gmetrix!
Place in Week 16 folder by Friday!!!!
1. ACA Exam on Monday and Tuesday of next week. Look at Gmetrix and learn the material. It's all about repetition!
3. Completion of the color collage assigned last week.- After ACA exam only!
Let's practice for ACA as a class! No exceptions, we need to be honest with ourselves and see who is ready for the challenge of certification.
1.What benefits are there to earning your ACA Certification?
2.What strategies are you using to prepare yourself for the exam?
3.How do color and emotion relate?
Busy week ahead of us!
Using your own photos as well as those from the public domain list, create one collage using approximately 15 photos of images from the same color family. Note: You may choose images you like and then use filters and adjustments to make them the color you need/want them to be.
Choose a color that relates to the emotion you relate the most to.Here are the results of what studies about color shows about the way we feel.
Work on color project and study on Gmetrix. We will be taking the exam on May 8th. Santa Fe exam on May 11th! More study guides have been placed in the week 15 folder.
Be efficient with your time and work on taking photos at home so you don't send all of your time working on the collage at school and avoiding Gmetrix.
We are focusing on that and that only! Please remember that Gmetrix cab be accessed at home. You also have Quizlet as well as the study guides I provided you with. No excuse, just study and pass. You can do this!
1. What are spot channels, how do you add spot colors?
2. What are duotones, tritones, quadtones? How do they help a client save money?
2. Gmetrix- please remember that our test date is is happening on April 27th. Please make sure to practice at home. You will receive points this week for creating your account and practicing.
BR: Come up front for intro to the new project!
Please see presentation attached below!
Log onto Gmetrix and choose a practice test to try.
Class time to work on Gmetrix.
Log on to Gmetrix and choose a practice test to try.
1. What are the differences between digital printing and Offset printing?
2. How do you determine when to use offset vs. digital printing?
3. What are some examples of colors that cannot be created using the CMYK color Space?
2. RGB/CMYK Series:-whatever is missing out of this list.
3. Gmetrix- please remember that our test date is is happening within the next week and a half. Please make sure to practice at home. You can access Gmetrix from anywhere, there is even app! You will receive points this week for creating your account and practicing.
BR: Work on either Gmetrix or assignments.
Work on either Gmetrix or assignments.
Lab time to work on assignments.
Please work on Mandala and other color projects from last week.
Come up front to learn all about it!
You may take your own photos or use the public domain images from the links below.
Work on Mandala as well as any other CMYK/RGB documents you did not complete last week. We have a very busy week ahead of us, so please stay focused and be productive each day!
1. What are the differences between CMYK and RGB color modes?
2. For what deliverables do you use each type of color mode?
3. Why is is crucial for a designer to know the difference between color modes?
4. What are Pantone colors?
5. What do fractions like 4/0 mean in the design world?
Work on RGB project. No excuses, use your time, create, have fun!
Camera assignments. Please read over the Camera Borrower's agreement, sign it, and then have your parents sign. You will not be able to borrow a camera until I have this on file.
Here is the link to several resources where you will find a plethora of images which are either public domain or fair use. As a best practice you always want to use your own personal images or images of this status. Do not risk your client's credibility or your reputation over laziness.
Create an interesting composition which incorporates a different image for each color channel you are representing. You must have at least 4 different images for each CMYK piece and at least 3 different images. Overlapping these images will create new colors and illusions that will be pretty nifty.
1. What are raster and vector graphics?
2. How do you decide what type of graphic to use for specific tasks?
3. why is earning the pen tool early on in an artist's career so important?
Please work on existing projects.
Lab time, please make sure to turn in your work for this week.
Thanks to those of you who turned in your mid-term yesterday as requested. Please continue working on your Penguin as well as your Pop Art 2 piece. Remember that you MUST appear in the piece and your image should be surrounded bu the things you love or in essence, the things that make you, you!
Lab time to work on projects.
Continue working on assignments. Please do not forget to complete your mid-term by today!
All of the digital work that you would like to have printed for the art show.
Lab time to work on projects. Please use the gift of time!
Both are due on Friday!
Mid-term- Share your art and updated artist statement!
I have placed a folder titled " Mid-term" in the week 10 folder. Inside that folder is a folder with your name as the title.
2. Any digital work that you would like to see printed. We will continually add to this folder until the end of the semester. When are just getting the process of collecting our work started.
Please open the Pen Tool Penguin.jpg and recreate it using the pen and other vector based tools to create accessories as well an environment for it.
Can't get enough of the pen tool? Want more practice to achieve mastery? Play your way to pen tool perfection!
Lab time to work on Pop 2 and penguin!- Both due Friday!
1. Why are repetition and color important elements of design?
2. How does variety create visual interest?
3. What are the differences between raster and vector graphics?
BR& AGENDA: Work on current projects and turn your work in today. Friendly reminder that late work will not be accepted unless you have been absent this week.
Let's set up your new document for LOBO Pop ARt!
Lab time to work on Pop Art 1.
Both POP ART 1 and Pop Art 2 WIP are due tomorrow!
Intro to New Project and vector graphics!
Please come up front for new project!
Using yourself as the focal point, create a 24 x26" poster to re-imagine yourself as a pop culture icon. Add images that are specific to who you are, what you like, where you are from, or anything you seem as symbolic to you as a person. Use vector shapes behind your images to further enhance and explain more about who you are.
Get your photo taken for Pop Art Project and begin working on it. Complete your Pop ARt 1 project as well. Pop Art 1 is due Friday, and the WIP is also due.
TOMORROW IS ACADEMY PHOTO DAY! PLEASE MAKE SURE TO WEAR YOUR SHIRT!
Part 2 will be introduced tomorrow you are finished with your Pop Art piece, work on your asymmetrical portrait if it is not complete.
If you have both tasks completed, work on your own personal passion projects in Photoshop. Remember, we have an art show coming up soon!
Please open the image you will be using for your pop art portrait and let's set up your project document together as a class!
Lab time to work on Pop Art Portrait #1 , Pop Art 2 introduced tomorrow.
1. What are the differences between CMYK and RGB color mode?
2. Why is wise to know the differences between these color modes?
Make sure that you have turned in your work for the week.
Guest speaker, Markelle Charleston, 3rd year student at Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota!
Learn more about Ringling here.
Work on asymmetrical portrait, pop art practice.
Let's try to set up the file together!
Blending mode "code" for pop art pieces.
All 4 sections should follow the same format.
Please continue to work on your Asymmetrical Low Poly piece as well as your Pop Art practice piece.
Find a portrait to use for part 1 of the Pop Art Project.
Did you bring your signed Santa Fe Form? Please bring it to me today please.. Monday is your last chance to submit this form to save a seat for the Photoshop exam in May.
LAB TIME to work on Low Poly Pieces. Since most of you will not have your 2nd portrait completed, I will allow you to complete it next week with the understanding that I will be introducing another project on Monday. Please pay close attention to what is due today and make sure to submit all of the required files.
Let's have a happy and productive day!
Lab time to work on Low Poly- Due tomorrow!
Use the Fx panel to add overlays of gradients, play with different blending modes, add filters, etc. Make your pieces as unique as you are! You will never know how awesome your work can be if you don't experiment!
Always remember, you can come in at lunch or use the media center computers before school to work on projects. I believe in you, great things are a result of hard work!
Please work on your Low Poly Series- due on Friday!
Please show me your asymmetrical portrait today if you have not done so already.
Lab time to work on assignments. Utilize this time to the best of your ability! The accelerated pace of this course necessitates the need to be productive plus this will help you be prepared for the workplace in a few years. GO IGAD!
Please continue working on your low poly symmetrical animal portrait.
Please show me your choice for an asymmetrical portrait. Both portraits are due on Friday.
1. What is masking and what are the different types of masking that can be done in Photoshop?
2. Is masking a destructive or non-destructive technique?
2.What is low poly art? How does it reference 3-D modeling?
3. How do you change keyboard shortcuts in Photoshop?
Who is going to be at Project Makeover tomorrow?
Let me know so that I can sign you up!
I will be there at 12. Hope to see you there!
Lab time-Please work on all assignments and don't forget to turn in your work.
Let's set up your file for the Low Poly Project and get started! We will be working on the symmetrical portrait first.
Save as lastname_scribble1.psd, jpg, etc all the way up to 3 as per requirements or up to 4 if you want tp earn extra credit.
2.If you have complete all three scribbles, look for two photos for our low poly project.
Animal that is front facing. See example to the left.
2. A portrait of someone, anyone including a character you like, etc. It can be you, a loved one, a celeb, a unicorn, whatever, as long as it is a portrait. See to the left once again.
MAKE SURE THAT YOUR IMAGES ARE HIGH RES! I will approve images before we get started on this project tomorrow. I would like to continue introducing the project in better detail first.- PLEASE HAVE IMAGES READY FOR CLASS TOMORROW!
3. If you have completed these tasks, revisit the photo restoration project. Although they have been graded, a lot of you need to go back and fix specific areas to make them ready for print. Zoom up closely , do you see dust or scratches? If so, fix them. Overworked pixels, fix them! You see where I am going with this. I will reward you will extra credit for this as well.
Once you have completed all of these tasks, use your free time to work on a personal project or to explore Photoshop.
Get ready to be very productive tomorrow! No excuses!
Lab time to work on everything listed above. I believe in you, you are awesome people, you can do it!
Continue to work on Scribble exercise.
Lab time to work on scribble.
Yes, you all have to do this, and yes, you need to save it to earn points for the week. All work will be rewarded!
Choose 3 images and cleverly use masking tools to create a scribble shaded image with a background to reinforce your concept.
Size: letter-make sure to create a NEW file then drag images over- use high res images only!
1. What are the rendering filters in Photoshop and how do they assist the designer in the photo restoration process?
2. What are the differences between the options in the adjustments panel vs. the adjustment menu?
3. How does selective color play a role in photo restoration?
Look over the list of work assigned and due for each week and turn in to proper folder. Today is the end of the grading period so this is your final opportunity to earn points for the first 4.5 week grading period.
Anything turned in after 3:00 will not be graded.
Continue to work on B & W Photo Restoration.
LAST CHANCE TO TURN IN WORK FROM WEEK 4!
Please keep working on your Black & White Photo Restoration!
Lab time to work on project. Due Friday!
Please continue working on your photo restoration. I would like to add two things to your piece so please watch and follow my directions.
Work on Photo Restoration- DUE FRIDAY!
Make sure that you are following along as we set this file up to ensure proper layout.
1. What are the healing tools in Photoshop and how do they work? Are they destructive or non-destructive?
2. What are adjustment layers? How do they aid in the restoration process?
3. What are the history brush and the history panel? What are the rules for using these tools?
4. What is masking in Photoshop? Is it a destructive or non-destructive process?
Continue looking for an old photo for project #2. Use Loc website.
Intro to Black and White Photo Restoration.
Students will choose a photo in need of restoration, then repair that photo to the best of their ability using a plethora of healing tools and adjustment layers.
You may determine if color will be added at the time we print your work, but have it in your layers to prove that you have attempted this part of your challenge.
Place the before and after photos side by side -DO NOT LABEL YOUR PHOTOS BEFORE and AFTER - This looks unprofessional and if you have done your job well, there should be no question as to which version of your photo is which!
Use one of these links to find a photo and get your photo approved by me before beginning.
Good luck, you can do it!!!
Continue what was left unfinished yesterday.
Please open the following files attached directly underneath the Exercise files at the bottom of this web page.
Follow along as your student teachers explain how to use the power of the healing tools in Photoshop to alter this image.
1. Why is the surrealism movement still so powerful and used so widely in media today?
2. What is masking in Photoshop and what are the various types of masking?
3. What can we do as creatives to get our resumes noticed in a sea of competitors?
Wednesday, 1/31 and Tuesday, 2/6 are days that we will be preparing after school for competitions. These prep sessions will span from 3:00-4:30. This is not mandatory, but suggested!
BR: Same goals as yesterday. If you have completed anything, please show me.
Let's work on your competitions! I will call you together group by group to fill you in!
4. Surreal Collage Work in Progress: lastname_SurrealWIP.psd, jpg- Final will be due along with resume next Friday!
Please open your collage file and begin working on it.
Make an account on Piktochart now so that you will be ready for our SkillsUSA meeting today.
Please make sure to hand in your Certiport Consent form and signed syllabus now for a treat and 10 points!
Continue working on Veggie Head Project!
Please email me using your school board address so I can share the week 1 folder with you.
1. What Photoshop skills would you still like to learn about this software before the end of the semester?
2. What is a mandala, and why are they such a universally accepted form of self awareness?
- Last day to take ACA exam.
BR: Open files and begin working.
Study for ACA Exam if you have not passed or made a first attempt.
Homework- Study for ACA Exam. This is a large portion of your final. If you do not take the exam, I will use your highest Gmetrix test grade to determine your score for the final.
This is not the week to chill... it's crunch time. Please make each day count to the fullest!
Lab time to work on work listed above!
Work on Mandalas, study for ACA Exam, place print ready work in the shared folder.
Intro to the Meet the Artist- presentation attached below.
Create two mandalas using imagery of your choice. You should appear in your mandalas at least once.
Size: 2, 12 x 12"
SOOOOO glad to have you all back. We just a few short days left until we part ways so let's make each day count!
Let's chat about the schedule for the rest of the semester.
Work on completion of Playing card. Turn in both sides today.
Work on playing card and Gmetrix test prep.
- Tweak/complete any project you would like to work on from earlier this semester. Remember that we will be printing soon, so get your favorite pieces together so your show can be as fabulous as you are!
TEST WEEK- practice -practice-practice. This will be your grade for the week.
1. What specific qualities do most playing cards possess that allude to traditional styles of playing cards throughout history?
2. How do you suppose the ACA exam will help you on the road to your chosen career path?
Since you have been working so hard on Gmetrix, I will be awarding you points based on your efforts on the practice exams. I will check Gmetrix to see what you have done and average the points for the exams that you have taken.
Final Playing Card due date is postponed until Tuesday, 12/19.
Get on Gmetrix and take at least one practice exam. OR go on the Brain Buffet site and run through the practice exams.
We will be testing on both Monday and Tuesday!
One more day of practice! Due to our altered schedule, we will now be testing on both Monday and Tuesday of next week. Utilize the time you are given. I believe in you!
Log on to Gmetrix immediately and take one of the practice exams listed below in testing mode. After 50 minutes, I will stop you so that we can have a review in preparation for the exam tomorrow.
You have 50 minutes to do this. This is the exact amount of time you will have for the actual test and if you are truly ready to take the actual exam.
Once again, after the 50 minutes we will review material as a class.
Go to the Gmetrix site and run through as many of the practice exams as you can. The fate of this lies in your hands. YOU CAN DO IT!
ACA Prep Continues! You have two jobs this week!
2. Take brain breaks and work on your playing card.
Let's review! Please have your pencils ready to take notes and your minds sharp enough to answer some questions!
Please review the packets I have created for you. The packets with solutions are located in the shared folder for Week 16. Check them out there! We will run through the Gmetrix practice exams as a class tomorrow!
2. Have shown that you are ready by taking the practice exams and scoring at least 900 five times in a row in testing mode.
1. What strategies are you using to memorize the questions and techniques required to pass the ACA exam?
2. What benefits do you think one might enjoy from earning the ACA certification?
Since you have been working so hard on Gmetrix, I will be awarding you points based on your efforts on the practice exams. I will check Gmetrix to see what you have done and awards points for each exam taken.
Final Playing Cards are due on Friday, 12/15.
We will be testing this Friday!
Take practice tests on Gmetrix, work on card- Final version of the card is due on Friday, 12/15.
Let's talk about the test!
Work on GMetrix let me share what I've learned about this test.
Tired of Gmetrix, try Brain Buffet!
Choose a King, Queen, or Jack card to recreate.
Utilize design elements and principles to create an interesting composition complete with focal point, contrast, pattern, color, appropriate icon for the personality of the subject. Details listed in the project presentation.
Lab time to work on the Playing Card Project, Gmetrix- testing dates: December 14th and 15th!
Continue practicing for the ACA exam!
1. What is a Pantone or spot color?
2. What is the difference between process and spot color inks?
3. What is Duotone color mode?
4. Gmetrix Practice exams- 25 points for each one completed- I will check on the Gmetrix website so see what you've done.
Place your lastname_week 14 folder in the shared week 14 folder on Drive by the time you leave today if you want credit for your work!
BR: Gmetrix, we will eat, sleep, and breathe this. YOU WILL PASS the ACA CERT!
Do the practice exams, complete unfinished assignments, be productive.
Assigned: Duo-Quad Tone Triptych- postponed until next week!
Create a series of two triptychs- this means a total of 6 images all together - PLEASE NOTE-This project has been postponed!
A triptych is a picture in three parts. The triptych is a very popular format in the arts for a range of reasons and they're designed to be displayed together as a single piece.
Triptychs may be large or small and they may be hinged for a standing display or hung separately on the wall. It can be used in any art medium, including paintings, drawings, and photographs to create a compelling piece of art or to tell a story.
Size:8. 5" x 11" for each image. There will be three images per piece.
Go on Gmetrix and continue practing.
Return the card to me at the end of class so I can keep it handy for you.
Work on practice exams. Silence is necessary.
Come up front, let's talk about color!
Please continue working on your Color Shift Photography Project.
Pick 3 interesting, high-resolution images that have many details/ patterns and value changes.
Please note that you will be assigned another project this week so utilize your time wisely!
1. What is an additive color process? What is a subtractive color process?
2. What are some examples of deliverables and the specific color modes they require?
3. Why are color modes so important to the final output of a project?
Please work on assigned pieces.
Be productive be kind, be thankful!
As you will recall from yesterday, we all created a quick and easy 3-D EFFECT using an image of Paris' Louvre. Please try this again 2 more times using different images. The one that work the best are those which have a lot of depth. Images of just a single subject are often underwhelming.
1. 2 royalty free, high res images using the 3-D effect.
Tomorrow when I return we will discuss the science of 3-D imagery and attempt to create our own 3-D images the old fashioned way!
You may begin this project if you have completed everything else. The Color Shift pieces will not be due this Friday.
Lab time to work on assigned pieces.
Come up front to learn how to create a 3-D exercise!
Work on last week's assignment. These pieces have been turning out so well, I would like to see what you can do. Please take today to come whatever out of this list you did not complete last week. We will begin something new tomorrow!
Lab time. Utilize this gift!
Why is it important to understand every tool in a piece of software even if you do not think that there is an immediate need for it?
What color mode is best for print? What color mode is best for on screen use?
What are the differences between RGB and CMYK?
These pieces are looking so go, keep working, just turn in what is completed and we will finish up on Monday!
Make sure to use proper file naming protocol!
Please continue working on your CMYK/RGB Channel Project.
Come up front for the new project!
Last designated day to work on Low -Poly Project. If you have completed boith portraits , then please revisit the Lobo Pop Art Project as many of you did not complete it a few weeks back.
We will be starting a new project tomorrow.
Be productive, be diligent, be silent and be kind!
1. How do filters add a new dimension to flat imagery?
2. What is a plug-in? How do you install plug-ins and where do you find them?
Lab time to finish up!
Lab time to work on Low Poly Portraits. Utilize the time you are allowed.
Thank you for turning in your writing assessments yesterday. If you were not able to send your assessment to me last night but have it completed, please send it now. If you do not, please stay focused on your Low Poly portraits as the due date has passed.
Write an explanatory(informative) essay using at least 4 transition words and phrases to show relationship to ideas and details in paragraphs and between paragraphs and citing at least 2 pieces of evidence from texts.
Prompt: Explain why illegal software is a problem or the consequence and risk of using illegal software.
1. What does the term Low- Poly mean? What discipline does the technique mimic?
2. How does Low-Poly art relate to resolution?
3. How can keyboard shortcuts and workspaces be customized to fit the designer?
Please continue working on your Low Poly Projects.
As a reminder, please make sure to create your document first, then place your linked file into that new document. Do not work from a document you download directly. In addition, you images should be at least 2550px X 3300 px before you should even consider using them!
Lab time. Today we will try to work in silence or there will be seat changes tomorrow.
Make sure to get your images approved by me before beginning. Let's make sure that you will be successful in this venture!
Lab time to work on Low Poly Project.
BR: Please come up to learn about two new projects!
See presentation attached below for full tutorial and examples.
Choose 2, high resolution imaghes for this project. Your images must be approved by Mrs. B.
2550px X 3300 px to work properly.
End of the grading Period and 1st 9 Weeks!
1. What was the Pop Art movement that began in the late 50's , and why does the message of the movement still hold true today?
2. Who were two of the major players of the Pop Art Movement? Can you name any contemporary Pop Artists?
3. What are the differences between vector and raster graphics?
4. For what reasons would you use each file type?
5. Why is the pen tool most useful for in Photoshop?
1. MId-Term- DUE TUESDAY! Make sure to place in Mid-Term Folder located within the week 9 Folder I shared with all of you! I will be checking as the grading period is over- no late work will be graded, so please make sure to place your files in the specified folder!
Please come up front to learn about your Mid-term and New Pop Art Project!
Write a rough draft of your artist statement using Google Docs then place that draft in the Mid-term Folder inside the Photoshop Week 9 work folder I shared with you.
You must do this by Tuesday!
Create 2, Lobo Style Pop Art Pieces.
Use 2 two people with completely different personalities or 2 animals with opposite mannerisms. Make sure images are high res and don't forget to isolate them from the background so you are working with a transparent image to start!
Think about the subjects likes/dislikes, geographic location, personality, etc to decide on shapes and color schemes to suit them.
Use only vector based tools including, but not limited to: all shape tools, text, or create your own shapes using the pen tool. Your work should look as if it were influenced by LOBO himself!
Your subject should be in black to contrast and a focal point. You only have to do one portrait on each document rather than 4 like last week!
3. Practice your pen tool skills work out the kinks before you begin your LOBO PIECES!
4. Don't forget about your other two Pop Art portraits assigned last week! They are also due on Friday!
Class time to work on assignments!
Work on assigned projects and exercises.
Email me with any questions regarding the work and make sure to read over each presentation located at the bottom of this webpage.
Good luck, and please use your time wisely!
No school, teacher work day!
1. What is visual hierarchy? How can a designer use the concept of visual hierarchy to persuade a potential viewer to watch a movie?
2. What is the rule of thirds? How can the rule of thirds grid be displayed in Photoshop?
I have shared the week 8 folder with you and in it I have placed the portraits we took in the art room yesterday. Please find your portrait and open it in Photoshop.
Continue working on your Movie Poster project.- DUE tomorrow!
WORK ON YOUR MOVIE POSTER!!!!!
Lab time! Use it or lose it.
1 image must be you, the other should be someone you admire, or care for.
Come up front so that we may discuss composition again and using the appropriate text for your poster.
Last day to take photos for the movie poster. We will be starting a new project this week.
1. What are the differences between fonts and typefaces?
2. What is tracking, kerning, baseline shift, leading?
Let's look at typical Movie Poster layouts!
Beautiful – It should deliver the message in a visually-attractive way.
Focused – It should be precise, and communicate no more than one message/idea.
Ordered – It should have an obvious and well-organized sequence.
Rather than trying to push everything on a piece of paper, choose a focal idea or a message that can be understood by everyone. Make sure that the idea is not only visually attractive, but it manages also to inspire fans to see that movie.
The same as the scenes, pay attention to your titles, and make sure you’re using consistent font. Try to replicate the style wherever your product is being described, and ensure that the color contrasts the one of the background.
In case you need to include a lot of type, use grid as much as necessary. Together with it, try to define a style and to explain at least a bit of the movie’s content using images.
4. YOU HAVE NO OTHER CHOICE THAN HIGH RESOLUTION!
The main reason why you’re actually designing the process is to influence viewers’ buying decisions, and to excite them to check your movie by only conveying a visual message about it.
Perception dictates their decision, so try to improve results by touching audience emotionally from the very first moment. It’s true, we live in a time of multiple media sources and video trailers, but the poster is still the viewer’s first and most important encounter with a movie.
The secret is to use graphic design to invoke moods and emotions related to the movie. Therefore, if working on a horror movie, try to make viewers feel tense and scared.
On the other hand, convey a comedy message in a light and funny style. Your ultimate task is to strike customers with memorable ideas, making sure they’ve understood them properly long before they’ve even watched the movie.
Together with the movie’s title, you have to include a tagline (a memorable sentence/branding slogan that says more about the movie’s main message). At the same time, you have to mention the director, the leading actors (characters), the due release date, and a block of credits to thank in the bottom part.
In case there is someone really famous whose presence you want to emphasize in the movie, or even a specific part you think would attract the most attention, those can also be written on the poster (of course, only if you deem them to be absolutely indispensable).
Choosing the images for your movie poster will be the most difficult part of the job. Instead of doing it yourself, we recommend you to hire an expert designer to help you, since he’s probably going to have the experience necessary to learn from old movies in the genre.
Most of the time, it will be a scene or a good photo of the actors who are participating, or even symbolic images related to the title.
Before performing whatever action, research the market. You need to know what your audience wants and what is already given to them, in order to brainstorm for ideas and concepts that will make your poster stand out of the crowd. Still, researching doesn’t mean copying.
Show me your drawing so I can help you with layout today.
Photo shoot day! Please have a plan ready to go for your project. You may use my class camera or your own. 5 minute limit for everyone. If you have an SD card as I requested in the beginning of the school year, please start bring that in as well.
Work on plan for movie poster. Take photos for project.
1. What are displacement maps and how do they help in creating the illusion of modeled texture?
2. What is visual hierarchy and what elements of design can be used to create it?
3. How does a designer's choice of typeface create the mood or tone of a publication?
Visual hierarchy refers to the arrangement or presentation of elements in a way that implies importance. In other words, visual hierarchy influences the order in which the human eye perceives what it sees. This order is created by the visual contrast between forms in a field of perception.
Please work on Hybrids and Poster. Turn in all work by 2:45 today please!
Lab time- Again, Don't forget to turn your week 6 work in!
Come up front please for new project.
Using one of your hybrid animals from the previous project as well as at least one new hybrid human/animal, human/plant, plant/animal or animal/animal, you will create a Creature Feature poster for a fictitious movie.
Please open your hybrid files and show me your progress this far.
Listen and follow the directions for how to use displacement maps to create believable textures on contoured surfaces.
Listen and follow directions so that you can create an anthropomorphic portrait!
Continue working on your hybrid animal project which was assigned on Friday.
END of 1st 4.5 Week Grading period!
1. What is the liquify tool?
2. What is puppet warp and how can using it help you create effective and believable hybrid animals?
Combine 3 or more high resolution images of animals to create two hybrid animals only a mother could love.
Use the Healing tools, Content aware tools, select and mask, adjustments, and anything else you know how to do to as flawlessly as possible create TWO hybrid creatures. We will be using one of these creatures for another project so do your best!
Work on Hybrid project, do not forget to turn your work for the week into me! This is the end of the grading period!
Please continue working on your practice animal hybrid tutorial.
Now, let's try it on our own!
Open one of the following files or choose a fluffy animal of your own- as always, make sure that the image is high resolution!
Let's learn about some more tools!
Learn more about them here.
Lab time. Intro to new tools!
Please open your restoration project and complete it today!
Turn in week 4 work today please! See Week 4 specs for details.
1. Why is it crucial to follow copyright laws?
2. What does Public Domain mean?
3. What is fair use?
4. What is portraiture? Why is lighting crucial in setting the mood for a work of art?
POSTPONED DUE TO HURRICANE. YOU MAY TURN WEEK 4 WORK IN WHEN WE RETURN SAFETY BACK TO SCHOOL.
No classes today. Stay safe, and keep in touch if I can be of assistance to you!
Please open your B& W Restoration to show me what you have done thus far. If it is not to my specifications, we can still fix it!
Look for two high resolution portraits of people with light backgrounds. Save them as we will be using these for your next project.
Intro to Pop Art Portrait series?
Please open your B& W Restoration and continue working on it.
Lab time to work on BW Photo restoration.
Please open your B& W Restoration and continue working on it. Please note: This piece will be due Friday but other projects will also be assigned this week.
No classes. Labor Day. Enjoy!
1. Why is non-destructive editing a preferable practice?
2. What are the healing tools in Photoshop and how do they benefit a designer?
3. What are clipping masks and how can they help a designer create clever illusions?
4. What are quick masks and how do they speed up work flow?
Place the before and after photos side by side -DO NOT LABEL YOUR PHOTOS BEFORE and AFTER - This looks unprofessional and if you have done your job well, there should be 0no question as to which version of your photo is which!
Lab time to choose a picture and begin restoring!
Please open the following image and await instructions.
We are going to add selective color.
Please watch and learn a few different techniques for adding selective, non-destructive color to restored black and white photos.
THEN... fully colorize the provided image.
Intro to new project- Black and white photo restoration.
Restore the image of this girl to the best of your ability. Be extremely careful not to overwork your pixels!
Lab time to work on girl restoration.
To reiterate, I do not want your work until Friday of each week. Please create the folder mentioned above and use it to store your work throughout the week. On Friday, compress this folder and upload it to Google Drive. Place it in the shared Week 3 folder for the class.
Today, our focus is on learning new tools. Please follow along with all of these demos and make sure to save your work as you go. All of the exercises we do in class today will earn you credit on Friday, so please keep up and use the proper file naming protocol for each image. Ready? Let's go!
Once you have created a clipping mask in this piece, push it a little further by adding a background!
Watch and take notes about each of the healing tools. Then "repair" the face of the youngster in the photo.
1. What is the difference between destructive and non-destructive editing?
2, What are layer masks, quick masks, and clipping masks? How do they work and why are they important to designers?
Please open the image titled LADY_G.png and await instructions.
Let's talk about masks in Photoshop!
Choose 3 images and mask them using the scribble technique- thoughtful deliberate removal of specific areas is required.
Review of how to turn your work in. If you do not place your work in the folder I share with you each week, it will not be graded.
I do not want your work until Friday. Please do not send things as you finish them, but rather in one folder.
Last day to work on collages!
Lab time to work towards the completion of the Surreal Collage.
You must appear in the image at least once!
content should provide the viewer with a narrative and not just be arbitrary or random.
Please continue working on your collage.
Lab time to complete all assigned projects. Please do not forget to submit your work via the Week 1 folder in Google Drive!
Let's set up your file for the Surrealistic Personal Collage!
You must appear in the collage at least once.
Your content must interact to tell a story. Don't just cut things out and paste them on top of each other haphazardly.
Continue working towards collecting a large amount of photos. I would suggest 25 or more so that you have enough to play around with. Also, remember that you must appear in the collage at LEAST 1 time!
Today we will be discussing blending modes and Smart Objects!
So, what are blending modes?
When we choose a Photoshop Blend Mode, we are essentially asking Photoshop to blend our selected layer with the layer below based on whatever Blend Mode is selected. So essentially, depending on the mode, pixels from the top layer are going to alter the color and luminosity of those on underlying layers.
Smart Objects are layers that contain image data from raster or vector images, such as Photoshop or Illustrator files. Smart Objects preserve an image's source content with all its original characteristics, enabling you to perform nondestructive editing to the layer.
Please follow my directions as I walk you through how to use Blending modes to create easy and amazing effects with a simple mode change.
1. Using the cat and the space image, play around with the various blending modes Photoshop has to offer along with the filters and Fx I showed you to essentially "create" a funky image of your own.
Open the image titled Emmett.jpg.
Please open your lastname_veggie.psd file and continue working.
The goal is to try to complete this piece today. You will be turning it in on Friday, but you can store it in your week 1 folder for now.

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Posted on June 23, 2015 June 23, 2015 by Lance Malcolm, Esq.
Quite arguably, the 2nd Amendment took a significant step back recently. In Jackson v. City and County of San Francisco, the United States Supreme Court has “voted” to deny certiorari to plaintiff Jackson, et. al’s appeal from the U.S. 9th Circuit’s decision rejecting her challenge of a San Francisco police code which mandates the lock-box storage of firearms in the home and also that such firearms be disabled by a trigger lock. Jackson v. City and County of San Francisco [writ of certiorari denied] 2015 WL 3537821 (2015). Effectively, this decision on the part of the U.S. Supreme Court a) takes a shotgun shell sized hole out of progress made by proponents of the 2nd Amendment in District of Columbia v. Heller and it progeny, and b) leaves the scope of what may be considered the 2nd Amendment fundamental (or “core”) rights, in serious doubt. See District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008). One concession that we may have from all this is the rather strident dissent from the denial of certiorari authored by Justice Thomas, and joined by Justice Scalia. In that dissent, Thomas well lambasts the 9th Circuit decision as being “in serious tension” with Heller – for prohibiting “immediate self defense” of the home. Jackson, 2015 WL at 2. The appeal to common sense made by Thomas is also refreshing. That the San Francisco police code prevents citizens from practicing immediate self-defense when they are “most vulnerable”, at home and/or possibly “sleeping” or otherwise “indisposed”, Thomas cannot fathom how such law does not impose a substantial burden. Id.
Post-Heller, it seemed improbable that any Federal Court could credibly come to the conclusion that the 9th Circuit has in this case – that the San Francisco Police code in question either a) does NOT place a substantial burden on core 2nd Amendment rights OR b) that the level of scrutiny against such law should be something less than the very highest degree possible (strict scrutiny). To illustrate this point, it is first worth revisiting certain aspects of the holding in Heller and understanding how the wishy-washiness of the Heller decision has proximately opened the door to egregious decisions like Jackson. The reader will probably know that the supposed land-mark nature of Heller achieved a few things for pro-Second Amendment advocates – a) The U.S. Supreme Court held that immediate defense of the hearth/home by conventional firearms, goes to the core of 2nd Amendment rights where the full force of the 2nd Amendment presumably comes into play AND b) rational basis review (the lowest level of means-end scrutiny) is never appropriate to assess laws which impede such self-defense by arms in the home. Heller, supra. Later, McDonald v. Chicago, decided that the 2nd Amendment (and, by extension, Heller) does apply to the respective states, through the 14th Amendment, and is not merely limited to checking laws issued by the federal government. 561 U.S. 742 (2010).
Critically though, the Heller Court did not specify the level of scrutiny to be applied to such laws (be it strict scrutiny or intermediate scrutiny); the decision also did not fully delineate what constitutes a “substantial burden” on 2nd Amendment rights even in the context of laws regulating the possession of conventional firearms in the home. Justice Scalia, the author of the Heller decision, may not have foreseen just how fatal this failure would prove to be. But, for proof of the bad omen, we need not go any further than the fact that Mr. Heller is still in court – politicians took immediate advantage of the decision’s weakness by legislating other laws making it (still) very difficult to effectively possess firearms in the District of Columbia (e.g. 1 gun/month purchase limit; mandatory expiration of firearms licenses after 3 years; etc.)! See Heller v. District of Columbia, 45 F.Supp.3d 35 (D.C. 2014). The net effect of this failure has also practically allowed various courts to cobble together their own self-serving jurisprudence wherein what amounts to a “substantial burden” on 2nd Amendment rights and (therefore) which level of scrutiny aught to be applied against laws that impede those rights, is left entirely up to the respective court.
Problematically, courts invariably reference Heller as the seminal authority on what aught to be the scope of 2nd Amendment rights, but do so to reach shockingly different conclusions of law. How do we, for instance, square recent federal court decisions like Ezell v. Chicago (City of Chicago laws which prohibited the operation of gun ranges within city limits while requiring gun-training as a pre-requisite for licensing found to violate the 2nd Amendment as the 7th Circuit held that those laws, in light of Heller, effectively prevented persons from practicing self-defense of the home) or Gowder v. Chicago (where the Federal District Court of the Northern District of Illinois struck state law which forbade permits to persons formerly convicted of non-violent misdemeanors as unconstitutional and triggering strict scrutiny as it, in light of Heller, prevented protection of the home) WITH the 9th Circuit’s decision in Jackson? See Ezell v. Chicago, 651 F.3d 684 (7th Cir. 2011); Gowder v. Chicago, 923 F.Supp.2d 1110 (N.D. Ill. 2012). Besides Jackson, there are any number of a host of other puzzling decisions, in theory referencing Heller, but in practice deviating from Heller, and again underlining a distinct lack of consistency in overall 2nd Amendment litigation – For instance, U.S. v. Chovan (the 9th Circuit rules that federal prohibition of persons convicted of misdemeanor-level domestic violence does not impose any cognizable burden on 2nd Amendment rights, in spite of Heller, and therefore does not trigger any heightened scrutiny – rational basis review being appropriate); Or try Kwong v. Bloomberg (New York City ordinance imposing a $340.00 administrative registration fee for each firearm, upheld by the 2nd Circuit; despite making it practically prohibitive to own a firearm in New York City and though imposing a fee some six times larger than other municipalities of the state, the 2nd Circuit found that such law does not substantially burden the 2nd Amendment and chose to apply only intermediate scrutiny). U.S. v. Chovan, 735 F.3d 1127 (9th Cir. 2013); Kwong v. Bloomberg, 723 F.3d 160 (2d Cir. 2013).
If anything, these cases (and Jackson in particular) underline how badly in disrepair the state of 2nd Amendment law is, post-Heller, and how much the U.S. Supreme Court should be involved to set forth a solid and repetitive framework for lower courts to follow. Justices Thomas and Scalia appear to realize this. Indeed, the dissent is also notable for how it moves to set the record straight on Heller so as to save that decision from the ambiguity it has unwittingly fallen into. Specifically, Thomas chided lower courts about their conventional invocation of Heller as a means for them to independently “balance” the perceived burden imposed by a given law on 2nd Amendment rights and (thus) independently apply some appropriate level of scrutiny, on a sliding-scale. Rather, Thomas states that no part of Heller stands for such a proposition and that the takeaway from Heller should have been the obligation of a court to scrutinize “text, history, and tradition.” Jackson, supra. Thomas’s dissent also debunked an especially favorite contemporary reference to Heller, where courts have taken that decision to mean that anything less than an outright prohibition on the possession of firearms in the home, does not equate to a substantial burden on 2nd Amendment rights. Id. But ultimately, when things are all said and done, a dissent is but a footnote in history. For all Thomas’s and Scalia’s upbraiding of Jackson and lower courts’ evisceration of Heller, nothing will necessarily be accomplished on the strength of those words alone.
Citizens of our fair Commonwealth, who also happen to be gun-rights activists, can rest assured though that laws like the one at issue in Jackson are not likely to ever menace the 2nd Amendment in Pennsylvania. There are at least a couple of reasons for this – Pennsylvania’s Uniform Firearms Act has no such onerous regulation and (furthermore) § 6120(a) of the Act preempts any municipality from regulating in this same field. However, for those concerned with a big picture assessment on the state of the 2nd Amendment today you may well ask yourselves, what the Heller was the 9th Circuit and/or the U.S. Supreme Court, thinking?
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My take is that the Court wants to see how the law develops in the Circuits and is waiting on a clear conflict between the Circuits before weighing in.
Understood and that’s a good point but “clear conflict” (by that I take it you mean two or more identical fact patterns where the Circuits come to contrary conclusions) may be hard to come by. I’m also afraid that should the Supreme Court decide to take on a particular state gun law, the decision will be, a la Heller, on extremely narrow grounds, or perceived to be on narrow grounds – meaning the lower federal courts will just decline extending the Supreme Court holding to other 2nd Amendment fact patterns. For example, let’s say the Court did grant cert to Jackson and did decide and only decided that such a “lock-box requirement” violates the 2nd Amendment, I wouldn’t be surprised (considering the post-Heller debacle) that the Circuits would take that to mean that other similar but different prohibitions are arguably still Constitutional. The “catch” is in the width and breadth of the Supreme Court decision. In the context of the 2nd Amendment, the post-Heller state of the law proves that the Supreme Court needs to be more clear and strident in their opinions but gun law being as sensitive an issue as it is, I find it unlikely that the Court will be any more sweeping than it was in Heller.
Additionally, there arguably is already clear, post-Heller, conflict among the Circuits. Just last year, the 9th Circuit (yup, the 9th) decided Peruta v. San Diego, wherein it found a county law that purported to ban concealed carry absent a showing of “good cause”, unconstitutional. Interestingly, that Court found that though Heller I factually revolved around laws that flatly banned firearms in the home and did not explicitly delineate the physical scope of 2nd Amendment rights, Heller was nonetheless guided by principles of scrutinizing text, history and tradition and that that those three things point to viewing fundamental 2nd Amendment rights as including “publicly bearing” arms. Peruta v. Cnty. of San Diego, 742 F.3d 1144, 1150-68. Yes, right out of the Thomas/Scalia school of thought! But contrast Peruta with numerous other Circuit or District court decisions: Davis v. Grimes, 9 F.Supp.3d 12 (D.Ma. 2014)(District court in the 2nd Circuit decides that permitting for concealed carry tied to mandatory showing of “special cause” is constitutional); Drake v. Filko, 724 F.3d 426 (3d Cir. 2013)(3rd Circuit decides that state law requiring “justifiable showing” for concealed carry applicants is constitutional). There are a good number of other post-Heller conflicts out there and its getting messier by the day.
Sadly this has been the pattern with the Supreme Court on guns. If they hear a case at all (Usually they just deny certiorari and ignore the cases) and it has some positive aspects further cases are just denied and various circuits chisel away or reverse it and they just ignore it. Conflicts from circuit to circuit aren’t even mentioned.
Sometimes I think all those internet conspiracy theories that something is being held over the Chief Justice’s head to get him to make that ridiculous Obamacare “tax” decision and he has just folded up on everything since then are true.
I don’t think Heller has his gun permit yet does he?
The Supremes have gone “left”. Stand by for more decisions that fly in the face of constitutionality and common sense. This isn’t just about guns. This shift to the left will be across the board in all cases before the court. The last bastion of hope, fairness and justice, has fallen.


1. Under the law of New Jersey, the review by the Supreme Court of the a decree of the Prerogative Court affirming a tax assessment is a judicial proceeding, as distinguished from an administrative one. P. 296 U. S. 400.
2. Upon appeal from a tax assessment, the Prerogative Court of New Jersey acquires jurisdiction not only to determine the tax due, but to take proceedings for its collection, and the docketing of its decree affirming a tax, gives it the effect of a judgment creating a lien and enforceable by execution. P. 296 U. S. 401.
3. The prohibition of § 265 of the Judicial Code against the granting by any federal court of an injunction to stay proceedings in any court of a State, embraces all steps that may be taken in a state court to collect a judgment, including not only execution, but ancillary proceedings in the court which rendered the judgment or some other, and it governs privies to the case in the state court, as well as the parties. P. 296 U. S. 403.
Appeal from a decree of the District Court of three judges denying a temporary injunction for want of jurisdiction in a suit to prevent collection of an inheritance tax in New Jersey.
was made for an interlocutory injunction; answers were filed, and the case was heard before three judges upon an elaborate record. But the injunction was denied for want of jurisdiction upon the allegations of the bill because of the prohibition contained in § 265 of the Judicial Code. [Footnote 2] Dorrance v. Martin, 12 F.Supp. 746. The cases are here on appeal.
The material allegations are substantially the same in the two suits: Dorrance died on September 21, 1930, at his residence in Cinnaminson, Burlington county, N.J., leaving a will in which he named his wife, two brothers, and the Camden Trust Company executors. On October 2, 1930, his will was, upon petition of the executors, admitted to probate in the Orphans' Court of that County; letters testamentary issued, and the executors have administered the estate ever since under the jurisdiction of that court. Their petition for probate, like the will, had recited that Dorrance's domicil was in New Jersey. On April 6, 1931, they filed with the Inheritance Tax Bureau of New Jersey their return as a basis for the assessment of the inheritance tax. The estate consisted almost wholly of bonds, stocks, and other evidence of title to intangible personal property, and these were then, and still are, located in New Jersey. On October 17, 1931, the Tax Commissioner, finding, upon evidence presented by the executors, that Dorrance was, at the time of his death, domiciled in New Jersey, assessed the amount stated as the tax on direct transfers payable under the New Jersey Transfer Inheritance Tax Act of April 20, 1909, c. 228, as amended.
there. In re Dorrance's Estate, 309 Pa. 151, 163 A. 303. No question under the Federal Constitution was presented. Certiorari was denied by this Court, 287 U.S. 660, 288 U.S. 617. In satisfaction of the judgment, the executors paid to Pennsylvania $14,394,698.88, and $104,278.03 as interest thereon, and they also gave a bond in the sum of $4,000,000 to pay additional amounts if, upon final determination of the federal estate tax, they should appear to be due.
In the suits at bar, the plaintiffs insist that the Pennsylvania judgment was in rem, and bound New Jersey and the defendants although they were not parties to that litigation; that the New Jersey courts and administrative authorities, in refusing to give effect to the Pennsylvania judgment holding that Dorrance was domiciled in the latter state, violated the full faith and credit clause of the Federal Constitution, and that, if they construed the New Jersey Transfer Inheritance Tax Act as applying to intangible property the situs of which was outside New Jersey, they violated the due process and equal protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. The plaintiffs contend further that, if the Pennsylvania judgment is not in rem, the federal court is now free to ascertain the facts as to domicil and reach its conclusion independently of the prior decisions of the courts of the two states, and that the evidence introduced below establishes that Dorrance's domicil was in Pennsylvania.
had not passed from the administrative into the judicial stage. See City Bank Farmers Trust Co. v. Schnader, 291 U. S. 24; 293 U. S. 293 U.S. 112. But they assert that the proceedings in the Supreme Court of New Jersey reviewing by certiorari the final decree of the Prerogative Court (itself a judicial tribunal) were proceedings judicial in their nature, and that the stay sought is of proceedings pending in a court of New Jersey. The defendants contend also that the judgment of the New Jersey Supreme Court to which the executors were parties is res judicata as to the domicile of the deceased and as to the liability of the estate for the taxes assessed by New Jersey, and they set up other reasons why the relief prayed should be denied. We have no occasion to consider any of these defenses, since we agree with the District Court that it was without jurisdiction to grant the injunction.
"shall be personally liable for any and all such taxes until the same shall have been paid as hereinafter directed, for which an action of debt shall lie in the name of the New Jersey."
courts in proceedings strictly judicial. The power to "reverse or affirm, in whole or in part" does not imply that the court may exercise administrative discretion. Such power is a common incident of the judicial review of taxation. As the administrative proceeding of assessing the tax had ended when the Supreme Court granted its writ of certiorari, we have no occasion in this connection to enquire whether it had not already ended when the appeal to the Prerogative Court was allowed.
Third. The plaintiffs contend that, even if the action of the Supreme Court was judicial, the federal court had jurisdiction of this controversy because the judgment of the New Jersey courts was limited to a review of the assessment; that, in order to collect the tax to translate the assessment into an enforceable judgment, the state officials must institute a new and independent action -- namely either an action for debt in the name of the state or a statutory proceeding against the persons interested in the estate, and that, since no such action or proceeding had been taken at the time when these suits were filed, there is here no application to "stay proceedings in any court of" New Jersey. That is, the plaintiffs contend that the determination of the amount and validity of the tax is to be treated as an isolated and distinct proceeding, not as a step in the process of determining and collecting the tax imposed.
cause was remanded to the Prerogative Court. By the appeal of the executors, it had acquired jurisdiction not only to determine the tax due, but to take appropriate proceedings for its collection. Its jurisdiction continues until its decree is satisfied.
as a lien by judgment, and execution shall issue thereon according to the rules and practice appertaining to other judgments. [Footnote 15]"
Fourth. The prohibition of § 265 is against a stay of "proceedings in any court of a State." That term is comprehensive. It includes all steps taken or which may be taken in the state court or by its officers from the institution to the close of the final process. [Footnote 16] It applies to appellate, as well as to original, proceedings, and is independent of the doctrine of res judicata. It applies alike to action by the court and by its ministerial officers; applies not only to an execution issued on a judgment, [Footnote 17] but to any proceeding supplemental or ancillary taken with a view to making the suit or judgment effective. [Footnote 18] The prohibition is applicable whether such supplementary or ancillary proceeding is taken in the court which rendered the judgment or in some other. And it governs a privy to the state court proceeding -- like Elinor Dorrance Hill -- as well as the parties of record. Thus, the prohibition applies whatever the nature of the proceeding, unless the case presents facts which bring it within one of the recognized exceptions to § 265. [Footnote 19] It is not suggested that there is a basis here for any such exception.
The conclusion reached by the lower court is consistent with City Bank Farmers' Trust Co. v. Schnader, 291 U.S.
* Together with No.194, Dorrance et al. v. Martin, State Tax .Commissioner, et al. Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of New Jersey.
These are the state supervisor of the Inheritance Tax Bureau, the Comptroller of the State, the State Treasurer, and the Attorney General.
See Smith v. Apple, 264 U. S. 274.
2 Comp.Stats. of N.J. of 1910, p. 2208, § 2; 2 Comp.Supp. of 1924, p. 2818, § 163-301.
N.J.Laws of 1931, c. 303, § 18, pp. 763-764; c. 336, p. 823.
N.J.Laws of 1909, § 20, p. 335.
See In re Roebling's Estate, 91 N.J.Eq. 72, 75.
See Central R. Co. of New Jersey v. State Tax Department, 112 N.J.Law, 5, 169 A. 489.
N.J.Laws of 1931, § 21. pp. 764-765.
Id., § 22, p. 765.
N.J.Laws of 1902, c. 158, § 44, pp. 524-525; N.J.Laws of 1931, §21.
See State v. Justices of Middlesex, 1 N.J.Law, 244, 248; Royal Mfg. Co. v. City of Rahway, 75 N.J.Law, 416, 67 A. 940; Dubelbeiss v. Town of West Hoboken, 82 N.J.Law, 683, 686, 82 A. 897; Trenton & Mercer County Traction Corp. v. Mercer County Board of Taxation, 92 N.J.Law, 398, 105 A. 222; Gibbs v. State Board of Taxes and Assessments, 101 N.J.Law, 371, 129 A. 189; Kearny v. State Board of Taxes and Assessments, 103 N.J.Law, 26, 27, 135 A. 61.
See 2 Daniell, Chancery Pleading & Practice (6th Am.Ed. 1894) 1042 et seq.
"If any person shall neglect or refuse to obey any citation, or to perform any sentence or decree of the ordinary or judge of the prerogative court, it shall be lawful for such ordinary and such court to cause such person or persons, by process directed to any sheriff of any county of this state, to be taken and imprisoned until he shall obey the said citation, or perform the said sentence or decree, and every sheriff is hereby directed to cause all such process, to him at any time directed, to be duly executed, and to confine the person against whom such process shall be issued, as in execution, until he shall be delivered by due course of law, and if any sheriff shall neglect his duty therein, he shall be answerable to the party aggrieved in such manner as he would be answerable upon process of the like nature issuing out of the supreme Court."
Compare Hyattsville Building Assn. v. Bouic, 44 App.D.C. 408, 413; United States v. Collins, 25 Fed.Cas. No. 14,834, p. 539; Charles Warren, "Federal and State Court Interference," 43 Harv.L.Rev. 345, 366-378.
Ruggles v. Simonton, 20 Fed.Cas. No. 12, 120, p. 1325; Leathe v. Thomas, 97 F. 136; Ke-Sun Oil Co. v. Hamilton, 61 F.2d 215.
Mutual Reserve Fund Life Assn. v. Phelps, 190 U. S. 147, 190 U. S. 159; American Assn. v. Hurst, 59 F. 1, 5; American Shipbuilding Co. v. Whitney, 190 F. 109.
Compare Wells Fargo & Co. v. Taylor, 254 U. S. 175, 254 U. S. 182-184; Essanay Film Mfg. Co. v. Kane, 258 U. S. 358, 258 U. S. 361; Riehle v. Margolies, 279 U. S. 218, 279 U. S. 223.
See, e.g., Prentis v. Atlantic Coast Line Co., 211 U. S. 210; Keller v. Potomac Electric Power Co., 261 U. S. 428; Ex parte Williams, 277 U. S. 267, 277 U. S. 271-272.


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Vital Basics, Inc. v. Vertrue, Inc.
Issue Decided: When may an arbitration award be vacated on grounds that it violated the plain language of the parties’ contract.
In a non-insurance case, the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit affirmed the lower court’s confirmation of an arbitration award that it found to be based upon a plausible reading of the contract between the parties. Vital Basics Inc (VBI) markets and sells nutritional and dietary supplements directly to consumers. Vertrue Incorporated (Vertrue) sells membership programs that provide consumers with discounts on health care and related services. The two companies had a long term marketing agreement whereby VBI would attempt to sell Vertrue memberships to consumers who called to order products from VBI. Vertrue would pay a commission to VBI for memberships that were sold and remained in force for a full year. A dispute arose over the payment of commissions for memberships that were paid but subsequently cancelled with the customer receiving a partial refund and Vertrue retaining a portion of the membership fee. VBI contended it was entitled to a commission on the portion of the membership fees retained by Vertrue. While the dispute was being debated between the parties, VBI was quietly developing its own competing membership program. VBI launched the program in violation of the contract’s exclusivity clause which banned VBI from marketing or selling any competing membership program. Vertrue initiated arbitration before a three-judge arbitration panel as provided in the contract. Vertrue alleged breach of contract, fraud and violation of the Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act. VBI asserted counterclaims for breach of contract.
After numerous days of complex testimony, the panel ordered VBI to pay Vertrue $3.5 million in compensatory damages and $1.3 million in punitive damages and attorney fees. After the arbitration process commenced VBI became insolvent and sought protection of the United States Bankruptcy Court, District of Maine. After the arbitration panel issued its award, VBI sought vacation of the award before the bankruptcy court. The bankruptcy court found no grounds to vacate and confirmed the award. VBI appealed to the United States District Court, District of Maine alleging that the panel disregarded the law, exceeded its authority, was biased and failed to hear relevant evidence. The district court received extensive briefs from both sides and affirmed the bankruptcy court in all respects, holding that ‘‘the arbitration award represents a final and definite award based upon a ‘plausible’ reading of the contract between VBI and Vertrue.’’ Vital Basics, Inc. v. Vertrue Inc. 332 B.R. 491 at 494 (D. ME. 2005). VBI appealed alleging that the Panel’s award violated the express language of the contract and that Vertrue was the first party to breach the contract thereby nullifying VBI’s subsequent breach of the exclusivity clause.
In affirming the District Court’s confirmation of the award the Court of Appeals acknowledged that any review of an arbitral panel’s award is ‘‘exceedingly narrow’’ Wonderland Greyhound Park, Inc. v. Autotote Sys., Inc., 274 F. 3d 34 at 35 (1st Cir. 2001) and that confirmation of an award is required where the arbitrator was ‘‘even arguably construing or applying the contract.’’ Gupta v. Cisco Sys., Inc., 274 F. 3d 1 at 3 (1st Cir. 2001). The court held that the panel’s conclusion was not contrary to the plain language of the contract and therefore left no basis to vacate the award. The Court concluded ‘‘having presented its arguments to the arbitration panel, the bankruptcy court, the district court and this court, VBI must now abide by the reasonable conclusions reached by the arbitration panel, a body that they themselves selected to resolve disputes under the contract.’’ Bull HN Info. Sys., Inc. v. Hutson, 229 F. 3d 321 at 330 (1st Cir. 2000). ‘‘It is the arbitrator’s view of the facts and of the meaning of the contract that (the parties) have agreed to accept.’’ United Paperworks Int’l Union v. Misco, Inc., 484 U.S. 29, 38 (1987).
* John R. Cashin is General Counsel – Group Reinsurance at Zurich Financial Services, Zurich, Switzerland. He is an ARIAS-U.S. Certified Arbitrator. At Zurich his responsibilities include insurance regulation, reinsurance claims, reinsurance litigation, arbitration and contract wording. He joined Zurich in 2004 from the law firm of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP in New York City. Prior to his law firm practice he served as Deputy Superintendent of the New York State Insurance Department and spent twenty years in the reinsurance brokerage business.

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