overview 20150908

Tuesday, Sept. 8

• Announcements• Positive and Negative• ~~10-minute Break~~

• Review/apply CorelDraw tools

• Work period (min. 1 hr.)• 20-min. Challenge• Review• Preview Homework

Announcements• Congratulations! Caught up on assignments• Lecture and Lab (computer lab class)– Lab = apply the skill

• Independent work• Guided work

– Lecture = gain the knowledge• Flipped classroom

• Some lecture = homework

• Project-in-progress reviews– Email or Canvas Message a copy of .CDR file

• Bookkeeping article: http://business.tutsplus.com/tutorials/a-freelancers-guide-to-basic-bookkeeping--cms-24630

Positive and Negative - Design

• Define – Positive– Negative

Where it really matters - Signs

The Cookie? Or the Cookie Dough?

Apply this idea to this

project

BREAK: 10 Minutes

Applying CorelDraw Tools

• Objective– Combine all elements into one closed shape• How do you get it into one shape?

– Shaping Tools

• How do you know it is closed?– Fill object

• But first– Scaling vs. Zooming

Applying CorelDraw Tools

• Shaping Tools– Weld– Trim– Intersect– Simplify– Front Minus Back– Back Minus Front– Boundary

• Move nodes with Shape Tool

• Fill Shapes with Color• Property Bar– Ellipse– Rectangle– Polygon

• One more thing…– Position: x, y– Size: width, height

• Export .DXF, .SVG

Project Work Time

What To Do If Your Design Is Done

•Help others with their designs•Work on notebook•Create another design•Do homework

20-MINUTE CHALLENGE

Tools You May Use: Rectangle, Ellipse, Polygon, Shaping, Fill, Property Bar, Select,

Review: What’s Important?

• How to discuss what gets cut out – positive or negative – challenging

• Design choices but, more importantly, structural issues – making things hold together

• Objective with CorelDraw is to combine shapes into one element for export

Homework for This Week

CorelDraw• Layer Organization• Guidelines

Design• How to Price Your Work

– 45:00 about CNC mill-work pricing (other considerations)

– Or all 4 videos about general art pricing

• Calculate what you should charge per hour– https://web.archive.org/web/20120102012155/

http://freelanceswitch.com/rates/

• Project management– Any 4 of the videos

If you want to know more…

• Excellent list of articles about pricing your work– http://business.tutsplus.com/categories/pricing

• Articles about project management– http://business.tutsplus.com/categories/project-

management• Articles about bookkeeping– http://business.tutsplus.com/categories/

bookkeeping