1. How to Build Your Own Car! Build Your Own Car! The Design Process

2. Whether you were going to build your own car, or your own home, or make career goals, or make an image using Photoshop you would essentially follow the same DESIGN PROCESS.

4. With the FORMULA for SUCCESS you can make, plan or improve anything!

5. So, what do you want?!

6. FAME ?

7. STYLE ?

10. Enlightenment ?

11. Mermanness ?

12. Let’s start small and see how we can apply the Formula For Success towards your ‘Intro to Photoshop’ project.

13. The Famous ‘Formula for Success’ (aka – The Design Process)

14. One thing the diagram forgot was that you can… GET FEEDBACK AT ANYTIME! Please ask about and share your ideas with your family, friends, teachers, colleagues etc. Many brains are better than one!

15. Let’s see how this will work for your Photoshop project. STEP 1: CLEARLY DEFINE THE PROBLEM OR CHALLENGE Make a commercial image (poster, magazine cover, Holiday card, CD cover, T- shirt design…) using the Photoshop software o Must include a portrait photo that you planned and took yourself specifically for this project o Maximum final size of the product is 8” x 12” o Minimum resolution of 200dpi **See the ‘Photoshop ProjectPpackage’ and rubric for more specific details

16. STEP 2: CONDUCT RESEARCH Conduct research to determine design criteria, financial or other constraints, and availability of materials. Conduct research to determine design criteria, financial or other constraints, and availability of materials. Hmmm… Internet anyone?! o Check out professional examples. o Save or Pin the ones you like the most. o Reflect on the best ones. o Research what they did to make it so successful. o To get you started, here are some of my favourite student examples from last semester:

17. Student Movie Posters MacKenzie E.

18. Student Movie Posters Cindy L.

19. Student Movie Posters Jessica N.

20. Magazine Cover Holiday Card Kate B. Spencer W.

21. Student T-Shirt Designs Tania S. Meghan G.

22. STEP 3: GENERATE IDEAS FOR POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS. BRAINSTORMING TIME! o Look at the designs you downloaded or Pinned o Decide what you like about those ideas and what you could use o Brainstorm and sketch ideas o YOU MUST SKETCH! Sketching ‘draws’ from a different part of the brain and will help you come up with different ideas. Also, sketching allows you to plan out the design within the frame. Remember – THIS IS A PROCESS! It’s always evolving – so go with it! Your ideas and imagery will hopefully change a lot from the beginning to the end.

23. Also remember… You can and SHOULD GET FEEDBACK at anytime! * What do your peers and friends think about your ideas? * How can you improve? * What does the teacher think?

24. STEP 4: CHOOSE THE BEST SOLUTION After sketching out several ideas… CHOOSE THE BEST ONE AND GO WITH IT!

25. STEP 5: BUILD A PROTOTYPE OR MODEL Think: Rough Draft Production Time! Before you get rolling on shooting photos and collecting images for your Photoshop project, it’s best to PLAN OUT EVERYTHING YOU NEED. For example… For the Photo Shoot: o Who will be the model? o When can she/he make the photo shoot? o What should the model wear? o Do you need props? o Which background will work the best? o Will the angle of the light match the light angle in your image?

26. STEP 6: TEST AND EVALUATE THE SOLUTION MAKE IT! Photoshop Time! o Time to put it all together and see how it works. o Lots can still change / evolve in this stage so keep thinking about ideas and ways to improve your image.

27. STEP 7: REFLECT & REPORT ON THE PROCESS Three magical questions here: 1) What worked? 2) What didn’t work? 3) What would you do differently? Ask yourself these three questions about everything you do and you will grow and learn at a tremendous rate!

28. Although processes such as this involve a framework of sequential steps, they may require a retracing of steps, diversions to solve specific problems along the way, or even a return to the start of the process if it becomes clear that the situation needs to be clarified and the problem redefined. Problem solvers soon discover that the FORMULA FOR SUCCESS calls for an OPEN MIND, the FREEDOM TO BE CREATIVE, and a great deal of PATIENCE and PERSISTENCE!