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Establishing Professional Practice How to save work?     

F drive Usb drive Google drive Drop box Don’t save to C drive as it will be wiped.

House keeping Save work in folders to keep it organised

Snipping tool Print screen the work you want.

Then paste it in to the document, then search for snipping tool in the start menu,

Snip the required segment of work you need and then copy and paste it in to the word document like so.

Short cuts              

Control Z - Undo Control Y - Redo Control X - Cut Control C - Copy Control V - Paste Control A - Select all Control S – Save Control mouse wheel – Zoom in and out Control B – Bold Control U – Underline Control F4 – Closes Window F12 – Super save as shortcut Alt and Tab – Switches between programs Windows D – minimises all windows

Photoshop Shortcurts 

Control T – Transform Tool

Callouts To get this go to insert, shape and there is a row of callouts.

This is called a callout

A different callout

IDLE Timer This is turning the IDLE Timer off so that the computer doesn’t turn itself off. To get here you press CTRL + ALT + DELETE and go to task manager.

Blackboard Open a web browser and search for blackboard learn or if you’re a student logged in at Salford university it should be a bar tab on the homepage.

Once you click on that log in to blackboard then this should appear

Then click on the top option names art and media school site and this should appear.

The column on the left called Lynda.com and this should come up

The click on access your Lynda.com account now, if you haven’t used it before it will say have you used this account before and click no and it will log you in and this will come up ( shown below )

Register for new Adelphi equipment Go to this website

This should come up

Establishing Professional Practice How to use issuu Type in to google issuu and this should come up

Click on the website and this should appear

Click sign up in the top right hand corner and go through the signing up process

Then once registered type in the search bar relevant subjects to you like so

Photoshop Notes A screen resolution is normally 72pdi/ppi Super photo quality is 1200 ppi Photo quality is 600 ppi Magazine quality 300 ppi News print 150 ppi Paper sizes A4 – 297X210 mm A3 – 297X420 mm A2- 420X594 mm A1- 594X841 mm

Open photoshop and start a new document in the print section like so

So for this example we are using A4 size so I select like so

Create the document

This is the best possible setting for A4 size

When searching for pictures you don’t want pictures too small and have to stretch them so you can refine a google image search like so

Then click the sizing and it will come up with the pictures that size or bigger

By clicking the when of the mouse it opens the image in another window

When you find the image you like press view image like so

And should come up like so

Then copy and paste in to photoshop like so

Once you have created your front page save it and also save the file again as a jpeg like so

Once you have done that you’re ready to put all your documents in to a pdf document like the following steps

Establishing Professoinal Practice •

Go to awwwards.com and look at the snippets from different websites under architecture or interior design and look how they have set theirs up.

I really like this front page for this website, it’s slick and very professional. All the colour match really well and the text is in good places.

This one is a pit more simple and plain compared to the others

Now go to wix and create an account

Click sign in and click sign up or create account and fill in the information Then you’ll get this

Click other and go to basic deigns on wix and pick the basic lay outs.

Here is my front page

A lot of it is self-explanatory it tells you how to change fonts how to add or delete pages and how to ass pictures.

Here is where you add pages but you can also add your issuu account by clicking add page then link and copy your link in there

Cad notes

Line Tool Ortho Tool Osnap Select left to right for the line in the box Right to left for intersecting lines

This is using the trim tool you select the boundary aka the circle and the click enter and select all the lines around the edges or inside the circle you want to get rid of

Auto Cad 2018 • • • •

Vector based package Vector is the opposite of a rasta Photoshop and paint uses rasta images Vectors are a series of lines that have co-ordinates and make up equations

This is the template for cad

Press scroller to move about The escape button is to cancel

Use the line tool to outline a shape Ctrl a selects all and the delete

Creating cubes of 100 mm

Drag the selection Markie tool to select a certain line to highlight it

Drag right to left to get the line that intersect

Ortho tool allows us to draw at right angles and perpendicular lines Short cut is f8

You can join a line between things, use the trim tool, click the two circles, press enter then hold shift and drag over the line and it will extend.

Fillet- can add a radius default joins to a point like so You click the fillet tool then select the two lines and it should do this.

You can do the same but with a radius by clicking radius at the bottom bar just after you clock the fillet tool

Space bar is repeat previous command

Week 7 CAD Layers • • • • •

On/off Colour of lines The line weight Line type Lock

Page set up menu •

Click on layer and modify it

My house using the layers having different colours like so

Now to see the layout click layout in the bottom left hand corner, then you can double click your object to zoom in and out of it to set the scale like so

And the double click off the page to zoom in and out of the actual window like so

To get the architecture planning sheet and planning block go to new document then click the following

Then copy this

in to the document with your house and to get it to the same size right click on layout and go to page layout manager and click modify and select the first A1 option on the drop down like so

To turn line weight on you go to the bottom right hand corner and click the three lines and this will appear

Click weight line and it will turn on and the go to model to see your drawing and the line thickness should change.

EPP Week 8

Making a block – A group of different objects Array – Multiple copies of something. There is polar, rectangular and along a line.

To pull a point on a shape press the point and press f12 to turn off the dynamic input. Like so

So to make a chair you make a 500 by 500 square then use what you just learned to create a tapered side then using the fillet round the edges like so

So to create a block type wblock and this will appear

The press select object and click the object then click pick point and select the middle of the base line. Then choose where to save it and click convert to block then click ok

Then it should just have one select point like so

To make the chairs around a table you use the array tool, click the chair and type array and click the tool and then choose polar, it will ask you to choose a centre point so you choose the centre point of the circle and the chair should go round the table like so

You can also change the number of chairs round the table by changing the item number

So you can also do this with a square table but instead of clicking polar you click rectangle and then change the row to one rather than 3 like so and however many chair you need

Then you can mirror the chairs by clicking the chairs then mirror and then click the midpoint to create the mirror line and then to should mirror the chairs like so, when it asks to erase original say no and them position them where you want.