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
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