Propaganda Information

Here is a collection of information about making a propaganda poster.  It includes links about/sample of propaganda, page layout, and fonts. I am not advocating any of the ideas espoused by this propaganda, I am just linking to it for the sake of examples. At this point in time, Adobe InDesign is the most popular page layout application followed by Quark Xpress; both commercial products. You can choose to use Scribus instead if you would like. Scribus is a free/opensource page layout application available from scribus.net.

THE GRAPHIC IMPERATIVE: POLITICAL POSTERS @ MASSART 
http://www.bigredandshiny.com/cgi-bin/retrieve.pl?section=review&issue=issue27&article=(hide)THE_ROZOME_MASTERS_1213139&

An assignment on making a peace poster with some good links
http://www.acesart.com/gd_sem01_07/peaceposters/graphicdesign_peace.htm

Author on numerous books on propaganda
http://www.nancysnow.com/



Stefan Landsberger's Chinese Propaganda Poster Pages
http://www.iisg.nl/landsberger/

Vintages ads and propoganda
http://abduzeedo.com/great-vintage-advertising-and-propaganda

Propaganda
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda

Propaganda posters
http://www.earthstation1.com/warpostr.html

American WWI war posters
http://www.world-war-pictures.com/american-war-posters.htm

Random propaganda posters
http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?t=16014&f=23&view=unread

Crazy propaganda posters
http://www.oddee.com/item_66536.aspx

More posters....
http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-posters/american.htm

Russian Propaganda
http://www.davno.ru/soviet-posters/propaganda/poster-25.html

A Soviet Poster a Day Blog
http://sovietposter.blogspot.com/


InDesign links

Blog about type
http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/

How to wrap text
http://www.ehow.com/how_5031347_use-text-wrap-adobe-indesign.html

Resource for Indesign articles
http://indesignsecrets.com/

Rolling through fonts
http://www.creativetechs.com/iq/roll_through_your_fonts_in_indesign.html

Tutorial on designing an event poster in InDesign
http://www.layersmagazine.com/designing-an-event-poster-in-indesign.html

Tutorial on designing a magazine cover in InDesign
http://www.layersmagazine.com/magazine-cover-design-in-indesign.html

Leading and Kerning in QuarkXPress and InDesign
http://designorati.com/articles/t1/typography/653/how-to-leading-and-kerning-in-quarkxpress-and-indesign.php


Fonts
Source of free fonts
http://www.dafont.com/



Make your own font

http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/    Free online font creation site 

 

Make font from your handwriting

http://www.fontcapture.com/  FREE

http://www.yourfonts.com/     $9-15.95

http://www.fontifier.com/         $9

 

How to install TrueType font on your Windows computer 

http://desktoppub.about.com/cs/fixfonts/ht/install_fonts_w.htm

Podcast links

Podcast

 http://www.clemson.edu/ccit/support_services/it_support/computer_training/02_mac/garageband/media/garageband.pdf

videos on how to record to garageband
http://www.apple.com/hk/en/findouthow/music/garageband08.html

 

 

Flash links

Great place to start if you have never worked with Flash before
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/flash_cs4_createfla_02.html

Great resources for learning Flash
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/
http://www.smartwebby.com/Flash/

Very nice series
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/flash-in-a-flash/episode-1/


How to make a simple Flash intro
http://www.pixeldigest.com/intro_effects.html

Well made series on learning Flash (uses CS3, but I don't think that is a big deal)
http://tv.adobe.com/show/flash-in-a-flash/

How to make a simple Flash intro
http://www.webdesigndev.com/flash/making-a-splash-page-in-adobe-flash

Multiple video series on learning Flash
http://tv.adobe.com/

Excellent tutorial on making a basic animation with Flash
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/animation_intro.html

Truly excellent series of video tutorials on learning Actionscript
http://tv.adobe.com/show/actionscript-11-with-doug-winnie/

Nice set of tutorials for learning Flash animation
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/learning_guide/animation/

Splash page or not?

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/10/11/splash-pages-do-we-really-need-them/

http://www.webdesignforidiots.net/2009/02/why-you-should-dunk-your-splash-page/
http://www.newfangled.com/website_splash_pages
http://webdesign.about.com/od/navigation/a/aa020303a.htm

Article on things to avoid in the design of your website

http://www.webdesigndev.com/web-development/20-ways-to-make-your-website-crap

How to embed flash

http://www.ehow.com/how_4703422_swf-files-page-dreamweaver-cs.html

How to put flash page on website

On the last frame of the flash movie put the action getURL() with the page you want to call. 

Get URL
 http://www.adobe.com/support/flash/action_scripts/actionscript_dictionary/actionscript_dictionary377.html

go to the last frame - Open ACTIONS panel - Get URL - enter the address of the front page eghttp://www.somewebsite.com/home.htm 

Step by step tutorial on making a Flash portfolio

http://www.webdesigndev.com/flash/creating-a-flash-portfolio-website

Some good FAQs about getting splash page set up

http://www.freeflashintros.com/faq.html

Some good SEO (search engine optimization) information

Set up cookies so visitors only see splash page once

http://css-tricks.com/redirecting-to-a-splash-page-but-only-once-with-cookies/

How to build a Flash portfolio

http://www.computerarts.co.uk/tutorials/new_media/build_a_flash_portfolio

Video and Audio mashups with public domain materials

There is a ton of free public domain video and audio available online. Archive.org is a great place to start with its vast collection of both video and audio clips. Many are available in multiple formats. 
Project for Digital Foundations class:
Video/Audio mashup
For this project you will create a video/audio mashup of not less than 3 minutes. Find public domain video or bring in video clips that you made to edit and mix using iMovie. Archive.org is a great source for public domain video. Download the Quicktime version of the files if available, otherwise the MPEG version of the file.
Find public domain audio to use. Archive.org also has a ton of audio clips. You can also take the audio from public domain videos. Or make your own audio from your own recordings or within Garageband.
For Monday, you should have the video and audio clips that you want to use. We will spend Monday working on the project in class. This a a creative/art piece. It can be really nutty.

Helpful links:

PC World article on making a video mashup for YouTube


Great site which features step by step guide to making a video mashup

www.archive.org

Sweet tutorial on making a movie soundtrack
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F_DdGPwD44

http://www.archive.org/details/tobacco_oxl02b00

http://www.archive.org/details/JamisonFamilyFilms3

http://www.archive.org/details/movies

Introductory write up on GarageBand

Apple tutorials on scoring a movie with GarageBand

MacJams.com. Great resource for Mac musicians including some nice tutorials.

iMovie tutorials

http://www.apple.com/hk/en/ilife/tutorials/#imovie

Do you know where your backup is?

Do you have all your data backed up? Is it a current backup? Is it a complete backup? Haven't you lost dat at some point in your life? I know you have......
At minimum you should have all the data on your computer backed up. This is to say, you should have a complete copy of all the data on your computer that you care about. There are a variety of ways to do this. You can choose to use an external hard drive hooked up via USB, firewire, or eSATA. You can also back up your data over a network. This can be saved over your local network or remotely on a server. Ideally, you should have an offsite copy of your data. This is to say that it is not on premises. This way, if the worst should happen, a fire or a flood, then your data will still be safe. Online backup has a ton of advantages. It is offsite and if you are using a reputable service, then they are keeping multiple copies of the data at multiple locations. The major drawback of online backup services are that the initial backup of your system can take a very long time. A few of the services offer an initial backup via an external hard drive. Then all subsequent backups are performed online. Mozy.com and a number of other online backup services offer a free 2GB service so that you can back up some data and get a feel for how it works.

Local Backup

Simple device to turn any external hard drive into an automatic backup system

http://www.clickfree.com/

Article on backing up automatically using SyncBack on a PC

http://lifehacker.com/147855/geek-to-live--automatically-back-up-your-hard-drive

Apple Time Capsule

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC343/Time-Capsule-1TB?mco=MTMzNzQ4OTg

Drobo

http://www.drobo.com/

Internal Drives, Network Attached Storage, USB hard drives, firewire, eSata

Introduction to RAID for photographers

http://www.earthboundlight.com/phototips/raid-for-photoshop.html

Online backup

Good write up on how online back up works

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2288745,00.asp

Comprehensive listing on companies offering online storge

http://www.backupreview.info/2009/06/01/top-75-online-backup-companies-for-june-2009/

Crashplan

Mozy

Carbonite

IDrive

SOS Online Backup

iBackup

Sugarsync

https://www.sugarsync.com/

JungleDisk

http://www.jungledisk.com/

Intronis

http://www.intronis.com/

"Free" online backup

http://websearch.about.com/od/web20/a/online-storage.htm

Time to learn about digital audio creation and editing

Digital Audio

Introduction to basics of digital audio

www.adobe.com/products/audition/pdfs/audaudioprimer.pdf

Sweet collection of links by the Berkely College

http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/tutorials/cat/audio

Good tutorials on Music Theory
thttp://www.musictheory.net/

Site dedicated to the use of Garage Band
http://www.thegaragedoor.com

Homepage for Garage Band
http://www.apple.com/ilife/garageband/

Sony's ACID Xpress is a free, 10-track version of ACID software for music recording, editing and mixing
http://www.acidplanet.com/downloads/xpress/

Digital Painting Applications and Tutorials

Here is a list of links to commercial (cost involved) and free natural media/painting programs that I have compiled over the years. Also included are a number of links to tutorials and related materials. I will try to sort them better as time allows. Have fun!

Commercial NATURAL MEDIA/PAINT applications

Corel Painter 11- THE NATURAL MEDIA/PAINT APPLICATION
http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/us/en/Product/1166553885783#tabview=tab0

AutoDesk Sketch Book Pro
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/pc/index?id=6848332&siteID=123112

AutoDesk Sketch Book Mobile-for iPod touch and iPhone
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/pc/item?siteID=123112&id=13872203

Studio Artist 3.5 - Mac only -has some crazy autographing features
http://www.synthetik.com/

Corel Painter Essentials 4 - simplified/limited version of Painter
http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/us/en/Product/1190317151777#tabview=tab0

Free NATURAL MEDIA/PAINT applications

My Paint- available for Linux and PC
http://mypaint.intilinux.com

Artweaver- Windows only- supports graphic tablets. Seems very similar to Painter
http://www.artweaver.de/overview-en/

Art Rage 2.5

http://www.ambientdesign.com/

Pixarra Twisted Brush- Windows only - Free and

http://www.pixarra.com/

Krita-simple paint program available for Linux, Mac, and PC

http://www.koffice.org/krita/

Smooth Draw - very simple drawing program for Windows only

http://www.smoothdraw.com/product/index.htm

Software tailored for Manga and Anime-can't vouch for it, don't know much about it

Deleter Software Comic Works

http://www.deleter.jp/eng/cw_english/

http://deleter-mangashop.com/goods.php?lang_id=en&goods_id=45&tsuka_conv=USD

http://my.smithmicro.com/win/graphics.html
http://my.smithmicro.com/mac/anime/index.html
http://my.smithmicro.com/mac/manga/index.html
Some of the artists here use this software
http://www.tokyopop.com/

Here is a link to a website of a magazine that I think many of you would like. www.imaginefx.com
Here is a direct link to numerous tutorials that are posted there:http://www.imaginefx.com/02287754330326480692/workshops.html

Figure drawing techniques
http://mos.futurenet.com/pdf/computerarts/CAP113_tut_bodies.pdf

Collection of 15 of the best ImagineFX tutorials
http://zero2illo.com/2009/04/15-of-the-best-imaginefx-digital-painting-tutorials/


Portfolio with some interesting digital paintings
http://ciaee-art.com/

3D people, here is a new Google 3D program with a free and commercial version. Supposed to be very easy to use. Haven't tried it yet. http://sketchup.google.com/

Overview of Free Painting Programs

http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-paint-program.htm

Corel tutorials on the use of Painter
http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/us/en/Content/1171405215200

Tutorial on painting with Photoshop 

http://www.melissaclifton.com/tutorial-freehand.html

Nice set of tutorials on painting with Photoshop

http://www.graphicmania.net/amazing-digital-painting-photoshop-tutorials/

Blending colors in Photoshop

http://www.digitalartform.com/archives/2005/04/painting_with_p.html

More tutorials on painting in Photoshop

http://www.graphicmania.net/10-amazing-photoshop-digital-painting-tutorials/

Corel Painter X Links

Home page of one of the original Painter authors, numerous tutorials on using Painter
http://homepage.mac.com/pixlart/main.htm

Sign up for Corel Painter e-newsletter
http://apps.corel.com/painterx/us/community_newsletter.html

Overview of Painter, includes nice breakdown of different brushes
http://apps.corel.com/painterx/us/essence_new_features.html

Downloadable Training Movies
http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/us/en/Content/1170190221936l

Corel tutorials on clone color
http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/us/en/Content/1171405215200

Use filters to modify brush strokes, Surface Control>Quick Warp
http://www.designertoday.com/Tutorials/Painter/2057/Making.a.Mini.Poster.Corel.Painter.Tutorial.aspx

Numerous Tutorials here at the Designer Today website
http://www.designertoday.com/Tutorials/Painter/4.aspx

Pastel on Black Background
http://www.designertoday.com/Tutorials/Painter/1430/Pastel.on.Black.Background.Freehand.Sketch.Corel.Painter.Tutorial.aspx

Painting a Loose Style Portrait
http://www.designertoday.com/Tutorials/Painter/1826/Painting.a.Loose.Style.Portrait.Corel.Painter.Tutorial.aspx

Creating Abstract Art in Painter
http://www.designertoday.com/Tutorials/Painter/1855/Creating.Abstract.Art.Corel.Painter.Tutorial.aspx

Mixing Paint
http://www.designertoday.com/Tutorials/Painter/1887/Mixing.Colors.Corel.Painter.Tutorial.aspx

Corel Painter e-newsletter
http://apps.corel.com/painterx/us/community_newsletter.html

Watercolor effect
http://apps.corel.com/painterix/training/tutorial_watercolor.html

Impasto effect
http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/painter/ss/impasto.htm

Op Art- possibly use the movement of the image to make flag look moving even when still. Sense of movement symbolic of dynamic nature of humans?
http://www.julianstanczak.net/

Bridge Riley
http://www.webexhibits.org/colorart/riley.html
http://www.mishabittleston.com/artists/bridget_riley/

Digital Painting Links

How to paint an eye - simple tutorial and a simple looking result-nothing fancy
http://www.ehow.com/how_4691734_paint-brown-eyes-photoshop.html

How to paint an eye - involved, but very nice results
http://graphixworld.wordpress.com/2009/06/26/how-to-paint-a-human-eye-tutorial/

Some nice realistic brushes for Photoshop
http://doodle-lee-doo.deviantart.com/art/Real-Brush-Strokes-Set-122699209

How to paint a realistic eye
http://www.artsquared.co.uk/blog/2009/05/how-to-draw-a-realistic-eye/

http://www.cgsociety.org/

http://www.androidblues.com/JealousyStepbystep/jealousystep.html

http://www.3dluvr.com/content/section/9

http://www.henningludvigsen.com/

Pixel Brush - popular site for digital painting

http://www.pixelbrush.net/content/

http://www.3dm3.com/forum/articles.php?action=viewarticle&artid=101

Introduction to painting (fantasy art)

http://dianae.deviantart.com/art/Digital-Painting-Tutorial-74468761

Introductory tutorials

www.pxleyes.com has some good tutorials including this Incredibly detailed tutorial on how to draw a rose in PS

http://www.pxleyes.com/tutorial/photoshop/1467/How-To-Make-A-Digital-Painting-Of-A-Rose-From-Scratch.html

Digital Painting for Beginners PS

http://clepweb.deviantart.com/art/Digital-Painting-for-Beginners-27802774

Nice, long video on Digital Painting for Beginners PS

http://menoob.com/digital-painting/excellent-digital-painting-video-tutorial-for-beginners/

Overview of Painting Process

http://tutorials.epilogue.net/digital-art/advanced-digital-painting-techniques

How to Paint Clouds

http://tutorials.epilogue.net/digital-art/perfect-clouds-in-5-easy-steps

Galleries for the guy who wrote the two previous tutorials

http://www.epilogue.net/cgi/database/art/list.pl?gallery=98

http://www.gorblimey.com/

Overview of elaborate painting-be sure to check out the other postings as they are interesting

http://www.rob-sheridan.com/sketchblog/stepbystep/mascots.html

Wacom tablet Tutorials

How to set up Wacom Intuos 4 for painting with PS

http://johnderryonline.com/Images/Intuos4_Mapping_PS.pdf

How to configure Wacom tablet on a Mac

http://guides.macrumors.com/Setting_Up_A_Wacom_Tablet_Tutorial

ArtRage Tutorials

Nice set of video tutorials, demonstrates paint blending

http://cartoonsnap.blogspot.com/search/label/ArtRage

How to Paint Clouds

http://ruthlessmoons.deviantart.com/art/Artrage-Cloud-tutorial-86563306

Hack a Nintendo DS to Make an Awesome Digital Sketchbook

http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Hack_a_Nintendo_DS_to_make_an_awesome_digital_sketchbook

Colors! - free painting program for Nintendo DS, inexpensive version for iPod/iPhone also available

http://colors.collectingsmiles.com

Conceptart.org - some nice digital paintings here

http://www.conceptart.org/

More tutorials

Downloadable Training Movies (correct link this time) - good content and good production quality
http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/us/en/Content/1170190221936

Super Awesome online color wheel-you can use it to create your color scheme
http://kuler.adobe.com/

Color Harmony- good examples, includes many related links
http://www.websiteoptimization.com/speed/tweak/color-harmony/

Divine Proportion/Golden Ration/Phi information- The Abstract Painter Piet Mondrian was said to have made use of the Golden Ration
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio
http://www.markboulton.co.uk/articles/detail/design_and_the_divine_proportion/
http://goldennumber.net/
http://blogs.princeton.edu/graphicarts/2008/05/divine_proportion.html
http://avid.blogs.com/concept_to_creation/2007/05/divine_proporti.html

NEW BLOG SETUP!!

I just integrated my blogspot (Google's www.blogger.com) blog into my existing website! This will allow me to much more readily update my blog. Much, much easier. Still a few little styling things to figure out, but my blog is now hosted by my server rather than Google's. Now, you can leave me comments!

If you want to do the same with your website, below are some helpful links. Basically, you set up the blog to be hosted on your server. Then you stylize your blog's template with CSS to take on the same look and navigation of your existing website. This will take some trial an error in determining which CSS you can modify without messing up the necessary CSS of the blog. Before you begin, please note that your web host must support ftp file transfer.

I just came across this about.com tutorial. Generally about.com tutorials are quite good.
http://personalweb.about.com/od/easyblogsandwebpages/ss/bloggeronsite.htm

Good technical article on changing the hosting of your blog:
http://www.wolf-howl.com/seo/integrating-blogger-into-your-website-part-i/

Free Alternative Image Editing Programs

Without going into the many reasons to explore alternative Image Editing Programs, I have created a list of programs that I feel are worth checking out. In the case of all these programs, they are free. As more people use the programs, the developers have greater incentive to continue their development. So, if you like them be sure to spread the word.
Free Photo Editing alternatives:
GIMP – from the official site, “GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages.” www.Gimp.org
GIMPSHOP – a distribution of GIMP with an interface that is designed to emulate that of Photoshop http://www.gimpshop.com/
paint.net – Windows only photo editing program http://www.paint.net/
CinePaint – Linux only photo editing program – supports up to 32 bits per channelhttp://www.cinepaint.org/
Free Digital Painting alternatives: ArtWeaver http://www.artweaver.de/
Art Rage 2.5 http://www.ambientdesign.com
Pixarra Twisted Brush http://www.pixarra.com
Free Vector Imaging alternative Inkscape http://www.inkscape.org
Scribus – free distributed page layout application http://www.scribus.net
Raw Therapee – a full featured stand alone RAW file convertor powered by Dave Coffin’s dcrawhttp://www.rawtherapee.com
UFRaw - Unidentified Flying Raw – a full featured standalone and GIMP plugin RAW convertor powered by Dave Coffin’s dcraw http://ufraw.sourceforge.net
Picassa - Google's free image editor - Its editing features are limited, but it shines as a poor man's data asset management application. It creates and saves thumbnails of all your images to facilitate their location. Also a really simple way of getting a gallery of images online if you use the Web Gallery feature which is also free up to a certain amount of space. It also supports RAW files, again via Dave Coffin’s dcraw http://picasa.google.com/