Creative Commons and Intellectual Property Concepts

If you don't want to read and process and understand all the following information there is one super easy breezy way to *avoid* all that work!  Make sure every part of what you create, every element that goes into your work is yours and yours alone by creating everything yourself.  You want to have a bird in your image? draw it yourself or photograph it yourself or collage it yourself or or or.....

So, here is a link to the general Creative Commons site:  http://creativecommons.org/
and here is a link to the section describe the types and kinds of licenses the creative commons initiative is built around.

Basically, the idea is that we want to foster the kind of sharing that eventually fuels innovation and the generation of new knowledge both within fields that already exist as well as emerging and yet to emerge fields.

Information specific to Intellectual Property rights here in Canada can be found here:  http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/cipointernet-internetopic.nsf/eng/h_wr00003.html

The two above sites will give you a comprehensive overview of copyright as it's currently exists and some insight into how some folks are re-envisioning intellectual property rights.

But then there is always good ol' wikipedia:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright

CS5 Poster Tutorial

We have a client.  We need each of you to create a poster for a book.  These posters will actually be printed and publicly displayed and the printing costs will be covered by the client.

The following tutorial, for Photoshop CS5 gives you the steps to creating a movie poster.  I would like you to follow this basic format only if you do not have any ideas for yourself.  As with all of our projects, every part of the final image must be something you've created yourself.  You want to make sure that you and only have possess the intellectual property rights to your work.

http://designinstruct.com/graphic-design/create-a-surreal-sci-fi-movie-poster-with-photoshop-cs5/

You will also be putting a smaller version of your finished poster on your blog as well as the self-evaluation.

My fellow Digital Artists,

Please pick three or so of the following tutorials* when you've completed your digital collage and self-evaluation.


5 Common Photoshop myths solved for absolute beginners

A Beginner's Guide to Photoshop Masks--Part One

Enhance Photos without creating a Frankenstein

Using Bridge this one is a video so you need to wear headphones if you're doing it in class.

Using Blending Modes (also a video)


If you know how to do *all* of these things really well, email me at the vp2012 address and 1.) Propose a project you'd like to work on; 2.) Ask me for a suggestion for an alternative tutorials; 3) Tell me you're helping someone who could really benefit from someone with some experience under their belt.