Illustrator

  Lessons to date

• Building a library of images
• Making backgrounds
• Making silhouettes
• Using the alpha channels to change colour and add effects
  
• Using the blending options and threshold
• Text with a stroke
• Choosing colours from the existing image
• Blending backgrounds with photographs

Overview of the assessment including requirements

• 3 composite images including 5 advanced elements
  

• Fitting the images to the assessment
• Blends
• Ruler Guides
• Naming of layers

• Layers
• Layer effects 
• Special effect filters
• Masks 
• Alpha Channels 

Knowledge and/or skills

• File format
• Resolution
• Dithering
• File size
• Quality
• Bit depth
• Compression
• Delivery mechanism

Evidence requirements

• Produce a report of approximately 500 words on the impact of optimisation parameters
when saving bitmap graphics in relevant file formats. At least two file formats should be
covered. The report must contain good and bad examples of saved graphics and indicate
clearly the reasoning for the use of specific settings.
• Save graphics in a format relevant to the given brief.