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ART 338 / Final PDF Portfolio

Due Tuesday, Dec 16 (Exam Session)

Assignment: We will create a final portfolio as a PDF document. This portfolio must include the following:

• Cover Page
• Table of Contents
• Proportion Assignment (4 images w/ commentary)
• Drawings (as per assignments): 2 skull, 1 self-portrait, 5 standing figure
• Images of sculpture: 2-3 photos each including skull, portrait bust, 4 standing, and seated for a total of 14-21 photos.
• 2 research essays w/ bibliography and illustrations

Submitting the Work:

You can design and organize your PDF portfolio in any way you wish (but please style it such a way that it features the work without distracting decorations)

All work must be correctly labeled (name, title, date, H x W x D, medium). All images must be jpegs page sizes may vary but please no images over 150 dpi and 1200 pixels in the largest direction (see guidelines below). Consider adding additional descriptive or commenting text (but not required.)

Evaluation:

All the work in the portfolio has already been graded separately. This portfolio will be graded on quality of your photos and the completeness and effectiveness of the portfolio as a presentation of your body of work.

Guidelines for PDFs:

There are many ways to create a PDF portfolio but one of the easiest is to first create it as a Power Point presentation and then save it as a PDF. You can then add additional pages such as your research essays via Acrobat Pro (available in the MH lab).

Page Orientation: You must first decide if you want a horizontal or vertical letter size page. In Power Point go to File>Page Set Up and under orientation/slides select the desired orientation for your portfolio. If you pick horizontal then you will later need to set other added documents such as your research essays to print as horizontal pages also.

Preparing Images:

You also must prepare all image files. Format requirements are as follows:

• All images must be JPEGS optimized at a high quality (10 is fine)
• The image size should be no bigger than 1200 pixels tall and saved at 150 dpi. This will make them appear in your portfolio as 8” tall on a 10” tall letter sized page. If you begin with this size, you can then adjust them smaller after dropping them into your power point. Adjust the size of your images in Photoshop by using the Image>Image Size menus to bring up the image size dialog box as shown below.
  
  

Create your portfolio layout in Power Point:

Add portfolio pages (new slides), add text, insert images and resize them, rearrange pages all by using the standard functions of Power Point. Please no goofy layouts, funny colors, etc. This is a serious art portfolio where the artwork is he star and so should be styled accordingly. Remember that the goal of a portfolio is to feature the image of your work. I recommend considering at least one full page image of each artwork (in other words, don’t create multi image pages such that each image becomes hard to see in detail.

Converting your Power Point to a PDF:

When you are ready to turn the .ppt into a .pdf simply use the File> Save As command and in the pull down format box select PDF.

Adding Other Pages:

First you need to convert other docs into PDFs by using the print as PDF function available on all MACs. Say for instance you have your research essay open in MS word. Bring up the print dialog box (File>Print…) and instead of selecting a printer simply pull down the PDF button in the lower left corner and select Save as PDF. Assign it a name and tell it where to save to and it will create the PDF in that location. This will work for any application’s print command (Photoshop, etc.)

Then you need to add this newly created PDF to the one you made via power point. Simply open the power point one Adobe Acrobat Pro (not “Acrobat Reader”) Use the Document> Insert pages… command and when the select file to insert dialog box appears navigate to the PDF that is your research essay. It will ask you where you want to insert it but you can also simply drag pages in the right side page bar to reorder pages.

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