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As part of their VCE Media studies, my students are creating their own film-noir style comics in the tradition of Frank Miller (Sin City). As part of this unit, I have put together three video tutorials which take students through the steps of using Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator to achieve this effect.

Creating a Noir Comic: Part 1

Creating a document, using guides, working with paths, creating a panel, layer styles (stroke and drop shadow), duplicating objects, resizing frames.
Creating a Noir Comic: Part 2
Organising your comic with layer groups, creating speech bubbles, the ellipse tool, the pen tool, using shape layers.
Creating a Noir Comic: Part 3
Taking digital photos, using LiveTrace, importing traced objects into Photoshop, using clipping masks, adding other elements to your comic by changing blending modes.



 
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