Raster Fundamentals
Start the Lesson
By the end you can build with layers and read your stack aloud, make selections that hold with the rectangle, free select and select by colour and refine them with feather, grow and shrink, lift a subject with a layer mask instead of the eraser and prove nothing was deleted, judge your own edge at 100 percent, and compose a market-day poster to a brief with every layer named, saved as XCF and exported flat.
Submit Your Work
What You Turn In
- Your working file (XCF)
- At least five named layers, one layer mask doing real work, type on its own layer, labelled Hand-made; nothing erased
- The flat export (PNG or JPEG)
- The poster as a client sees it on a phone: subject, pack background, headline, date line
- Edge screenshot at 100 percent
- Your worst edge, after you fixed it
- Your notebook page, photographed
- Paper thumbnail made before the build; tour log in your words; method note with one real doubt and how you would find out; finish plan ticked
- Clip of the Day: The Poster, Layer by Layer fill in on the hub
- By the week 3 Monday morning meeting: 15 to 25 seconds, upright 9:16, exported at 720p as an MP4 under 30 MB (megabytes) and saved in your own Mufasa folder; four layer states in build order ending on the full poster; a caption naming each layer; your name and Hand-made on the end card; the Google Drive share link (viewer) in Asha, never the video itself
How
- Asha, by Saturday's update.
Done when
- Working file (XCF): Five or more named layers; one mask doing real work; type on its own layer; no eraser destruction
- Flat export: Brief answered: subject, pack background, headline, date line
- Edge screenshot at 100 percent: Worst edge shown after the fix
- Notebook page: Thumbnail before the build; tools in own words; a real doubt named with how to check; plan ticked
- Clip of the Day: The Poster, Layer by Layer: 3 as 2, plus: the mask's clean edge readable at phone size; the reveal order defended in one line after a partner's critique; plays to the end on a phone with the sound off. · 2 15–25 s; upright 9:16, 720p MP4 under 30 MB; captions burned in inside the safe area; end card with the name and the label; the receipt line 'none used' filed; four layer states in build order ending on the full poster; captions name each layer; labelled Hand-made. · 1 not 9:16 or outside 15–60 s, a layer state missing or out of order, or no receipt line.