mART 376 - Digital Imaging I
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Announcements
-We have reached the Mid-Term point of the course. You will be evaluated according to your participation, the three assignments you have turned in (Stamps, Restored Photo, Collage/Montage).
Syllabus
Description
This is an introductory class in creating digital images using Adobe PhotoshopCS3 as the primary tool for the digital manipulation of images. It is a class designed for photographers, photo-illustrators, graphic designers, web designers, artists, and animators. The emphasis in the class will be on learning Photoshop as a digital art tool and its place in multimedia, graphic design, web design and animation. You will be introduced to the basics of digital image capturing and editing tools.
This is a hands-on class. You are expected to supply your own photographic images, which you will input and manipulate digitally. Understanding file management is important since there will be no time scheduled for introductory lessons. This class will be taught through lectures, lab demonstrations, and feedback sessions/critiques. Two hours of lab time outside the scheduled class are required by arrangement each week. Please check the open studio schedule (2nd week of classes) for actual times. This schedule will be posted in lab and on the web. If you will be working at home you must turn in your recorded hours via the off campus lab form (on the class website).
Class Topics:
- What’s new in CS3
- Brief history of Photoshop
- Review of Raster and Vector file types and File size and resolution
- Photoshop tool box
- Scanning, digital imagery and image manipulation in Photoshop
- Color, Color Correction and Color Management
- Printing
- Using Wacom Tablets to work in Photoshop
- Basic image correction techniques
- Compositing
- Use of gradients, filters and masks
- Adjustment layers, layers, channels
- Selections
- Brushes
- History and preferences
- Type and Vectors in Photoshop
- Automation: creating a WEB gallery, picture package and more!
Supplies:
USB jumpdrive to store your files. Capacity of 256 or 500 MB at least. Printing paper as specified later in the term.
Required Textbooks:
- PhotoshopCS3 for Windows & Macintosh, Weinmann and Lourekas, Peachpit Press.
- Classroom in a Book PhotoshopCS3, Adobe Press, PeachPit Press.
Attendance:
If you have too many absences it will definitely reflect on your grade. Any material you miss because of an absence is your responsibility, as well as the assignments given for that day. Please make sure you contact me or a classmate to catch up. It's ABSOLUTELY REQUIRED
