In Class Thur Feb 28th

Where are your Blogs?
we are making a link list today!

Photoshop Tools
-- Rectangle & Elipes Selection Tools
-- Laso, Polygon Laso & Maganitic Laso
-- Move Tool
*- Advanced Selection manipulation
---- +/- from a selection
---- selections have there own section in the file menu under 'Select'
------- Deselect, Inverse, Modify --> Smooth, Transform

You have been accepted to the Art213 Flickr group, you can now 'send an image' to the group

Work on Project

In Class Tue Feb 26th

Sign up for the art213 Flickr group!
* here's how

Photoshop Tools
-- Ian - zoom & hand tools
-- Brianna - brush & pencil
-- Danielle - eraser
-- Chelsea - paint bucket & gradient

--- Cut/Copy/Paste

What Photoshop tools not to touch
-- Slice Tool
-- History Brush Tool
-- Notes Tool / Audio Annotation Tool
** Crop Tool

In Class Thu Feb 21st

*Image Qualities

Photoshop Basics 2
- Image size / Canvas size
- Preferences
- History / Undo function
- Foreground/Background Color
- Eyedropper

In Class Tue Feb 19th

USB THUMBDRIVE TEST TODAY!

Communication:
- How do we communicate?

let try some of them out!


Using the web 2.0 sites
Youtube
-- uploading a video
-- making a Playlist
-- favorites
-- changing the pages look

Flickr
-- uploading an image
---- JPGS only at a Quality of 65%
---- no bigger than 1600 x 1200 pxl at 72 dpi
-- makning a 'set' (a folder), you are limited to 3

del.icio.us

Project 2 Assigned


Lets look at Photoshop Basics
- Starting the Program / Quit
- Opening a file
- Save / Save As a file
- File Types
---- Photoshop = .PSD = working file, the one you keep
-- End Product Files
---- JPEG = .JPG = web and email (Flickr) file
---- GIFF = .GIF = web file
---- TIFF = .TIF = full quality print file
---- Portable Document File = .PDF = compressed print file
- Windows

In Class Thur Feb 14th

RSS Feeds and Web 2.0

lets take a look:
Popurls
Go2Web2.0
TracknGraph

Remote Desktop:
myGoya
zimdesk

Search:
retrievr
SortFix
FilesTube

Bring it all together:
Bloglines

Web Apps (give us a RSS feed)
Youtube
Flickr
Blogger
del.icio.us

Lets get ourselves hooked up!
* make sure you write down your name and passwords


Digital Media Fun



what style is this video in? what conventions does it use to trick you?

In Class Tue Feb 12th

Hello and Welcome to the Art213 Intro to Digital Media blog. This blog will contain up-to-date information on the class, assignments & projects, so bookmark this site and check it frequently. There are also important links from this blog to other class resources!

Here are some digital media art pieces to get you thinking!









What was that all about? What kind of media did we see? What conventions were used? What did the creator do? Where have we seen media similar to one of these examples?


The Machine is us/ing Us

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