3/31/08

In Class Tue Apr 1st

MAkin' an animation in Photoshop.

Quick rundown:
* Collect your characters (get the images or draw what you need)
* Separate the characters, background and other elements on different layers
* Your image size should be 720 x 480 pixels at 72 dpi.
* Your animation must be at least 20 seconds long @ 6 fps.
* Move the layers and use 'Save for Web' to save each image as a separate JPEG file

3/19/08

In Class Thur Mar 20th

Time Based Media
* some more examples
* lets talk about what we have seen

Framing shots, perspective and angle, different sceens/cuts, special effects, storyline, abstraction








3/17/08

In Class Tue Mar 18th

Project 4 Lets take a look

Some examples

Creating an Animation with Photoshop

- Layers
- Foreground / Background
- moving characters
- saving your movie

3/12/08

In Class Tue Mar 13th

Project 3 is Due!

You need to print your Images.


Photoshop Printing Images

- Print with Preview
- Page Setup
- Print


3/10/08

In Class Tue Mar 11th

Photoshop Color Correction
Image --> Adjust -->
- Levels
- Curves
- Desaturate
- Replace Color
- Invert
- Posterize


Work on Projects


3/5/08

In Class Thur Mar 6th

Project 2 Due!
* I will collect the Project as Full Quality Jpegs on your thumbdrive


Project 3 Assigned


Advanced Photoshop
- Cloning Stamp / Pattern Stamp
- Healing Brush / Patch Tool

3/3/08

In Class Tue Mar 4th

Photoshop Tools
- Text Tool
- Blur Tool
- Dodge Tool
- Shape Tools
- Path Selection Tools
- Pen tools

Layers
- Selecting and working on layers
- viewing / linking / locking
- modes / opacity
- editing Layers, Edit --> Transform
- Flattening your image (important to do before you save a JPEG)



Saving your project for Flickr and For me!
Flickr = 1024 x 768 @ 72 dpi saved as a JPEG quality 7
Joe = 1024 x 768 @ 72 dpi saved as a JPEG Quality 12 (full quality)