In Class Tue Sept 30th

Pet Cat Lost!

Question of the Week: What would American society be like if there was no media?


Become part of the group in Flickr


Photoshop Basics 3
- Healing brush/ Patch tool
- Clone Stamp/ Pattern Stamp
* how to make a pattern

In Class Wed Sep 25th

Project 1 Due

Project 2 Assigned

Photoshop Basics 3
*Selection tools
- circular / rectangle marque
- move tool
- magic wand
- lasso, magnetic lasso, polygonal lasso

* Clone Stamp Tool
* Patch Tool

In Class Tue Sept 23th

How does Digital Media effect your daily existence?

Photoshop Basics 2

- Preferences
- Pencil/Paint Brush
- Paint Bucket/Gradient
- Erase/Magic Erase/Back Ground Eraser
- Burn/Dodge/Sponge
- Sharpen/Blur/Smudge


Work on Project

In Class Thur Sept 18th

How Aware are you?


Photoshop Basics 2

* File Types

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


Printing on the Phazer 780.
- what is a laser print

In Class Tue Sept 16th

Question of the week?
Where do you see digital media used in society?
- who's using it?
- for what purpose?


Photoshop Basics 1
- 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 Sep 11th

USB Thumbdrive test!

What is Digital Media?



Photoshop Basics 1
- Starting the Program / Quit
- Opening a file
- Save / Save As a file
- Windows

Art event opportunity

Visiting Artist in Residence

9.12.08-9.18.08 Ceramics Studio-ACA 122

Lecture: Tuesday 9.16.08 7pm Johnstone RM 202

Printmaker Ina Kaur will be in residence in the ceramics studio each day from 9-5 working on a collaborative project with Hartwick Assistant Professor Stephanie Rozene which explores cultural identity and hybridity. Ms. Kaur is currently faculty at Bowling Green State University in Ohio and has shown her work widely both nationally and internationally.

All are welcome!

In Class Tue Sept 9th

* Lab Fee Form

Make McCain Interesting




Lets take a quick look at Flock!

Flock ---> Preferences

Flocks Options Bar
- My World
- People
- Feeds
- Mail
- Favorite
- Accounts
- web clip board
-blog editor uploader

* make sure you put a link from your blog to your Flickr & Youtube accounts

Flickr
-- uploading an image
---- JPGS only at a Quality of 65%
---- no bigger than 1600 x 1200 pxl at 72 dpi


Assignment of Project 2


Lets talk about the Mac

What questions do you have for me?

the Dock - where most everything you need is.
the Desktop - just click on the background while in program
the Finder - to know where you are
Applications Folder - where all the software is

File ---> New Folder - to make a new folder
Finder ---> Empty Trash - to remove files from the trash forever
File ---> Get Inf0 - to find out how big a file is and other info

*remember to ALWAYS log out of your Web 2.0 accounts when you are done!


Flashdrive info
to eject your flashdrive you need to drag it to the Trash

do not use files while they are on your flashdrive. drag them off the drive onto the desktop before working with them in a program

to remove files from your flashdrive, drag and drop them into the Trash, then Finder ---> Empty Trash

In Class Thur Sept 4th

Question for next Week: What is digital media?










In class:
Class Lab Fee $75

Assignment due today! Bring in your Laptop. Have the class blog bookmarked in your browser!

Web 2.0
Lets look at web 2.0 sites
Youtube
Flickr
Blogger
Del.icio.us
Photoshop Express
Pixlr
Picjuice


Artistic uses of web 2.0 sites
Self Portrait, "Tag Self"
Digital Minimalists Painting


The BACK END of your web 2.0 site
Blogger
- Post
- Settings
- Layout

Flickr
- Home
- You
- Organize
- Contact
- Groups
- Explore

Youtube
- Account
--- Customize your Youtube Channel
- Playlists
- Favorites