9/30/09

In Class Mon Oct 5th

Hand in Project 2 on your thumbdrive.

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Photoshop Advanced Tools

Color Correction
- Adjustments


Project 3 Assigned


Work on Project

9/29/09

Open Lab Hours

these are the times the Digital Art Lab will be open:

Mon 5-8:30pm
Tue 2:45-5:15pm & Tue 6-8:30pm
Wed 12:30-2pm & Wed 5:30-8:30pm
Thur 2:45-6:45pm
Fri 12:30-4:30pm
Sat 11am-2pm



if these hours do not work for you, you may want to consider signing up to be a lab monitor!
let me know if your interested.

In Class Wed Sept 30th

Photoshop Advanced tools.

- clone stamp / pattern stamp
- healing brush / patch tool


Work on Project 3

Due Wed Oct 7th at the beginning of class

9/27/09

In Class mon Sept 28th

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Project 2 Assigned


Photoshop Basics 2
- Pencil/Paint Brush
- Paint Bucket/Gradient
- Erase/Magic Erase/Back Ground Eraser
- Burn/Dodge/Sponge
- Sharpen/Blur/Smudge

Selection Tools (lets check them out)


work on Project

9/21/09

In Class Wed Sept 23rd

Photoshop Basics 1
- Image size / Canvas size
- Preferences
- History / Undo function
- Foreground/Background Color
- Eyedropper



Flickr

- make an account
- upload your images (make sure they are 'Flattened", Jpegs)


email me your images (vonstengelj@hartwick.edu)
named jvonstengel_cd1.jpg, jvonstengel_cd2.jpg

9/20/09

In class mon Sept 21st

*Flash Drive Test! (bring your flash drive to class with you today!)

Example: Worth 1000


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

* File Types

- File Types
---- Photoshop = .PSD = working file, the one you keep forever

-- 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


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




in class Assignment: Dada CD cover

1 - Go to "wikipedia." Hit “random... ”
or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.

2 - Go to "Random quotations"
or click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.

3 - Go to flickr and click on “explore the last seven days”
or click http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days
Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

4 - Use Photoshop to put it all together.

5 - Email it to Joe (image size 1200x1200 or smaller at 72 dpi)






















Work on Assignment

9/16/09

BENEFIT ROCK SHOW


With:
The Wine Cellar

The Stamp Collectors

The Gambler Nun and Radio

SHASTAFLOCK

&

Von Stengel - Mashup Video Projection Artist





$7 SAT SEPT 19 8-12PM

Historic Oneonta Theater 17 Chestnut St.

Proceeds go to Oneonta theater restoration and Oneonta Teen Center


More Info 4332009 Ian Teen Center* 4314894 or Kate Hartwick College and SOC 211, FYS SOC 155







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9/15/09

15thIn class wed Sept

Talk with visiting artist Duane McDiarmid

Artist Duane McDiarmid will bring to Hartwick College and the Foreman Institute The Trickster Project and with the asistence of a student and public crew assemble and install the Trickster object an autonomous solar powered platform that runs a freezer, array of camera's, and computer interface in our exhibition gallery. Over a series of workshops McDiarmid will lead students and others through the creation of new content of their own authorship based on the questions and narratives the Trickster project provokes--namely our relationship to technology and its application in
culture--the ends sought, the beliefs associated with, and the resulting outcomes. Students will via creative writing, digital image manipulation, and production of documentary drawings and video author an wide array of scenarios and editorial opinions concerning a high value technologically advanced quasi robotic vehicle that roams the desert southwest with the purpose of providing ice cream to at happenstance meeting points in remote deserts of the U.S. southwest. Workshop produced work will be added to the projects on-board archive and the physical exhibition housed Hartswick's Gallery.



Central to the project is the opportunity for participants to gain increased understanding of the use of information culture, the production of physical sculptures and technology configurations, and the development of fictional
scenarios concurrent with didactic revelations as a form of live performance art. Further these strategies of artistic endeavor will be examined in the context of relational aesthetics wherein the social interactions prompted by
a work of art rather then its own physical form is the primary contributor to the artworks cultural value.


See supplemental sheet attached or web sites to learn more about the trickster project and other works by the projects artist initiator.

http://www.finearts.ohio.edu/art/faculty-staff/mcdiarmid.htm

http://www.ohiou.edu/atlab/trickster.html




did you pay the Lab Fee $100



Lets talk about the Mac


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

What questions do you have for me?


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


Semester Project 1 Assigned


work on Project

9/14/09

9/13/09

In Class mon Sept 14th


Lab Fee $100


Lets talk about the Mac


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

What questions do you have for me?


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


Web 2.0


What is web 2.0?
Link
Popular Web 2.0 Applications
- Flickr, Picasa
- Blogger, TypePad, WordPress
- Youtube, Hulu, Sidereel
- Picnik, Sumo Paint
- Facebook, Myspace


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


Semester Project 1 Assigned


work on Project

9/3/09

First Day Welcome!

Hello and Welcome to the Art213 Intro to Digital Media blog. This blog contains up-to-date information on the class, assignments & projects. There are also important links from this blog to other class resources. This blog is the hub of the class don't forget to check if frequently. I usually updated the blog within 24 hours of class.

Part of your first assignment is to bring your laptop to class and show me the bookmark to this site.


The Intro to digital media class is an overview of Print based media, Time based media and Interactive Media. These areas of media are explored through the use of Adobe Creative Suite 4 which includes Photosop, ImageReady, Final Cut Express, & Dreamweaver as well as a hand full of useful shareware and web applications(YouTube, Flickr, Picnik & Blogs).

We will investigate the mechanics of creating Digital Media as well as
consider the roll of media within American society and it's potential to alter perception. We will also look to create a definition for 'Digital Art' as a new medium within the art world.

* This class has a $100 Lab fee & you will need a 1 GB thumbdrive.



Awareness Test












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