In Class Thur Oct 2nd

Photoshop

Color Correction
Image --> Adjustments -->

What is a vector?

Vector Tools
- Text tool
- Line (and other shapes) tool
- Pen Tool
- Patch Selection Tool

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 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

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 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

In Class Tue Mar 13th

Project 3 is Due!

You need to print your Images.

Photoshop Printing Images
- Print with Preview
- Page Setup
- Print

In Class Tue Mar 11th

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


Work on Projects

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

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 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

Photo Contest

Now accepting submissions for

Changing Perspectives

Pine Lake Fall 2007 Photo Contest

Cash prizes of $100 (Best in Show) and $75 (2^nd Prize). Photos must be submitted to Ben Sheridan, academic intern in the Department of Art and Art History room M-8, which is on the mezzanine in the sculpture studio in the Anderson Center for the Arts, by noon on Friday, November 16. All entries will be considered for inclusion in the Fall 2007 “Changing Perspectives” show in the Robertson Lodge Gallery at Pine Lake. This contest is open to all Hartwick students.

For contest rules ask Joe. For more information, contact Pine Lake Program Coordinator Dan Morse: morsed@hartwick.edu or 607–431–4520.

In Class Tue Oct 23rd

Makin' a Stopmotion Animation in Photoshop

Step 1: cut out the different elements and put them on different layers

Step 2: Move a layer (or layers)

Step 3: Save the image using Save for Web. Save as a jpeg 12 quality

Step 4: Repeat Step 2 & 3 about 120 times to get a 20 sec animation at 6 FPS (min required for the Project)


Make sure you have picked a relative screen size like 1024x768 at 72dpi in photoshop

In Class Tue Oct 9th

Photoshop Text and Transform
--- Text Tool
--- Transform tools
--- Filters
--- Using the Vector tools
--- Photoshop masks

In Class Thur Oct 4th

Photoshop
--- Cloning Stamp
--- Healing Brush
--- Pattern Stamp

Scanning images
--- Alternative scanning

Project 3

In Class Thur Sept 27th

Check out video

Photoshop
--- Layers
----- Mode
----- Opacity
----- Fill
----- Lock
----- Moving Layers

work on project

In Class Tue Sept 18th

Intro to Photoshop 7 day 2
-Photoshop Overview
History / Undo function
* File Types
Zoom / Hand tools
Image size / Canvas size
* Digital Image Resolution
Preferences

Photoshop Tools
--- Erase
--- Foreground/Background Color
----- Eyedropper
--- Paintbrush / Airbrush
--- Paint bucket / Gradient
- Selection tools
--- Marquee
--- Lasso
--- Crop
--- Magic Wand
-- Move
*Appropraition & Culture Recycling in Digital Media