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

First Day

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 Photosop 7, ImageReady 7, iMovie, & Dreamweaver MX as well as a hand full of useful shareware and web applications(YouTube, Flickr & 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 peoples perceptions. We will also look to define 'Digital Art' as a medium for art.

* This class has a $75 Lab fee & you will need a 1 GB thumbdrive.