Critique Project 2
Ask Questions about Project 3
Work on Project 3
10/3/12
9/30/12
In class Mon Oct 1st
Hand in Project 2
What you need to do:
- have your 3 individual images saved as JPEG's and PSD's
- consolidate your 3 images onto one image and saved as a JPEG
- all of your files should be labeled with your First name, Last name and a number ie. JoeVonStengel-1.jpg
- save your JPEG images on your thumbdrive to hand in to me
Review Project 3
How to successfully accomplish Project 3!
1) find images that are at least 1200 pixels on the shortest side
2) look for images that have people/things in similar positions
3) look for images with a light source that comes from the same side.
4) look for images that are similar in tone
5) duplicate important layers when necessary
6) save often
* Be considerate of who the celebrities are that you are choosing. What is their new identity when they are "mashed up".
Advanced Photoshop
Photoshop top options bar
- Bridge
- View Extras
- Zoom Percent
- Quick Hand Tool
- Quick Zoom Tool
- Rotate View Tool
- Arrange Documents
- Zoom Tool
Color Picker
- Switch Colors
Quick Mask
- single click - paint what you want to select/mask
-- Black draws / White erases
- double click - Quick Mask Options
9/25/12
In class Wed Sept 26th
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Vector Tools
- Shape Tool
- Type Tool
Looking at Project 3
Tips for Accomplishing Project 3
1) find images that are at least 1200 pixels on the shortest side
2) look for images that have people/things in similar positions
3) look for images with a light source that comes from the same side.
4) look for images that are similar in tone
5) duplicate important layers when necessary
6) save often
* Be considerate of who the celebrities are that you are choosing. What is their new identity when they are "mashed up".
Work on Project 2
Project 2 is due at the beginning of class next Monday!
9/23/12
In class Mon Sept 24th
Photoshop Advanced
- Preferences
- History / Undo function
- Crop
- Advanced Selection tools
-- 'Feathering' a selection
-- Adding to (shift) and Subtracting from (option) a Selection
- 'Select' options in the Menu Bar
-- Select All (command + A)
-- Deselect (command + d)
-- Inverse (shift + command + I)
-- 'Transforming' a selection
-- Load & Save a Selection
Layers
- Resize
- Linking layers
- Merge layers
- Flatten Image
Image Adjustments
- Color Adjustments
-- Histogram
-- Levels
- Color Correction
- Color Space
RGB = Red Green Blue
CMYK = Cyan Magenta Yellow Black
Work on Project Due next Monday at the beginning of class!
9/18/12
In class Wed Sept 19th
Image Qualities & Aesthetics connected to changes in technology
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Flickr
- where is it
- what is it
- Uploading
- Sets
- Groups
CD Covers Assignment 1
Photoshop Advanced Tools
- Burn/Dodge/Sponge
- selection tools
- Sharpen/Blur/Smudge
- selection tools
- Layers
- clone stamp / pattern stamp
- healing brush / patch tool
Work on Project 2
9/16/12
Flash Drive Test!
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Flickr
- where is it
- what is it
- Uploading
- Sets
- Groups
Project 2 Assigned
Photoshop Basics
- Starting the Program / Quit
- Opening a file
- Save / Save As a file
- Windows
- File --> New
- Pencil/Paint Brush
- Paint Bucket/Gradient
- Erase/Magic Erase/Back Ground Eraser
- Burn/Dodge/Sponge
- Sharpen/Blur/Smudge
Selection Tools (lets check them out)
Take a half hour to finish the CD assignment.
Save your files as Jpgs with a quality of 9
Label your files as follows: your first name last name - #.jpg - ie.. JoeVonstengel-1.jpg
Hand your 4 files in on your USB thumbdrive.
Review the assignment!
Work on Project
9/11/12
In class Wed Sept2th
*Flash Drive Test on Monday!
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
in class Assignment: Dada CD cover
1 - Go to "wikipedia." Hit “random... ”
The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.
2 - Go to "Random quotations"
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”
Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
4 - Use Photoshop to put it all together.
5 - Create 5 different Album Covers
6- Hand them in to Joe
Work on Assignment
9/9/12
In class Mon Sept 10th
Introduction to the class Teaching Assistant.
FireAlpaca
Bring your Laptop to class!
- Bookmark the class website and show me before you leave class today.
Brief History of the World Wide Web
Web 1.0
- Static website, requires software and/or HTML knowledge to make changes to the site.
Web 2.0
- Social web, frequently updated content by the end user.
Web 3.0
- Semantic web, interconnected websites sharing information and knowledge as well as being easily updated by the end user.
How to use a Mac
Turning on the Mac
- Login
- Restart
- Shutdown
The Finder (navigating the Mac)
- The Desktop
- Main Hard Drive
- Applications
- the Dock
- Creating a New Folder
- Deleting Files & Folders
-- Emptying the Trash
- Cut/Copy/Past
- Network Drive - lab-drive.local
USB Thumbdrives
- Where to plug it in
- Ejecting your drive
Web Browsers on the Mac
- Chrome
- Safari
Project 1 Assigned
Blogging
- How to hook up and use a blog.
* if you took the digital is fundamental class, you can use the same blog, Flickr & Youtube accounts you created in that class for this class.
A blog is many things, a personal website, an archive of media, the ability to broadcast a message to a greater audience, even an art piece in itself.
Instead of Blogger, we are going to use Tumblr.
Tumblr is a blogging website that has all the advantages of a social media website. It will also give us a different network to distribute on as Blogger and Youtube are owned by Google.
Making a blog.
1- (if you already have a Tumblr account, skip to #2) Go to the Tumblr website and create an account. You will need a an email account for this. Write your name and password down in your phone / on a piece of paper.
2- After you have account, click the create a blog button.
3- You will be asked for a Title, URL. Skip the "privacy" button and password
4- Make 3 post. A "text" post, a "photo" post and a "video" post.
5- Email your blogs URL to vonstengelj@hartwick.edu so I can follow you.
Show Emile or Joe your 3 post before you leave.
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