3/3/16
In class Thur Mar 3rd
Critique Part 2
Things to consider:
We are using the format of a CD cover so our viewer is already aware that the image has something to do with music and the music industry.
What we are looking at:
- Color
- Composition (placement of visual elements in 2d space...positive & negative space, rule of thirds)
- Image - subject matter
- Image - style
- Font - literal reading
- Font - style
Each of these elements becomes a "signifier" to the viewer. Which means from these visual elements we will try to make sense of the image. In this case what genre of music might this CD contain?
Work on Project 3 - Ask Questions
3/1/16
In class Tue Mar 1st
Printing in Photoshop
- Choose a Printer
- Print Settings
--- Paper Size
--- Layout and other Options
--- Making a PDF from the print menu
- Layout - Horizontal & Vertical
- Color Management - controls wether printer or photoshop handles color correction
--- Check out what happens when I check "Match Print Colors"
- Position and Size - resize and change the position of a design
- Printing Marks - registration and crop marks for layout and cutout
--- Unprintable Border
- Choose a Printer
- Print Settings
--- Paper Size
--- Layout and other Options
--- Making a PDF from the print menu
- Layout - Horizontal & Vertical
- Color Management - controls wether printer or photoshop handles color correction
--- Check out what happens when I check "Match Print Colors"
- Position and Size - resize and change the position of a design
- Printing Marks - registration and crop marks for layout and cutout
--- Unprintable Border
Critique Project 2
* before we start lets make a list of the music genre's you created Record Covers for.
Work on Project 3
-Tell me your story in 2 sentences.
-Show me the Posters you chose as source material.
2/25/16
In class Thur Feb 25th
Conspiricy Theory Rocks
Composition
- Rule of thirds
- Golden Rule
- Rules of Design from Paul Rand the godfather of modern design
- Positive and Negative space
Photoshop Day 3
- History / Undo function
-- It is a new way to create!
- Magic Wand
- Single Row Marquee Tool
- Paint Bucket/Gradient
- Erase/Magic Erase/Back Ground Eraser
- Vector Tools
— Pen Tool
— Shape Tools
- The Clone Stamp & Healing Brush
-- These are 2 part tools. Hold down 'Option' while clicking on the area you wish to copy. Move to where you want to place the cloned visual data and click and hold to draw.
-- Blend Mode / Opacity
-- Air Brush / Flow
-- Aligned
-- Sample (Layer)
Image Adjustments
- Color Adjustments
-- Histogram
-- Levels
- Color Correction
Filters
How to Create Project 3
1) Write out your Movie idea!
2) Look up and download 10 examples of posters that inspire you
3) Compile a list of important information that needs to be on the poster inculding: movie title, main actors/actresses, film company, producers, date, credits, ext… (use the 10 examples you downloaded as a guide)
4) Collect a variety of imagery to work with for your poster
4a) Make sure to find the largest images possible
5) Layout your poster 11x17” at 180dpi
6) Put in guides for the unprintable boarder
7) duplicate important layers
8) save often
Project 3 Assigned
* Lets take a look
Work on Projects
2/21/16
In class Tue Feb 23rd
Looking at Logos
Photoshop Day 3
- History / Undo function
-- It is a new way to create!
- Magic Wand
- Single Row Marquee Tool
- Paint Bucket/Gradient
- Erase/Magic Erase/Back Ground Eraser
- Vector Tools
— Pen Tool
— Shape Tools
- The Clone Stamp & Healing Brush
-- These are 2 part tools. Hold down 'Option' while clicking on the area you wish to copy. Move to where you want to place the cloned visual data and click and hold to draw.
-- Blend Mode / Opacity
-- Air Brush / Flow
-- Aligned
-- Sample (Layer)
Image Adjustments
- Color Adjustments
-- Histogram
-- Levels
- Color Correction
Filters
Work on Poject
2/18/16
In class thur Feb 18th
Photoshop Basics Day 2
Bit Map vs Vector Graphics
memory vs math
Navigation
- Hand tool/Hand Rotate Tool
- Zoom tool
- Change Screen Mode
Color Picker
- Foreground/Background Color
- Eyedroper tool
Drawing Tools
- Pencil/Paint Brush
—- Color Replacement Tool/Mixer Brush
- Paint Bucket/Gradient
- Erase/Magic Erase/Back Ground Eraser
- Sharpen/Blur/Smudge
—- Depth of Field - How much of the image is in focus in front of and behind the image
- Burn/Dodge/Sponge
Selection Tools (they define a workable area)
- Square/Circular Selection Tools
- Move Tool
- Laso/Polygon Laso/Magnetic Laso
— Tolerance
- Magic Wand/Quick Selection Tool
- Crop Tool
Layers
- Making Layers
--- New Layer
--- Cut/Copy/ Paste
--- Move Tool
--- Duplicate a Layer
- Delete Layer
- Layer Visibility
- Moving a Layer
- Opacity
- Modes
- Locking
Text Tools
- Horizontal Type Tool/Vertical Type Tool
- Horizontal Type Mask Tool/Vertical Type Mask Tool
Project 2
Virtual Record Shop
description:
For this project you will appropriate images you find online through the process outlined below. The images and text you appropriate will be used to create a cover for an LP. This project is an exploration of appropriation, manipulation & layout and design. We will consider the meaning attached to images through context and our own expectations created through societal influence.
When manipulating your images in Photoshop, try using all the different tools in the tool bar (except the Slice tool and the History brush). See if you can figure out how to do something beyond what I have covered. Part of idea behind this project is to help you discover Photoshop on your own and also to help make you feel secure in just picking up a program and playing instead of being a afraid to try.
When downloading images for this project, Make sure you download the full size image!
Make sure to save your work often. Use the 'Save As' option to save a duplicate of your file (just change the file name). When you are finished with your image go to File --> Save for Web , and save your image as a JPEG, 100% quality. Do not check any other boxes. Save your images using this naming convention: yourname_01.jpg, yourname_02.jpg. (ie... jvonstengel_01.jpg)
The Process
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 10 different Album Covers
6- Save your designs as explained above
6- Hand them in to Joe on your USB thumb drive
Work on Project
Project 2 due Wed Feb 23rd beginning of class
2/15/16
In class Tue Feb 16th
Thought for the day!
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*Flash Drive Test Today!
Photoshop Example: Worth 1000
Photoshop Basics 1
- Starting the Program / Quit
Whats Where?
Hot Keys
Whats Where?
Hot Keys
- Opening a file
-- Browse in Bridge or Mini Bridge
-- Browse in Bridge or Mini Bridge
- Save / Save As a file
- Windows
- File --> New
* Resoultion
72 dpi traditional screen resolution
180 dpi lowest printing resolution
300 dpi + good printing resolution
600 dpi + high resolution printing
* 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
--- RAW = .RAW = raw camera data uncompressed file
---- Portable Document File = .PDF = compressed print file
Setting Preferences
Photoshop --> Preferences --> General
View
- Rulers, Grids & Guides
- Show
- Snap
Laying out a design in Photoshop
before Photoshop1) paper size
2) single or multiple designs on the page?
in Photoshop
3) size and resolution
4) define print area
* Offset press - requires cut lines, a bleed and image area to fit within the paper size (print on anything thats flat)
* Laser Printer - 1/4",1/4",1/4", 1/2"
-- standard sizes 8.5x11",8.5x14", 11x17"
* Inkjet printer - 1/4",1/4",1/4", 1/2"
-- standard sizes 8.5x11",8.5x14", 11x17", 19" wide, 24" wide, 36" wide, 42" wide
5) Define the Middle
6) save as a template file named appropriately as a .psd.
ex LP_cover_Template.psd
Walk Through. Creating an 11x17" mini poster for a local event.
Assignment #2
create a template for the following list:
- movie poster
- 8.5"x11" business flyer
- business card
- postcard
- bumper sticker
- CD cover
Work on Assignment
2/11/16
In class thur Feb 11th
It's all about perspective!
Early Manipulations
Early Alterations
Photographs have always lied
The LA Times 2003
Photo tampering through out history
Project 1 Assigned
- lets look at Project 1
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.
You can use Blogger, Tumblr, Instagram or Flickr
Flickr is a photo storage/social website
Instagram is a social website/application that acts like a blog but for photos only.
Tumblr is a blogging website that has all the advantages of a social media website. It also gives us a different network to distribute on as Blogger and Youtube are owned by Google.
Blogger is Googles blogging system. It is social through Google +
Lets make a blog using Blogger
1- log into your Gmail
2- using the navigation in gmail (located in the upper right corner) click on the Blogger App icon
3- Create a new blog
(Making a blog on Tumblr)
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 and 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 Joe your 3 post and email your blogs URL before you leave!
Intro to Photoshop
- Making a new document
- The tool bar
- Getting an image from the internet into Photoshop
- Layers
Early Manipulations
Early Alterations
Photographs have always lied
The LA Times 2003
Photo tampering through out history
Project 1 Assigned
- lets look at Project 1
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.
You can use Blogger, Tumblr, Instagram or Flickr
Flickr is a photo storage/social website
Instagram is a social website/application that acts like a blog but for photos only.
Tumblr is a blogging website that has all the advantages of a social media website. It also gives us a different network to distribute on as Blogger and Youtube are owned by Google.
Blogger is Googles blogging system. It is social through Google +
Lets make a blog using Blogger
1- log into your Gmail
2- using the navigation in gmail (located in the upper right corner) click on the Blogger App icon
3- Create a new blog
(Making a blog on Tumblr)
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 and 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 Joe your 3 post and email your blogs URL before you leave!
Intro to Photoshop
- Making a new document
- The tool bar
- Getting an image from the internet into Photoshop
- Layers
2/8/16
In class Tue Feb 9th
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, so don't forget to check if frequently. Make it an icon on your smart phone. 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.
Make a link to this blog on your smartphone
1) open Safari or another web browser on you phone
2) add a bookmark to the home screen
The Intro to digital media class is presents an introduction to Print based media through image manipulation & graphic design, Time based media through Animation and 3d Design, both scanning and printing. These areas of media are explored through the use of Adobe Photoshop, iMovie, Quicktime Pro, Meshmixer and Makerware, as well as a hand full of useful shareware and web applications (YouTube, Flickr (or Instagram) & 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 our society. We will also look to consider the many facets of technology that interact with digital art.
So, Secretary of State John Kerry referenced this photograph when making a speech last September, trying to drive home how awful the Syrian chemical attack was as he tried to convince us why we should go to war. One problem. The picture isn't even from Syria. It's from Iraq in 2003. The photographer, Marco di Lauro, said he nearly "fell off his chair" when he saw it was being used to promote a war in Syria. It's getting pretty disturbing to see how far our politicians, both Republican and Democrat, are willing to go to drum up support for a war nobody wants.
* This class has a $100 Lab fee & you will need a 8GB thumb drive or larger.
The Syllabus
How to use a Mac
Login name = student
Login pass = artist
1) Desktop
2) The Dock
3) Top Menu
4) Making a new Folder
5) Renaming files and folders on the desktop
6) Opening a program
7) Opening a file
8) Saving a file
9) Closing a program
Using Safari
1) Tabs and Windows
2) Searching
3) downloading a file
Part of your first assignment is to bring your laptop to class and show me the bookmark to this site.
Make a link to this blog on your smartphone
1) open Safari or another web browser on you phone
2) add a bookmark to the home screen
The Intro to digital media class is presents an introduction to Print based media through image manipulation & graphic design, Time based media through Animation and 3d Design, both scanning and printing. These areas of media are explored through the use of Adobe Photoshop, iMovie, Quicktime Pro, Meshmixer and Makerware, as well as a hand full of useful shareware and web applications (YouTube, Flickr (or Instagram) & 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 our society. We will also look to consider the many facets of technology that interact with digital art.
Have you see this image? Creating Reality!
So, Secretary of State John Kerry referenced this photograph when making a speech last September, trying to drive home how awful the Syrian chemical attack was as he tried to convince us why we should go to war. One problem. The picture isn't even from Syria. It's from Iraq in 2003. The photographer, Marco di Lauro, said he nearly "fell off his chair" when he saw it was being used to promote a war in Syria. It's getting pretty disturbing to see how far our politicians, both Republican and Democrat, are willing to go to drum up support for a war nobody wants.
* This class has a $100 Lab fee & you will need a 8GB thumb drive or larger.
The Syllabus
Lets take the Awareness Test!
How to use a Mac
Login name = student
Login pass = artist
1) Desktop
2) The Dock
3) Top Menu
4) Making a new Folder
5) Renaming files and folders on the desktop
6) Opening a program
7) Opening a file
8) Saving a file
9) Closing a program
Using Safari
1) Tabs and Windows
2) Searching
3) downloading a file
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