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

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!

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!

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

- Sharpen/Blur/Smudge

- selection tools

- Layers

- clone stamp / pattern stamp

- healing brush / patch tool

Work on Project 2

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

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... ”

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 - Create 5 different Album Covers

6- Hand them in to Joe

Work on Assignment

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.

First Day of Class

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. 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 Photoshop, iMovie, Quicktime Pro & Dreamweaver 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 consider the many facets of technology that interact with digital art.


  * This class has a $100 Lab fee &; you will need a 4 GB thumbdrive.




The Syllabus

Lets take the Awareness Test!