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ALS Computer Lab Information |
Week 1 |
August 31 - September 2 |
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| Monday |
FIELD TRIP IS CANCELLED THIS SEMESTER, DUE TO FURLOUGHS Questionnaire Standard Rubric for Art Studio Courses Introduction to course: syllabus, lab, schedule, text, materials. Introduction to using Macintosh OS and Adobe Photoshop. Bring CD-RW and/or flash drive to next class. Bring objects to scan for Assignment 1. Potato Head exercise Selections practice Transform tools Read: Photoshop CS4 Studio Techniques Chapter 1 p.4-24 On line instructional videos for Photoshop and various softwares may be found at: http://www.lynda.com/ Bring objects to scan next class for Assignment 1. |
Wednesday |
Assignment 1 / Scanner As Camera Using the scanner. Navigating Photoshop interface and tool use. Browsing, scanning, saving files to folders and external flash drives and CDR / CD_RW. Scan materials for Assignment 1. Read: Photoshop CS4 Studio Techniques Chapter 2: Selection Primer p.44-85 Tool experimentation |
Week 2 |
September 7 - 9 |
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| Monday |
NO CLASS. LABOR DAY |
Wednesday |
Assignment 1 / Scanner As Camera Artist Examples: Scannagrams Glass Membrane: Scanner to Screen Hong Hao Hong Hao 2 Observaciones: Enrique Mendez de Hoyos Vik Muniz Student Examples Exercise: layer styles Exercise: blend modes Read: Photoshop CS4 Studio Techniques Chapters 2: Selection Primer p 44 -85 Scanning, sizing and transforming. Resolution concerns (pixel dimensions handout) |
Week 3 |
September 14 - 16 |
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Monday |
Assignment 1 / Scanner As Camera Read: Photoshop CS4 Studio Techniques Chapter 3: Layers p 90-114 Exercise: Quick Masks |
Wednesday |
Assignment 1 / Scanner As Camera Exercise: black cat Adjustments Exercises: Levels, hue and saturation, color balance, levels and curves. Layer order, grouping, merging Read: Photoshop CS4 Studio Techniques Chapter 3: Layers and Curves Read: Photoshop CS4 Studio Techniques Chapter 9: Enhancements p 310-337 |
Week 4 |
September 21- 23 |
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Monday |
Assignment 1 / Scanner As Camera Adjustment layers Adjusting tonality and color. Refer to Chapter 8 regarding color information and adjustments. Read: Photoshop CS4 Studio Techniques Chapter 5: Adjustment Layers and Chapter 7: Levels p.242-248 |
Wednesday |
Assignment 1 / Scanner As Camera Assignment 1 Checklist Adjustment layers exercises Read: Photoshop CS4 Studio Techniques Chapter 8: Color Manipulations p 272-290 |
Week 5 |
September 28 - September 30 |
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Monday |
Assignment 1 / Scanner As Camera Assignment 1 Checklist Experiment with your clippecd scans in a series of files. Drag your scans to files, duplicate, resize, rotate distort, apply blend modes, layer styles, adjustment layers, change color, opacity, etc. Create a total of six compositions or more. The best two final files will be printed in color. |
Wednesday |
Critique of in-progress files, Assignment 1 / Scanner as Camera Assignment 1 Checklist Continue Assignment 1 compositions. Begin sketchbook development. Assignment 1 and exercises due end of class, Monsday, October 5 |
Week 6 |
October 5 - 7 |
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Monday |
Assignment 1 and exercises due end of class Assignment 1 Checklist CD burning, project file organization, printing for sketchbook. Class photos taken / bring your digital camera, if you have one. Read and take summary notes in sketchbook: Digital Art, Introduction / p7-26 |
Wednesday |
Print Assignment 1 Assignment 2a (part 1): Digital Compositing Nancy Burson Exercises: Big City Night, Correcting a Portrait exercise Adjustments: Curves, levels, hue/sat, color balance Sketchbooks due next Wednesday Sketchbook Checklist Read and take summary notes in sketchbook: Digital Art, Chapter 1 / p27- 65 |
Week 7 |
October 12 - 14 |
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Monday |
Assignment 2a (part 1 ): Digital Compositing Nancy Burson Print Assignment 1 Making layer masks Read: Photoshop CS4 Studio Techniques (layer masks) Read: Photoshop CS4 Studio Techniques Sharpening p212-236 |
Wednesday |
Sketchbooks due Sketchbook 1 Checklist Print Assignment 1 Assignment 2b (part 2 ): Digital Compositing Assignment 2c (part 3): Digital Compositing |
Week 8 |
October 19 - 21 |
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Monday |
Assignment 2c (part 3): Digital Compositing Color adjustment layer masks review Read: Photoshop CS4 Studio Techniques Chapter 11: Retouching Techniques392-439 Photo retouching exercises, dust and scratches, clone, duplicate, restoration |
Wednesday |
Assignment 2c (part 3): Digital Compositing Assignment 2 Checklist Read: Photoshop CS4 Studio Techniques p338-356 (masking, layer masks, paths) |
Week 9 |
October 26 - 28 |
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Monday |
Complete Assignment 2 and exercises for next Monday Assignment 2 Checklist Read and take summary notes in sketchbook: Digital Art Chapter 2 / p 67 - 139 Bring a poem next class to create a line drawing in response to a visual poem. Research writers e. e. cummings and Pablo Neruda. Refer to Photoshop CS4 Studio Techniques p350 (pen tool) Exercise: Filters |
Wednesday |
Assignment 2 Checklist Masking review - using the Masks Panel Assignment 3 / Image and Text Artist examples Student examples Using the pen tool: paths1,2,3 Assignment 3 / Image and Text Working with type Text exercises: font, text paths, text and filters, text and layer styles, text and layer masks Homework: Photo research for assignment 3. Shoot the equivalent of one roll of film (24) shots to be used in Assignment 3. |
Week 10 |
November 2 - 4 |
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Monday |
Assignment 2 and exercises due beginning of class Assignment 2 Checklist Print assignment 2b Print Assignment 2c Assignment 3 / Image and Text Paths exercise. Type on a path using a visual poem and line drawing as template. Exercise: el jefe History and snapshots Exercise: Seahorse |
Wednesday |
Assignment 3 / Image and Text Sketchbook 2 Due next Monday. Sketchbook 2 Checklist Read and take summary notes in sketchbook: Digital Art, Chapter 3 p139-246 Exercise: vector masks Exercise: vector shapes |
Week 11 |
November 9 - 11 |
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Monday |
Continue Assignment 3 Assignment 3 Checklist Exercise: Truck and Tower vanishing point filter Print Assignment 2 |
Wednesday |
CAMPUS CLOSED / VETERAN'S DAY / Work at home, complete sketchbooks Create idea sketches and typed proposal for final self-initiated project. |
Week 12 |
November 16 - 18 |
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Monday |
Sketchbook Due for Assignment 2 Sketchbook 2 Checklist Sketchbook 3 due next class Sketchbook 3 Checklist Assignment 4: Final Project Assignment 3 Individual critique Next class: Submit a typed proposal that outlines: 1.Your idea 2. How you will go about your project 3.What you will produce 4. A plan of how you will use your time Include 3-5 idea sketches with the proposal. Read: Photoshop CS4 Studio Techniques Chapter 1 p32 - 41 (using brushes) Brushes Exercise: Pattern stamp Exercise: Color Exercise: gradients Exercise: Diesel. Overlay techniques. Print Poetry / Text Tutorial |
Wednesday |
Assignment 3 and exercises due beginning of class |
Week 13 |
November 23 - 25 |
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Monday |
Wednesday |
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Week 14 |
November 30 - December 2 |
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Monday |
Assignment 4: Final Project Quiz review.
Take home portion of quiz distributed. Begin Final Portfolio. Final Portfolio Checklist Large Format Printing |
Wednesday |
Assignment 4: Final Project All missing, overdue and resubmitted assignments are due. Quiz on Digital Art chapters 1, 2, and 3, artist identification and Photoshop tools. Organize final Portfolio. Include all work submitted during the semester in your work folder. Final Portfolio Checklist |
Week 15 |
December 7 - 9 |
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| Monday | Assignment 4 Due. Present physical finished final project. |
Wednesday | FINAL PRESENTATION Power Point Presentation of Final Project and critique. Final Portfolio Due. |
Week 16 |
December 14 - 16 |
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Monday |
No class, finals week. |
Wednesday |
No class, finals week. |