Week Two: September 8th
Student Questionnaire
Introductions, Class Overview, Syllabus, Commitment Needed, Email list, Photos
Working on computers, tour of lab
Storage Options (external hard drives, iPod, jump drive, CDs, etc.)
Watch part of Waking Life Movie.
Basic Drawing, Painting, Pencil, Wacom Tablet (Layers, Color Swatches, Brushes)
Brush Dynamics (opacity, flow, hardness, color, shape)
Macintosh Operating System, desktop, finder,viewing files,
Logging on to User Disk and classes, Burning CDÕs, mounting and ejecting hard drives
Where to find HELP Printing to ethernet printers
File Management- New Documents, Save/ Save As
Assignments
Due Week 3.
1-Shoot color negative film 1roll -Types of Color-. Take a gray card with you. Place it in your frame. Look for neutral colors, cool neutral colors, warm neutral colors.(examples)
Have film developed for week 4.
Do a good job on this as it will be used for several assignments.
2 -Waking Life/ Overpainting Self Portrait
Description: Using learned painting skills, redraw or paint yourself in the style of an artist of your choice. You should not see any of the original photograph. Examples: Robert LinklaterÕs Waking Life, Holly Roberts, Van Gogh, Andy Warhol, Chuck Close
Bring your final file to class, we will print it in class.
3-Learn the names of the tools on the Photoshop Toolbar.
4-Find a digital Artist on the web you really like. Have that name for class next week.
You can look on my website http://www.natemathews.com/teaching/links.html
Scan 6 of your negatives for week 4.
Read ch. 3, p. 45-62 -acquire, creating and saving files-
Read ch. 6, p. 91-102 -pixel basics-
Week 4: September 22nd
Artist presentations
Veggie Man done in class.
Copy/ Paste, Layer Management
Navigation Palette, Hand Tool, Magnification, 100%, Viewing Modes
Assignments ~
(Add levels an curves to all your scans. Bring them to class next week corrected)
Read ch 2 ÒColor ManagementÓ
(Read ch 11 ÒTonal AdjustmentsÓ
Monitor Calibration Assignments
Bring your 6 scanned files with adjustment layers, and sized to print on 8.5Ó x 11Ó paper. Using Curves remove color casts from each of your files.
Sign up for a printer for next week. You will be told what time in class.
Week 5: September 29th
Artist presentations
Parts of a Computer
Daylight Viewing Booth, Color Filters
Assignments
1)Due 2 different color prints on luster and 2 different color prints using Enhanced Matte
2) Read Ch. 8 ÒSelectÓ, and ch.13 ÒColor adjustmentÓ
Week 6: October 6th
(Critique on the Types of Color?)
Making a Grayscale Print.
Channel Mixer, Blank and White layer, desaturate Learning to Scan on the Little Imacon Scanners...
FINAL PROJECT INTRO
Final Project Guidelines, How to Write a Proposal Assignments
Write a Final Project Proposal Due Week 12
Assignments
Due two prints printed as Grayscale
Next week we will shoot ÒMany Into OneÓ Assignment.
Bring camera if you want to use your camera.
Week 7:October 13th
Critique of Grayscale prints. Ð
Bring your color prints they came from.
Navigation Palette,Hand Tool,Viewing Modes, Selections, Adding/ Subtracting to Selections, Quickmasks.
Retouching assignment in remainder of class.
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I found these tutorials for you to look at.
http://www.okongraphics.com/tutorials/portraitretouch.html
http://www.adobeevanpelists.com/pdfs/photoshop/newupdatedfor6P S6/portrait retouching.pdf
Assignment:
Intro into Digital Cameras.
New assignment. ÒMany into OneÓ Look at David Hillard, David Hockney, Kelli Connell, Ben Gest, or Anthony Goicolea.
Intro to adobe bridge, and layers. We will be printing on 17x22 matte paper for this project.
Week 8: October 20
In class demo on Many into One.
Intro to digital cameraÕs
Bridge
Backing Up
Color Spaces! Models (Hue! Saturation, Replace Color)
Channels Layer Options, Blending Modes
Final Project Guidelines, How to Write a Proposal Assignments Write a Final Project Proposal Due Week 11
Assignments
Shoot ÒMany Into OneÓ, due week 10
Read Ch 22 Masks
Narrative Collage Assignment.
You may make a collage using layers to tell a narrative about your family or heritage.
You may also do a 3-triptych narrative with 3 pictures.
Start shooting for your final project
Week 9: October 27th
SPRING BREAK
Week 10: November 3rd
Critique Narrative Collage
Parts of the computer
Layer mask
File Formats/ Compression
Filters Sharpening. Unsharp mask
iPhoto and how to make an Photo Movie of your work.
Week 11: November10th
Copyright Issues In Class Discussion: Image Appropriation, Websites,
Clip Art
Review of Getting Images from Web, Trip to the Library
Making jpgs, gifs
individual meetings
Week 12: November 17th
Demos! Discussions
Archiving for Life
Paper! Output Options
Week 13: November 24th
Individual Consultations and Open Work Time
Individual Meetings Assignments Have One Final Piece Printed on
Paper Choice by
Week 14: December 1st
Individual Consultations and Open Work Time
Week 15: November 8th
Individual Consultations and Open Work Time
Week 16:FINAL CRITIQUE
You must be present to pass the class.
Disclaimer statement:
This syllabus is subject to change depending upon the learning pace of the students. It is therefore a guide only, and will be amended as the course proceeds. You will be notified of all changes
