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WHAT YOU WILL do is work and participate actively. You must be organized, be able to work for long periods alone, and enjoy the process of creating images experimentally. You will need to devote 6-10 hours per week to work outside class. Click below to download the syllabus. For Mac, Option+Click to download as Word file; for PC, right click. Download as "text file with line breaks" only if your computer does not support Word: Download
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SYLLABUS DESCRIPTION: 23-2201 DIGITAL
IMAGING 1 3 cr. This course introduces the student to computer tools that
manipulate and enhance photographic images. These tools allow you to input
B&W and color photographs, negatives, positives, and graphics into Photoshop,
the industry standard for digital image manipulation. You will learn the
skills to retouch and enhance these varied inputs in order to create high-quality
digital outputs. Output devices include film recorders, CD-ROM burners
and high quality printers. Assignments, case studies and the final project
are designed to help master basic techniques of image-editing in order
to expand the photographer's creative horizons. Prerequisites: Division
I (Photo/Darkroom 1 and 2. COURSE RATIONALE: required for Photography majors and for all photography concentrations because the knowledge contained in it is required in the real world. GOALS AND OBJECTIVES: Students will learn to scan, retouch and manipulate b/w and color digital images using Photoshop and to print them in a professional manner. This ability is the prerequisite to all future digital imaging classes within the department. You will learn the following skills and tools: Digital Basics File Preparation and Formats Computer Parts Input Devices Preferences Digital Retouching Steps Navigation and Info Palettes Resolution and Size Selection Tools Cutting and Pasting Retouching Tools Text Tools Color Models Blending Modes Filters Printers Software Applications Vocabulary, Theoretical,
Legal and Practical Considerations Digital theory Legal Issues
GRADES: Grades are based on the quality of your work, your ability to meet the deadlines, and your ability to work responsibly and creatively with problems and issues. The syllabus is subject to change depending upon the progress of the students. Grades are awarded as follows: Assignments: For every assignment you should describe the technical means and aesthetic choices integral to the creation of your work. You will be graded at each deadline and, like any professional deadline, if you miss it you MAY NOT make it up. F if you miss it; D, C, B, or A for quality of work if you meet it. (30% of grade). Tests: There will be quizzes and a final test based on lectures, handouts and readings (40% of grade). Final Project: You will be expected to articulate the technical means and aesthetic choices integral to the creation of your final project. F for the class if you are absent from your final presentation; D, C, B, or A for quality and originality of the final project (30% of grade). I ABSOLUTELY no incompletes. C 2 misses, work not presented on time, assignments presented on dates other than deadlines, or of average quality and with average participation. B Assignments presented on time, regular attendance, good participation, and steady significant efforts throughout. A "B" requirements, along with outstanding participation and work.
ABSENCES AND LATE’S: After the third absence you will earn "F" for the course. Three late’s of one half hour equal one absence.
OFFICE HOURS, MAIL, EMAIL: Peter’s office hours: Alexandroff Campus Center building, room 1106, Tuesdays from 2--6 pm. Telephone my studio (773 404-2002) to make an appointment for the time you would like (up to 1 hour). Mailbox: Photography Department, 12th floor of the 600 building. E-mail: peter@chicagomediaworks.com. Most handouts for this course are available on my website: http://www.chicagomediaworks.com. Navigate to "instructional works", then "digital 1".
SYLLABUS
WEEK ONE—September 27 Introduction Demo: Digital basics: analog/digital, bit/byte/kilobyte/megabyte, computer elements (inputs, CPU, outputs), computer parts (power source, HD, floppy drive, videocard, motherboard, RAM/ROM/HD memory), operating system (formatting floppy and Zip disks, creating documents, saving files, naming conventions, using file directory), anti-virus software, using file directory, media storage space comparison between floppy, zip, CD-ROM and Jazz disks. Photoshop: preferences (Resets, Grids and Guides, Brush, Memory allocation), new file, tool palette (paintbrush, swatches), undo, eraser, save, .psd file format. Inputs: similarities between xerox machine and flatbed scanner, parts of scanner, interface, effect on file with increased resolution. Handouts: • Questionnaire • Syllabus • Implications of digital photography: "Into the Information Age" from IN OUR OWN IMAGE: THE COMING REVOLUTION IN PHOTOGRAPHY by Fred Ritchin. • "Scanning" guidelines (on website) • "Output Devices" guidelines (on website) • Purchase at least five Zip disks, as well as the Photoshop book (see last page). • From "Quickstart" read Chapters 3: Startup, Chapter 12: Paint. (Optional: from "Easy Photoshop 5" read Part 1 tasks 1-7, Part 2 tasks 5,6,12, Part 4 task 1, Part 5 task 2. • Read "Into the Information Age" and be prepared to discuss the question: "On what kinds of photographs might photo falsification--or what degree of falsification--be ethically or morally problematic?" • Scan an image at 100 dpi and then paint over it in a way that gives it a completely different "look" (due Week Two).
WEEK TWO—October 4 Due: scanned and painted image on Zip disk. Review your work, Questionaires. Discussion: implications of the digital falsification of photographs Demo: Basic Photo Image Correction: 6 basic image correction steps, crop, adjustment layers, histogram, levels, removing color cast, make duplicate, flattening, sharpening. Handouts: Zip disk, print card. To do: • Vocabulary: tonal range, histogram, adjustment layer, fuzziness. • From "Quickstart", read: Basics. (Optional: From "Easy", read Part 1 task 11; Part 7 tasks 1-4,6,8,9; Part 8 task 4; Part 2 task 2; Part 10 task 3; Part 3 tasks 1-3,5,11-13,16-19,22; Part 6 tasks 3-6). • Scan one of your own color photographs and "image-correct" it by means of the image correction techniques you have learned (due Week Three).
WEEK THREE—October 11 Due: Image-corrected color photograph and "Maximum Weirdness" Veggie-Person Portrait" on Zip disk. Review your work. Demos: Warmup: 6 steps of image correction. Basic Photo Image Correction, part 2: realigning image using guides, adjusting perspective using transform, adjusting tonal range with levels, adjusting tonal range of selected areas, replacing colors, adjusting hue and saturation, clone tool, flattening, applying unsharp mask filter. Inputs: scanners in open lab. Basic Selection Tools: options, rectangular and circular selects, selecting with Wand, adjusting selections, adding/subtracting, scaling/rotating, straight and freehand selections. Handouts: To do: • Vocabulary: gradient, hot spot, application, color correction, gamma, descreen. • From "Easy", read: Part 1 task 9; Part 3 task 16; Part 6 task 7; Part 4 task 6, Part 7 tasks 8,9,11; Part 5, task 7; Part 6 task 14; Part 8 tasks 1-4, 12,13; Part 5 tasks 1-11; Part 1 task 15. • From "Quickstart", read: Basics, Select. • Retouch and alter the flower color in the file you are given (printout due Week Four). • Make a
"maximum weird" portrait by means of selection techniques
(printout due Week Four). • Read "Scanning Guidelines."
WEEK FOUR— October 18 Due: Retouched file and Maximum Weird Portrait (printed out) Demo:
Warmup: 6 steps of image correction. Basic Selection Tools, part 2: adding/subtracting, Magnetic Lasso, scaling and rotating, multiple selections, selecting by color range.Layer Basics: selecting, rearranging, renaming, adding layers, erasing, deleting, showing/hiding layers, changing opacity, linking, gradients. Retouching Basics: displaying painting tools, changing brush opacity, selecting foreground/background color palette, color picker, color bar, color field, defining brushes, gradients, fading paint, painting effects, cloning, history palette. Handouts: "Self-Portrayal" by Peter Thompson (handout) • Retouch case study from "Photoshop Bible". To do: • From "Quickstart", read: Select. Layers, Lights & Darks, Paint. History, More Layers. (Optional: From "Easy", read: Part 1 tasks 12, 13; Part 6 tasks 12, 13, 15). • Using all techniques learned so far, combine image elements to make a digital image to form your self-portrayal. Output to inkjet print. Document your decisions in writing to explain what you did technically in order to support your concept and form (due Week Six). • Retouch "Damaged Man Photo" using all the retouching techniques learned so far. Output to Laser printer (due Week Five). • Create a self-portrayal and print it out (due Week Six).
WEEK FIVE— October 25 Due: "Damaged Man Photo" output to inkjet or laser printer. Review your work in a collective exhibition/competition. Demo: Warmup: 6 steps of image correction. Peripheral Standards: serial, parallel, USB, Firewire. Layers and Image Processing, part 2: editing background, adding gradients, applying blending modes, retouching on separate layers, retouching on merged layers, merging down, removing dust and scratches, moving layers between files, erasing with History Palette and History Brush, merging, flattening. Outputs: Epson Piezographic printer, Apple 2000-P printer. Color: color models (Additive / Subtractive, RGB, CMYK, Grayscale, bitmap) gamuts, additive and subtractive color systems, color picker, color bar, color field, conversions, grayscale, bitmap, blending modes, colorizing. To do: • Vocabulary: serial, parallel, USB, Firewire, data types: interrupt, bulk, isochronous, hotpluggable, IEEE1394, bi-directional, half-duplex, full-duplex, buffer, cache, flow control, hub, host, enumeration, color model, process inks, gamut, out-of-gamut, color space, primary colors, RGB, additive color model, CMYK, subtractive color model, bitdepth, 2,4,8,16, 24, 32-bit color, color separation, composite, hue, saturation, brightness. • From "Quickstart", read: "Choose Colors" and "Recolor". (Optional: From "Easy", read: Part 4 tasks 1-4, 6, 9; Part 5 task 1; Part 7 task 10-14). • Quiz #1 next week.
WEEK SIX -- November 1 Quiz #1 Due: Self-portrayal output to laserjet, stylewriter or inkjet printers. Demo: Advanced Inputs: scanning 3D objects, scanning negatives and transparencies. Image correction: image type, autolevels and brightness/contrast (reviewed), assigning values to black and white areas, using curves, using "multiply" blending mode, erase to save. Special effects: using grids, desaturating selections, applying painting effects, colorizing selections, changing color balance, applying filters. Handouts: To do:
• Due next week: do a new expanded version of your Self-portrayal (keep file size under the maximum for the printer you choose (see "Output Devices" sheet) and incorporate 3D scanned objects. Due Week Seven. • Quiz #2 next week. • From "Easy", read: Part 1 task 10, etc.
WEEK SEVEN -- November 8 Due: Expanded Self-Portrayal Quiz #2 Demos: Undo’s: History palette: erase to History, Edit/Fill History, File/Revert, Erase to Save. Advanced painting: layer palette options, blending colors with Gaussian Blur, custom brushes, airbrush, radial gradients, advanced blending modes (Screen, Overlay, Hard & Soft Light, Color), Preserve transparency, Increase canvas size. To do: • Vocabulary: screen mode, base color, blend color, result color. • From "Quickstart", read: "History". • Triptych (3-part work) which includes text. You might start with your self-portrait or an element within it and alter it in any way. Add two additional parts to make a triptych. Dimensions of each of the three parts approximately 8" x 6" making a total image size of approximately 8" X 18". Print to Epson 3000 printer on A3 size paper. Document your decisions in writing to explain what you did technically next week—no writing, no work to present…. Due Week Eight. • Scan 2-D and 3-D materials to make at least 10 backgrounds and save to Zip disk. Bring disk to Week 8. • Bring "stuff"—anything you’d like, to make a cover for your Zip disk.
WEEK EIGHT -- November 15 Due: Triptych and written explanation of how you made it. Demo: Type in Photoshop: horizontal and vertical type layers and masks, using color and gradients with type tool. Page layout basics in Photoshop: info palette, selecting with constrained aspect ratio, guides, sizing, image and text boxes, manipulating and colorizing text, stroke, pencil tool,. In class: design a cover for your Zip disk. To do: • Create a cover for your Zip disk. Print on any printer you choose. Document your decisions in writing to explain what you did technically next week. • Prepare for midterm exam next week.
WEEK NINE – November 29 Due: Zip disk cover Demos: Image File Formats: psd, tiff, jpeg, gif. Importing psd file into Microsoft Word file. Navigation and Info Palettes Handout: • Guidelines for final project proposal with working questions (typed project proposal due Week Eleven). In class: assignment of
individual research project on a digital artist(s). To do: • Vocabulary: curve, quickmask, channel. • (Option: f rom "Easy", read: Part 3 task 6; Part 3 tasks 22-27). • Re-design an existing CD cover or a book cover that you think misses the mark, conceptually or design-wise. Bring in the original along with a printout of your cover. Explain what you found lacking in the original, what you did to make up for it, and how you did it technically. Due Week Eleven. • Decide on digital artist research subject. Due Week Eleven. Presentations begin Week Twelve.
WEEK TEN -- December 6 Demo: Quickshow application Outputs: Film Recorder, Fujix Printer To do in class: case studies, individual meetings about final project and research project. To do: • Vocabulary: "net.art", paintshops. • Read: Part 8 tasks 6, 7. • Type Final Project Proposal (1 page, typed). Due Week Eleven.
WEEK ELEVEN -- December 13 Due: typed, spell-checked final proposal, CD or book re-design, and decision on digital imaging artist research project. Discussion: Image Appropriation on the Internet and Web in light of copyright issues (http://moyra.com/jewels/eleventh.html, http://www.whatiscopyright.org/, http://www.intelproplaw.com/ ) Case studies, individual meetings and work on project.To do: • Read: Nicholas Negroponte, "The DNA of Information", from BEING DIGITAL.
WEEK TWELVE -- January 3 Demonstration: Using Windows 95 In class: individual presentations on digital imaging artist, discussion of Negroponte article, case studies, individual meetings and work on final project. To do: • Read: part one of Kenneth Brower, "Photography in the Age of Digital Falsification", in ATLANTIC MONTHLY. Available on line at: http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/98may/photo.html.
WEEK THIRTEEN -- January 10 In class: discussion of Brower article, case studies, individual presentations on digital imaging artist, and work on final project. To do: • Read: Bill Viola, "Kiss Your Tired Aesthetics Goodbye", from CYBERARTS: EXPLORING ART AND TECHNOLOGY, editor, Linda Jacobson, 1992.
WEEK FOURTEEN --January 17 Due: final project critique, and celebration Class planning: next steps.
REQUIRED BOOK AND DISK PURCHASES: Elaine Weinmann and Peter Lourekas, , VISUAL QUICKSTART GUIDE: PHOTOSHOP 6 FOR WINDOWS AND MACINTOSH, New York, Peachpit Press, 2001. Pb. (available for $19,95 in Columbia College Bookstore). Zip disks (at least five disks; available for under $20 in the Columbia College Bookstore). This text may be purchased at the College Bookstore, 624 S. Michigan Avenue, 1st floor, and at any other bookstore. Zip disks are available at the College Bookstore and at many other stores such as Best Buy, etc. OPTIONAL BOOK: Kate Binder, EASY ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 5, Que Publications, NY. (available in Columbia College Bookstore and at Crown Books for $17.99).
Digital Imaging 1 Syllabus by Peter Thompson
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