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Syllabus
First Week
First Class
Wednesday
September 24th
2008
Getting to Know You
We're going to take some pictures...
Overview
Basic Definitions
Project 1 assigned: Celebrity Object Portraits
Second Week
Second Class
Monday
September 29th
2008
Bitmap Images Part I
- Resolution
- Web vs. print
- Bit depth
- Scanning
- Digital Camera Settings
Approve Design Sketched for Project 1
Third Class
Wednesday
October 1st
2008
Bitmap Images Part II
- Color profiles
- Image correction
- Making selections
- Printing
Third Week
Fourth Class
Monday
October 6th
2008
Add/Drop Notice
Bitmap Images Part II Continued
- Selections/Masks
Demo On Mounting & Presentation
The Rest: Lab Time
Work on Project 1
Fifth Class
Wednesday
October 8th
2008
Lab Time
Work on Project 1
Project 2 assigned: Color Promotion
Fourth Week
Sixth Class
Monday
October 13th
2008
Project 1 due
Vector Images
- Straight lines
- Curved lines
- Shapes
Grids
- Using grids
- Alignment tools
- Guides
- Measurement
Seventh Class
Wednesday
October 15th
2008
Tool Stuff
- Transformations
- Organizing
- Masks
Fifth Week
Eighth Class
Monday
October 20th
2008
Elements of Design
Ninth Class
Wednesday
October 22nd
2008
The Art of Type
- Fonts
- Placement
- Editing
- Alignment
Sixth Week
Tenth Class
Monday
October 27th
2008
MIDTERM
Halfway through!
Project 2 due
Sketching for Design
Tools Stuff
- Filters
- Blends
- Warps
- More masks
Project 3 assigned: Hi-Tech Collage Magazine
Eleventh Class
Wednesday
October 29th
2008
Design Basics Continued
- Foreground/Background
- Framing
- Hierarchy
- Layers
- Transparency
Seventh Week
Twelfth Class
Monday
November 3rd
2008
Tool Stuff
- Illustrator & Photoshop
- Rasterization
- Output
Thirteenth Class
Wednesday
November 5th
2008
All Lab Time
Work on Project 3
Eighth Week
Fourteenth Class
Monday
November 10th
2008
Project 3 Due
Let's Crit
Project 4 Assigned
Brainstorm Project 4
Open Call for Demos
Think for next class: What do you want to see?
Templates
Importing bitmaps for use as drawing templates
Fifteenth Class
Wednesday
November 12th
2008
Called for Demos
The demos you asked for
Ninth Week
Sixteenth Class
Monday
November 17th
2008
All Lab Time
Work on Project 4
Seventeenth Class
Wednesday
November 19th
2008
Printing
Managing raster effects
Project 5 (Final) Assigned
Tenth Week
Eighteenth Class
Monday
November 24th
2008
Project 4 Due: in-class Crit
Using Photoshop as a Presentation Tool
Image Formats
- .jpg, .png, .gif, .tif, .bmp, RAW
- Compression
Nineteenth Class
Wednesday
November 26th
2008
Web Issues
- Icons
- Interactivity
- File size
- Fonts
- Alphabet soup: html, xhtml, php, css, js...
Fruit & Veg Sites Deconstructions
Eleventh Week
Twentieth Class
Monday
December 1st
2008
Publishing to the Web
Illustrator and Photoshop web features
Twenty First Class
Wednesday
December 3rd
2008
All Lab Time
Work on Project 5
Finals Week
Final
Wednesday
December 10th
2008
7:00pm - 8:50pm
Final class presentation, discussion and critique