Sophomore Technology: Digital Environment & Graphics Image Editing

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1 Sophomore Technology: Digital Environment & Graphics Image Editing In this two-term required course, all Art & Design students are introduced to the computer lab along with various peripherals and industry-standard graphics imaging software. The intention of this course is to provide all sophomores with the fundamental basics of operating an imac, external peripherals including: a flatbed scanner, a digital camera, and external drives; operating graphics software including Adobe Photoshop, a pixel-based image editing program; Adobe Illustrator, vector-based drawing program and Microsoft Powerpoint, a slide presentation program. Throughout the course, students will engage in a variety of different exercises and projects designed to explore the potential of each program and its tools, commands, and unique capabilities. Students will acclimate with the computer lab and learn its rules and regulations. Students will learn to navigate in a Mac environment as well how to organize, prepare, and save files. In the first marking period students are introduced to Adobe s core program, Photoshop, and begin to learn the various tools, commands, keyboard shortcuts, palettes, image resolution, and color modes. During the second marking period, as the students become more familiar with the software the class projects will become more extensive and explore importing images through digital cameras, experiment in photo editing and color manipulation, use of royalty-free images and creating a digital collage. When the technology students reach the third marking period, the projects will take a fine art approach by exploring the influences of music while creating digital paintings, importing drawings through a flatbed scanner to discover how to apply color through layers, and explore digital transformations.

2 IMAC Environment: Lab Rules Welcome to A&D Computer Lab Technology Marking Period I: Mac Environment & Introduction to Adobe Photoshop mac, pc, keyboard, monitor, mouse, tablet/stylus, desktop, menu bar, dialog window, dock, server, applications folder Establish log-ins and passwords: Log-ins student s first initial and lastname. Passwords: last 4 digits of student s ID. Discuss Lab Rules: No food. No candy. No drinks. Be Prepared! Adobe Photoshop Pixel-based image-editing program Getting Started! Fragmented Portrait Experimentation in selection tools and layers Week One/Two Flash drives, back-up work, server, rubric, bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes Adobe, pixel, dock shortcut, desktop, menu bar, options bar, palettes, tool box, image area/artboard, paste board, Bridge link Toolbox organization, expand arrow (hidden tools), keyboard shortcuts, new file, resolutions (web/print), dpi/ppi, RGB, CMYK Selection Tools: Move (Show Transform Controls/Bounding Box), Rectangular and Elliptical marquee (Shift Options); Lasso, Magnetic, Polygonal; Quick Selection (Add/Subtract selection, Brush Size, Sample All Layers, Auto Enhance) and Magic Wand (Tolerance, Anti Aliased, Contiguous). Feather adjustment. Explore options bar for each tool. Quick Mask Mode. Deselect command. Shortcuts: Copy, Cut, Paste Dedicated notebook that stays in the classroom! It may be taken home prior to exams but must be returned the day of the exam. Every student must have a personal Flash drive (4 GB minimum). Proper use and ejection of Flash drives. Students will orient themselves in the application. Locate the where palettes are on the menu bar (Windows). Learn the collapse/expand buttons and options menu. Students will learn how to create a new file and set resolutions. Project 1: Fragmented Portrait Open an existing image. Practice selecting specific portions of the image by employing all of the selection tools, copying and pasting over one another. Move and adjust their location and proportions.

3 Layers Palette: Welcome to A&D Computer Lab Technology Marking Period I: Mac Environment & Introduction to Adobe Photoshop Active layer, Opacity and Fill options; Buttons: layer mask, layer styles, links, adjustment layers, group layer, new layer, and trash; Organizing layers: naming, rearranging, grouping, and color coding; options menu, duplicating a layer, visibility, deleting, and merging. Project 1: Fragmented Portrait Continued. File> Save!!! Point of View Week One/Two/Three Digital Cityscape Color! Week Three/Four/Five.psd,.tiff,.jpeg, compatibility, working Live screen mode viewing cityscape, color, vector shapes, Fill command, Paint Bucket, Gradient, Rectangular, Ellipse, Polygon, Line Segment tools color palette, sliders, Eyedropper tool, Foreground/Background color, additive and subtractive color, History palette, Info palette Project 2: Digital Cityscape Students will create an imaginary cityscape by using various shape tools and selection tools

4 Technology Marking Period 2: Mac Environment & Introduction to Adobe Photoshop Arcimboldo Self-Portrait Create a self-portrait made up entirely of fruit and vegetable images Week One/Two/Three selection tools (reviewed), layer organization, stock photography, strategizing, Photobooth Project 3: Arcimboldo Inspired Self-Portrait Students will create a digital collage inspired by the 16th century Italian painter using stock photography of fruits and vegetables. All layers must be named and grouped by facial feature. Painted Portrait Digital painting Week Three/Four Digital Painting to Music Fine art approach to Photoshop Week Four/Five swatches palette, Paint Brush tool (options, sizes, flow, opacity), Eraser tool, shadows, midtones, highlights influence, improvisation, abstract expressionism Project 4: Digitally Painted Self-Portrait Students will create a painted self-portrait by using a photograph as a point of reference. Layers must be appropriateely named and grouped by shadows, midtones, highlights and details Project 5: Digital Painting to Music Students will create a series of paintings inspired by a variety of music as well as abstract expressionism. Each layer will correspond to a song played in class. Students must take into consideration that each layer cannot be 100% opaque or covered as to allow each layer to bleed into the ones below.

5 Photo Retouching Technology Marking Period 3: Mac Environment & Introduction to Adobe Photoshop Color: Hue, Saturation, Value, Color Gamut, Levels, Threshold, Adjustment Layers, Layer Styles Project 6: Photo Retouching Students will import self-portraits (or use supplied photos) which they will manipulate and correct their photos. Tools of the Trade Photo Retouching: Altered Images Week One/Two/Three Caricature Create an over-stylized portrait Clone Stamp, Patch, Healing Brush, Spot- Healing Brush, Red-Eye, Dodge, Burn tools, Channels palette filters, desaturate, caricature, exaggerate, distort, Project 7: Photo Retouching: Alter Photos Students will manipulate a series of photos including landscapes, interiors, images with patterns, and images with strong perspectives Project 8A: Caricature Students will create an exaggerated self-portrait or a portrait of a classmate. Cartooning/Illustration Import black & white drawings to add co Week Four/Five scanner, Project 8B: Applied Color to Illustration Students will import their black & white drawings/illustrations via flatbed scanner and apply color by controlling the layers and the brushes.

6 Technology Term II: Adobe Illustrator & Microsoft Powerpoint After extensive learning with Photoshop and raster images, the students will now be exposed to the world of vectors in the second term. During the first marking period, students will learn the differences and similarities between Photoshop and Illustrator, the basic structure of vectors, types of shapes, points, and paths, bezier curves, selection tools and most importantly the pen tool. Students will also learn how to incorporate raster images into the vector realm. In addition students will learn about basic typography and the manipulation of text. In the final marking period, students will learn the digital slide presentation program Microsoft Powerpoint which they will use to create a powerpoint portfolio of the work they completed throughout the year as well work from their class majors.

7 Adobe Illustrator Vector based drawing program Technology Term II Marking Period 1: Adobe Illustrator & Microsoft Powerpoint vector, paths, shapes desktop, menu bar, control panel, panels, tool bar, image area/artboard, paste board similarities/differences to Photopshop.ai,.eps formats Exercise 1: Experiment drawing a series of shapes, varying in size, shape, color fill/stroke Paths! Shapes! Pen Tool Most important tool Pathfinder Week One/Two line segments, anchor points, control handles, corner points, smooth points, Selection and Direct Selection tools, Fill/ Stroke colors, Rectangle, Ellipse, Rounded Rectangle, Polygon, and Star tools, Color panel, Eyedropper tool Pen, Add Anchor Point, Delete Anchor Point, Convert Anchor Point tools, shortcuts, geometric, rectilinear, biomorphic, and irregular shapes Pathfinder, Shape Modes, Layers and Alignment panels, Live, destructive, Paste In Front, Paste In Back, Send to back, Bring to Front Exercise 2: Experiment with tracing various shapes from Wingdings e.g. airplane, yin/yang etc. Also, students learn to strategize to create wave patterns and flower shapes Exercise 3: Experiment creating new unusual shapes with the Pathfinder and Shape Modes.

8 Draw a Dragon! Technology Term II Marking Period 1: Adobe Illustrator & Microsoft Powerpoint Pencil, Smooth, Path Eraser, Brush, Eraser, Scissors, Knife tools, Average, Join Project 1: Draw a Dragon Students will follow a basic model to create a dragon employing all of the various methods of drawing and creating paths/ shapes in Illustrator. Transform Vector Self-Portrait Week Three/Four/Five scale, rotate, reflect, shear, transform again place, Send to Back, Bring to Front Exercise 4: Experiment creating various objects with transform controls. Project 2: Vector Self-Portrait Students will create a vector based self-portrait by importing a photo from Photobooth as a point of reference. Each layer nust be appropriately named, grouped by large shapes, shadows, midtones, highlights, and details (facial features)

9 Type Tool Creating text Technology Term II Marking Period 2: Adobe Illustrator & Microsoft Powerpoint Type tool, Character panel, typeface, font, font style, size (points), leading, kerning, tracking, horizontal/vertical scale, baseline Exercise 5: Experiment typing your name using the various controls on the Character panel to illustrate various personalities e.g. tallest person, strongest person etc. Text on Paths and in Shapes Text into Paths Week One/Two Area Type, Type on Path, Vertical Type tools Create Outlines, Make with Warp, expand, gradient Exercise 6: Experiment typing lyrics from a poem or song on a path and contained in a shape. Project 3: Illustrative Text Students will illustrate their name of various personalities or professions. Type Portrait Week Three/Four Clipping Paths Photoshop and the Pen tool Week Five Organize, clipping paths Project 4 Type Portrait Using a photo of themselves as a point of reference, students will create a selfportrait entirely out of text. Students may employ any type application and commands to achieve their desired effect. However, the only restriction is that students stay with one serif or sans serif typeface family. Project 5: Students will use the Pen tool in Photoshop to create a clipping path around a photo self-portrait and import the image into Illustrator where they will create a vector-based background.

10 Live Paint Breaking boundaries Technology Term II Marking Period 3: Adobe Illustrator & Microsoft Powerpoint live paint, live paint group, live-trace Exercise 7: Experiment with the live-paint tool on various shape tools of varying colors of fills and strokes Project 6: Students will import a black and white drawing or posterized image from Photoshop which they will live trace and alter as a live paint group Week One/Two Introduction to Powerpoint Digital slide presentation program Week Three/Four/Five Powerpoint, slide transition, toolbars, insert image, animation, slide views, action buttons, Project 7: Students will create a portfolio presentation of all the work completed in Technology class as well as providing 6 examples of work completed in their chosen major. Students must provide a written description of each piece along with an artist s statement.