Dr. Dale E. Parson
Fall, 2010 Office Hours: M 11-12, Tu 4:15-5:45, W 11-12, Th 4:15-5:45, and by appointment

To get to Faculty-Folders (for turning in assignments) or Student-Projects (for saving your work in progress) when the iMac does not have an icon for this, bring up the Finder and from Go -> Connect to Server, enter:

First day handout (syllabus that is specific to this semester).
Addendum to first day handout, hard copies handed out September 1.
There will be a 5% deduction from a homework assignment for repeated web surfing, web-based chatting or other use of the Internet for activities unrelated to class activities during both lectures and working sessions. During a working session you may leave after completing and turning in all due work; you are encouraged to stay to get additional practice and ask questions. Thank you.

Introduction to Mac OSX Leopard.
There is a useful blog site on digital photography at http://blogs.zdnet.com/digitalcameras. It includes a lot of advertisements, but there are useful how-to articles as well. If you pick a topic using its menu, you can tunnel down to a collection of articles.
Here is a Java Utility for searching JPEG files in a folder for GPS location tags. CAUTION: There is no way to stop this utility once it starts searching, so be careful what Folder you tell it to search! If the folder is big, this takes a long time to finish. I will add an "abort" option when I get time.

Some of my processed images from prior projects and semesters.

Assignment 1 - Screenshot - Introduction to Mac OSX and Photoshop, due September 8, 2010.
Assignment 2 - Digital camera meta-data and color curves, class notes, due September 20, 2010.
Assignment 3 - Creating and Cleaning up a Composite Image, due October 6, 2010.
Assignment 4 - On an Architectural "Lego block" construction that uses Adjustment Layers, of one to three final images, due October 20, 2010.
Assignment 5 - On Retouch of problem photos, Portrait Retouch, and a Virtual Halloween Mask, due November 3, 2010.
Assignment 6 - On Using Type Tools and Type Appearance Related Editing, due November 10, 2010.
Assignment 7 - Introduction to Illustrator with Photoshop for a Dual-Look Composition, due December 1, 2010.
Assignment 8 - Capstone project using Photoshop and Illustrator, due December 11, 2010.


Class 1 outline - Introduction to the iMac / OSX and Adobe tools for digital image processing.
Class 3 outline - Meta-data, the Bridge, and images as binary data.
Week 3 outline - Cropping, more selection tools, introduction to layer-based compositing.
Week 4 outline - More on compositing, clone tool, Assignment 3 due October 6, 2010.
Week 5 outline - Adjustment layers, layer options, related material.
Week 6 outline - Retouch and related topics.
Week 7 outline - Smart Filters and related topics.
Week 8 outline - Type tools and related topics.
Week 9 outline - Vector graphics tools and related topics.
Week 10 outline - Introduction to Illustrator, Shapes, Selection, interaction with PhotoShop.
Week 11 outline - Illustrator Type Tools and introduction to Trace.
Week 12 outline - Illustrator Path Merging, Splitting, Pathfinder, Symbols.
Week 13 outline - on Illustrator Tracing, Live paint, Live Color, Swatches.