Dr. Dale E. Parson
Spring, 2010 Office Hours: M 10-11:30, Tu 2:30-3:30, W 10-11:30, Th 1:30-2:30, 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).

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.
YouTube demo of upcoming Content Aware Fill.

Assignment 1 - Screenshot - Introduction to Mac OSX and Photoshop, due January 26, 2010.
Assignment 2 - Digital camera meta-data and color curves, class notes, due February 4, 2010.
Assignment 3 - On layer-based compositing of one to three final images, due February 18, 2010.
Assignment 4 - On an Architectural "Lego block" construction that uses Adjustment Layers, of one to three final images, due March 2, 2010.
Assignment 5 - On retouch of image deficiencies and cosmetic surgery, due March 18, 2010.
Assignment 6 - On creating a poster or similar illustration including Type, due March 30, 2010.
Assignment 7 - On a dual Photoshop / Illustrator composition, due April 15, 2010.
Assignment 8 - Capstone project using Photoshop and Illustrator, due April 29, 2010.

Class 1 outline - Introduction to the iMac / OSX and Adobe tools for digital image processing.
Class 2 outline - Getting organized and started on Assignment 1.
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 - On layer-based compositing including Assignment 3.
Week 5 outline - On Adjustment Layers and more layer options.
Week 6 outline - On Retouch and related topics.
Week 7 outline - On filters, Smart Filters and compositional effects..
Week 8 outline - On Type editing including Assignment 6.
Week 9 outline - On Vector Shapes and Vector Masks.
Week 9.5 outline - On Exporting image files.
Week 10 outline - on Introduction to Illustrator, geometric Shapes, etc.
Week 10.5 outline - on Illustrator selection, editing, transformations, and initial interaction with Photoshop.
Week 11 outline - on Illustrator Type, Pathfinder and Trace, also Assignment #7.
Week 12 outline - on Illustrator Path Merging, Splitting, Pathfinder, Symbols.
Week 13 outline - on Illustrator Tracing, Live paint, Live Color, Swatches.