Week 1 Covered: Overview of Photoshop interface: Toolbar Palettes Painting Selection Tools / Selecting Choosing Colors Photoshop Menus Photoshop Help Menu Windows Explorer / Saving Files in Windows Goals: After working through today's material, you should now be able to: Paint and edit with various tools Choose various brushes Choose a desired color and paint with it Make Marquee, Lasso and Magic Wand selections Add to / subtract from selections Open the Photoshop Help Menu and find a topic Use Explorer to create your own folder Save a file to your own folder or Zip disk Week 2 Covered: Painting / Editing, Color Theory, Selections, Copyright Issues; Textbook Intro More about painting and editing Traditional Color Theory Inverse Selecting; Save & Load Selections Rubber Stamp Tool Intro to Copyright Issues: definition, respecting others' copyrights, obtaining permission, royalties, fair use, legal ramifications protecting your own work: official registration, "poor man's copyright", DigiMarc Confronting the blank canvas: textbook introduction - finding ideas for visual art Goals: After working through today's material, you should now be able to: Understand basic color theory Feel comfortable using Photoshop painting tools Operate the classroom scanner properly Understand basics of resolution as they relate to scanning Use the Rubber Stamp Invert a selection Save and load a selection Modify selections with feathering Expand or contract a selection Understand fundamentals of copyright issues as they relate to work produced in this class Return to top Week 3 Covered: Scanning, , QuickMask, Design Basics, Tonal Correction: Levels, Navigation; Chapter One Composition / Design Navigation: Zoom In / Out, View Options with Screen Modes, View in 2 Windows, Navigator Palette Quickmask Scanning: Operation of Classroom Scanner Scanning: Resolution Issues Art - sources: Chapter One - Expanding your knowledge, visual nutrition / visual detritus Goals: After working through today's material, you should now be able to: Understand basics of visual composition / design in order to create a more interesting image Identify common mistakes in design Make a Quickmask selection Zoom in and out of a file using the Zoom commands or Navigator Palette, move around a file with Navigator Palette Week 4 Covered: Dealing with Mistakes, Tonal / Color Correction: Curves, RGB vs. CMYK Color Space, Intro to Layers; Chapter Two Tonal Correction: Levels Intro to Layers: function and importance Layers: creating, deleting, copying, arranging, naming, showing/hiding Help Menu: Resize Image Wizard Printing Art - influences: Chapter Two: Artistic sources: learning from the masters, Photography as note-taking Goals: After working through today's material, you should now be able to: Modify an image's tonal quality using Levels Create an image with multiple layers Show / hide layers in Layers Palette Delete or copy a layer; create a new layer Rearrange order of layers in Layers Palette Understand different color spaces: RGB, CMYK, subtractive & additive color and how they relate to monitor display and print output Access Photoshop Help Menu's Resize Image Wizard Return to top Week 5 Covered: Layers: Opacity / Blending Modes, Tonal / Color Correction: Brightness-Contrast / Color Balance, Transformation Tools; Chapter Three Layer Opacity / Blending Modes Tonal / Color Correction: Curves Edit Menu: Transform Tools Mistakes - Edit:Undo; the History Palette Art - working: Chapter Three: the inner critic and the search for ideas Goals: After working through today's material, you should now be able to: Manipulate a layer's Opacity Modify a layer's Blending Mode Modify an image's color quality using Curves Manipulate an image - scale, flip, mirror-image, and perform various distortions through the Edit:Transform Menu Undo single or multiple mistakes with History Palette Week 6 Covered: Layer Mask, Tonal / Color Correction: Variations, Filters, Alpha Channels, Chapter Four Layer Mask: Creating a smooth gradient fade-out Tonal Correction: Brightness - Contrast / Color Balance Filters Menu Repeat previous filter Fade current filter Combining filters / experimenting with filters on different layers Art - obstacles: Chapter Four: originality & style, learning more, freedom to make mistakes Goals: After working through today's material, you should now be able to: Make a layer mask on a layer and create a gradient fade-out in the mask Modify an image's color quality using Brightness-Contrast / Color Balance Understand how to apply filters Repeat a filter for added effect, or fade it for more subtlety Try out different filters on layer copies of the same image Return to top Week 7 Covered: Layers: Clipping Groups, Compositing, Filters, Patterns, Render: Lighting Effects - Simulating 3D Tonal / Color Correction: Variations Combining filter effects with layers at different opacities & blending modes Filling a background with a pattern using Edit:Define Pattern Creating a repeated pattern using Rubber Stamp Tool's Pattern Stamp function Use Lighting Effects to simulate 3D Goals: After working through today's material, you should now be able to: Modify an image's color quality using Variations Feel comfortable applying various filters to images and controlling their strength / appearance through the Fade Filter command and Blending Modes Apply combinations of various filters to achieve a specific effect Use Edit:Define Pattern & Edit:Fill commands to fill a background with a repeated tiling pattern Create a repeating pattern with the Pattern Stamp Tool Use the Render:Lighting Effects filter to create "3D" buttons, shapes, and text Week 8 Covered: Clipping Groups, Visual Communication: Content and Meaning, Alpha Channels Clipping groups Alpha channel manipulation: painting, erasing, distorting a saved selection Conveying a message visually Illustrative Representation vs. Metaphor - Symbolism Goals: After working through today's material, you should now be able to: Create clipping groups of layers Modify selections through alpha channel manipulation find alternate ways of showing an idea visually begin to see the difference between illustrating an idea ( obvious approach ), and creating a metaphor ( symbol ) for that idea Week 9 Covered: Communication and meaning Goals: After working through today's material, you should now be able to: try out various approaches to your last two projects Week 10 Covered: Photoshop Web Gallery -- Trial Run with Practice Folder Goals: After working through today's material, you should now be able to: create a blank folder for your Web Gallery and use Photoshop's Web Gallery tool to create an HTML-based portfolio of your graded projects Return to top