MA C102, Digital Imaging

Course Description. In this course you will be using Adobe Photoshop 7.0 to learn how to create and optimize graphics for the web, retouch photographs, create digital collages, use a digital camera and scanner, and more.

Sierra Sands faculty and staff who take this course will receive their own fully licensed copy of Photoshop 6.0 for use at home on classwork and extra curricular projects.

Enrollment Info

• MA C102, Digital Imaging
• CRN 71847

Time and Location:

• 4:20 – 6:50 p.m. Tues/Thurs,
  August 25 - December 12
• Cerro Coso Community College,
  Main Building, Room 256

Textbooks

• Design Basics, Lauer and Pentak, Wadsworth Pub.,
  ISBN 0-15-508377-5 $74.00
• Adobe Photoshop 7.0 Classroom in a Book, Adobe Press,
  ISBN 0-321-11562-7 $31.50

Course Objectives:
Upon successful complete of this course, the student will be able to:

• Acquire digital images from various input devices, such as flatbed scanner, digital camera, and digital video.
• Choose the appropriate method for making selections in an image using selection tools, quick mask, alpha channels and /or paths.
• Utilize the several methods for loading and editing selections, such as adding to or subtracting from, transforming, expanding, contracting, growing, and feathering selections.
• Properly interpret a histogram and utilize image adjustment features such as Levels, Curves, Hue/Saturation, and Variations.
• Effectively utilize target values with Levels and Curves.
• Perform detailed color correction with the brush, dodge, burn, and sponge tools.
• Solve color correction problems through an understanding of basic color theory, the RGB and CMYK color models.
• Correct out-of-gamut colors in the CMYK and web color models.
• Create duotone, tritone, or quadtone images.
• Understand pre-press issues.
• Colorize a black and white photograph.
• Demonstrate that he/she can accurately isolate intricate foreground imagery from its background with the Extract function.
• Demonstrate principles of composition through digital photography and digital artwork.
• Create aesthetic compositions using layers and the various layer options, including layer styles, layer blending modes, layer masks, clipping groups and adjustment layers.
• Create an image of photographic quality with multiple still images. The composite image should have consistent and realistic lighting, reflections, and perspective. Throughout.
• Begin to discover a personal style for solving creative problems.
• Combine raster and vector images in artwork, understanding the benefits and limitations of each image type of image.
• Incorporate typography in a composition.
• Apply advanced filter techniques.
• Demonstrate the procedures for batch processing of images.
• Optimize graphics for web delivery balancing the need for small file sizes yet maintain image and color quality.
• Create icon and symbol sets that communicate immediately, contain visual consistency throughout the set, and are rendered with technical skill.
• Create images that can be seamlessly tiled for 3D texture maps or web backgrounds.
• Describe copyright issues