In Class Wed Dec 12th

The Final is today from 12 noon till 3pm.


i will be in around 11:30am

it is time to celebrate the end of a great semester!

In Class Wed Dec 5th

SUMMA Thing

Lets talk about freelance and dealing with clients
- a pencil and paper
- how to bill and what to charge
- where to find work
- portfolio

ask questions!

Workin' on your Books

In Class Wed Nov 28th

A moment with Sam Karp:
- Newspaper Photographer, Magazine Creative Director, Communication Specialist, Photography Teacher, Marketing/Advertising Consultant

ask him questions, he's been around!

Check out Sams Blog

Check out Sams Flickr



Work on you books and the Triptic

In Class Mon Nov 26th

Lets Talk Copyright © (option-G) on the MAC
- What is it?
- Who Owns it?
- Levels of Protection

examples:
2 Live Crew & Roy Orbison, "Pretty Woman"
U2 & Negative Land, "U2 font and logo"

copyright © info



Make your Books!

In Class Mon Nov 19th

Makin a Hard cover for the book

bring your glued folded books to class!

In Class Mon Nov 14th

The chumby is here!

We will be makin' books today! or at least the test book

cut, glue, fold

In Class Mon Nov 12th

Finishing up the books and getting ready for the first printing.

-- You should be finalizing your book pages today

-- You should start printing the 1st copy today.

-- Lets talk about printing and papers and such.

we want to get all the pages for the first printing done and ready for thursday.

...ALSO check out the new links about personal publishing

In Class Wed Nov 7th

Chumby is on the way.



Work on your books

Print out a test copy

In Class Mon Nov 5th

Work on your books today

you should be printing out some of your pages today!

In Class on Halloween

First check out some creepy links
* new links on the side of the blog

then work on your terrifying book
(you should be well into laying it out at this gory point)

i will be checking out your spooky progress

In Class Mon Oct 29th

See some examples!

Work on your books today

i want to see your Photoshop book template PSD's and a page or two of your book

In Class Wed Oct 24th

Work on your books.

you should be setting up your Photoshop Template today and have a good amount of your images collected.

In Class Mon Oct 22nd

We will be discussing your books individually.

You should have alot of your material collected by now and should be getting close to the layout phase.

Work on your book in class.

In Class Wed Oct 17th

Check out Project 1 and Discuss

Talk about the book project.
- your ideas (now after a week of thought)
- sizes & formats

Creating a template in Photoshop
- 8.5" X 11" paper size (either horz or vert)
- non printable area
- guides
- creating cut lines
- folders in layers

In Class Wed Oct 10th

Project 2 is Due!
- We will print out the "screen shot" images in class.
- I will collect the 2 "screen shot" images as JPGs
- I want to see your 'Archive' and 1 pattern

Discussion about book project (project 3)
- Group or individual
- Book size
- Subject matter
* see examples

Design Contest

Due Nov 2nd
send all entries to the attention of:
The 2007 Holiday Card Contest
Office of MArketing & Communications
Shineman Chapel House

need more info contact:
Francis Borrego '92
borregof@hartwick.edu

In Class Mon Oct 8th

Layout and design in Photoshop
- Rulers
- Preferences Changing between inches and pixels
- Guides & Grids
- Single Pixel Selection H & V
- Using the Square Selection Tool as a layout guide
- Templates and Photoshop
--- CD Template
--- Our Book Template
----- Look at the Language of the Template
- Printers and Design
--- Non printable area on Laser/Inkjet printers
--- Leading edge on Laser Printers
- Asking your Printer (the person) Questions
----- What Resolution?
----- CMYK or RGB?
----- Printable Area?
----- Color Space (colorsync)

In Class Mon Oct 1st

Photoshop Text and Transform
--- Text Tool
--- Transform tools
--- Filters
--- Using the Vector tools
--- Photoshop masks

In Class Wed Sept 26th

Project 1 Due
* Remember to 'Flatten' (under Layer) your image and then save it as a JPEG 12 Quality at 'Standard'

we will be renaming the files in class (i'll give you the naming convention)


Photoshop Retouching
Rubber stamp
Healing and patch tools
Pattern Stamp
creating a pattern
saving a pattern

---> Proj 2 Video Game Appropriated archive

check out Ward Kimbal

ALSO the transfer pens are here! i'll hand them out in class

In Class Mon Sept 24th

Photoshop Layers 2
--- Adjustment layers
----- adjustment layer masks for selective manipulation


work on Project due on Wed the 26th

In Class Wed Sept 19th

Photoshop Color
Image Color manipulation tools
--- Color correction
----- Levels
----- Curves
----- Hue / Saturation
----- Histograms
*The color of Army Men

Mode

the Scanner

& Maybe:
Photoshop Layers
--- modes, opacity, fill, lock

Join the college Newspaper

Your College Needs You!

Hilltops, the print voice for Hartwick College students for the last 76 years, is currently seeking writers, photographers, news junkies, opinion mongers, insomniacs, know-it-alls, and the obsessively curious to form it’s 2007-2008 staff.

Hartwick’s student newspaper is looking to fill the following positions:

n Photographer

n Reporter(s)

n Columnist(s)

Your involvement in Hilltops can leave a lasting mark on Hartwick College, your resume, and you. If you have a good eye, a need to know, or an axe to grind, join us today! Hilltops needs team players of all sorts to create an active and engaged student voice that will be heard across Oyaron Hill and beyond.

A general interest meeting will be held tomorrow, Tuesday September 18 at 7:30 p.m. in the Hilltops office on the third floor of Dewar Union in the Communications Suite. Attend!

For more information, contact Hilltops Editor Danielle Peloquin at peloquind@hartwick.edu or 508-596-6381.

_______________________

Christopher Lott

Associate Writer

Hartwick College

Oneonta, NY 13820

Phone: 607-431-4030

Connecting the Classroom to the World

In Class Mon Sept 17th

Photoshop 7 Basic tools 2
*Image Qualities
--- See images from old project 2
Selection Tools recap
Dodge / Burn
Blur / Sharpen

get a Flickr name and put your images in a set!

opportunity

View As Web Page

Please reply only to ariana bray at braya@hartwick.edu

CALLING ALL PAINTERS AND/OR DRAWERS!

(and other creative peoples: you DO NOT need to be an art major)

Last semester I started a volunteer project working on painting murals in the local Fox Pediatrician’s Office (located near Price Chopper) and I am seeking volunteers to help me continue the project! Last semester we were able to complete 5 rooms but we still have 6 to go, so any help would be great.

PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO SENDER!!!!!!!!!!

THE TIMES CAN BE FLEXIBLE AND WILL PROBABLY SPAN SEVERAL DAYS EACH WEEK.

I WILL BE HOLDING AN INTEREST MEETING NEXT WEEK IN STACK LOUNGE ON WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 19 AT 7:30PM. BRING YOUR SCHEDULE TO THE MEETING.

IF YOU CANNOT MAKE THE MEETING, PLEASE EMAIL ME: BRAYA@HARTWICK.EDU

ARIANA BRAY

In Class Wed Sept 12th

Photoshop 7 Basic tools 1
Erase
Foreground/Background Color
Eyedropper
Paintbrush / Airbrush
Paint bucket / Gradient
- Selection tools
Marquee
Lasso
Crop
Magic Wand
Move

*Appropraition & Culture Recycling in Digital Media


Check out Project 1

In Class Mon Sept 10th

Checkin out the semester long projects:

-learnin' to use the Transfer pen (easy to learn, hard to master)
(hey where did the command Z go?)


Whats up with Candy?

Intro to Photoshop 7
-Photoshop Overview
Setting up your work area
Open / Browser / Save
History / Undo function
* Digital Image Resolution
* File Types
Zoom / Hand tools
Image size / Canvas size
Preferences

In Class Mon Sept 9th

Some Thoughts on Text

First Day

Hello and Welcome to the Digital Art & Design 2, Digital Print Based Media. You are looking at the blog for the class. This blog will contain al the information you need for this class including up-to-date information on what will be happening in class, project specifics and examples.

take a moment to click around and check things out. make sure you take a look at the class Squidoo lens.