Week 1
January 18 or 19
(first assignment due next week)
This Week’s Lecture Video Stream and Download Link
ALL STUDENTS! I must receive your first homework assignment via email by January 28, if not, you will be dropped.
If for some reason you cannot turn in the first assignment by then, YOU MUST contact me STATING YOU WISH TO STAY IN THE CLASS (an email from you) by January 27 (Friday) OR YOU WILL BE DROPPED FROM THE ROSTER on January 30th.
If at any time during the semester you fall behind 3 assignments, or miss 3 classes or more during the semester without extenuating circumstances, I will drop you.
Mandatory for ALL STUDENTS:
Complete the Student Questionnaire. Also, read the ENTIRE syllabus.
Topics covered:
Requirements and expectations:
Tom’s Rule of Three: Watch it, Read about it, Do it...(lecture, reading, tutorials)
Introductions; syllabus review and expectations; the textbook, online resources, and the Mac interface; the textbook CD and use of image files and lessons; the “nearly-paperless” course modality; use of Photoshop in the design industry—digital imaging as a design tool; quick tour of Photoshop
Assignment:
Buy a USB Flash drive to keep and transfer files if necessary; buy Exploring Photoshop CS5 and read Preface and Chapter 1: A Discovery Tour; complete lesson: The 15-Minute Photo Makeover assignment (page 4)
Graphic Design New Basics: READ the Forward and all pages up thru the chapter on Point, Line, Plane (pages 1-27).
Portions of this book are online at: http://gdbasics.com/
What’s Due? (this first assignment is due next week, Jan. 25-26, depending on your class section.
Note: The SYLLABUS is subject to change and it is on this weekly lecture page where changes will be mentioned. You MUST check this site every week for updates etcetera.
Each week our class website will have a “What’s Due?” paragraph with all specifics, changes, etc. Cool. So then...
Email me, to my homework email, the file you create on Page 11, Step 6, of Exploring Photoshop, it will be a file called masterbed.jpg. Make sure you follow all the proper instructions in submitting your homework, listed in this syllabus.
Make sure you review the Chapter 1 Summary (powerpoint slideshow)
Access to Adobe Photoshop CS5 is required for this course.
It is installed on our Design Lab computers.
It is available at a substantial discount for California Community College students here.
Click on the graphic below to enlarge, click again to collapse.
Also, watch this short video on pixels vs. vectors.
(GS): WHAT IS PHOTOSHOP
What is Photoshop CS5? Watch this short video below:
Very clever... “Real World” meets Photoshop LOL:
HOW DO YOU TURN IN YOUR ASSIGNMENTS?
You will consolidate all files, folders, documents, into a folder, then ZIP the folder and email me the ZIP file as an an attachment... The folder will be named name_330_chapter#. If your email supports it, you can email me the folder as it is, unzipped, but things get messed up over the internet sometimes. I will get back to you typically within a few days that I received it.
QUESTIONS? YES, YOU WILL HAVE THEM!
Try to get answers to your questions in this order.
1. From the Syllabus
2. From the Textbook
3. Photoshop’s CS5’s Help in the Menu Bar
4. From a friendly tutor or coordinator in the lab.
5. From the Class Website
6. Email me if all others fail. I want you to learn :-)
Homework email: