Friday, February 25, 2011
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Image Adjustment Tutorials
Here are three informative videos (all using pets) on image adjustment using Adobe Photoshop. They are made using a windows interface and a previous version of the software, but remember, all the same menu items exist on the Apple computers we are using in class.
How to: Color to Black and White
Please note. This is one of several ways to convert your images to black and white. We'll be working with other methods later in the semester. For this first assignment, please follow the instructions below.
1. Open your image in Photoshop.
2. Chose Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Black and White...
3. A dialog box will appear. Click OK.
4. Chose File -> Save As.
5. Save your image as a *.psd file. This will preserve the black and white adjustment layer that was created. Make sure you provide your image with a filename that will not overwrite your original file.
Below is a video tutorial that describes using this tool in depth.
1. Open your image in Photoshop.
2. Chose Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Black and White...
3. A dialog box will appear. Click OK.
4. Chose File -> Save As.
5. Save your image as a *.psd file. This will preserve the black and white adjustment layer that was created. Make sure you provide your image with a filename that will not overwrite your original file.
Below is a video tutorial that describes using this tool in depth.
Destructive and Non-destructive Edits
Photoshop edits files in the following two ways. They are...
Destructive edits - changes modifying content in a way that it cannot be changed back to its original state. An example of a destructive edit would be to make a levels adjustment to an image by modifying a layer directly, thus altering it's content permanently.
Non-destructive edits - changes modifying content that modifies the edits rather than the original content. An example of a non-destructive edit would be to make an adjustment layer. Changes can be made to that edit, or adjustment layer without altering other layers or original content. A real world analogy would be walking outside and putting on sunglasses. In doing so you make the world appear darker without actually making it darker. Once you remove your sunglasses, everything is the same as when you put them on.
Destructive edits are BAD! They destroy data, which is information, which is ultimately resolution. Use non-destructive editing techniques whenever possible.
Here's a few types of Adjustment Layers you can add to your image using Photoshop. Please note, these are not all of them, we'll get to the rest later! If you only use adjustments layers to edit your images, you will be making non-destructive edits!
Levels - Adjusts the brightness and contrast using a histogram that represents the tonal values in an image.
Color Balance - Adjusts shifts of color in an image. If an image appears too blue you can make it warmer or more yellow using this tool.
Hue Saturation - Hue is the name of a color, saturation is a color's intensity. An image with no saturation contains no color information, only information on the brightness or darkness of each pixel. This tool adjusts the saturation of any particular hue in an image, or the overall saturation of all the hues.
How to make a New Adjustment Layer in Photoshop CS4?
Chose Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Levels (or any other desired type of adjustment from the list)
Destructive edits - changes modifying content in a way that it cannot be changed back to its original state. An example of a destructive edit would be to make a levels adjustment to an image by modifying a layer directly, thus altering it's content permanently.
Non-destructive edits - changes modifying content that modifies the edits rather than the original content. An example of a non-destructive edit would be to make an adjustment layer. Changes can be made to that edit, or adjustment layer without altering other layers or original content. A real world analogy would be walking outside and putting on sunglasses. In doing so you make the world appear darker without actually making it darker. Once you remove your sunglasses, everything is the same as when you put them on.
Destructive edits are BAD! They destroy data, which is information, which is ultimately resolution. Use non-destructive editing techniques whenever possible.
Here's a few types of Adjustment Layers you can add to your image using Photoshop. Please note, these are not all of them, we'll get to the rest later! If you only use adjustments layers to edit your images, you will be making non-destructive edits!
Levels - Adjusts the brightness and contrast using a histogram that represents the tonal values in an image.
Color Balance - Adjusts shifts of color in an image. If an image appears too blue you can make it warmer or more yellow using this tool.
Hue Saturation - Hue is the name of a color, saturation is a color's intensity. An image with no saturation contains no color information, only information on the brightness or darkness of each pixel. This tool adjusts the saturation of any particular hue in an image, or the overall saturation of all the hues.
How to make a New Adjustment Layer in Photoshop CS4?
Chose Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Levels (or any other desired type of adjustment from the list)
Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts
I came across the COMPLETE list of Photoshop CS4 shortcuts. It's a bit overwhelming. Feel free to use it, but need some endless patience and a magnifying glass. They are almost identical to the shortcuts used for CS5.
LINK TO EVERY SINGLE PHOTOSHOP CS4 KEYBOARD SHORTCUT
The handout provided in class provides a much smaller list of useful keyboard shortcuts. No magnifying glass required.
LINK TO EVERY SINGLE PHOTOSHOP CS4 KEYBOARD SHORTCUT
The handout provided in class provides a much smaller list of useful keyboard shortcuts. No magnifying glass required.
Friday, February 11, 2011
Assignment 2 - Camera and Light
We will be looking at light. Photographing light. What hides in shadows, what makes your eyes squint. Photograph the things in the world that you can't touch, or see. Stop where it's warm or where it's cold and make a photograph. How is the temperature changing the light, if at all? Re-visit the same scene throughout the day.
For each exposure that you make, photograph the scene again, underexposing 1 stop, then two stops. Then overexpose the scene by 1 stop, then two stops. For each scene there will be 5 exposures.
Make no less than 300 exposures. Bring the images to class on Friday, February 18th. Three 8x10 inch black and white prints will be due at a date to be announced.
For each exposure that you make, photograph the scene again, underexposing 1 stop, then two stops. Then overexpose the scene by 1 stop, then two stops. For each scene there will be 5 exposures.
Make no less than 300 exposures. Bring the images to class on Friday, February 18th. Three 8x10 inch black and white prints will be due at a date to be announced.
Assignment 1 - Part 2
Please turn in the images for #27 along with the three other assignments you chose from the Learning to Love You More website.
Re-size your images to be 800 pixels wide and save them as .jpg. This will be covered in class on 2.11.2011 and again on 2.18.2011. There is also instructions on how to do this below
On the desktop, make a folder labeled with you first name, last name, and LTLYM. Place that folder in DropBoxes -> Sean McFarland. This procedure will be followed to turn in all assignments throughout the semester.
All images are due no later than at the end of class on 2.18.2011.
Re-size your images to be 800 pixels wide and save them as .jpg. This will be covered in class on 2.11.2011 and again on 2.18.2011. There is also instructions on how to do this below
On the desktop, make a folder labeled with you first name, last name, and LTLYM. Place that folder in DropBoxes -> Sean McFarland. This procedure will be followed to turn in all assignments throughout the semester.
All images are due no later than at the end of class on 2.18.2011.
Friday, February 4, 2011
THIS IS YOUR EDUCATION - SAVE IT
BELOW IS AN EMAIL I RECEIVED FROM THE HEAD OF THE ARTDM DEPARTMENT. THIS IS TERRIBLE. LET'S DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
Hi fellow faculty members in Art Digital Media and Photography.
Last Friday faculty in ARTDM and ART were informed that many of our courses were going to be cut from the Fall 2011 schedule. These courses include ARTDM 136 (digital Photo) ARTDM 224 (typography) ARTDM 117 (Digital Illustration) and ART 160 (Intro to Photography).
It is important for us to inform our students of these impending cuts so they can voice their concerns to the administration.
If these cuts happen there will no longer be any photography classes including analog and digital offered at DVC. Our graphic design program will be compromised since students will not be able to take typography or illustration. Please urge your students to write e-mails to the administrators in our district to protest these horrible cuts.
The Division of Applied and Fine Arts has been asked to shoulder a huge percentage of the proposed cuts for the college while other Divisions have taken no cuts. What will DVC look like without ART, DRAMA, and MUSIC, Photography?
Please ask your students to send e-mails explaining how the proposed cuts will affect their educational goals at DVC.
Here are some e-mails to pass on to your students.
Chancellor for the district, Helen Benjamin: HBenjamin@4cd.net
President at DVC, Peter Garcia: pgarcia@dvc.edu
Vice President at DVC, Susan Lamb: slamb@dvc.edu
Art Department Chair, Michele Krup: mkrup@dvc.edu
Dean of Applied and Fine Arts, Mike Almaguer: malmaguer@dvc.edu
Digital Media Area Head Joann Denning: jdenning@dvc.edu
Hi fellow faculty members in Art Digital Media and Photography.
Last Friday faculty in ARTDM and ART were informed that many of our courses were going to be cut from the Fall 2011 schedule. These courses include ARTDM 136 (digital Photo) ARTDM 224 (typography) ARTDM 117 (Digital Illustration) and ART 160 (Intro to Photography).
It is important for us to inform our students of these impending cuts so they can voice their concerns to the administration.
If these cuts happen there will no longer be any photography classes including analog and digital offered at DVC. Our graphic design program will be compromised since students will not be able to take typography or illustration. Please urge your students to write e-mails to the administrators in our district to protest these horrible cuts.
The Division of Applied and Fine Arts has been asked to shoulder a huge percentage of the proposed cuts for the college while other Divisions have taken no cuts. What will DVC look like without ART, DRAMA, and MUSIC, Photography?
Please ask your students to send e-mails explaining how the proposed cuts will affect their educational goals at DVC.
Here are some e-mails to pass on to your students.
Chancellor for the district, Helen Benjamin: HBenjamin@4cd.net
President at DVC, Peter Garcia: pgarcia@dvc.edu
Vice President at DVC, Susan Lamb: slamb@dvc.edu
Art Department Chair, Michele Krup: mkrup@dvc.edu
Dean of Applied and Fine Arts, Mike Almaguer: malmaguer@dvc.edu
Digital Media Area Head Joann Denning: jdenning@dvc.edu
John Cage
Rule 1
Find a place you trust and then, try trusting it for a while.
Rule 2
General Outline of Duties of a Student:
Pull everything out of your teacher.
Pull everything out of your fellow students.
Rule 3
General Outline of Duties of a Teacher:
Pull everything out of your students.
Rule 4
Consider everything as an experiment.
Rule 5
BE SELF DISCIPLINED. This means finding someone wise or smart and choosing to follow them. To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self-disciplined is to follow in a better way.
Rule 6
FOLLOW THE LEADER. Nothing is a mistake. There is no win and no fail. There is only MAKE.
Rule 7
The only rule is work. If you work it will lead to something. It is the people who do all of the work all the time who eventually catch on to things. You can fool the fans – but not the players.
Rule 8
Do no try to create and analyze at the same time. They are different processes
Rule 9
Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It’s lighter than you think.
Rule 10
We are breaking all the rules, even our own rules. And how do we do that? By leaving plenty of room for X quantities.
HELPFUL HINTS:
Always be around. Come or go to everything.
Always go to classes.
Read everything you can get your hands on.
Look at movies carefully and often.
Save everything. It may come in handy later.
Learn more about John Cage here...
Find a place you trust and then, try trusting it for a while.
Rule 2
General Outline of Duties of a Student:
Pull everything out of your teacher.
Pull everything out of your fellow students.
Rule 3
General Outline of Duties of a Teacher:
Pull everything out of your students.
Rule 4
Consider everything as an experiment.
Rule 5
BE SELF DISCIPLINED. This means finding someone wise or smart and choosing to follow them. To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self-disciplined is to follow in a better way.
Rule 6
FOLLOW THE LEADER. Nothing is a mistake. There is no win and no fail. There is only MAKE.
Rule 7
The only rule is work. If you work it will lead to something. It is the people who do all of the work all the time who eventually catch on to things. You can fool the fans – but not the players.
Rule 8
Do no try to create and analyze at the same time. They are different processes
Rule 9
Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It’s lighter than you think.
Rule 10
We are breaking all the rules, even our own rules. And how do we do that? By leaving plenty of room for X quantities.
HELPFUL HINTS:
Always be around. Come or go to everything.
Always go to classes.
Read everything you can get your hands on.
Look at movies carefully and often.
Save everything. It may come in handy later.
Learn more about John Cage here...
Assignment One - LTLYM
Go to http://www.learningtoloveyoumore.com.
Look over the assignments. Complete assignment #27, along with 3 others of your choice. Document the results using your digital camera.
DO NOT alter or adjust your images before we meet in lab. Instead, spend your time and effort on photographing! Remember to bring everything you need to get your images off your memory card/camera and onto the computer.
Please bring your images to class on Friday 2.11.2011.
P.S. this one is really amazing.
http://www.learningtoloveyoumore.com/reports/47/hearn_kara.php
Look over the assignments. Complete assignment #27, along with 3 others of your choice. Document the results using your digital camera.
DO NOT alter or adjust your images before we meet in lab. Instead, spend your time and effort on photographing! Remember to bring everything you need to get your images off your memory card/camera and onto the computer.
Please bring your images to class on Friday 2.11.2011.
P.S. this one is really amazing.
http://www.learningtoloveyoumore.com/reports/47/hearn_kara.php
Terms, downloading, and resizing!
Terms to know:
Resolution = Information
PPI vs. DPI
Megapixel
Monitor Resolution vs. Printer Resolution
Bit Depth
Grayscale
RGB
CMYK
JPEG
TIFF
RAW (NEF, CR2)
PSD
Downloading images to the computer
1. Turn on and plug your camera in the computer.
2. iPhoto may automatically launch and ask if you'd like to use it to download your photographs. You don't. Quit iPhoto when it launches.
3. Make a new folder on the desktop named with the date and your name. For example, I would make a folder named "2.4.2010_mcfarland".
4. Click on the hard drive icon on the desktop and navigate to the applications folder. Double click and open the application "Image Capture". It has a camera for an icon.
5. It should recognize your camera. From the "Download To:" drop down box, chose "Other", navigate to the folder you just created on the desktop and click the "Open" button.
6. Click the "Download All" button. Your photographs will begin downloading to the computer, into the folder your designated. You may chose to only download some of the images on the camera. If so, click the "Download Some" button, select the images you'd like to download.
Resizing images for the web using Photoshop
1. Save a copy of your image with a new name. You'll want to do this to avoid overwriting a high resolution image with your new smaller re-sized image. For example, the original file might be named "landscape.jpg", the new file could be called "landscape_for_web.jpg"
2. From the menu, chose Image -> Image Size
3. A dialogue box will appear. In the top of this box is a section labelled "Pixel Dimensions". Change the width to somewhere in between 500 and 800 pixels, make sure the "Constrain Proportions" option is checked.
4. Click "OK" and save your image as a jpg.
Resolution = Information
PPI vs. DPI
Megapixel
Monitor Resolution vs. Printer Resolution
Bit Depth
Grayscale
RGB
CMYK
JPEG
TIFF
RAW (NEF, CR2)
PSD
Downloading images to the computer
1. Turn on and plug your camera in the computer.
2. iPhoto may automatically launch and ask if you'd like to use it to download your photographs. You don't. Quit iPhoto when it launches.
3. Make a new folder on the desktop named with the date and your name. For example, I would make a folder named "2.4.2010_mcfarland".
4. Click on the hard drive icon on the desktop and navigate to the applications folder. Double click and open the application "Image Capture". It has a camera for an icon.
5. It should recognize your camera. From the "Download To:" drop down box, chose "Other", navigate to the folder you just created on the desktop and click the "Open" button.
6. Click the "Download All" button. Your photographs will begin downloading to the computer, into the folder your designated. You may chose to only download some of the images on the camera. If so, click the "Download Some" button, select the images you'd like to download.
Resizing images for the web using Photoshop
1. Save a copy of your image with a new name. You'll want to do this to avoid overwriting a high resolution image with your new smaller re-sized image. For example, the original file might be named "landscape.jpg", the new file could be called "landscape_for_web.jpg"
2. From the menu, chose Image -> Image Size
3. A dialogue box will appear. In the top of this box is a section labelled "Pixel Dimensions". Change the width to somewhere in between 500 and 800 pixels, make sure the "Constrain Proportions" option is checked.
4. Click "OK" and save your image as a jpg.
Thursday, February 3, 2011
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