SCHEDULE:  Week 1 – January 5            

Lecture: Intro to Class & History of Digital Imaging, Intro to Photomontage

Tutorial: none | Assignment: Digital Image #1 – Due February 2, 2009

Week 2 – January 12            Reading: Spalter

Lecture: History of Dada and Photomontage

Tutorial: Using Moodle, Intro to Scanning, Photoshop Basics,

Week 3 – January 19    Reading: Samara

 Lecture: Intro to Design, Design and Visual Communication

Tutorial: Intro to Layers, Masking, and tools for selection – lasso, magnetic lasso, pen tool

Week 4 – January 26            Reading: White (Unity) and White (Design Components)

Lecture: More on Design, Image and Text

Tutorial: Filters, Tools, Type | Assignment: Digital Image #2 – Due February 23, 2009

Week 5 – February 2            Reading: Landa

Lecture: Electronic Color; Color and Meaning 

Tutorial: Image correction tools, creating shadows, coloring B&W images |

Week 6 – February 9            Reading: Meggo

Lecture: Digital Photography and Post-photographic Truth, Taking Photographs

Tutorial: Coloring Exercise – an in-tutorial exercise. Digital Image #3 – Due March 8, 2009.

Week 7 – February 23            Reading: Holzschue

Lecture: Interpreting Images and Intro to Web Design

Tutorial: Seamless fictions: light quality and direction, edge sharpness, depth of field, shadows  Assignment: Web Project – Planning Documents and writing due March 22, 2009, Final Web Projects due March 27, 2009. | Meetings with instructor

Week 8 – March 2             Reading: Tufte

Lecture: More Web Design – Evaluation, Audience, Intentionality

Tutorial: Seamless fictions continued; File formats, images, and the World Wide Web

Week 9 – March 9             Reading: Barrett

Lecture: Web Design and Web Art Projects | Tutorial: Intro to Fireworks and Dreamweaver |

Week 10 – March 16             Reading: Beaird

Lecture: Test Review; in-class writing exercise 

Tutorial: Exporting from Photoshop/Fireworks and using Dreamweaver |

Week 11 – March 23            

Lecture: Meetings with student groups to discuss web drafts

Tutorial: More on Fireworks and Dreamweaver – managing web sites | Due: Web Site Plans

Week 12 – March 30            

Lecture: TEST | Tutorial: LAB day – students work on projects | Due: Final Web Projects

Week 13 – April 6            

Tutorial: None | Lecture: Critique Selected Student Web sites

Note: Final Web Projects will be accepted up to this date, without late penalty