Week 1

Tuesday (4/17)

• Introductions.
• Intro to Photoshop.
• Resolution, image size & canvas size.
• File formats.
• Selections.

Selections exercise 1;

Extra credit exercise.

Thursday (4/19)

• Quickmasks.
• Cutting & pasting.
• Moving/transforming objects.
• Layer basics.

CIB: 131–154

Week 2

Tuesday (4/24)

• Color basics (RGB vs CMYK)
• Color picker.
• Brushes & other paining tools.
• Layers, transparency & blending modes.
• Layer effects.
• Layer masks.

Line art colorization (due week 5).

CIB: 157–217

Thursday (4/26)

• Masks and channels.
• Painting techniques.
• Colorizing line art.

Week 3

Tuesday (5/1)

• Adjustments.
• Unsharp mask.
• Blur, sharpen & smudge tools.
• Burn, dodge & sponge tools.
• Clone stamp, healing brush & patch tool.
• Retouching images.

Photo repair exercise.

Continue line art colorization.

CIB: 85–110

Thursday (5/3)

• Lab day: work on Project, exercise.

Week 4

Tuesday (5/8)

• Creating textures.
• Creating patterns.
• Making seamless textures/patterns.

Seamless textures exercise.

Thursday (5/10)

• Review for midterm.
• Lab day: work on project, exercises.

Week 5

Tuesday (5/15)

• Midterm
• Colorization project due — critique.

Creature creation (due week 8).

CIB: 313–333

Thursday (5/17)

• Advanced layer techniques.
• Adjustment layers.
• Layer styles.
• Liquefying.

Week 6

Tuesday (5/22)

• Typographic design .
• Text tools.
• Text effects.

Type exercise.

CIB: 249–278

Thursday (5/24)

• Lab day: work on project, exercise.

Week 7

Tuesday (5/29)

• Vectors and bitmaps.
• Paths and the pen tool.
• Custom shapes.

Vector exercise.

CIB: 279–312

Thursday (5/31)

• Lab day: work on project, exercise.

Week 8

Tuesday (6/5)

• Creature creation due — critique.
• Using Photoshop to design interfaces.
• Jpegs, Gifs & Pngs.
• Image Ready.
• HTML rollovers.

Rollover exercise.

Interface (due week 11).

CIB: 373 –418

Thursday (6/7)

• Lab day: work on project, exercise.

Week 9

Tuesday (6/12)

• Animated GIFs

Animated GIF

Thursday (6/14)

• Lab day: work on project, exercise.

Week 10

Tuesday (6/19)

• Filters and effects.
• The "light saber" technique.

Light saber exercise.

Thursday (6/21)

• Lab day: work on project, exercise.

Week 11

Tuesday (6/26)

• Project 3 due — critique.
• Review for final.

Thursday (6/28)

• Final.