Vector Portrait M/W: Student Works.

Vector Portrait T/R: Student Works.

tyler mccall

wes humann

wes roemmich

stephen schmidt

sean maher

mariah leeskamp

kaytee herbst


holly gragg

nyssa peterson

emily moore

daniyll onufrishyn

cydney wilkes

cody moiseve

Photo Manipulation M/W: Student Works.

thea hunt

lindsay giebler

lesley bannister

heidi kleder

caitlin cantrell

josh trujillo

benjamin feliciano

jill popp

elizabeth jonas

marina cardona

gabriel wam

LE's How to Use Dreamweaver Tutorial.

How to Use Dreamweaver:

You can't use Dreamweaver until you have properly learned the song. Once you learn the song, then you sing the song while you are operating the program. If, for any reason, you forget the words to the song, immediately shut down the program, reopen it, and start again, remembering to sing the song all the time you have it open. If you loose your work, or if Dreamweaver crashes, lost work can be retrieved by singing the song backwards. If your links get broken, or are missing files, you can find files magically by singing the song while standing on your head and twirling your feet. good luck. LE

Instruction Videos

here are some cool instruction videos you must see for a better understanding of both computer and the macintosh computer, specifically.

THE MAC KILLED MY INNER CHILD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOEKBC1JPz4

INTRODUCING THE BOOK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFAWR6hzZek

Raw Camera Information.

What is Raw Camera file?
info from - http://www.northlightimages.co.uk/article_pages/why_use_raw.html#what_is_raw

Higher quality digital cameras often have a raw image format available in addition to the normal JPEG and TIFF.

Digital camera image sensors create an image from literally millions of tiny light sensing areas on a silicon chip. The image is built up from individual pixels.

Each light sensor is receptive to a broad range of colors and has a minute colored filter in front of it. There are usually three different colors (red, green and blue). Since we see green best the filters are in a particular pattern (one called a Bayer pattern is common) with more 'green' pixels.

Bayer pattern

The actual sensor can provide data at 12 to 14 bits per pixel (4096 to 16,384 levels of intensity) This is reduced to 8 bits per color in a JPEG file (24 bits total, 8 per color R,G and B). The complete unreduced data is stored in a raw format file.

The camera has a lot of other information available when a picture is taken. Along with the date and time it records shutter speed, aperture and its estimate of the white balance setting and other pertinent data. This is recorded with any picture.

To produce a JPEG or TIFF file, the computer inside the camera has to do quite a lot of calculations on the raw data to produce a picture file. These are carried out once, and the result is what you see when you open the file in a picture editor program. With a raw format file these calculations are not done and all of the original data is saved to the raw file.

How do you use raw files?

Camera manufacturers will provide special software to read and convert raw files. This is in effect using your computer to do the calculations that the camera would have done if you'd saved in JPEG.

Things such as sharpening, color settings and contrast all take place during the conversion. Sadly, most camera manufacturers are much better (it is hoped) at making cameras than writing software for you to use. This is where specialist conversion programs and plug-ins for popular image editing programs come in.

What are the advantages of raw format?

1. All your conversions are done on a fast powerful computer at your convenience.
2. Images can be 'fixed' in ways that would be very difficult without the raw sensor data.
3. You get the full range of data from the sensor.
4. Without sharpening or compression you have not 'lost' any data.
5. You can change your mind about some of the picture settings after you have taken it.

Is there a downside?

1. Raw files are bigger
2. JPEGs are quick and easy to use.
3. Special software is required to do the conversion.
4. Not all cameras support raw formats and may offer reduced functionality when using raw.

Making your own brushes in Photoshop.

Here is a brief outline to follow up class demonstration.

Making your own brush in Photoshop.

Preparation of the image:

1. Pick your imagery from any visual source.
2. Keep your brush below 2500 pixels by 2500 pixels.
3. Make black imagery with white background (de-saturate).
4. Adjust your levels for high contrast.
5. Eliminate unnecessary space when selecting.

With your brush shape on the artboard in Photoshop and selected:

1. Edit/Define brush preset.
2. Use your brush from the brush palette.
3. Save your brush. Choose brush preset, click the right top arrow, choose save brushes.
4. When using the brush, choose colors to show brush colors, and choose brush settings for size, angle, etc. by opening window/brushes.