Digital Imaging & Web Revision
Assignments
Daily Assignments |
Required Assignments | Attendance & MakeUp
Notice:
Carefully compare all assignments to the solution key.
Investigate any differences and correct your errors. Submit
the assignment to
your instructor at dkamarainen@sccd.ctc.edu. The Subject line should
show: "Assignment: <<Enter here the
names of the assignment(s) you attached>>".
Daily Assignments:
8/18/11, Thu:
Complete all
projects and assignments
8/17 & 8/16/11,
Wed & Tue:
1:00 - Final
Project Completion
After completion of
your Final Project, either...Add quality to your Imports website, OR create a
Personal Web. Use your creativity. Get ideas from other websites.
Add Quality to
Your Imports Web
Continue improving
your Imports Web by adding pictures, titles, and descriptions for the various
products; describe your business more thoroughly, and add pictures of your
operation and facilities; show your employees, their titles, and services
to the customer; show how to order products; indicate your principles and
business practices; etc.
Create a Personal
Web. Design and build a personal website using the skills you have
learned in this class. Use Photoshop Elements to add pictures and creative
designs with layering. Add your own personal banner.
2:30 - Final
Project Completion
8/15/11, Mon:
1:00 - Banner and
Product Update - Part 1
2:30 - Banner and
Product Update - Part 2
8/11/11, Thu:
Adding a New Web Page
1:00 -
Interactive demonstration and discussion of Chapter 2 -- design criteria, how to add a page, rename,
change title, label, change the theme on one page, background color, tables,
merge cells, insert images, and photo montage. (2nd Handout p. 2.04-2.62)
2:30 -
Final Project
Complete the
2-Modifying the Navigation Component exercise. Then,
continue with the 3-Link Bar
and Bookmark exercise.
8/10/11, Wed:
1:00 - Creating a
FrontPage Web Using a Template
Interactive
demonstration and discussion of how to create a web with a template, themes, add
and modify text, delete tables, bulleted lists, hyperlinks, email hyperlink,
print, and publish a page.
2:30 - Begin the
1-Corporate Presence Exercise.
8/9/11, Tue:
1:00 - Final
Photoshop Project
2:30 - Creating a
FrontPage Web
Discussion of the web
and FrontPage basics. Use the PowerPoint presentation named Project
1 Intro (G:\Instructors\DKamarainen\Dig Img & Web Rev\FrontPage) to help
you review the handout "Creating a FronPage Web Using a Template". Go
through it together as a team, if you like.
8/8/11, Mon
1:00 - Retouching
Photos
Interactive
demonstration and discussion of how to touch up scratches and blemishes with
Guided Edit and Quick Fix, remove red eye, clone stamp, spot healing, remove
dust and scratches, crop, and cookie cutter. (p. 150-160)
2:30 -
Elements Screen & Terms Quiz
Interactive
demonstration and discussion of how to touch up scratches and blemishes, crop,
cookie cutter, rotate, straighten, sharpen, and extract. (p. 161-171)
Retouching
-
Find a picture named
Scratches and Stains in the Photos Unfinished. You may scan your own picture or search
online for an image that has scratches or stains.
-
Save the picture in
your personal drive as Scratches and Stains.
-
Remove all scratches
or stains using the toolbox tools, Guided Edit and/or Quick Fix.
-
Save As Scratches
and Stains Edited in your personal drive.
8/4/11, Thu:
1:00 -
Manipulating Selections
Interactive
demonstration and discussion of how to move a selection, copy and paste, delete,
rotate, scale, skew or distort, and feather a border. (p. 116-125)
2:30 - Layer
Basics
Interactive
demonstration and discussion of how to manipulate
layers: add, hide, move, duplicate, delete, duplicate, reorder, link,
merge, rename, and create fill layer. (p. 128-142)
Project 2:
Using the bg_tree1.jpg as the background, create a realistic scene by adding at
least three selected images to the background.
The
Photoshop Elements Terminology Quiz is
scheduled for Monday, 8/8/11.
8/3/11, Wed:
1:00 - Selection
Techniques
Interactive demonstration and discussion of marquee, lasso, magic wand,
quick selection, selection brush, add or subtract, save and load, invert,
and deselect (p. 96 - 113)
2:30 - Selection
Techniques
Complete the
discussion on selection techniques.
Project 1:
Create a new blank image, select and add images of flowers and a butterfly
arranged in a natural way using the appropriate selection tools. Email the
completed assignment to your instructor.
8/2/11, Tue:
1:00 - Introduction to
Imaging and Web Design
Introduction and discussion of
the software used in this course -- Photoshop Elements & Microsoft FrontPage
Syllabus
Interactive
demonstration and discussion of toolbox tool use, and palettes (p. 4-13)
Go to
file:///G:/instructors/DKamarainen/Dig Img & Web Rev/Photoshop
Elements/Photoshop Elements Guide Ch1.pdf
Create a folder in
your personal F:\ drive named Dig Img & Web Rev
See
Elements Screen -
labels.pdf to learn the parts of the screen.

2:30 - Getting Digital
Photos into Elements
Interactive
demonstration and discussion of image windows, zoom, adjust the view, image
size, print size, image resolution, canvas size, undo, and revert. (Chapter
4, p.
78-93)


Required Assignments:
The table below lists all the exercises in the textbook. Not all
exercises are required. Exercises with asterisks (*) are not
required, but you are encouraged to complete them for extra credit.
Compare each of your completed
exercises with its solution (found in the Solutions notebook). Any errors
that you find should be corrected before emailing to your instructor.
See How to Turn In Exercises. Successful completion of the
required exercises is necessary to doing
well on tests. Exercises must be turned in prior to the quiz that covers
those skills.