AYVC9010

Image Processing
Week 1

Basics + Outline. Selections and Paths.

Using right click to do stuff with selections and paths.

Shapes.

Raster vs Vector.

Task: Combine two layers to integrate content, completed in class time.

Week 2

Layers, Channels and Clipping Masks.

Why are they important? What can you do with them?

What is it? Alpha channel.

Adjustment layers + Levels + Hue Saturation.

Image Match + Shadow/Highlights + Variations.

Week 3

Paint tools, brush design and settings, and colours.

Custom brushes.

Painting processes and mixer brushes.

Project set: Painting surfaces, completed in class time.

Content Aware Tools.

Healing and Cloning

Puppet warp
Smudge, Warp and Liquify
Filters

Task: Provided image doctoring, completed in class time.

Project: Digital Painting using Mixer brushes.

Week 4
Collage

History of Collage.

Examples of style.

What is not a collage (Photo Montage/Assembly).

Week 5

Text and composition.

Printing tests.

Project set: Painting a poster mock up illustration. Due following week.

Week 6

Photography for poster (planning).

Painting submission feedback session.

Photography undertaken by student. Studio can be booked. Due following week.

Week 7
- Image adjustment of poster to create final artwork. Due following week as PDF.
- Creating a PDF work flow.

Week 8

Workshop Poster Photography shooting.

Week 8

Actions + Video tutorial.

Layer styles.

Smart objects.

Week 10

Photo Montage FINE ART FOLIO.

Booklet explanation model, object, scenario, style.
Ideas exploration and research PDF. Due following week.

Week 11

Photo Montage FINE ART FOLIO.

Image workshop.

HWK: Completion, approval, print.

Week 12

Photo Montage FINE ART FOLIO.

Submission.

Questionnaire.

Image Processing Projects

1 10%

Digital Painting (Due week 6)

Use of Paint tools to generate ideas and iterate possibilities.
Submission: Print of final A3 poster layout and PDF of development drawings.

2 10%

Collage (Due week 8)

Composition and Spatial Design using Text, Photographs and Background.
Submission: Print of final A3 poster layout and PDF of development drawings.

3 20%

Photographic Manipulation (Developing an Advertising Poster Layout) (Due week 10)

Submission: A3 Print of photography based advertising poster showing
use of content, model, lighting, background, font to promote themed sale.
All photography must be original.

4 20%

Student proposed design of folio (Due week 12)

The student develops a personalized artwork based on their own art through a series of
prints or a catalog. All photography must be original.
Students also design the format of the brochure in terms of print, mounting and exhibition/display.

5 40%

Accumulative skill acquisition in Photoshop (Tasks from week 1 to 5).

Class tasks based on provided reference imagery.
+Paths and Selection.
+Brushes and Layers.
+Clipping Masks and Adjustments.
+Content Aware Tools.