Introductions/Digital Images

Introduction

• Course overview & expectations
• ETO lab
• Home Directory
• Take the course survey

Digital Images: Capture & scanning

• Intro to digital cameras
• Using card readers, flash drives & scanners

Digital Images: Overview of Photoshop Elements 2 workspace

• The Elements Workspace
• Overview of the Tools & Palettes
• Rotating & cropping
• Saving

Resources

Assignment 1

Digital Images

• another victim of Photoshop...

Digital Images: Element's Selection Tools

• Overview of marquee, magic wand, lasso

Digital Images: Layers in Elements

• Overview of layers
• Layers exercise
• atlas.jpg
• earth.gif
• milky way.jpg
• planets.jpg

Finished atlas image

Resources

Assignment 2

Digital Images

Digital Images: Resolution

• Overview of Image resolution

Digital Images: Fixing & Retouching

• Adjusting colors:
  • click for jpeg images(nags_head,thai_mosaic)
• Fixing & retouching photos:
  • click for jpeg images (red_eye, family, cruxien)
• Clone & pattern stamps
• Red-eye brush

Digital Images: Filter & Effects

• Filters
• Effects

Resources

Assignment 3

Digital Images

Digital Images:Painting & drawing tools

• Painting & drawing tools
  • vector-based shapes

Digital Images:Text tools

• Using the type tool
  • layer styles, warping,layer masks

Digital Images: Preparing images for Web

• file formats: jpeg, gif & png
• Save for Web

Digital Images: Other built-in features of Elements

Assignment 4

May 27

Web page creation

• History of the Web

Web page creation: Basic HTML

• HTML tags
  • HTML.txt

Web page creation: Dreamweaver MX 2004

• WYSIWYG editors
• DW Interface
  • Menu commands
  • Toolbars/palettes
  • Tables
  • Managing sites
  • Naming conventions
• Discuss project guidelines

Resources

Assignment 5

May 31

Web page creation

Web page creation: Dreamweaver MX (cont'd)

• other DW topics
• lab time to work on web site

Resources

Assignment 6

Web page creation (cont'd)

Web page creation: wikis

• definition
• EDLF 707 wiki

Podcasting

• Overview
• What is podcasting?
• EDLF 707 podcast page

Resources

First draft of project proposal due

Assignment 7

Podcasting

• Recording & editing audio in Audacity
• Creating the RSS feed with enclosures
• Subscribing to RSS feeds with iPodder

Project

• discuss projects

Digital video

• overview of using a digital video camera
• video shooting tips
• mini-DV tapes
• ETO reservations & camera check out

Pinnacle Studio 8

• non-linear editing basics

Resources

Assignment 8

Digital video editing

Pinnacle Studio 8

• capturing video
• storage issues
• The Pinnacle Studio 8 Interface
  • Editing, titles, transitions
  • Sound effects, menus, etc.
• Saving your project

Resources

FInal draft of project proposal due

Assignment 9

June 6

Digital video editing

Pinnacle Studio 8

• Video editing lab

Resources

Assignment 10

June 7

Digital video editing

Pinnacle Studio 8

• Making your movie
• File formats (codecs)
• Creating a DVD

Web streaming overview

• downloading vs. streaming
• streaming formats
• how to link your video to the Curry streaming server
• ref streaming sample

Resources

Assignment 11

Open Lab

Project work

Open Lab

Projects work

Open Lab/Project presentations

Projects due
Presentations due