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Photoshop for Theatrical Designers - Spring Semester 2012

Learn how to use Adobe Photoshop for drawing, painting, collage, and photo-alteration. Gain elementary skills with Sketch-Up for 3D modeling. Attendance and project policies explained.

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Photoshop for Theatrical Designers - Spring Semester 2012

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  1. Welcome to Photoshopfor the Theatrical DesignerSpring Semester 2012Anne Mundell-Instructor412 268 7218amundell@andrew.cmu.eduwww.andrew.cmu.edu/user/amundell/photoshop/

  2. Computer Applications: Goals • To learn to think and communicate in Adobe Photoshop. • To add Photoshop to your toolbox of skills for • Drawing • Painting • Collage • Photo-alteration and manipulation • To gain an elementary facility with Sketch-Up

  3. Attendance Policy • Consider Computer Applications a job. • One Free missed class • Grade goes down one letter grade for each unexcused missed class after one • More than 15 minutes late equals an absence

  4. Project Lateness Policy No late projects will be accepted, however, I will gladly change grades for projects that are handed in on the due date and then improved later.

  5. Turning in Homework • Homework will be turned in to public/people/amundell/photoshop on the Drama server. • DO NOT email files to me. • If you cannot get onto the server, bring me a CD

  6. Grading • Poster 25% • Sketch-Up Structure 15% • Storyboard 50% • Presence in Class (are you engaged, participating and working in class?) 10%

  7. Textbooks • Recommended Reading: • PhotoshopCS5 Classroom in a Book, Available on Amazon

  8. What is Photoshop for? • Two dimensional image manipulation and painting • Photographic corrections • Graphic design and printing applications

  9. Image Manipulation For The Designer

  10. Image Manipulation Can Be Used in a Number of Ways for the Designer • Paint Elevations • Renderings, Costume, Lighting, Scenery • Model making • Lettering and Drafting Ideas • Show Photography • Portfolio • Web Publishing

  11. Paint Elevations • Paint elevations can be done any number of ways in Photoshop. What follows are several ways that I have used the program on various productions:

  12. One Way Is to Start With a Piece of Drafting: Or:

  13. Add a Wallpaper Pattern

  14. Add Some Shadows, Color and Finesse:

  15. And Voila Paint Elevation

  16. Renderings

  17. Costume Renderings

  18. Renderings: • Start with a model photograph, for example:

  19. Which then becomes:

  20. Or compile multiple images: Start with:

  21. Add

  22. Then paint to create:

  23. Scanner Interface (example)

  24. Scanner Adjustments

  25. 72dpi (standard web)

  26. 150 dpi

  27. 300dpi

  28. LPI • Different printing methods use varied amounts of Lines per Inch, which some scanners will allow you to adjust:

  29. Early Image Correction • Rotate canvas • View/fit on screen • DPI/Image size • Auto Levels • Crop

  30. Image Collections on the Web • http://www.gettyimages.com • http://www.corbis.com • http://www.freefoto.com • http://google.com (image search)

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