Digital Imaging Syllabus for the school year 2010 – 2011

Course: 916 – Digital Imaging .5 credits Elective 10,11,12

Purpose & Description: Digital Imaging is a semester course which teaches the student to develop and manipulate both still images and Flash Animation. Adobe Photoshop CS3 will be the application used to work with still images and Adobe Flash CS3 will be the application used to work with Flash.

General Objectives: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. Work with digital cameras and scanners
2. Handle image layers and channels
3. Apply color techniques and add type to an image
4. Create special effects to images with filters
5. Create interesting graphics-rich movies
6. Add text to movies
7. Add sound animation and interactivity to movies
8. Be familiar with a number of fundamental computer science terms which will be found on each of the different tests. Click here to view the terms the student should learn.

Textbooks:
Adobe Photoshop CS3 Introductory Concepts and Techniques by Shelly, Cashman and Starks. The text will be bought by the student. The text is published by Course Technology Cengage Learning.
Adobe Flash CS3 Revealed by Jim Shuman. The text will be bought by the student. The text is published by Course Technology Cengage Learning.

Class Assignments
Class assignments are laid out in the School Time Table (see the navigation buttons above). The student can find out exactly what they will be working on by going to this location and then seeing what their section will be accomplishing on any specific day.

Image Editing:
Image Editing will consume 1/2 of the semester's work.
After each chapter of the textbook there will be a Chapter Review followed by a Project and a Test of the material in that Chapter..
Chapter Projects: 40% of the student's grade(1 class period)
Chapter Tests: 60% (25 question test with some computer science terms included) of the student's grade
Final Image Editing Project will be a Personal Logo developed by each student and will be weighed as a Test score. See below for more details about this project.

Movie Editing:
All students will complete 1 Windows Movie Maker or iMovie project during the quarter. Project 1 - Basic movie will be based on film footage provided by the teacher and developed by the student. Other movie projects build around Flash will be required as well.

Grading of Projects and Tests:
Movie Projects: 40% of the student's grade and will generally be a 2-3 day effort
Movie Tests: 60% (25 question test with some computer science terms included) of the student's grade

There will be a Final Semester Exam with 100 questions.

Semester Grading:
40% for each Quarter Grade for a total of 80% of the student's grade
20% for the Final Semester Exam grade

Special Project on Filters (Optional)

Students who successfully accomplish the following project during the 3rd Quarter on filters can get the equivalent of a test score of a 100. This project was published on a web site: http://www.tutorialjungle.com/display.php?t=fire-text
Students are to take the word FIRE and make it look like this:

Additional Instructions for Adobe Photoshop CS3

Filling type with imagery

You can use the imagery from a layer in one file as a fill pattern for another image's type layer. To create this effect, open a multi-layer file that contains the inagery you want to use (the source), then open the file that contains the type you want to fill (the target). In the source file, activate the layer containing the imagery you want to use, use the Select menu to select all, then use the Edit menu to copy the selection. In the target file, press [Ctrl for PC] or [Command for Mac] while clicking the "T" on the type layer to which the imagery will be applied, then click Paste Into on the edit menu. The imagery will appear within the type.

Projects to be accomplished during the semester course.

Personal Logo Project (Photoshop)

Objective: To develop a personal logo with emphasis on the initials using Photoshop. This logo should include the student's initials (all your inititals or a subset of them) along with a creative background. The background should not be so dominant as to minimize the inititals. As a suggestion the student can develop something around their family crest or a crest that the student has created that includes the student's initials in conjunction with the crest.
Method: Student will work alone on the project. All layers should be named and used. If there are items in the Personal Logo that the student has developed and may not be obvious to the teacher the student should prepare a writeup in Microsoft Word of the actions taken to develop the project so the teacher has the best possible appreciation of the work that went into the preparation of the project. If everything in the Personal Logo is abundantly clear no write up is necessary to be submitted. When all work is complete the student will drop the final product in a Photoshop (PSD) format into the Drop Off Folder for their class (P3, P4 or P5) also include any writeup with you name in the file. The student should name the persoanl logo file FullStudentName Personal Logo. If the student should enhance their Personal Logo after having dropped off an earlier version they should place a number after their name, i.e. FullStudentName1 Personal Logo and resubmit it to the Drop Off Folder. Only the last submitted personal logo will be graded and all others will be deleted.
Tools to be used: Students will use Photoshop, Internet and scanner as necessary to design the layout for the personal logo.

Personal Logo Rubric

	Excellent	Meets Requirements	Needs Improvement
Initials Prominent in Logo
Background is Creative and Supports Initials
Photoshop Layers all Named
Photoshop Layers all Used
Personal Logo File Correctly Named

Yearbook Montage (Photoshop)

Objective: To develop a photographic spread or montage of the student's life and activities as if they were going to place this page in the back of the PVI year book.
Method: Students should obtain pictures of their childhood and any other pictures they might like to display on the montage. They will scan them into the computer and utilize the Photoshop tools to arrange them attractively for the montage. When placing images into the Montage make sure that all edges are smoothed (feathered). Remember this Montage is about you the student and the images used should be primarily about you and your family, not sports and car images as examples. Make sure all layers are properly labeled and used in the development of the Montage. If a layer is not used delete it. If a layer is used it should have a name that is descriptive of what it is. The student should prepare a writeup in Microsoft Word of the actions taken to develop the project so the teacher has the best possible understanding of the work that went into the preparation of the project. When all work is complete the student will drop the final product into Teachers Apple/Drop Off Folder for their class.
Tools to be used: Students will use the camera, scanner and Photoshop as necessary to design the layout.

Yearbook Montage Rubric

	Excellent	Meets Requirements	Needs Improvement
Images have Smooth (feathered) Edges
Background Supports Images
Photoshop Layers all Named
Photoshop Layers all Used
Rectangleitis is Minimized

Movie Project - Basic Movie (Video)