Introduction, Resolution, Moving from Raw to PSD

Nothing it's your first day!

Week 1 Course Introduction

• Introductions, Roster Pictures
• ­Handout syllabus with explanation ­
• Aims and objectives of the course ­
• Grading policy
• ­Attendance policy
• Class procedures and expectations
• Office location and hours
• ­Equipment requirements always bring your laptop and camera
• Sign contract
• File naming
• Google Drive
• Google Sites
• NY Times
• How to turn in your homework
• Back Up Protocols
• Hard Drives/ Crashes
• Digital Photographers

Introduction ­ Global Adjustments and Basic Image Modification

In this unit students will examine their workflow as images move from raw to a non-­raw format. Organization and image quality will be discussed, with an emphasis on the differences between the formats. Layers will be introduced in a limited capacity. Images will be edited with simple pixel modifications (cropping, perspective, transformation, spotting) and global color or tone adjustments. Compositing as a concept will be introduced with elementary layer masking.

Introduction to the concept of post-production, and what exactly that means.

Questions/ Reminders on Importing Images

Resolution, and what exactly that means on screen or in print.

Bit Depth

Color Spaces

Your two ways to edit a file - the Independent Photoshop Adobe Camera Raw Editor, or Lightroom.

We'll Use LR, because it integrates so nicely with everything else.

Moving from LR to PSD and back again

• Variables in generating a PSD (or whatever)
• LR vs Bridge vs Hitting Yourself in the Face
• File management now that you have two copies
• What to do in which program (e.g.: cropping, perspective correction)

Raw Processing Exercise

• From LR, take a raw file and bring it into PS, rename the layers appropriately, etc.
• Check the size and the colorspace,
• Do some sort of modification to it (I suggest drawing a moustache) and save
• Check that it's back in your LR catalog.

Lab /Assignment 1

(if not completed and turned in during class, due at the beginning of next class)

File Format Ring-Around.

Select a raw file in your LR catalog.

Open the file in Photoshop as a 240ppi 16 bit PSD file, in the ProPhoto colorspace.

We're going to save this file several different ways, just to prove we know what we're doing, sort of. Be SURE to double-check you're naming them the right things. If you do the second one and call it 03, you'll be wrong.

0. Save your file as it is. Just hit command-S. Now there's a psd version in LR.

1. Save-as the file to be 1600 pixels on the long side. Call that one yourlastname_firstname_Assignment01_01.psd

(go back to the beginning of your history)

2. Save it to be ~8x10.5" at 10 ppi. Call that one yourlastname_firstname_Assignment01_02.psd

(go back to the beginning of your history)

3. Save it to be 9000 ppi without adding any pixels. Call that one yourlastname_firstname_Assignment01_03.psd

(go back to the beginning of your history)

4. Save it as a 8 bit TIFF Call that one yourlastname_firstname_Assignment01_04.tiff

(go back to the beginning of your history)

5. Save it as a JPEG in sRGB Colorspace Call that one yourlastname_firstname_Assignment01_05.jpg

(go back to the beginning of your history)

Don't forget to stick a copy of these crazy things in your 'exported' folder, ideally with a rational subfolder about what they are and when you did them.

Make a folder and named yourlastname_firstname_Assignment01 in the Assignment 1 folder and drop them all in it

Assignment #1

Reading response #1

Read The Heart of Whiteness (it's in the handouts folder) write a 500 word response to it. Make a pdf and drop it in reading response 1 folder lastname_firstname_read1.pdf

If you also have me this afternoon you should read

These are from Brad

https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2009/09/02/doctoring-diversity-race-and-photoshop/

https://medium.com/@nancyleong/racial-photoshop-and-faking-diversity-b880e7bc5e7a#.mvby4dpts

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/107769909607300410

SHOOT FOR NEXT WEEK! For Assignment 2

You'll need a 'background' image, a 'character' image, and an 'object' image - read the assignment! Your 'character' and 'object' should be different sizes (a human and a cookie, not a human and a life-sized-blow-up-doll) and photographed to be nearly filling the frame (don't shoot the cookie from across the room)