Computer Art

COURSE SYLLABUS

ART 210.01
time to be announced in class schedule
ROOM - IB3404

INSTRUCTOR:
Elroy Christenson
Office: IB2408a
telephone: 528-4535(office and voice mail
email: echriste@sccd.ctc.edu
home page: http://facweb.northseattle.edu/echriste/echome.html

REQUIRED TEXT:
        packet of information available in the copy center
RECOMMENDED TEXT:
        Dayton, Linnae &Davis, Jack . Photoshop 4 WOW Book,
        or any other Wow book.

COURSE OUTCOMES/ LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

This course will give you the fundamentals of computer aided fine arts using various graphics programs and processes to create images in printed and digital forms. Emphasis will be placed on composition and effective use of the media toward larger format reproductions and creating a personal web page.

PROCEDURE:
Your artwork or images will be drawn, manipulated and scanned into various computer software included but not limited to Clariswork , Fractal Painter and  Photoshop.  Students will create assigned projects on computers from letter designs, computer drawn images, photos and scanned images learning the processes, proceedures and limitation for crossing from one program to another.  Students will be expected by the end to have created, manipulated and converted their own images into their own personal digital portfolio on Syquest portable diskette and simple web page.
 
 

This course will give information and excercises toward an understanding of graphic manipulations using several techniques and computer processes.
             MacIntosh basics
             essential of pixel based images
             essentials of bitmap based images
             scanning images
             essentials of various graphic programs
                      Clarisworks 5
                       Fractal painter 4 or 5
                       Illustrator 6
                       Photoshop 6
             type design and logo creation
             image manipulation, duplication, distortion, coloration
             World Wide Web and graphic images
                      graphic conversions - JPEG & GIF Converter
                      effects, and complexities
              basics of copyright law and policy
              how to build, design and organize a portfolio of art for WWW -
                             in HTML and with JPEG images
       A portfolio of at least 10 images that will be created as the class progresses.
 
 

GRADING:
Grades will be on a quality evaluation basis of the following:
               a portfolio of at least ten computer generated/manipulated images of a very specific nature
               a large scale photo transfer of a computer generated image and
               the design and execution of the an operational web page of your artworks.
               a visual final exam project intended to utilize the techniques learned in the quarter
 

MATERIALS Needed:

       1 - 250 mg Zip portable harddisk - for the storage of large format images
        (these are usually about $13 to $19 each available at CompUSA)
 
       a computer access card