IMAGE MANIPULATION : James O'Brien : Art Institutes International : Fall 2007

Syllabus and class guidelines

Lectures & demos

01 : Image use and Getty <<COMING SOON?  Accunet/AP <<NEW  Adobe Stock Photos   Veer.com <<NEW

02 : Histograms and color adjustments

03 : Cropping, rotating, transforming

04 : Retouching and repairing

05 : Correcting distortion and noise and Adjusting sharpness and blur

06 : Transforming

07 : Liquify and introducing distortion

08 : Vanishing point  <<WILL REVIEW IN CLASS

09 : Photomerge

In-class exercises

01 : Scan and retouch/repair a photo supplied in class.

02 : Fix this photo (straighten, retouch, color adjust).

03 : Convert a color image to grayscale. 

04 : Bring color to a grayscale image. 

05 : Surrealism report

06 : Make a series of vanishing point planes with this file, follow in-class instructions.

Projects

01 : Retouch and repair

02 : Make a monster (colorize, combine, distort) (monster definition) (Lürzner's ARCHIVE current issue cover image)

03 : Surrealism

04 : Hockney montage

05 : Panorama

06 : Composite  <<NEW

Links

Photoshop help documentation online

Adobe Photoshop Design Center (online tips and tutorials)

Fluid Effect (online portfolio of digital photo retouching and manipulation)

Retouching and repairing photographs video (some new CS3 stuff including Clone Source Palette)

Making tonal corrections video

Making lighting corrections video

wiredness.com (a site where you can manipulate an image within your browser)

Using blending modes video

Applying Smart Filters video

Making and refining selections video

Combining images using Photomerge

http://commarts.com <<NEW

http://saddingtonbaynes.com <<NEW

http://sugardigital.com <<NEW

http://fatcatdigital.com <<NEW

http://rocketart.com <<NEW

http://glenwexlerstudio.com <<NEW

http://johnfultonphotography.com/retouching.htm <<NEW

http://fiscusphoto.com <<NEW

http://jameystillings.com <<NEW

 

IF YOUR BROWSER ASKS YOU TO INSTALL FLASH PLAYER 9, GO AHEAD AND CLICK THE YES BUTTON. USUALLY ON CAMPUS, WE ARE NOT ALLOWED TO INSTALL ANYTHING (IT IS ACTUALLY DISCOURAGED) BUT THIS UPDATE PROCESS (THINK UPDATE NOT INSTALL) SHOULD WORK FINE. YOU WILL HAVE TO QUIT THE BROWSER ONCE YOU BEGIN THE INSTALL HOWEVER. IF YOU STILL HAVE TROUBLE VIEWING ANY OF THE ABOVE VIDEOS, LET ME KNOW AND I WILL COME UP WITH A WORKAROUND.

 

© 2007 James O'Brien