GCIP 141: Schedule

Week 1: Orientation
Introduction; Online Learning; Blackboard Procedures; Bridge

Week 2: Working with Layers
Layer Masks; Mask Multiple Layers; Paint in a Layer Mask; Adjustment Layers; Edit Layer Styles; Edit Layer Styles

Week 3: Working with Layer Styles
Copy and Paste from Illustrator to Photoshop; Import Layers; Gradient Overlays on a Layer Style; Copy Styles Between Layers

Week 4: Design Project 1
Kindle Book Cover
Facsimile Exam 1

Week 5: Adjusting Levels and Hue/Saturation
Analyzing Greyscale Images; Tolerance Based Tools; Hue, Adjusting Saturation and Brightness

Week 6: Working with Curves and Adjusting Color
Explore the Curves Adjustment; Adjust Curves in a Grayscale Image; Analyze Color Channels; Adjust Color with Curves

Week 7: Working with Type and Shape Layers
Design Chisled Type; Design Plastic Type; Design Recessed Type; Mask Images with Type; Use Shape Layers to Design Eroded Ttype

Week 8: Design Project 2
Web Advertisement
Facsimile Exam 2

Week 9: Designing with Multiple Images
Create a Concept for a Poster; Asses Supplied Images; Position Images for a Background Setting; Integrate Multiple Images into a Single Background Image

Week 10: Investigating Production Tricks and Techniques
Explore Issues with Resolution; Create a High Resolution Mechanical for a Billboard; Create Black and White from Color; Use the Unsharp Mask Filter to Sharpen Edges

Week 11: Retouching and Enhancing Images
Whiten Eyes; Investigate the Overlay Blending Mode; Overlay Detail; Use a Channel as a Mask; Use the Cloinging Tools; Retouch Teeth; Analyze the Healing Brush Tool

Week 12: Design Project 3
iTunes Cover
Facsimile Exam 3

Week 13: Tackling the Tough Challenges
Use the Replace Color Utility; Transform with a Puppet Warp; Employ Content Aware Techniques; Retouch with the Overlay Blending Mode; Refine Selection Edges

Week 14: Creating Special Effects
Work with Smart Filters; Create a Solarize Effect; Create Mezzotint and Halftone Effects; Create a Ripped Effect; Create Monotones and Duotones

Week 15: Working with Blending Modes
Color Balance a Photo Montage; Add Depth and Dimension to a Photo Montage; Luminosity and Hard Light Blending Modes; Use Blending Modes in Calculations

Week 16: Design Project 4
Poster
Facsimile Exam 4

Bert Monroy is a photo-realist digital artist who works with the incredible challenge of recreating reality.

Sean Duggan is a photographer, author and educator with a traditional, fine art photographic background combined with over a decade of extensive experience in the field of digital imaging.

Art creates an energy and bond between the creator and the viewer. What is art to one person may be merely noise to another. But there is an unspoken communication between the artist and the audience that elevates both. To achieve that sort of bond, artists must put their energy, their essence into the work. It requires dedication and soul searching. It requires the ability to let go of what other people think, the courage to put one's art out into the world. It requires that the creator release the creation. Another requirement of art is that it forces us to take another look at life, to reexamine what we think we know.

GCIP 141 is about more than just the mechanics of Photoshop. This class will help you find your own way of thinking and working by presenting techniques that are grounded in solid results. This class will give you a place from which to soar into your own creativity.