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GRAPHICS AND IMAGE MANIPULATION SOFTWARE
This practical course enables the student to edit photos and artwork in digital format. It helps to create simple graphics for Web pages.
Learning outcome :
Students will be able to:
- Correctly define and use fundamental terms and concepts related to video and animation.
- Apply the principles of editing such as corrections and touch ups to photos and artwork.
- Develop skills to perform print media design, stationary designs etc.
- Design and create GIF animations and videos.
Learning and teaching strategies:
Approach in teaching: Interactive Lectures, Demonstrations, Group activities
Learning activities for the students: Effective assignments, Giving tasks.
Assessment Strategies
Class test, Semester end examinations, Practical Assignments, Individual and group projects.
Basic Concepts: Image Fundamentals, Digital Images representation format- TIFF, BMP, JPG/JPEG, GIF, PNG, PDF, PSD. Importance of file formats. Bitmap Images and Vector Graphics, Image Size and Resolution,
Creating, Opening and saving files, Menus, Selection, Image Handling: Cropping an image, adjusting image size, and increasing the size of the work canvas, saving an image. Optimizing images for Web Publications: Choosing right graphic Format
Tool Box, Brush tool, Clone stamp tool, pen tool, Opacity, pressure, or exposure, paint fade-out rate, making selections, using selection tools, Selection menu, adjusting selections, softening the edges of a selection, hiding a selection border, moving and copying selections, extending and reducing selections, pasting and deleting selections. Measuring Tools: Eyedropper, Color Sampler, Ruler, Note and Count. Retouching Tools, Brush Tools, Gradient and Paint Bucket
Layers: Adding layers, dragging and pasting selections on to layers, dragging layers between files, viewing and hiding layers, Editing layers, rotating selections, scaling an object, preserving layers transparency, moving and copying layers, duplicating layers, deleting layers, merging layers, using adjustment layers, Styles
Image adjustment menu, Hue saturation, contrast, Curves, levels, Type tools, Gradient tool
Palette Painting and Editing: Brushes palette, brush shape, creating and deleting brushes, creating custom brushes, setting brush options, saving, loading and appending brushes.
Effects & filters, Video formats, Define patterns, Channels and Masks, Channel palette, showing and hiding channels, creating a quick mask, editing masks using quick mask mode, Slice Tool, Slice Select, Palettes: History Palette, Action Palettes, Color, Swatches, Slice Tool, Slice Select, Palettes: History Palette, Action Palettes, Color, Swatches.
- M. Hamburg & Mack, “Photoshop Bible”, IDG Series, John Wiley and Sons.
- Michael & Linda Wooldridge, “Adobe Photoshop”, IDG Series, John Wiley and Sons.
- Adobe Creative Team, “Photoshop Classroom in a Book”, Adobe Press.
