ART 237 Photo Illustration
Lecture Hours: 2
Lab Hours: 4
Credits: 4
Adds digital imaging and manipulation to traditional photographic skills in the study of photo illustration for print or web design.
Prerequisite: VC 114 with a grade of C or better; or consent of instructor.
Student Learning Outcomes:
- Use industry standard file formats and image compression.
- Create backgrounds and textures from original photographs.
- Create composite images using masks and channels.
- Demonstrate a technical and aesthetic proficiency in manipulating digital images.
- Explore existing digital photo illustrations.
- Develop a personalized style of photo illustration.
- Communicate concepts with photo illustration.
- Interpret ethics and legal issues as related to photography.
Additional Statewide General Education Outcomes
- Interpret and engage in the Arts and Letters, making use of the creative process to enrich the quality of life.
- Critically analyze values and ethics within a range of human experience and expression to engage more fully in local and global issues.
Content Outline
- Sources of Digital Images
- Stock images
- Digital cameras
- Color Modes
- Red, green, blue (RGB)
- Cyan, magenta, yellow, black (CMYK)
- Hue, saturation, brightness (HSB)
- Grayscale
- File Formats
- Color modes
- File compression
- Image sizes
- Image Manipulation
- Retouching
- Creative control
- Masking and silhouettes
- Cropping and combining images
- Selecting pixels
- Filters and Special Effects
- Effective use of filters
- Creating your own special effects
- Combining Photographs with Other Graphic Elements for Photo Illustration
- Typography
- Multiple images collage
- Special Effects and Shadows
- Shadows
- Composite images
- Textures and patterns
- Backgrounds
- Transparency
- Research Existing Digital Photo Illustration
- Explore illustration source books and illustration annuals
- Recognize and appreciate digital photo illustration in published form
- Communication Through Photo Illustration
- Creating connoted and denoted meaning in photo illustration
- Illustrating to a creative brief
- Developing a Personalized Style of Photo Illustration.
- Realism and stylization
- Exploring stylization
- Developing a unique style
- Copyright and Legal Issues Related to Photography Including Model Releases
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