Tulane Digital Media Schedule
| August | ||
| Mon 22 | Welcome to the lab, Instructor’s work, Go over syllabus Saving Your Files And Disk Formatting For Use Cross-Platform, Quirks Of This Lab Introduction to Photoshop, tools & options, menus, zoom & pan, undo & history. | Assign Project 1: bring 6 objects to next class. Read about Bitmaps and resolution, Elements and principles of design |
| Weds 24 | Bitmaps and resolution, scanning, digital camera, basic image correction (levels, color, sponge, healing), selections. Layers-opacity and blending modes | Elements and principles of design, bring 6 objects to class to image |
| Mon 29 | Layer masks, clipping layers, adjustment layers, | |
| Weds 31 | output to the web (behance) resolution again?!? | |
| September | ||
| Mon 5 | Labor Day Holiday | |
| Weds 7 | Output: File size and formats, Image Compression, papers and printing | |
| Mon 12 | Critique of first project | |
| Weds 14 | Introduction to Illustrator, vectors, strokes & fills, importing/tracing, layers, objects, groups, & layers | Assign Project 2. Bring logo examples next class |
| Mon 19 | Discuss logos. working with paths, text, pathfinders | |
| Weds 21 | Logos due | |
| Mon 26 | placing images, tracing | |
| wed 28 | masks in illustrator | |
| October | ||
| Mon 3 | printing large format color prints, outputting images for the web | |
| Weds 5 | ||
| Mon 10 | Critique of second project | Assign Project 3 |
| Weds 12 | After Effects | storyboards due for video project, |
| Mon 17 | ||
| Weds 19 | ||
| Mon 24 | ||
| Weds 26 | ||
| Mon 31 | ||
| November | ||
| Weds 2 | ||
| Mon 7 | Critique of third project | Assign Project 4 |
| Weds 9 | Introduction to Unreal and real-time 3d | |
| Mon 14 | ||
| Weds 16 | ||
| Mon 21 | Thanksgiving Break | |
| Weds 23 | Thanksgiving Break | |
| Mon 28 | ||
| Weds 30 | ||
| Mon 5 | ||
| Weds 4 | Final Project Due – FINAL PROJECT CRITIQUES |