ART 35 — Digital Photography and Photoshop
Spring
Wednesdays
6:30—9:00 pm
Date(s)
Mar 30—May 11
6 weeks
Drop By
Apr 12
1 Units
Fees
$360
Format
On-campus course
Limit 20
Closed
Please Note: No class on April 27
In this course, students will learn how to take better
digital pictures and improve the photos they take
through editing in Photoshop. The first two sessions
will provide a basic overview of digital photography,
touching on subjects like how to shoot on Manual
using a DSLR, how to better use natural light, how to
use a flash attachment, lens choices, composition, and
depth of field. We will look at the work of well-known
photographers for inspiration. The rest of the course
will be spent on laptops editing in Adobe Photoshop
CC. Students will be asked to bring in photos to edit
that they have shot outside of class using a DSLR
camera in RAW format. We will learn how to effectively
and efficiently process and edit photos using
Adobe Photoshop CC. Topics covered will include
Camera RAW processing, adjustment layers, selective
brightening/darkening, masking, sharpening, color
correction, cropping, retouching (“airbrushing”),
cloning, object removal, preparing images for the web,
and suggestions for making successful prints. We will
touch very briefly on compositing (combining images).
The course will culminate in each student preparing an
online web portfolio of images they have retouched.
This course is open to photographers of all levels. Students
should have a general understanding of digital file handling,
and some knowledge of Adobe Photoshop is suggested.
Students must bring a laptop with Photoshop installed to
class. Although the most recent version is not necessary,
Photoshop CC is suggested and is the version that will be
used in class. (Photoshop Elements will not be supported.)
Erin Gleeson, Photographer
Erin Gleeson received an MFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts and has taught photography and Photoshop at the Fashion Institute of Technology, the Academy of Art in San Francisco, and The Art Institute of California–Silicon Valley. She is the creator of the blog and New York Times bestselling cookbook The Forest Feast.Textbooks for this course:
No required textbooks