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Digital Pictures
The purpose of this course is to provide students with the skills and knowledge to convey a message through an original digital image.
 * Course Code:** 0226 **Credits:** 0.5 **Level:** 25S

1. Define the purpose and audience for an image. 2. Conceive of a still image that will communicate a message. 3. Capture a still image with a digital camera. 4. Manipulate a digital image to create a new image by: • Using painting tools (Examples: lines, boxes, polygons, pencil, brush, spray, text…) • Using editing tools (Examples: extract, crop, straighten, colour…) • Using layers (Examples: create, adjust, import, knockout, duplicate, liquefy…) • Flattening files • Using image properties (Examples: transparency/opacity, soft/hard edges, curves…) • Applying filters and effects (Examples: blur, distort, sketch, stylize, texture…) 5. Select the graphic file format best suited to the end product and purpose of the image. (Examples: image size, resolution, bitmap or vector, compression…) 6. Display an original graphic image. (Examples: printed, projected…) 7. Critique and suggest improvements for an image, using given technical and aesthetic criteria. 8. Accept critique of an image and make changes based on the feedback
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