Day 2

 

Lets consider how humans see:

Visual

image based communication (includes text)

    •    Visual discrimination: the ability to discriminate dominant features of objects.
    •    Visual memory: the ability to recognize something when it reappears.
    •    Visual spatial relationships: the ability to perceive the position of objects.
    •    Form constancy: the ability to categorize similar objects with different features.
    •    Sequential memory: the ability to recognize a sequence of objects when they reappear.
    •    Visual figure ground: the ability to identify an object from surrounding objects.
    •    Visual closure: the ability to identify a whole figure when only parts are shown.

 

 

 

There is a difference between "looking" and "seeing"

 

 

 

*What I find interesting is that humanity managed to develop language. Language if fully developed is a form of communication that integrates a vocal component and and image component seamlessly. Beyond that, our ability to understand what we are thinking (to organize our thoughts) is based on utilizing this system. It is also interesting that the same system has been designed differently for people living in various locations through out the world.

 

 

 

How do visuals change perception?

 

 

So what is art? 

- art is produced in a variety of 'mediums' both 2 dimensional(2D) and 3 dimensional(3D)

Dave McKean Drawing/Illustration

Andy Warhol Printmaking

Pablo Picaso Painting

Pendleton Ward Animation

Rodin Sculpture

Banksey Street Art

Greek Vase Ceramics

Jerry Uelsmann Photography

Glass

Graphic Design

Intro to the elements of Design & Composition

- The visual world is described by a specific vocabulary that crosses all art disciplines

 

Composition is the arrangement of visual elements on the picture plane. In art we accomplish this when framing an image while shooting the photograph or when altering an image in the darkroom or image editing software. In general composition helps the photographer define the important elements in the image. There are many ideologies concerning composition two of the classic ideas are the "Rule of Thirds" and the Golden Ratio.

Orientation

Golden Ratio

Rule of Thirds

        image credit

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Skills

Google Photos

 

 

The Google Photos app helps you organize and store your photos in the cloud that you can access on your phone or computer. It can also be used to organize images in albums that can be shared with other people. You will be using the Google Photos App to upload most of your assignments and projects for this class through out the semester. 

1. Download and Install Google Photos App

2. Open App and sign in with your Hartwick gmail account information 

3. At the bottom of the screen you will see "Sharing". This is where you can find the albums for the class. Put your images for the bad photographs assignment use the “Art116 Bad Photos S22-2” album.

Digital Image Basics

Image Resolution 

Photoshop is a "bitmap" based image editor. This means images are broken down into tiny squares called pixels. These pixels are measured on the X and Y axis. 


When printing an image consider the images resolution. Resolution is described by how many pixel there are in one inch.


180 dpi - lowest printing resolution
300 - 600 dpi - professional printing resolution



Saving Files in Photoshop 

File Types:
PSD - Working File: specific uncompressed file type which contains all the images information

JPEG - Finished File: universal compressed file type

All files in Photoshop need to be "flattened" before they can be saved as a JPEG.

PNG - Finished File: uncompressed file type that can contain transparency

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Studio Time

- Create 5x5 drawings on paper

Outside Class Time

- Review Photopea - Processing a Drawing

Projects

- Work on Project 1 Bad Photos, upload to the Google Photos Album by Thurs eve 10pm