Reverse chronological order / newest first:

• Week 15b (Wednesday 12/03/14) - FINAL PROJECT CRITIQUE

• Art & Tech show

• Review details & dates

• Seek volunteers

• Week 15a (Monday 12/01/14)

• Individual review of project progress

• Final Project in-class work time

• Week 14 - THANKSGIVING BREAK - no classes Monday or Wednesday

• Week 13b (Wednesday 11/19/14)

• Art/Inspiration: Three artists from the Green Museum (“online museum that showcases environmental artwork”)

• Jim Denevan

• KQED video

• Rather similar to Crop Circles

• Xavier Cortada

• Jeroen Nelemans

• Before the next artist, look at this map of the San Francisco Bay... especially around this area

• Now, look at Linda Gass

• Before we go on break, and since our final two classes won’t have much teaching, some advice that might help with your Final Project:

• Don’t forget about our online textbook and its downloadable extras

• Lynda.com tutorials (first choice of design professionals, and expensive) are available free at the OSU Digital Unions (closest: Hagerty 171a  /  Stillman 145)

• As you might guess, YouTube has lots and lots of tutorials (but they typically wont be as good as Lynda.com’s)

• Art & Technology has two labs, both of which are staffed by Art & Tech grad students, and nearly all of them have taught (or are teaching) Digital Imaging classes.  Ask nicely, and they’ll help.
  Print Lab: Hopkins Hall 180 annex
  New Media Robotics Lab: Hopkins 160

• Buy your frame sooner rather than later

• Your frame should be good quality and simple, such as this line of Michael’s frames (you can take the #2 High Street bus to Michael’s from OSU campus)

• TIP: avoid frames with a mat (like this one) or with ornate textures (like this one).  Mats tend to be space wasters and textures distract from your art -- and faculty/judges don’t tend to like them.  Remember that your art should look like it belongs on a wall in a gallery, rather than a home.

• Final Project discussion -- any questions about…

• How to present your work?

• Printing?

• Framing?

• Theme or content?

• Final Project in-class work time / Meet everyone individually to discuss project plans

• Week 13a (Monday 11/17/14)

• Art/Inspiration: Two unsolved mysteries!

• (As you watch these, write down five words about the works)

• The Voynich Manuscript (only copy is available at the Yale Library)

• Luigi Serafini - Codex Seraphinianus (available at OSU Thompson/Main Library, unless you have $1,000 and up to buy a copy)

• Auto slide shows:  Voynich Manuscript / Codex Seraphinianus

• Alright, let’s write some of your words on the board in Photoshop

• What do these two books have in common?

• What don’t they have in common?

• Do you believe the Voynich Manuscript depicts real things?

• Do you think either book is written in a real language?

• Is one more believable than the other?  Why?

• Does knowing that the Codex is created as an artwork by a known artist change your perception of the work?  Or of the world it depicts?

• Do you think Luigi Serifini was influenced by the Voynich Manuscript?  To prove something about it?  That it was a hoax?  Or real?

• More to chew on…

• Voynich Manuscript is still current news: in two articles earlier this year, and more recently when Yale posted new and improved scans of the whole book

• The Voynich Manuscript - An Elegant Enigma (M. E. D'Imperio)... by the NSA?!?

• Presentation with interesting word clouds of Voynich text

• Where are we now?  What’s coming up?

• 4 classes remaining (including this one)

• Final Project work begins now (proposal due Monday Wednesday)

• Artist research paper (1 - 1½ pages) due also

• Printing & framing of final project

• Final project class critique immediately after Thanksgiving

• Art & Tech Art Show -- drop-off day replaces our last class day Dec 8

• Final Project: Printing & Framing

• Printing your final project on our large-format printers

• On Tuesday, we’ll arrange a window of time when you can drop off your file to be printed in Print Lab 180 (annex on the left side of this photo of Hopkins)

• For printing, save your final image in TIFF format

• Check that your Image Size in Photoshop is set to the correct size to print

• The higher resolution the better -- 36 inches at 300 DPI is 10,000 pixels!

• Caution: Simply increasing the number of pixels of your finished image will NOT create more detail!

• You will have the option to print on matte or glossy paper

• Payment is in cash and due before printing

• Before printing, you MUST:

• Set your print size (under Image Size in Photoshop)

• Save your final image in TIFF format

• Choose your paper: matte or glossy
  (note that glossy prints cannot be wider and taller than 24”)

• Bring cash -- payment is due before printing
  (to give you an idea how much, a 30” x 24” print will cost $12.50)

• Mid-project critique

• Framing

• This line of Michael’s frames are good quality (and so are many others)

• Closest to OSU (High St at Morse in Graceland Shopping Ctr)

• See online-only coupon for 15% off frames

• Other local sources:

• Hobby Lobby: Looks like 20” x 16” may be their largest

• Jo-Ann Fabric

• Utrecht and Dick Blick: surprisingly few large frames, and “universal” ones don’t come with glass

• Order online for better sizes and prices

• Top Reasons Why Works Don’t Survive Judging:

• Bad or cheap framing (or worse, no frame at all)

• Poorly mounted within the frame (off center; backing visible)

• Poor printing (low-end printer, or with low-grade paper stock)

• Not ready to mount / no mounting hardware

• Too small -- 4 x 6 (for example) would be just too small for a gallery context... and since all artwork is judged on the floor before being hung, the judges may not even notice it at all

• Use the above points as a checklist to grade your own work

• Unsure if your work is ready?  Ask someone in this class to critique your work.  “I like it!” does not count as a critique.  Ask for in-depth feedback and tell them to be honest to the point that it hurts.  (Hurts YOU, not them.)

• Week 12b (Wednesday 11/12/14)

• Project #3 critique, day two

• Introduction to the Final Project (description also in our shared area)

• Also: Write a research paper (1 to 1½ pages) on an artist's work that relates to your final project

• Week 12a (Monday 11/10/14)

• Artist talk tomorrow: Kenneth Goldstein / Kenny G (ubuweb, WFMU, poet) at CCAD

• Project #3 critique, day one

• Week 11b (Wednesday 11/05/14)

• Art/Inspiration:

• Creative Mapping Blog

• We create maps to give meaning...Joao Machado - his webpage

• Matthew Cusick, Map Paintings

• Information Aesthetics Blog

• Newsmap

• U.S. Gun Murders In 2010: An Alternative View

• A Real-Time Map Of The Song "I Have Been Everywhere"

• Happy Guy Fawkes Night/Day!

• Guy Fawkes is well known in UK history for his part in the Gunpowder Plot, but in the US he’s largely known indirectly via…

• V For Vendetta (1982 comic book, then a 2006 movie) in which the main character wears a…

• Guy Fawkes mask, which has increasingly become the symbolic mask of whistleblowers and people who speak out against authority and government

• And the logo for the protest/hacker group Anonymous

• Locally tonight: Gunpowder Plot at Scarlet & Grey Cafe (DJs; VJ Vendetta)

• Kerry James Marshall talk this Friday @ Mershon Auditorium (free)

• Wexner posting / Facebook event

• Get extra credit by going and writing a two-page paper about his talk

• Monday: Green screen room day  oops; that’s our critique day… duh

• Discussion of reading: Slides and Prejudice, by Linda Yablonsky

• Who can summarize the article?

• Controversy about paintings using Photoshop sources

• Anyone in class a painter?

• Who thinks this is a controversial issue?

• These are often photorealistic paintings, but not always

• Some allow painting to fill in lost detail in a too-small source

• “All you ever get from photographs are clues.”

• Undress A Giraffe part 2 (from Step 13)

• Step 14: MUCH BETTER by using Edit > Fill with Content Aware

• Step 18: Erase head & legs from top “undressed layer” exposing parts of the old original giraffe image (you did make a duplicate before you started...?)

• Step 19: Spot Healing Brush Tool to heal white spots and blotches

• Project #3 work time

• HOMEWORK:

• Work on Project #3, due Monday (Nov 10)

• Week 11a (Monday 11/03/14)

• Art/Inspiration: (Project 3 related)

• ...and as we view these works, let’s list some keywords that describe them

• World Chicken

• Map of the Population Distribution of the United States Measured in Canadas

• Ingo Günther's WorldProcessor

• Wired Article

• Easier-to-browse catalog of globes

• Review keywords we picked -- any more to add?

• Remix

• Population

• New perspective

• Personalization

• Data

• Fact-finding / discovery

• Abstract

• Unbiased

• Selection

• Presentation

• Current Events

• Statistics / Demographics

• Here’s some words a previous class came up with:

• Use these keywords to help define and inspire your own project

• Homework for Wednesday: Read Slides and Prejudice, by Linda Yablonsky

• Undress A Giraffe tutorial

• Before starting download the images of a giraffe and an ironing board from Carmen (Content > Images) or from osu.box.com

• This tutorial was made back in version CS3 of Photoshop... my notes below mention a few updated tools they didn’t have then, and also simplify the tutorial a little by calling out some less important steps

• Step 2: Simplify by excluding the gradient

• Skip steps 5-7

• Step 8: You could use the polygonal lasso tool... but what else?

• Quick Selection... better, but also...

• Magnetic Lasso... much better

• Hit Caps Lock and shrink the brush size (left bracket)

• Zoom in closer (Command +)

• Pan around (space bar then click and drag)

• Correct mistakes (backspace)

• Manually click points into tight corners

• Save Selection

• Step 10: Instead of inverting and clearing, make a quick mask

• Step 12: Tricky and frustrating, but really adds color

• Pause and we’ll pick up again Wednesday -- Photoshop file of TradeMark’s Undressed Giraffe so far uploaded to osu.box.com

• Project #3 work time

• HOMEWORK: Read Slides and Prejudice, by Linda Yablonsky

• Week 10b (Wednesday 10/29/14)

• Art/Inspiration: Two articles about making an image that goes viral

• My Photo Went Viral, And Nothing Could Have Prepared Me For What Happened After

• “I was getting calls at all hours of the day from every corner of the globe. [...] I just stayed up and continued to answer emails and calls, providing anyone who needed an interview with an interview, trying to negotiate rates for publication, knowing that it wouldn't last forever.”

• “And to those of you wondering, yes, many of the larger online publications are happy to pay you for original unique imagery when you ask them!”

• ”So how and why exactly did this image go so 'viral'?” section

• “I posted it to reddit, a site known for spawning some of the web's most viral images [...] without a watermark at a relatively large size of 2000px wide...” (great analysis follows)

• “Another reason I think it went so viral is that so many people could identify with it”

• Honestly, this image has eclipsed everything I have ever done from almost every angle. I am no longer 'Mike Kelley the architecture guy' [...] I'm now "the guy that took that one picture of the planes at LAX and was on the news for a bit". I continue to get calls daily about interviewing me or purchasing prints. Every day, someone sends me a link to another news site or feed using the image.”

• When Your Art Goes Viral, the Internet Will Kill Its Image Quality

• “The image was filtered, cropped, saved at lower resolutions, and shared with quotes he didn't write, proving that, once again, the internet doesn't care about the best laid plans of content creators.”

• “...often, it means a whole lot of nothing. As in, credit for the image is stripped, it's uploaded to something like Imgur or Instagram, everyone agrees it's a lovely image, and the artist doesn't really see any sort of notoriety or sales bump because of it.”

• “Obviously, this particular photo is still powerful and still resonated with people even once it began to look almost nothing like the original.”

• Good quote from the artist in final paragraph

• Science Sundays lecture this weekend:  James Sneyd – Mathematics and Music: the beauties of pattern

• Class critique/discussion of project 3 proposals

• Share proposal ideas & images with the class

• Class offers feedback on each proposal such as:

• What parts of the proposal are most successful?

• What parts are lacking and need clarification or improvement?

• Could the intended message be misconstrued in some way?

• Ideas that could help the artist/student (“I saw a website that could help you…” or “I saw a similar artwork that would’ve been better if the artist had done ____ differently”)

• Unsure of some part of your project?  Ask the class to help you decide

• Improve your project by integrating (or not) class feedback into your plan

• While this class discussion is not graded per se, class participation is

• Could someone keep time?  6 minutes per proposal

• HOMEWORK: Begin work on Project #3 due on November 10 (in 12 days)

• Week 10a (Monday 10/27/14)

• Art/Inspiration: related artists for Project #3: (emailed last week)

• Infographic: The Languages Of New York, Mapped By Tweets

• Komar and Melamid

• From Wikipedia:
  Komar and Melamid's People's Choice series, 1994–1997, consisted of the "most wanted" and "most unwanted" paintings of 11 countries. The artists commissioned polling companies in the 11 countries—including the United States, Russia, China, France, and Kenya—to conduct scientific polls to discover what they want to see in art. The use of polls was meant to mimic the American democratic process. Komar said, "Our interpretation of polls is our collaboration with various people of the world. It is a collaboration with [sic] new dictator--Majority." The process was also meant to change the artists role as a leader. Komar and Melamid believe that the broad public is an adequate judge of art, contrary to the historical precedence, much in the same way that the broad public in America is entrusted with electing the President. It is a new type of leader, one that asks questions, instead of a dictator. Melamid said, "Picasso mimicked Stalin, so we try to mimic Clinton."

• People’s Choice Paintings - The Most Wanted and Unwanted Paintings

• People’s Choice Music - The Most Wanted and Unwanted Songs

• Visual Complexity site

• Software Evolution Storylines

• Dead Kennedys -- full detail

• College of Design and Social Context

• Jason Salavon

• 100 Special Moments, Portrait, et al

• American Varietal (US Population, by County, 1790-2000)

• The Master Index

• Infinite Jukebox:

• Superstition

• Gangnam Style

• Josh On & Futurefarmers Project "They Rule" - maps of corporate connections

• Check email for other artists of interest

• Proposal is due on Wednesday 10/29/14

• lynda.com Tutorial | Photoshop CS5: Creative Compositing

• To follow along/practice do an image search for “holding a cup”

• Also find an image of something else for the person to hold (like a can of beer… or a teddy bear… or maybe a real bear?  you decide)

• Lynda is one of the best websites for professional tutorials on Adobe products including Photoshop

• Free access available at OSU Digital Union locations (Hagerty Hall is closest)

• A few new techniques & shortcuts:

• Shortcuts:

• Alt/Command + scroll up/down to zoom in/out

• F changes Frame/viewing

• Tab removes tools/layers

• Fills

• Canvas Size

• Image Size

• Image Crop

• Week 9b (Wednesday 10/22/14)

• Project #3 introduction:

• Description & explanation

• One related artist: Nina Katchadourian

• Artist maps

• Talking Popcorn

• Sorted Books

• Genealogy of the Supermarket

• Natural Car Alarms

• Proposal is due in one week on Wednesday 10/29/14

• I will email you some other artists of interest

• Project #2 critique, part 2

• HOMEWORK: work on Project #3 proposal

• Week 9a (Monday 10/20/14)

• Project #2 critique, part 1

• Week 8b (Wednesday 10/15/14)

• Art/Inspiration: related artists for Project #2

• Lori Nix

• The City

• Artist Statement

• Lost

• Some Other Place

• Vik Muniz

• Pictures Of Garbage

• Some better photos to zoom into

• Google Sightseeing -- Weirdness

• Related & recent: Google Street View Images being Collected by a Camel

• Thomson & Craighead's Light from Tomorrow

• COR&P / art opening / artist talk:  Night Talk with Suzanne Silver

• Want a higher grade? Two options for 3 points of extra credit:

• Extra Credit, option 1:  Write a brief (2 page) paper about an artist/curator talk

• Kerry James Marshall

• Lucy Lippard

• Zadie Smith

• or any of the Wexner’s future artist talks or lectures

• or any of CCAD’s artist talks

• Extra Credit, option 2:  Write a brief (2 page) paper about an artwork you visit

• Transfigurations: Modern Masters on exhibit at Wexner now

• Wexner galleries are free for all OSU students (show BuckID at ticket counter)

• In _____ We Trust: Art and Money at Columbus Museum Of Art (free on Sundays)

• Filters (textbook chapter 14)

• aka Plug-Ins

• I saved these for later for good reasons, especially: filters are often viewed as a cliche of Photoshop, or a lazy shortcut -- avoid distinctive filters

• Most useful filters for me: various Blurs

• Show how to use blur to make a shadow

• Filter Gallery contains many filters -- some are elsewhere in the Filters menu; some are not

• Liquify

• Oil Paint

• Distort

• Stylize

• Render > Clouds is interesting as a mask or with different blending modes

• Nice chart comparing all the blending modes on p. 139 of our textbook

• Popular ones: Darken, Lighten, Multiply, Overlay

• Scanning

• Two scanners in this room; two more down the hall

• Most scanners have a standalone program for scanning (search for an application by the scanner manufacturer, e.g. “Epson Scan”)

• TIP: Scan directly into Photoshop via File > Import > Images From Device

• Position object to far right corner

• Settings

• Kind: Color, almost always (maybe Black & White occasionally)

• Colors: Billions

• Resolution: 600+

• Format: TIFF

• Descreening: Only if from a magazine or newspaper

• Overview/preview first

• Select the scanning area

• Scan!

• In-class work time / Talk to everybody one-on-one about their projects

• HOMEWORK: Complete Project #2 (two images)

• Week 8a (Monday 10/13/14)

• Art/Inspiration: Erik Johansson (again)

• Remember his Ted Talk in our first class?

• Cut & Fold - Behind The Scenes

• Now we can start to make sense of his 131 layers

• Now let’s revisit his fast-forward how-to video again… what techniques and tools can you identify?

• Drifting Away - Behind the Scenes

• Self-actualization - behind the scenes

• Due dates -- lots of them now on the calendar

• Project #2 due in one week (week 9)

• Panic helper: let’s lessen this to two images due instead of three

• Weeks 10-12:  Project #3

• Weeks 13-15:  Final Project

• Thanksgiving week: no classes at all; I’ll be in Mexico that Monday

• Week 16: Art & Technology art show / finals week

• Torture Tutorial revisited -- let’s dissect a few steps & techniques:

• As we review these, be thinking of how these techniques could help your project

• Recap: We took our photo, Laid on some stitches, Killed a finger, and infected the stitches

• Sponge tool -- for saturation & desaturation

• Dodge and Burn tools -- lighten or darken where you draw, and only in a specific range (shadows/midtones/highlights)

• Image Adjustments > Hue & Saturation

• More on Image Adjustments: (under the Image menu > Adjustments)

• First, get the practice images (part of the practice images from our textbook)

• Hue & Saturation

• ...not in the tutorial, but let’s see other image adjustments:

• Brightness/Contrast

• Levels

• Curves

• Shadows/Highlights

• Vibrance

• Color Balance

• Invert, Posterize, Threshold -- more like special effects than adjustments

• Warning: Image Adjustments are destructive edits -- can’t undo later

• However, most Image Adjustments are also available as Adjustment Layers, which are non-destructive

• A few editing tools under Edit menu:

• Paste Into

• Rotate 90 / 180 degrees

• Flip Horizontal / Vertical

• Warp

• Puppet Warp

• A little more on Layer Masks from chapter 7 of our textbook

• Again, helpful tip: painting the mask directly, using X to flip the foreground/background back and forth

• Using a gradient fill for the mask

• Refine masks in the Properties window (thanks for the reminder, Matt!)

• Chapter’s final advice is worth remembering:
  “Layer masking and advanced selections go hand in hand. The more you practice one, the easier both will get. New users often lapse into bad habits and are drawn back to features like the Eraser tools or Copy and Paste commands. Although these may seem easier, in the long run they are not. Learn to work like a professional, and you’ll achieve professional results.”
  
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• In-class work time for Project #2… and simultaneously...

• Let’s play Photoshop Telephone:

• This is a pass-it-on game/project where each person does 5-10 minutes worth of work on an image, then passes it to the right

• Today’s theme: DIGITAL LANDSCAPE… I’ll start an image and upload it to osu.box.com

• Use this as a chance to brainstorm project ideas and try out new P‘shop skills

• Don’t forget to write down any good ideas you have while working today!

• One at a time, each person in class will:

• Download the Photoshop file from osu.box.com

• Create a new layer (Command-Shift-N)

• Add your own warped item to the scene

• If you want, you can change what previous people have done

• Save the file in Photoshop format (don’t change the file name)

• Upload the new version replacing the old

• Tell the next person it’s their turn

• Things you might do:

• Add strange objects, animals, or vehicles on the land or in the air

• Expose something “hidden” in the trees, under the ground, or beyond the horizon

• Get surreal with Transforms like Warp or Puppet Warp

• Use text to caption a small story about something that happened in this image, or to let a character speak through a word balloon

• Practice some of the techniques from our Torture Tutorial

• Photoshop Telephone critique -- let’s see the final image!

• What stands out in our result?

• Who did it and how?

• What could’ve been better?  How could it have been improved?