Week+8



**__Unit 8 - Digital Artwork__ - (WC, SR, QR, TC, CA&R, IL)**

There are many tools to create digital artwork. These art-oriented software programs and web-based (Web 2.0) applications are designed especially for painting, drawing, coloring, and creating original artwork. Most of these tools mimic traditional artistic media such as oils, watercolors, acrylics, pencils, markers, crayons, chalk, pastels, and felt pens. Many of them also offer a variety of unusual, non-traditional tools.

For this assignment, create digital artwork that represents a minimum of one hour of effort using a variety of functions within the application. You can accomplish this using any number of tools including…

**__System Software__:** **__Open Source Software__:**
 * **Microsoft Paint** (Windows)
 * **Adobe Photosthop CS5** (Windows & Macintosh available)


 * **PaintBrush** - [] (Macintosh)
 * **TuxPaint** - [] (Mac & Windows)
 * **GIMP** – [|http://www.gimp.org] (Mac & Windows)
 * **PAINT.NET** - [|http://paint.net]
 * **InkScape** – [|http://www.inkscape.org]

**__Web-based Software__:** Once you have completed your artwork, save your file as a .gif, .tif, .jpg., .bmp, or .png file then upload your artwork to the classroom wiki.
 * ** [|ArtPad] **– [|http://www.artpad.com]
 * ** Aviary Raven ** - []
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">** [|Aviary Falcon] ** - []
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">** [|Befunky] **– [|http://www.befunky.com]
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">** [|Canvastic] ** – [|http://www.canvastic.com]
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">** [|Do Ink] ** – [|http://www.doink.com]
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">**Ipiccy** - http://ipiccy.com/
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'palatino linotype','book antiqua',palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">** [|SumoPaint] **– [|http://www.sumopaint.com]

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">**__Unit 8 - Screen Capture__ (WC, SR, QR, TC, CA&R, IL)**

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">A “screen capture” or “screen shot” is the term used to describe the action of capturing your computer desktop or anything shown on your computer screen to a static image file. In other words, it is a way of taking a snapshot, or picture, of your computer screen. It is a highly effective technique for capturing any image that cannot be obtained in any other way.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">For this assignment, use the screen capture feature of your operating system to create a screen capture image. Save your image as a .jpg, .bmp, .png, .doc, .pdf, or .tif then upload your screen capture to the classroom wiki.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">**__Unit 8 - Digital Photograph__ (WC, SR, QR, TC, CA&R, IL)**

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Digital photography is a form of photography that uses an array of light sensitive sensors to capture the image focused by the lens, as opposed to an exposure on light sensitive film. The captured image is then stored as a digital file ready for digital processing (color correction, sizing, cropping, etc.), viewing or printing. Until the advent of such technology, photographs were made by exposing light sensitive photographic film, and used chemical photographic processing to develop and stabilize the image. By contrast, digital photographs can be displayed, printed, stored, manipulated, transmitted, and archived using digital and computer techniques, without chemical processing. With the proliferation of devices with digital camera capabilities, these tools give students the opportunity to take integrate photography into their digital projects.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">For this assignment, take a digital photo of an upside down coffee cup. Save the image as a .jpg file then upload your digital photograph to the classroom wiki.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">**__Unit 8 - Digital Photo Editing__ (WC, SR, QR, TC, CA&R, IL)**

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">The days of retake after retake are over with the continuing evolution of photo editing software. The minor errors that would’ve sent your pictures to the trash bin in the past can be fixed with a few clicks of the mouse using one of the many digital photo editing tools. There will be times when a photo is too difficult to fix or simply unfixable; however, those are going to be few and far between if you have the right tool and a little "know how." Digital photo editing involves a degree of learning, but that’s to be expected when you’re dealing with software that has so many useful functions. Fortunately, there are applications with streamlined feature sets, built-in tutorials, and easy-to-follow directions for those of us who don't have a lot of experience with such capable products. Whether you choose one or the other depends greatly on what you need your photo editing software to do and your level of experience.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">For this assignment, use any digital photograph and perform the following functions…


 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Crop the image
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Use __any__ two photo editing features (color correction, special effects, contrast/brightening, color effects, red-eye remover, sharpen/blur/soften/distort)
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Resize the image to 640x480 pixels.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Next you will submit two files. Rename the original digital photograph “PHOTO-unedited” and save as a .jpg then upload the file to the assignment dropbox. Next, rename the edited digital photograph “PHOTO-edited” and save as .jpg then upload this file to the assignment dropbox.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">You may use any photo editing tool to complete this assignment, here are some for your consideration.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">**__Open Source Software__:**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">**Simple Image Editing Tool** - []
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">**The Seashore Project** - []

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">**__Web-based Applications__:**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">**Pixlr Express** - http://pixlr.com/express
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">**Pixlr Editor** - http://pixlr.com/Editor
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">**Aviary** - http://www.aviary.com/tools/feather
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">**Aviary Phoenix** - http://www.aviary.com/tools/phoenix
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">**Pho.to** - http://pho.to/
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">**PhotoPeach** – http://www.photopeach.com
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">**Picnik** – http://www.picnik.com
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">**Dark Room** - http://mugtug.com/darkroom/

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">**__Unit 8 - Scanned Image__ (WC, SR, QR, TC, CA&R, IL)**

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">In computing, an image scanner, often abbreviated to just scanner, is a device that optically scans images, printed text, handwriting, or an object, and converts it to a digital image. A common type of scanner found in many school districts is the desktop (or flatbed) scanner where the document is placed on a glass window for scanning. Your school may even have photo copiers with digital scanning capabilities.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">For this assignment, scan an image of any photo, illustration, graph, table, or graphic with a penny in the bottom right of the image. Place the coin carefully on the scanner bed. Save the image as a .jpg file and reduce the file size to less than 500k, next upload the file to the classroom wiki.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 140%;">//**Discussion Question**: Please answer in the discussion icon for this page (//upper right corner//).

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 140%;">__Graphics__ - The computer graphics industry is hot. Every year the biggest movies tend to have the biggest effects. Movies that are fully computer animated, once a far-off dream, are now playing at your local movie theater. Television commercials use more Hollywood effects that ever before, and the gaming industry is bursting with computer graphically created products. Do you use graphics to enhance lessons in your classroom? If you do, describe some of them to us. If you don't, explain why you don't.