Section Info

Content available from TTU CoA Digital Media I students
section 596: T : 2:00-4:00pm
section 599: TR: 6:00-8:00pm

Graduate TA: Jose J Sanchez
e-mail: jose.sanchez@ttu.edu

Office Hrs in RM 511 or 508
W : 4:30pm-5:30pm
Tr: 4:00pm-6:00pm
or by appointment


The course intent is to develop the ability to use representational tools and methods. Students are exposed to effective visual communication strategies using a range of media, such as analog and digital drawings and graphics, to support each stage of the design process.

The first stage of this course introduces a general knowledge about images made of pixels: type, size, resolution and all those basics information that are necessary to acquire in order to be e cient with graphics. The second stage of the course focuses on the use of Adobe Photoshop. Students learn about how to manipulate and edit pixel-images. They work with a full set of actions involved with reiteration, transformation, editing, ltering and layering. The history of all these applications must be documented graphically. The third stage explores vectors and diverse ways to deal with lines and drawings. Students implements all the features of Adobe Illustrator, including les export techniques from other programs (Photoshop, AutoCAD) and text features.

The fourth stage goes more in depth on layout and additional graphical applications using Adobe-In-Design, instrumental for giving to the students more pro ciency in their portfolio representation and organization. Students work on weekly assignments.

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