Digital Foundations: Digital Imaging and Collage is the second book in the Digital Foundations series. The collection of Digital Foundations books aims to rewrite media arts curriculum by fusing experiments from the Bauhaus Basic Course, formal design principles, movements in art history, and software training into one cohesive set of books. Digital Imaging and Collage teaches digital image manipulation and collage with Photoshop through historical examples. Whether a student is part of a formal classroom setting or learns informally from a book, all students of digital imaging and production must learn the basic principles of design and how to implement them using current software. Far too often design is left out of books that teach software for the trade and academic markets. The visual examples presented in most software books are unrelated to design principles or contemporary practices. Consequently, the software training exercise is a lost opportunity where, instead, visual principles could be taught by practice. Digital Foundations: Digital Imaging and Collage reinvigorates the software demo by integrating formal exercises common to photography and design classrooms and contemporary art examples, from Martha Rossler's collages to Jamie Reid's album covers, into exercises that focus on core software methodologies.
Following are the few topics covered in this Digital Imaging book.
Following are the few topics covered in this Digital Imaging book.
- Metaphor in Digital Imaging
- Know Your (Image) Rights
- Input Resolution
- Composition
- Sorting Files
- Tonal Adjustments
- Optimizing Images for the Web
- Fluxus, Mail Art and Collage
- Layering Digital Images
- Masking
- Inventing Pixels
- Words and Images
- Effective Work Habits
- Creating a Master Image with Camera Raw