Offered: Full Year 2012-2013
Prerequisite: Open to all high school students

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In Digital Design and Imagery, students learn the basics of Adobe Photoshop Elements will complete a set of projects each semester. The first semester will focus on graphic arts. Project will include painting in Photoshop Elements, manipulating images, merging images, and using type as a graphic element. Each project will introduce skills that build on skills learned in previous projects. Students will be introduced to selection tools, layers, masking, cloning, filters and blending options to apply effects, to their images, and more. In the second semester students will use these skills from the first semester to complete projects using personal photos and creating projects in Photoshop Elements based on these photos. In addition to working in Photoshop, assignments will include research and brainstorming activities which will be completed online in the form of written work. Students will have the opportunity to collaborate throughout the course through various critiques. Critiques will occur in forums where students will provide feedback to each other about their work. This will include work in progress and finished assignments. At the end of the semester students will collaborate in the creation of a student art show by creating an online gallery of their work. This is an introductory art class and incorporates art concepts, typography, illustration, and portfolio development. Students will also use problem solving skills as they explore Photoshop Elements and determine which techniques work best in which situations. At the end of this course students will have the start of a digital portfolio.