Lesson 1
Welcome to Raster Design
Welcome to the digital arts world! From billboards to mobile ads, photography and pixel-based designs dominate. This lesson explores raster design, pixels, colors spaces and photo-editing software!
Raster Design
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Welcome to the digital arts! This lesson delves into raster design, covering pixels, color spaces, and photo-editing software like Photopea. It explores technical aspects including file types, compression, and metadata. Emphasizing transferable skills and industry standards, it covers toolbar basics, importing, resizing, and common tools. Layers are fundamental, including adjustment and content layers, with a focus on organization and blend modes for style.
Welcome to the digital arts! This lesson delves into raster design, covering pixels, color spaces, and photo-editing software like Photopea. It explores technical aspects including file types, compression, and metadata. Emphasizing transferable skills and industry standards, it covers toolbar basics, importing, resizing, and common tools. Layers are fundamental, including adjustment and content layers, with a focus on organization and blend modes for style.
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8 hours
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Last Updated April 28, 2024
Photopea • Digital Image Editing
Digital Arts Fluency
Course Lessons
Lesson 2
Introduction to New Terminology, File Types & Formats
This lesson covers technical aspects of image editing; it delves into raster-based design, file types, compression methods and metadata.
Lesson 3
Digital Development: an Introduction to Raster Software
This lesson introduces raster editing with Photopea. It emphasizes transferable skills and industry standards like .psd files. We cover the toolbar basics, importing, resizing and common tools.
Lesson 4
Introduction to Layers
Layers are fundamental in design. There are adjustment and content layers. We will examine both and also look at blend modes for style and nuance. Additionally we cover organization and hierarchy.
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Joshua Wilder Oakley
Visual Communications Professor at California State University San Francisco
Joshua Wilder Oakley is currently a Visual Communications Professor at California State University San Francisco and has also taught at the University of San Francisco. His teaching philosophy mirrors his design philosophy - make the world a better place through good design and visual problem solving. In addition to teaching, Oakley is also a Freelance Graphic Designer and Photographer.
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