November 29th

Today we will start the class by brainstorming potential careers in the communications field. After you brainstorming session I would like you to choose a potential field to research.

1. List 3 schools that offer the post-secondary education necessary to work in this area, for each one answer the following.
              a.) What are the names, location, and program names
              b.) What are the prerequisites for these programs
              c.) What is the cost of tuition per year, and the total cost of the program
              d.) What about their program makes them unique? Do they offer a co-op, etc.
              e.) Are there additional costs such as tuition, ancillary fees, etc.

2. Now find 3 job postings for this area on job search engines such as monster, canada gov. job bank, workopolis, etc. Look for "entry level jobs" with approx. 3 years of experience.
              a.) Where is the job?
              b.) What is the starting salary?
 

Once you are finished the above you can catch up on some of your photography work or your photoshop work.

November 26th

Today I am going to start the class directed for you! We are going to learn about the layers and we will create our own animal hybrids.

November 19th

Hello and thank-you for being patient while I speak to the other group,

While you are waiting, you can continue editing a photo on photoshop the way that you learned on Thursday. Remember the basic workflow that we did last class (adjust the levels, colour balance, and vibrancy).

Once I am done with group 1, we will learn about creating layers in photoshop by creating hamburger drawings.

November 15th

Hello and welcome to the first day of photoshop. Thank your for being patient will I teach the other section of the course first.



To start off the class, I'd like you to respond to the following questions on your blog as I teach the first half of the class. Please work on these quiet, and reflectively. If you finish these, make sure that you finished your blog reflections from Thursday that ask about the responses you received to your survey.

1. What are you looking forward to learning how to do in photoshop?


2. What have you heard are the common things photoshop can do, i.e. "oh, that's definitely photoshopped!" "Just photoshop me in the photo!"


3. Do you think there many be any ethical/social concerns when using an editing program like photoshop? What are these issues? Please answer in paragraph form. Consider advertising, marketing, etc. Are there copyright concerns? Self-esteem issues? Etc. 

AFTER THE PRESENTATION 

Getting Started With Photoshop:

Today I will introduce you to a basic workflow that you can use for enhancing the overall balance of your images. This is a basic and handy thing to know how to do. We will start with the most important and work our way to the least important: Tonal Adjustments, Colour Balance, Vibrancy.
After the presentation, please edit 3 photos to improve their overall quality. Take your time with this activity and achieve the best version of the photo as possible. You can use your own photos or some from google images but at least one of your edited photos must be once that you took.