Digital Media
Increasingly, digital imaging has become a powerful tool in helping artists express their creative vision and digitally produced art has opened new vistas for innovative expression for many exhibiting artists.
Digital Media Material List
Material list is either listed in the class description, will be discuss during the first class, or the materials will be supplied.
Registration
Summer 2019 Registration Dates
Friends of SSA: Online | Tues, Apr 2 at 9:00am
Phone | In-Person | Thurs, Apr 4
Open registration | Tues, Apr 9
Digital Imaging Course Descriptions
5001a | Introduction to the Digital Camera
Level: All Levels | Instructor: Nancy Cavender-Garcia
Dates: Tues, 6/4/2019 to 7/2/2019 | 7:00 PM- 9:00 PM
Studio: Digital Imaging Studio | Building: Santikos Building
Tuition: $175.00 | Friends/Seniors (65+): $160.00
Digital cameras can be easy and fun to use, but expanded knowledge can take results to a higher level. Explore what all those controls, features, and functions are for. This class covers how to take better photographs as well as how to transfer images from camera to computer or the internet. Students will discover their camera's potential by practicing classic shot techniques, and will also learn how to manage digital assets by editing, preparing, printing, and archiving images. Visit the Photography webpage to register.
5001b | Introduction to the Digital Camera
Level: All Levels | Instructor: Nancy Cavender-Garcia
Dates: Tues, 7/9/2019 to 8/6/2019 | 7:00 PM- 9:00 PM
Studio: Digital Imaging Studio | Building: Santikos Building
Tuition: $165.00 | Friends/Seniors (65+): $150.00
Digital cameras can be easy and fun to use, but expanded knowledge can take results to a higher level. Explore what all those controls, features, and functions are for. This class covers how to take better photographs as well as how to transfer images from camera to computer or the internet. Students will discover their camera's potential by practicing classic shot techniques, and will also learn how to manage digital assets by editing, preparing, printing, and archiving images. Visit the Photography webpage to register.
5202 | Digital Imaging.1
Level: All Levels | Instructor: Nancy Cavender-Garcia
Dates: Wed, 6/5/2019 to 8/7/2019 | 6:00 PM- 9:00 PM
Studio: Digital Imaging Studio | Building: Santikos Building
Tuition: $320.00 | Friends/Seniors (65+): $305.00
This course will provide a thorough grounding in Photoshop and is designed to expand the student's skills in pixel-based photographic design and printing. Adobe Photoshop® is the primary image processing program used to digitally enhance, alter, and retouch photographic images. Using digital cameras to capture images, as well as flatbed and film scanners to digitize other photographic images, students will then use computers to improve or alter those images. A variety of output methods will be used, including laser and ink jet printers, to introduce students to the artistic possibilities of digital photography
9534 | Video Web Portfolio
Level: All Levels | Instructor: Jeff DeCuir
Dates: Thurs, 6/6/2019 to 7/18/2019 | 6:30 PM- 9:30 PM
Studio: Digital Imaging Studio | Building: Santikos Building
Tuition: $190.00 | Friends/Seniors (65+): $175.00
Students use Adobe® Premiere and Photoshop to create a Vimeo art portfolio. The do's and dont's of creating an online portfolio will be taught, including examples for study and discussion. Vimeo is used because the web address of the portfolio stays the same, even if the student replaces the video. Portfolio can include work in any medium (film, animation, photography, theater, 2-D art, or audio.) Students need to bring in their own content to scan in class for their individual portfolios. No class Jul 4.
9824 | Video Editing and Production
Level: All Levels | Instructor: Jeff DeCuir
Dates: Mon, 6/10/2019 to 7/29/2019 | 6:30 PM- 9:30 PM
Studio: Digital Imaging Studio | Building: Santikos Building
Tuition: $225.00 | Friends/Seniors (65+): $210.00
This course will explore video shooting and editing utilizing Adobe® Premiere Pro CC. Students will learn how to make a short film from beginning to end. This project includes lighting, shooting high definition video, editing, adding moving background imagery, using a green screen, and adding music, Foley, and sound effects suing Adobe® Premier. No camera required. Student will need to have some basic experience with computers.