Group: Digital Graphics Lab - Learning Path
Members: 889
Started: June 9, 2009
Category:
: digital image, gimp, graphics
Access: Public/Open

Description

Welcome to the Digital Graphics Lab, where you will create cool art-quality images from your own photographs - no prior experience required!

To get started, JOIN THIS GROUP. Then click on the Activities tab. Next complete each of the Activities. And finally compete in the Challenge Activity

Click the Details tab for more information. Once you are done with this learning path, you might like: Animation Exploration, Mix it, Mash it, Make Your Own Music, and Make Exceptional Videos.

Learning Path and Challenge Activity Provided By

Generous support for the "Digital Graphics Lab" learning path comes from our good friends at Giant Campus!

Additional Challenge Activity Provided By


A special thanks to our friends at Vertigo for helping us to create an additional graphics challenge activity!

Details

Getting Started

The activities for the Learning Path can be found under the Activities tab. Start with the first activity, and as you complete each activity, move on to the next one. As you complete an activity, be sure to submit your results. Depending on the activity, the submission may be an image file, a video, music, a URL, or something else. If you have questions about what you should submit, check in with the camp interns on the forum. For help with any of the activities in this path, post your question to this group's forum. For general questions about how to do a Learning Path, post your question to the main summer camp group's forum.

In this Learning Path you will create an art poster from one of your own photographs, and learn skills that will allow you to create interesting and artistic images using your camera and computer.

Activities

Here are the activities that make up the learning path.

  • think like an artist: learn the secrets behind taking eye-catching photos
  • focusing on the good stuff: resizing and cropping photos
  • using color and shape to tell your story
  • use drawing tools to turn a photo into something new
  • experiment with filters and effects to create your vision

Skills

You will develop the following skills by completing this learning path:

  • photo composition
  • resizing and cropping photos
  • balancing color and contrast
  • using GIMP tools to change the look of an image
  • using GIMP tools to create an art poster from an image

Help

The activities for the Learning Path can be found under the Activities tab.  Start with the first activity, and as you complete each activity, move on to the next one.  As you complete an activity, be sure to submit your results.  Depending on the activity, the submission may be an image file, a video, music, a URL, or something else.  If you have questions about what you should submit, check in with the camp interns on the forum.  For help with any of the activities in this path, post your question to this group's forum.  For general questions about how to do a Learning Path, post your question to the main summer camp group's forum.