Courses in advanced

PHOTOGRAPHY for SCIENTIFIC CATALOGUE OF MODERN ART
COMPOSITION and GRAPHICS of the CATALOGUE and the BOOK OF ART

(These are the topics of the courses offered, which may be reshaped according to the specificity of each different project, in which the course can be composed of several accademic years or semester where it coexist and interact with different specializations).

IV.V.
Photography for the scientific catalogue of art
Composition and graphic art book and catalogue

General course of theoretic and practical history and photograph technique (IV)

(Course of high education in art, preparing the next course, the theoretic course is accompanied by hands-on labs).

4 - History and techniques of photography
4.1 - image theory, theory of perception, psychology of form, color theory, visual communication applied.
4.3 - preparatory workshop for creative image processing, for operators of visual communication; target acquisition and capacity building methodology and design of art making through the use and manipulation of graphic and painting techniques and digital techniques .

Course in photography and digital graphics (V)

(Training course aimed at managing digital images up to storage as part of the museum project and construction graphics and material and catalog art book, the theoretical course is accompanied by hands-on labs).

5 - Photography and analogic and digital storage for the art catalogue , scientific art catalogue, art book, book illustration.
5.1 - Introduction to digital photography and Tools for debugging and optimization of digital images: the light - the film - the sensor - scanner
5.2 - Bitmap File: (gif, png, jpeg), (bmp, tiff, psd, raw)
5.3 - Software for image processing: Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat, Photoshop.
5.4 - Photoshop CS: interface, menu file, edit, image, layers, selection filters.
5.5 - the image-range: concepts of exposure-correction tools (levels, contrast, curves).
5.6 - color: color temperature and dominant-correction tools (levels, color correction, etc.).
5.7 – Correcting physical defects: scratches, dust on the sensor, perspective deformations, selection (selection of tools and techniques), clone, clone stamp, menu changes.
5.8 - Filters - Insights on the main filters for photographic use - Unsharp Mask
5.9 - Optimizing files for different uses:

Letterpress
printing service (laboratory)
Print desktop laser and inkjet
websites, multimedia presentations
Archive
5.10 - The editorial project: layout and mock-ups analog and digital
5.11 - Computer graphic composition in Illustrator and interfaced programs and preparing files for commercial printing.

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