Schedule


# Schedule

## Week 1

- Introductions
- Review course outline
- Welcome survey
- Introduction to digital photography, digital cameras, and Adobe Photoshop
- Overview of the digital photography workflow
- Shooting digital
- Image management (DAM)

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## Week 2

- Colour management: colour spaces, profiles, and calibration
- From analog to digital
- Flatbed and Imacon scanning
- Working with scanned images

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## Week 3

- RAW conversion workflow
- Getting comfortable with Adobe Photoshop: histogram, cropping, smart objects, organizing layers, etc.
- Basic image correction: tools, levels, curves, and channels
- Assignment #1 overview

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## Week 4

- Image correction techniques: selections, masks, repairing, etc.
- Printing workflow
- Class discussion on reading #1: [*The Digital Divide*](https://www.artforum.com/features/digital-divide-contemporary-art-and-new-media-200814/) by Claire Bishop

*Course fees due. Please email receipt to the teaching assistant.*

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## Week 5

- Printing workflow
- Printer demo
- Assignment #2 overview

*Assignment #1 due.*

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## Week 6

- Printing studio time

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## Week 7 — Reading Week (No Class)

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## Week 8

- Workflows for consistency across a series of images
- Photoshop AI and image generation
- Composite images
- Lecture on contemporary artist using composite images
- Assignment #3 overview

*Assignment #2 due.*

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## Week 9

- Composite images
- File sizing & resolution, upsampling, noise reduction, etc.
- Extending Photoshop: actions, plugins, etc.
- Large format printing demo (Photography majors)

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## Week 10

- Preparing files for various outputs: web, projectors, etc.
- Individual meetings
- Free studio time

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## Week 11

- Digital asset management (DAM) Part II
- Class discussion on reading #2: [*In Defense of the Poor Image*](https://www.e-flux.com/journal/10/61362/in-defense-of-the-poor-image) by Hito Steyerl
- Individual meetings
- Free studio time

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## Week 12

- Final presentations and critiques: Group A

*Assignment #3 due during your presentation.*

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## Week 13

- Final presentations and critiques: Group B

*Assignment #3 due during your presentation.*

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## Other Important Dates

See [Concordia undergraduate academic dates](https://www.concordia.ca/students/undergraduate/undergraduate-academic-dates.html) for official university deadlines.

- **Before Week 3** — Deadline for withdrawal with tuition refund (DNE) from fall-term and two-term courses
- **Week 7** — Reading week
- **After Week 13** — Deadline for academic withdrawal (DISC) from winter term courses