Course Objectives

Digital Image Editing (15 ECTS)

In this course, it is assumed that the students are able to use Word and have a basic understanding of Internet and e-mail.

The students will:

• improve their skills in digital-image editing within their particular fields of specialisation.
• acquire an understanding of how to evaluate relevant hardware and software solutions in digital image editing.
• gain a basic competence and understanding of how digital-image editing may be used for creative visual applications.
• develop competence in using information technology within their own fields of study.
• increase their ability to evaluate the consequences that the use of ICT may have for work in the visual arts.

Course Description

1. Hardware and software: scanners, digital cameras, printers, electronic drafting programmes etc.
2. Digital drawings and photos: using drawing tools and image-editing programs, colour and colour resolution, image resolution, digital photography, editing digital photographs etc.
3. Image editing and photo manipulation: editing digital photographs, using effects and filters, using selection tools, cutting and pasting etc.
4. Composition and layout: typography, text formatting, layering tools, the use of multiple layers in digital images.
5. Image analysis: the evaluation and analysis of digital images.

Software:

An image-editing programme such as Adobe Photoshop or equivalent.

Learning Methods

The course is organised as internet-based instruction with workshops. It will require about 380 work-hours, including around 80 hours of workshops, lectures and guidance sessions. Chat-rooms and net-meetings will be used, where students and teachers may publish images, replies and other documents. These will contain links to other internet addresses. The students will be taught how to use the learning platform.

Communication between the students and the university college will take place through ordinary e-mail and chat rooms on internet. The students must have access to computers with word processers, e-mail, internet and specific programmes.

The subject material covered in the course is divided into 5 topics. There will be training, lectures or lecture notes for each of these topics. There will be specific requirements for participation and assignments which must be submitted for each topic. Three exercises are individual and two will be done in groups. The exercises must be submitted to the subject teachers before specified deadlines for approval/comments. The students are encouraged to form groups in connection with the course. The university college will help them to organise appropriate groups. The course will be characterized by alternation between practical creative activities, theoretical orientation and reflection.

Assessment Methods

Informal continuous guidance and evaluation will be part of both the learning process and a means by which the individual student may acquire increased insight into his/her own academic aptitude for advanced studies and future professional prospects.

All the course units must be passed in order to receive a certificate.

The examination consists of an individual project assignment with a grade which will be entered on the course certificate. The grades will range from A to F, with E as the lowest passing mark. The grade will be assigned in accordance with Telemark University College examination regulations.

Minor adjustments may occur during the academic year, subject to the decision of the Dean