Welcome to Computer Graphics !

I am your instructor Dr. Lauren Cifuentes. In this class you will learn to design and develop computer graphics that facilitate learning. Click on the icons below to view some examples of great instructional graphics:

Concept Example	Complex Concept	Quantitative Concept	Concept Animation

During this unit, refer to these often. Be sure that by the end of the unit you have achieved these objectives:

1. Use basic drawing & painting tools.
2. Distinguish between drawing and painting.
3. Work on the same graphic with both types of tools to get what you want.
4. Manipulate tools and use menus.

A checklist of the State Board of Educational Certification Standards addressed in this module is posted at the end of the module. Use this checklist to assess your mastery.

Textbook:

Lohr: Chapter12.

 

Instructional Content: Drawing & Painting:

Draw and Paint Comparison

For example: The image on the left is copyright free, so I will take part of it to create a logo for a company.

I would use paint tools to select the bull and then erase the background and use draw tools to add the text.

Images in Paint

• Edges can be softened, dissolved into the background
• Frisketing option combines 2 or more images
• Pixel averaging-transforms digitized image into a pointillist looking image
• Images can be rotated, scaled, duplicated and combined with other images
• Images are transformed using filters, which can swirl, turn into cubism, create zig-zag look, etc.

Color in Paint

• Selected from one image and added to another
• Mixed and saved as a custom palette
• Water-color bleed effects (airbrush)

Closing

• Now let's move on to the draw and paint tutorials for either ClarisWorks/AppleWorks.
• Then you will do the lab activities in "Colorforms".
• When you complete the lab activities, mail them to the appropriate folder with your name as the subject.

Drawing & Painting Tutorials

Colorforms Lab Activity (Click on this link, and conduct all four lab activities)

A. Colorforms lessons and activities
B. Classroom in a Book, Lesson 1
C. PowerPoint Practice: If you do not know PowerPoint, go through a tutorial to learn how to create a graphic presentation.

Assignments :

Develop a cohesive series of still representations of an object on seven different screens connected by transitions. The series must include the following levels of abstraction-- 1) photo, 2) drawing, 3) icon or image-related graphic, 4) index or concept-related graphic, 5) symbol or arbitrary graphic, 6) definition,7) word.Consider Bertin s retinal variables when designing each screen as well as the series.

See example 1, example 2, example3, and example 4.

• (1 point) Includes 7 levels of abstraction.
  
• (7 points) Demonstrates applied principles of simplicity, structure, scale, contrast, etc.
  
• (7 points) Care taken to maintain cohesiveness, immediacy, characterization, and communicability.
  

View the Instructor-Supplied web site resources and add links to interesting and relevant web sites that you reviewed and found useful for the design and development of computer graphics.

1. Click on “Go to Webliography”.
2. Click on “View URLs”.
3. Then use the drop down menu next to View URLs in Modules.
4. Then click on “View URLs”
5. To add URLs, click on “Add URLs”. You can also edit and delete URL's from this screen.

Go to Webliography

Formative Evaluation

Please use the online form to give the instructor feedback

State Board of Educational Certification Standards