Nach positiver Absolvierung der Lehrveranstaltung sind Studierende in der Lage einer Lehrveranstaltung über Fotografie, Grefik und Bildbearbeitung in englischer Sprache zu folgen.

After successful completion of the course, students are able to work with both raster and verctor image in their professional field. Understanding the principles of image adjustment and composition is one of the main goals of the class. Students are also gaining a profound knowledge in photography before they explore the possibilities of digital postproduction.

Die Lehrveranstaltung wird in Englisch abgehalten.

The course is mainly focused on Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Photoshop, at the time being the premiere imaging and production tool for those interested in multimedia, the web and print. Knowledge of Photoshop provides a fundamental base of computer concepts and techniques from which students can build upon. Illustrator on the other hand is a powerful drawing program that dovetails smoothly with many other applications. With a little imagination and vector drawing tools, you can create images for output to any size without loosing detail. You will learn underlying concepts that determin how this vector program "thinks".

Lectures, demonstration, hands on software training, project work on homework assignments.

Software used in course: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator

Attending the first class is mandatory. Students that fail to come to the first class will be removed from the list. For every person removed from the list, one person from the waiting-list will follow.

If demand is particularly high, students who are attending the course for the first time will be given preference over those who have already completed the course without success.

Students are evaluated based on active class attendence and a series of homework assignments.

Students need to have a digital camera. (a smartphone is sufficient)