Digital Cyanotype Assignment
I will be checking in with you individually about this assignment. You should have a minimum of three small and three large good image quality cyanotypes completed. In class today:
Create a new page on your weebly and title it: Digital Cyanotype Assignment
Add the list of the following concepts to your page and explain what they mean in your own words
DIGITAL EDITING CONCEPTS
Shadows - dark areas/blacks
Midtones - grey areas/ middle areas
Highlights- light areas, whites
Exposure - controls overall brightness/darkness of an image, over or underexposed
Contrast- controls the difference between light and dark
Saturation- controls how vivid the colors in an image are
CYANOTYPE CONCEPTS
POSITIVE TO NEGATIVE - editing the digital file - and transposing shadows and highlights
NEGATIVE TO POSITIVE - developing cyanotype negative in the sun
TONAL VALUE - range of black, grey and white
MIDTONE VALUES-- grey areas
EXPOSURE TIME- how long you expose to sunlight
DEVELOPING THE IMAGE - rinsing the image in water
IMAGE AND FILE SIZE
JPG- most common file type, compressed image, used for print and web--
500k and smaller for web 1-2 mb and larger for print
Display an image - dots per inch --- web 72 dpi
print 300 dpi
TIFF -- used mostly for print - 8bit compression, 16 bit compression
PNG - can be used for either web or print
(graphic design illustrator etc - can create vector images, can be large or small)
KB -kilobytes web 50kb, -500kb
MB megabytes
1 mb = 1,000 kb
500kb file = .5mb or 1/2mb