Course Description

The word Collage stems from the French word coller, to stick or glue visual objects to a central backing. Two dimensional collages are usually created with photographs, ribbons and pieces of newspapers, magazines, so on and so forth. You can use just about anything! For digital art, collecting artifacts, photographing and scanning them is an integral part of materials. Creating Collage in Painter enables you to apply many features like textures, overlays composite methods plus many, many more. The materials are only limited by your imagination! Collage most often carries a Theme, whether it be a portrait of someone, or a particular scene you wish to show off with added items that bring together a unique piece of art. Lots of painting with Painter Brushes enhancing our images to bring an end result of a lovely creative image. Some may say that Collage is similar to Scrapbooking in a small way it is as there are definitely similarities. In this online course you will begin with simple assemblages, leading up to lesson six where you create a portrait. Each lesson has a theme and I provide you with resources, however I do like to see your very own creations. View more images This is a 5 week, self-paced, online course. If you need additional help understanding the material presented, you can communicate with the instructor and fellow classmates. The instructor will monitor and track your progress throughout the class. LVS Online offers many wonderful learning tools to help you get the most out of your online course, including an online portfolio service that manages all your course registrations, certificate of completion option, a class discussion board to interact with your instructor and fellow classmates, free hosting account, and a student upload area. LVS is a Corel Training Partner. LVS students may purchase Corel products at a significant savings. Follow this link for details. LVS students are also eligible take advantage of special offers made available by famous software developers such as Andromeda, AV Bros, Extensis, Harry Heim, namesuppressed, Nik Multimedia, and Ulead. Details are provided in the classinfo link found in the confirmation of registration. If you would like to receive more information regarding this course, click on the "Contact Us" link in the Information section and we'll try to answer any of your questions within the day.

Course Requirements

Corel Painter X or 11. Older versions of Painter will not work with this Collage class as some features are not available in previous versions. LVS is a Corel Training Partner. Enrolled LVS students are eligible to purchase Corel products directly from Corel Education Store at a substantial savings! Enter coupon code CRL10LVS when checking out to get an additional 10% discount on all Corel products! Students should have a good working knowledge of their operating system. Homework must be reviewed by the instructor in order to earn a certificate. Students have the option of using the Student Upload Area or free web hosting made available for LVS students. Details are provided in the classroom. If you prefer to use your own web space, you must know how to upload your files to a server. Free tutorials are available: Basic HTML page WS_FTP SmartFTP Students should have working knowledge of their operating system: Free Windows Class Here Directory Structure Tutorial Here Zip files may be necessary to complete the exercises provided each week. WinZip, PKZip, Windows Compression or similar program is required to unzip these files. Winzip Tutorial Here Windows Compression These tutorials will show you how to crop and resize images that you want to place on your homework pages: Resize Images for the Web using Irfanview, a Freeware program *Mac* Resize Images for the Web using Goldberg 2.3, a Freeware program All lessons are available in PDF format. Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to view/print the lessons. Approximately 3-4 hours per week is required for each weekly lesson. Course Recommendation Painter has been optimized to integrate seamlessly with a Graphics (pressure sensitive) tablet such as the inexpensive Wacom Bamboo, or the multi-featured Wacom Intuos. Although you can use the program with a mouse, you will find many of the features to be most effective with a tablet. You may want to consider buying one at some point in time. There is initially a bit of a learning curve, but once you begin to use the tablet and pen in conjunction with Painter (and many other programs) you will be both amazed and excited by how real the painting and drawing effects seem as you work. Check out our academic resellers for discounts on hardware.

Course Prerequisites

Class Level- Intermediate. Completion of Painter I or a good knowledge of the Painter program. Completion of the Painter Brushes I class is recommended but not required. It is recommended that you do not take two Painter classes together as this could cause confusion and frustration and it is important to enjoy creating collages.

Course Syllabus

Lesson 1 What is Collage? Begin at the Beginning Planning & Development & Choosing Elements Composite Method Assemblage Applying Place Method Images Of My Garden Collage Lesson 2 Creating A Custom Palette Choosing Elements Erasing Painting Applying Composite Methods Borders and Dynamic Plugins Adding Textures A Collage Your Pet Lesson 3 Scanning Images & Elements Layers & Masks Creating Paper Texture Painting La Mer ~ The Sea ~ Under and Over It Collage Lesson 4 Record & Save a Brush Stroke Mask & Composite Methods Create A Collage With ARomantic Theme Applying Fun Text Having Fun Making A Snazzy Poster! Lesson 5 Creating & Applying Express Textures Assembling photographs Mask and Erase Painting My Favourite City Collage Lesson 6 Creating Textures and Embossed Pattern Effects Painting with Textures and Patterns Applying Filters Cloning Dynamic Plugins - Metals Assembling A Portrait Collage Printing Frames and Sizes

Course Excerpt

Collage is truly a most enjoyable style of artwork to create. There are many ways of accomplishing a wonderful, vibrant image from photographs, painting and embellishments which are items added to give the collage a unique that you can have as a keepsake, maybe of a favourite holiday, special holiday season, gardens or wedding which can often be worthy of framing. With Corel Painter, there's so many avenues to take in creating collage, with images, painting, masking, so on and so forth. The application of materials is endless. It's advantageous to have a scanner because then you can scan selections of fabric, papers, artefacts .... it's all up to whatever your imagination can dream up. Objects applied to Collage are called Embellishments. Continued... Please note: Lessons provide step-by-step instructions with detailed screen captures.

Course Goals

By the time you reach the last lesson you will have created a various amount of collages, including a fun poster and a collage of your favourite city.

Course Reviews

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