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 * Welcome and introduction
 * Review Syllabus and grading
 * Intro students – choose a place you’d like to know more about and a product that makes your life better
 * Lecture - basics of web design, how audience drives design, how to create emotion in web sites
 * 4 elements of great design - captures attention, controls eye movement, conveys information, evokes emotion
 * Discussed creating a website for a place selected by the student, how to brainstorm your different audiences, what emotion applies to each audience, importance of research
 * 3 programs we will be working with: Photoshop, Bridge, and Camera Raw - discussed how each program is used

Homework:

 * Read chapters 1 & 2 in //White Space is not your Enemy//
 * Read chapters 1 & 2 in //Photoshop CS5: The Missing Manual//
 * Work through layer exercises in the Missing Manual pages 85 - 94 (class handout)
 * Start Location project for the place you selected in class

Location Project:

 * 1) Research the current website for the location and comparable websites for other locations
 * 2) Brainstorm what kind of audiences your website will be directed towards, identify the main action each audience should take
 * 3) Bring to class a list of your favorite place websites from your research and least favorites with good and bad characteristics listed, make a list of the audience for your place web site and a main action for each type of audience, and the emotion that you want to assign to that audience.

Resources:

 * //Photoshop CS5: The Missing Manual// - required class text
 * //White Space is not your Enemy// - required class text

Docs:

 * Photoshop Tool Bar - class handout
 * Syllabus [|Syllabus-photoshop.doc]