Introduction

We increasingly encounter university-level students who have never owned an analog camera. They own digital SLRs, and quite good ones, too: cameras with the ability to expose in the highest quality digital imaging format, Camera Raw.

It is the rare student who knows how to handle images captured in Camera Raw.

To address this need, we have made Version 2 of the "Digital Imaging Take-Home Professor" tutorials. These screencasts follow the steps of the Camera Raw digital workflow and instruct students on how to sort images using Adobe Bridge, develop images using the Adobe Camera Raw Converter, and finalize them using Adobe Photoshop CS3.

These screencasts (with a combined duration of 182 minutes) illustrate a written manual delineating the Camera Raw digital workflow. This downloadable PDF manual is the first link in the table of contents following this introduction. (Note, too, the presence of a second manual for students using Photoshop CS2. We wrote this because some of our students still use the older version in their studios).

In 2002 we created Version 1 of the "Digital Take-Home Professor" tutorials. Those tutorials combined texts, lectures and screencasts using Adobe Photoshop version 7. Because Version 1 included many techniques still valid in Photoshop CS3, we have kept Version 1 of the "Digital imaging Take-Home Professor" tutorials available online.

Peter Thompson
Professor, Photography Department, Columbia College Chicago
peterchicagomediaworks@hotmail.com
www.chicagomediaworks.com

Thomas Shirley
Professor, Photography Department, Columbia College Chicago
tshirley@colum.edu
www.tomshirley.com