Advancing your Personal Project

I have begun meeting with students one-on-one to discuss their personal projects and their situation at mid term. This week you need to prepare a proposal for your personal project and be prepared to present it to your imprint group. We will meet in groups this week to settle on projects and begin work on them. There will be some additional in-class writing. Please bring a digital copy of your dome comic to class this week, I will be collecting them.

Scanning for the Dome

First, here are the links to Lance Ford Jones's tutorial on full-dome image making and to the scanning template:

Lance's  website with the fulldome link:
http://webspace.ringling.edu/~lfjones/


The fulldome page:http://webspace.ringling.edu/~lfjones/fulldome/index.html


The new template page:
http://webspace.ringling.edu/~lfjones/fd_templates/fd_templates.html


Here is Lance's step by step review of the Scanning Process:

Assuming that the work is in an 8" diameter circle:
(this is easier if you scan from within Photoshop using "File/Import/Scanner")


• to start:
o in Photoshop: open the "Basic 4k Dome Master" image ("template_4096.psd")
o drag the window out a bit larger than the canvas (the scanned image will be larger (approx. 4800x4800) and you will need to get to the corners of it)
o in Photoshop: go to "Photoshop/Preferences/General"
o set the Image Interpolation to: "Bicubic Sharper (best for reduction)" and click "OK"
o if you are scanning from Photoshop go to "File/Import/Scanner"
o set the scanner resolution to "600 dpi".
• repeat for each work:
o place the work on the scanner and preview
o drag out the marque (crop marks) to encompass the circle as tightly as possible
o scan
o if you are scanning from Photoshop the image will open in Photoshop - otherwise open the image in Photoshop
o rotate the image to the correct orientation using: "Image/Rotate Canvas/180º, 90º CW, or 90º CCW"
o drag the scanned image onto the template image
o with the scanned layer selected go to "Edit/Transform/Scale"
o grab the upper left corner of the scan layer and snap it into the upper left corner of the template
o grab the lower right corner of the scan layer and snap it into the lower right corner of the template
o double-click inside the layer to accept the transform
o drag the black mask layer to the top of the layer stack
o save the image as an uncompressed 32 bit Targa file (named as: name1.tga, name2.tga, etc)
o delete the scanned layer so that you can re-use the template
o if you are scanning from Photoshop go to "File/Import/Scanner"


Let me know if any of this is not clear or if the links are unavailable.

You can email Lance if you have any technical problems and can usually help you.