2. Create a series of drawing mock-ups (sketches) of the composite image you want to create and begin to extract and edit your images. Your final composite file should be 300 dpi, 5000 x 40000 pixels, RGB color and approximately 60 megabytes.

On the Napolitano web site at http://napoitano.georgetown.edu/links look at the work of photographers such as Maggie Taylor, Jerry Uelsmann, Misha Gordin and Alessandro Bavari. They can provide good examples of photographers who use multiple composite imaging to create their work. You may also be interested in looking at the work of Oscar Reylander or Henry Peach Robinson who pioneered the use of multiple photo imaging and printing techniques in the 19th century.

You are strongly encouraged to use all the different imaging applications you have learned in the Digital Art Class (Arts 162). Use Illustrator if you want to combine text and images, Painter if you want to add a painterly quality to your photographic imagery. Your final work doesn’t necessary have to look like traditional photography.

3. When you have finished compiling your images as digital files, back-up all your work to a CD-ROM or DVD disk.

4. Your final work will be printed on the high-resolution archival Epson printers in the lab. In class demonstrations I will teach you how to calibrate an LCD monitor and use color management to obtain consistent output from a printer. For a guide on color management please view this PDF file. For more info on color management see these sites: drycreekphoto -- ICC -- normankoren