| Class | Date | Topic | Chapter | Activities |
| 1 | June 8 | 1: Course Introduction Getting Started: course overview, the textbook, design principles 2: The Workspace |
1 | *Exercise 1: Design Principles |
| 2 | June 10 | 3: Photo Correction |
2 | Exercise 2: FTP account setup |
| 3 | June 15 | 4: Selections |
3 | *Exercise 4: Selections |
| 4 | June 17 | 5: Layer Basics Project 1: Telling a Story sequence w/Images
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4 | *Exercise 5: Digital Cameras |
| 5 | June 22 | 6: Masks/Channels
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5 | Quiz:: Chapters 1-4 |
| 6 | June 24 | 7: Improving Photos
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6 | *Exercise 8: Photo Correction 2 |
| 7 | June 29 | Project 2: Poster Design | 7 | *Project 1 due |
| 8 | July 1 | 8: Advanced Layers |
9 | *Exercise 8: Advanced Layers |
| 9 | July 6 | 9: Typographic Design |
7 | *Exercise 9: Text Design |
| 10 | July 8 | 10: Vector Drawing Techniques | 8 | *Exercise 10,11: Symbolism and Shape |
| 11 | July 13 | 11: Compositing continued | 10 | *Exercise 12: scan images |
| 12 | July 15 | 12: Files for the Web | Quiz: Chapters 5-9 *Exercise 14: Creating a Portfolio Online |
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| 13 | July 20 | Project 3: Restaurant Web site | 11 | *Project 2 due *Project: Restaurant Web site |
| 14 | July 22 | 13: 3D Project 4: Nature Revised |
*Exercise 15:3D | |
| 15 | July 27 | 14: Color Output |
12 | *Exercise 16: Prepare for print |
| 16 | July 29 | LAB | 14 | |
| 17 | August 3 | LAB | ||
| 18 | August 5 | Wrap up, project, prints, | *Project 4 due |