Sarah Lawrence College has two public computer labs. In the Library, there are 36 iMacs running Windows XP and OS X located in the lobby. The Digital Media Lab and classroom in the Heimbold Visual Art Center have 12 and 16 Macs, respectively.
Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Access) and web browsers are installed on all public computers. You can get your email via the web. The Digital Media Lab has additional art software installed.
In addition to the public computer labs, SLC has a number of classrooms that will accommodate computer use while teaching. For more information on SLC computing facilities, click one of the following links:
Public Computer Labs
Library Lab
Heimbold Digital Media Lab
Teaching Facilities
Library Electronic Classrooms
Heimbold Digital Classroom
Other Classrooms
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Located in Heimbold 209, the Digital Media Lab is your resource for digital art. Whether you are working with images, animation, video, sound, 3D modeling and animation, or scanning and printing, we have the facilities and support to help you get it done.
While priority is given to art classwork, the Digital Media Lab is open to the entire academic community.
The Lab has 12 workstations. The Classroom (209A) has 15 student stations and a teacher station.
For more details on what we have to offer, see our equipment list and printer information.
See also: lab hours, digital photo basics, scanning.
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Below are basic and advanced scanning instructions. Basic scans can be done in the Library Lab; for advanced scanning, go to the Heimbold Digital Media Lab.
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Larger flat images or anything 3-D or otherwise hard to scan must be photographed. You can take a picture with a film (analog) camera and then scan the resulting negative, slide, or print (see Scanning). But with sub-professional scanning equipment (like we have here in the DML) as well as imperfections in the process of exposing and developing film, you are likely to achieve better digital results by taking the photo with a digital camera.
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There are several printers available in the Digital Media Lab:
- HP DesignJet 500 – 42″ wide-format color inkjet – classwork use only
- Epson 4800 wide-format photo inkjets x2 – matte and photo black – Photography department use only
- Epson Stylus Pro 9880 – 42″ wide-format color printer – Visual Arts and Photography department use only
- HP color laserjet – 45 cents/page
- HP black & white laserjet – 5 cents/page
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Digital files are just data. By cracking them open and taking a look at the raw data, we can manipulate it directly to creatively mess with images, video, etc.
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Prepared by: Brenda Grell; Instructional Technologist, ext. 2595
This handout can also be downloaded in PDF format.
Week One: Retouching Tools – going in order of least control to most control for retouching your image.
In the Spot Healing Brush tool menu: Adjust diameter and hardness
In the Healing Brush tool menu:
Adjust diameter and hardness
Mode: NormalSource: Sampled
Select Aligned to allow your source point to follow you as you move around the image. Without Aligned checked, you can use the same source point and move around the image with quick individual clicks of the mouse.
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Handout Created by Brenda Grell, Instructional Technologist.
This handout can also be downloaded in PDF format. For more info on Photoshop, check out the Real World Guide to Photoshop.
The software mentioned in this handout is available in the Heimbold Digital Media Lab.
Updated 6/2009
How this handout is broken down: definition of terms and step-by-step processes for each concept. Open up an image in Photoshop and practice each technique.
Selections, Masks, and Channels
These are three interchangeable ways of creating a grayscale copy of your image with digital masking tape to cover up the portions you do not want visible and then reusing the grayscale copy for further editing.
- Make Selection
– use the marquee, lasso, or magic wand to create a selection.
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New SLC Student and Parent Tech Guide
If you have any questions that are not answered here please search this website or contact the Help Desk.
WIRELESS:
The SLC Wireless network can only be accessed while on campus.
Complete this form to access the SLC Wireless network:
http://pages.slc.edu/~support/article/wireless-access-request-form
ETHERNET:
The Help Desk suggests an Ethernet cable length of 15 feet, or longer.
JOBS:
All positions available in the Help Desk and Academic Computing are posted on MySLC.
DISCOUNTS & RECOMMENDATIONS:
SLC has teamed up with Apple & Dell to make laptops, software, etc. available to you at discounted prices.
Click here to read our ‘Suggested Minimum Specifications for New Computers’:
http://pages.slc.edu/~support/tag/recommendations
While shopping the Apple site you will see the discounted price. While browsing the Dell site you will not see the discounted price until you check out.
Please Note – You must use the code provided at the front page of the Dell Store.
Apple Store – http://slc.edu/apple
Dell Store – http://slc.edu/dell
PERSONAL STORAGE SPACE:
Student email, Gryphon Mail, has over 7GB of storage for email, Word documents, PDFs, etc.
USB Keys or Thumb Drives, CD-R’s, and CD-RW’s, and are very popular and inexpensive media to save and transport data.
ON CAMPUS STORAGE SPACE:
Each student has 100 MB of space on the network. Files saved to your H: Drive are available to any properly configured computer on campus, or can be accessed via FTP. Files are backed up nightly.
Details can be found here:
http://pages.slc.edu/~support/tag/h-drive
WEB PAGE SPACE:
Students may use the school server pages.slc.edu for website development.
Details can be found here:
http://pages.slc.edu/~support/tag/websites
PRINTING & SCANNING:
Please refer to the following link for details on each of these items:
http://pages.slc.edu/~support/tag/printing
SOFTWARE:
The Library Computer Lab has the following:
http://pages.slc.edu/~support/article/library-pc-lab
The Heimbold Visual Arts Center lab has the following:
http://pages.slc.edu/~support/article/digital-media-lab
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Help Desk & Academic Computing
hd@slc.edu
914-395-2460
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Prepared by: Brenda Grell; Instructional Technologist, ext. 2595
This handout can also be downloaded in PDF format.
The software mentioned in this handout is available in the Heimbold Digital Media Lab.
Updated 10/2009
How this handout is broken down: terms and step-by-step processes for each concept. Practice each technique with your own images.
Week One: Retouching, Resizing, & Saving Images
First launch Photoshop CS4 and open up an image one of these two ways:
1) Go to File > Open
or
2) In the Control Panel of the workspace, click on the Br button (launches Bridge) and then navigate to the image you want to open in Photoshop.
Control Panel → 
Check out all of the other tools such as the Hand, Zoom, and Rotate View tools in the Control Panel. Also, there is the Arrange documents and Screen Modes buttons you can use to customize your layout.
Retouching Tools: Going in order of least to most control for retouching your image:
- Spot Healing Brush
- Healing Brush
- Clone Stamp
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