After several months of making videos and taking photographs, the digital media and photography students have received great training in the principles of composition (balance, contrast, etc.). Now they’re learning the more technical aspects of photography by using Gimp, a free, open source software that is just like Photoshop. Using previous exercises and photographs the students have executed, they are now going back and using Gimp to manipulate them. Here are some of the examples below:
DIVAS (Digital Interactive Visual Arts Sciences) for Social Justice aims to bridge the digital divide by combining media literacy and cultural awareness along with a vast understanding of technology to encourage young women in under served communities to pursue careers in computer science and new media.
