Course Details

Computer Science for Architects

Academic Year 2025/26

BUA016 course is part of 1 study plan

BPC-APS Winter Semester 3rd year

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

1 credit

Semester

both

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1.Introduction to work with raster graphics. Adobe Photoshop and its user interface. Basic editing raw images: color adjustments, image size and resolution .
  • 2. Image layers. Main principles of image processing for printed and electronic documents.
  • 3. Image color channels. Retouching bitmap, painting and retouching tools.
  • 4., 5. Working in a part of a picture: local editing, creating a simple photomontage. Tools for selecting image areas, combinations of selections, more accurate selection border. Creating photomontages.
  • 6. Vector graphics in Photoshop – paths, converting paths to selection borders.
  • 7. Inserting objects to an image, light in the image, creating a contact and drop shadows.
  • 8. Channels: color channels, alpha channels, Quick Mask mode. Masking of layers.
  • 9., 10. Geometric transformations in an image. Working with perspective. Vanishing Point Filter .
  • 11. The final phase of model visualization, rendering, export from 3D modelers, inserting the model into real photo.
  • 12. Basics of photography, photography of architecture. Consult of individual works.
  • 13. Test, credit.