IMAGE SELECTION CATEGORIES: APPLICATION OF AN EDUCATIONAL TOOL IN A COURSE OF FASHION DESIGN

This article is within the first year of the Research and Development Project (P18SO4) of the Universidad Argentina de la Empresa, an activity is carried out to validate an educational tool (image bank) investigated in an ACYT by Professor Angel Popolizio during the year 2015. The application of the tool took place in a course of Fashion Design of the Degree in Fashion and Textile Design of the Universidad Argentina de la Empresa, made up of 7 individuals. In this activity, the professor asked the students to carry out an image search taking into account the image selection categories proposed by Popolizio: minimum threshold of quality and sharpness, maximum fidelity of reproduction, maximum image quality, respect for the dimensions of the color, wide grayscale, avoiding photographs with lighting that deviate the visualization and analysis of the work, a more characteristic point of view, avoiding graphics that simulate recovering missing works and avoiding watermarks and / or advertisements. The exhibition of this categories to the students for its application in the search for historical sources aims to determine a minimum threshold of quality and fidelity of the image to work, for a better analysis and development of historical clothing and its patterns (decade of the 20th century), in their design projects. On the one hand, it considers the great usefulness of the digital image selection categories proposed to guide and educate the students. On the other hand, seeing the application as a possible evaluation tool, it can verify that the work reflects and correctly interprets what is required to observe and analyze in the chosen image and control as a reference source for the design.