This paper presents the design of two laboratory guides in artificial vision for a course which aims to introduce students to the different areas of specialization of his career. Therefore, the designed practices motivate and provide relevant content to the student, and to encourage research in the area of image processing. The first guide presents an introductory practice that explores the basic commands for image processing by programming a GUI in Matlab, and a second practice in which you use an image recognition algorithm, which compares the color characteristics of facial or objects images. The discussion of the results, challenges and recommendations for the development of each practice session are explained. The survey answers of the students are displayed. This survey allows checking their level of acceptance for the design and content of practice and motivation to continue studying in the image processing area. Finally, comparisons with laboratory guides that were designed in other universities are made.