.To Do: Work on Assignment 2
Thur Sept. 19
.To Read: Chapter 12: Perspective
Assignment 2 (Color Exercise) (guidelines provided below)
Complete Skill Set 2 Videos by end of class today for critique!
Practice 3 (Icon) due end of class
Assignment #2 Guidelines
Color Exercise
(5 points)
Color Exercise
(5 points)
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| Spot Color by Ajiah Daley |
Using Color To Create Mood And Editing Your Selections...
This is an assignment in the use of filters, painting, and the application of spot color. Take an existing photo and change the color dramatically or drastically in an aesthetically pleasing way. Your textbook Design Fundamentals for New Media describes several appropriate exercises: see #1, 2, 4, or 6 at the end of Chapter 9. Using photographic images (not illustration, please, unless it us your own!), you can play with warm versus cool colors, color adjacency, complementary colors, tinting, etc. Choose images that you have permission to use or that are royalty-free wherever possible, and pay particular attention to resolution and print quality and most important of all, MOOD. DO NOT WORK ON AN IMAGE SMALLER THAN 6” x 8" in 240 DPI or you will be graded down.
For this assignment, you will be evaluated on the following:
• Creativity/Originality/Effective use of color, mood, and drama
• Design & Composition Choices
• Overall Aesthetics/Decisions
• Fulfillment of Assignment Requirements
• Contrast/Value/Color Choices
• Complexity of Work/Demonstration of Skill
• Clarity/Final Resolution of Output
• Use of PS Filters
• Use of Tools/Attention to Detail
• Blending/Transparency of filtering & color corrections/Finesse
Upload the PS file with layers intact along with the original image to the Server 8 drop box before class on the day of critique. Email a JPG of the original and the final to me after the critique to let me know it is ready for evaluation. You should briefly discuss in your email (3-5 sentences) what you chose to accomplish with your color project and what you learned in the process as well as what your finished product has to say about mood and color. As with all Art 109 projects, when you send a file by email be sure your name is somewhere in the file name.
Andy Warhol Effect
Tues Sept. 24
.To Read: Chapters 14 & 15: Abstraction & Association
Work on Final Photoshop Assignment
Thurs Sept. 26
Quiz 2 on Mod1/Part A taken in class
Work on final Photoshop Assignment
Tues Sept. 24
.To Read: Chapters 14 & 15: Abstraction & Association
Work on Final Photoshop Assignment
Thurs Sept. 26
Quiz 2 on Mod1/Part A taken in class
Work on final Photoshop Assignment
. Final Photo Project .
Assignment #3 Guidelines
Composite Image
(10 points)
(10 points)
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| Visual Pun by Kirsten Myers |
“Combining Images To Express Meaning”
This PS assignment should show me the best of the skills you’ve learned this first month of class. Consider it your final exam in Photoshop.
This is an exercise in effective photo compositing, masking, photorealism or painterly style, shading, and the consistent application of light sources. Using photo imagery or an illustration/artwork of your own, create a piece of composite art that suggests a visual pun or is a stylized abstract interpretation of a concept (see examples in the Powerpoint below). Combine three or more different images in a way that is unexpected but that makes sense within the finished piece. Refer to Chapter 15 of your textbook for inspiration on creating abstract concepts with multiple images. (Note: this assignment will require you to understand layering and masking in PS. You should have completed Skill Set 2 and other appropriate tutorials before tackling it.)
Again, choose images that you have permission to use or that are royalty-free. Work with images that are no smaller than 8x10 in 240 DPI. Pay particular attention to focal interest, negative space, drama, and style in your image. You will be evaluated on:
• Originality Creativity/Originality
• Subject, Design & Composition Choices
• Overall Aesthetics/Decisions
• Fulfillment of Assignment Requirements/Rhetorical Resonance
• Contrast/Value/Color Choices
• Complexity of Work/Demonstration of Skill with Masking
• Clarity/Final Resolution of Output
• Use of Software
• Attention to Detail/Masking & Clarity
• Blending/Transparency of filtering & color corrections/Finesse
Upload the PS file with layers intact to the Server 8 drop box before class on the day of critique, along with the original images you worked from, PLUS have a printed/mounted copy of your work to show in class. You will first need to convert to CMYK and print the image at least 8x10. Email a JPG of the final image to me after the critique to let me know it is ready for evaluation.
Along with your image this time, you must also submit a one-page paper (dbl-spaced) describing your thinking while making the image(s), explaining why you chose this particular image (discuss composition, mood, color, contrast, abstraction) and the tools you used to accomplish it. Discuss masking, use of filters, and compositing/creating believable shadows, etc. You should provide evidence of reflection and analysis regarding the process you went through to develop the concept and final result. Be prepared to share this information with the class.
If you make changes to your image after the critique, you should email a JPG of the final to me to let me know . (As with all Art 109 projects, when you send a file by email be sure your name is somewhere in the file name.) discuss in your email (3-5 sentences) what you were attempting to communicate with the image, what tools you used, and what challenges you met in the process of using the software to accomplish it.
RESOURCES
- Composites (examples)
- Ideas @worth1000.com
- www.idiomsite.com/ (visual cliche ideas)
- idioms.thefreedictionary.com
- Hybrid Animals (for inspiration)
- Compositing
- Compositing
- Intro to Layer Masks
- Masking 2
- More on Compositing
- Creating a Realistic Shadow
- More Realistic Shadows
- Shading a Round Shiny Object
- Shading an Organic Shape
- Working with Various Light Sources
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NOTE: FOR THE 3rd Photoshop project you also have the choice of substituting the extra credit project--a composite self-portrait. 
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