Digital Imaging - Assignments and Lessons
OUTSIDE ASSIGNMENTS -- Turn in at least six original images that you have taken this semester.
Take the best shots you can. Get close up to people and use basic compositional rules. There must be people close up or in the middle distance in A1 - A4.
A1 -- Take a digital image that tells a story about the beginning of the semester.
A2 -- Take a portrait of a friend or another student. Look for elements that can help tell the story about the person. Must be close up.
A3 -- Environment / nature Show people in relationship to nature. Not just walking under trees -- some kind of give and take going on.
A4 -- News or sports -- Go to a news or sports or sports event and take photos. Get close.
A5 -- Abstract in the everyday
A6 -- Shoot in the style of a famous photographer---
A7 -- Using these and any other of your own original work, create a Web Gallery on your web page.
IN CLASS LESSONS -- Most of these will come from Hartman's Photoshop CS3
The book will be especially handy if you miss a class, since we won't have time to catch you up in class.
These completed assignments will be turned in by placing them on your web site which will be linked from the main class page.
LESSON ONE -- Balloons -- This is a basic run-though of Photoshop / includes inverse, rotate, magic wand, erase tool, layer manipulation, gradient tool,
You're on deadline, and somehow this is the only version of a photo that HAS to be used on the 12h x 9w magazine cover. How do you fix it?
PART I
First, pull it over to your desktop. Then
2. Rotate the photo using the menu command Image / Rotate Canvas
3. invert the color from negative to positive using the menu command Image/ Adjustments / Invert
4. Crop it with the crop tool
5. Repair the erasures on the sky with the clone tool
PART II: Now, to make it into a magazine cover, you need to replace the sky with a gradient.
1. Expand the "canvas" by making it larger at the top.
2. use the magic wand tool to erase the rest of the sky
3. Create a new layer and place it under the old layer
4. Put a sky-like gradient on the new lower layer
5. Use the text tool to provide a 72 point + Title for your ballooning magazine
NOW OPTIMIZE AND SAVE TO YOUR Public_html FILE
(SEE TURNING IN YOUR WORK
LESSSON 2 -- Bed & Breakfast website photo preparation (From Hartman, Lesson One)
The idea is to make this ready for a website.
1. crop
2. level adjust
3. color adjust
4. increase canvas size and use drop shadow
5. Advertise your bed & breakfast company in text, also using drop shadow and compatible color
6. optimize and save for web
7. display as lesson 2
LESSON THREE - Mediterranian Perspectives
1. Take these three files, drag them over to your desktop, and put them together into one psd file with three layers. As always, level and color adjust.
2. Remove the white area from the tile and use the Edit / Transform function to make the tile the right size and proportion to fit as a decoration for some of the tiles in the main photo. Duplicate this layer as needed.
3. Cut out the alcove windows in the main photo and insert the image of the ocean horizon. Transform as needed.
4. Save as a jpg on your web site as Lesson 3.
LESSON FOUR
Remember paper dolls? This is a lot like paper dolls, except its all digital.
Put the hat, boots, pants, and coat on the kid in different layers. Make sure the clothing layers fit in terms of size and orientation. Then save for web and put on your site.
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LESSON FIVE - color chart -- Use this template to set up an RGB - CMY color chart with gradients.
LESSON SIX
Rotate, crop, color and exposure adjustments needed
LESSON SEVEN
Magazine cover -- Fill in top with clip art or with rubber stamp tool.
Use masking to extract portrait and adjust brightness in a different layer
Use large text, put coconuts in a layer above the text, then create clipping mask
LESSON EIGHT
SIMPLE ANIMATION / PHOTOSHOP /
Imagine you're a web consultant hired to repair this "web dog" of a page. First job: fix the timing of the map found here
LESSONS NINE - TWELVE
FLASH ANIMATION -- Do the first four Flash exercises in the Basic Flash animation pages
FLASH 1 - MOTION TWEEN
FLASH 2 - SHAPE MORPHING
FLASH 3 - LAYER CONTROL -- Searchlight
