va140/icam101
- Week TWO
What
I expect from you for the next section
Part
2 (ch. 5 - 7) of Inside Photoshop read
That you have started your photomontage and will work on it in
section
Housekeeping
Send me an email
this week and answer the following questions:
- What's your year and
major?
- What's your past experience
with digital imaging or computing or art?
- What are you really
interested in learning about in this class?
- How do you plan to
use what you learn in this class?
- Anything else you'd
like me to know?
Don't
forget to check the syllabus
Technical
Reading
I expect you
to be familiar now with:
- cropping
- rubber stamp / clone
tool
- pen tool / path
- type tool
- history
- selections
- layers
Assignment
#1
- Digital Photomontage
- Due at start of 4th section
- At least 3 source
images
- Can be color or greyscale
- Turn in as mounted
print
- Don't use the web
as an image source
- Look at some examples
of digitally made photomontage
- An Idea if you're
stuck . . . . family.
Family history, a portrait through symbols, ties to ethnicity, a representation
of an event, etc.
- What's important to
know for this assignment?
- how to scan
- dealing with image
resolution
- file types
- resizing while keeping
image quality
- using layers (transparency,
masks, linking, merging, copying, etc)
- making and dealing
with selections
- using paths for doing
careful selections
- how the rubber stamp
tool can repair images or hide stuff
- how to use transform
options for rotating or reshaping a selection
- how to use the dodge
/ burn or smudge tools for integrating images
- how to use the eyedropper
tool for matching colors
- cropping, copying,
pasting
- Want
more details on these?
|
|