Photoshop
Curriculum
By
Jane Pawlowski
W.T.
Clarke High School
References
Sams
Teach Yourself Adobe Photoshop 7 in 24 Hours by Carla
Rose
Adobe
Photoshop 7.0 Classroom in a Book by Adobe Creative Team (Paperback)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction to Photoshop............................................................................................................. 3
Paintbrushes and Art Tools.......................................................................................................... 5
Digital Painting.............................................................................................................................. 7
Moving Paint.................................................................................................................................. 9
Selection Tools.............................................................................................................................. 9
Transformations........................................................................................................................... 11
Repeat Design............................................................................................................................ 13
Filters............................................................................................................................................ 14
Book Cover Design.................................................................................................................... 17
CD
Cover..................................................................................................................................... 18
Currency Design.......................................................................................................................... 19
Self Portrait.................................................................................................................................. 20
Photoshop & Design................................................................................................................... 21
Assessment and Digital Imaging Lesson
…………………………………by Donna Pauler Examples using Photoshop
Introduction to Photoshop
Students will learn the
basics of their desktop; from turning on their machine to opening Photoshop
and beginning a new program. Turn on the computers if
they are not already on. Go over the components of
the desktop. The Start button, the
icons. Double-click on Photoshop
to open the program. Depending on the computer, this is a large program and
takes a while to open. Go to file new to set the
size of the screen. The image size can be set in inches, centimeters, pixels,
points, picas or columns. Define: Pixels, points,
and picas For the purpose of this
lesson, set the screen at 7 x 5 inches. The resolution refers to
the number of dots of ink per inch (for print) or pixels per inch (for the
screen). The higher the resolution, the better quality your image is. Most
print images are 300 dpi or better. The monitor has a dpi of 72. You set the
resolution depending on the output. For now keep it at 72. Set the Mode to RGB Color
(RGB stands for Red Green and Blue). Again the different modes depend upon
the output of your art. Under contents, click the
button to select white, which gives you a white canvas to paint on. Click OK. This brings up
the active window. The canvas is the large white box within it. More than one
window can be open; only one is active at a time. After you have created a
new file, you can change the size by selecting Image®Canvas Size. The Toolbox - (Handout) The toolbox is equivalent
to an artist’s worktable. It holds all the tools you use to paint, erase and
otherwise work in your picture. There are four kinds of tools. ·
Selection tools ·
Painting tools ·
Specialized tools for
working with type, gradients, and so on. ·
Viewing tools. Selection Tools
At the top of the toolbox
is the group called the Selection tools. They are used to select all or part
of a picture. There are three: the Marquee, the Lasso and the Magic Wand.
When an area is selected you see a blinking selection border, called a
Marquee after the movie theater marquee lights that flash on and off. The
Marquee and Lasso tools work by clicking and dragging the tool over the part
of the image that you want to select. The cropping tool is also here. The fourth tool in the
selection area is the Move tool. After you have made a selection, use the
Move tool to move the selected area to another place on the page. Painting Tools
The painting tools consist
of an Airbrush, Paintbrush, Pencil and Rubber Stamp. These all apply “paint”
to the screen in one way or another, just like the real tools they imitate.
The Airbrush and Paintbrush can change width and angle. The Pencil draws or
erased a single pixel line. The Line tool, which pops up when you click the
Pencil draws straight, 45 and 90-degree angles, as if you were using a
T-square and triangle. There’s also an Eraser that takes away part of the
picture. New to Photoshop 5 is the
History brush, that gives you the ability to selectively undo and redo as
many of your changes or individual brushstrokes as you want. There are also tools that
move, blur and change the intensity of the image. These are the Smudge,
Blur/Sharpen and Dodge/Burn/Sponge tools. Viewing Tools
There are two Viewing
tools; The Hand tool and the Zoom tool. The Zoom tool is shaped like a
magnifying glass, and the Hand tool, like a hand. The Zoom tool lets you
“zoom in” by clicking the tool on the canvas to see a magnified view of your
picture or “zoom out” again by pressing (Alt) as you click to see a smaller
view. The Hand moves the image within the window and is helpful when you have
zoomed in to enlarge the picture. Special Tools
The letter T represents
the Type tool, which adds type to your picture. The Pen tool draws paths,
which are a means of drawing a curved line or shape. Paths can be used as a
selection or drawing tool. The Measure tool can be used to measure dimensions
and angles in the picture. The
gradient Tool lets you create backgrounds that shade from one color to
another or even all the way through the rainbow. The Paint bucket pours paint
into any area you select. The Eyedropper tool picks up a sample of any color
you click it on, making it the active color. Tool Shortcuts
These tools can be
selected by clicking the icon or a single letter shortcut to the tool. Tool Shortcut Tool Shortcut
Marquee M Move V Lasso L Magic Wand W Airbrush J Brush B Rubber Stamp S History
Brush Y Eraser E Pencil N Blur R Dodge O Pen P Type T Measurement U Gradient G Paint Bucket K Eyedropper I Hand H Zoom Z Crop C Switch background X Foreground
colors Menus
Across the top of the
screen are the dropdown menus. Take a moment to scroll through them to see
what is there. Many menus have submenus. The little arrow offering more
selections indicates these. Paintbrushes and Art Tools
Students will have the
opportunity to explore the painting tools: the Airbrush, paintbrush, eraser,
pencil, line, gradient, paint bucket and eyedropper tool. Assignment: Students will
create an original work using these tools. This will be printed in black and
white. Students will also create their image either by 1) coloring in the
print with color pencils or 2) recreating and enhancing the art on paper. The painting tools are all
highly configurable. You can adjust such settings as diameter, hardness,
roundness, angle, opacity and so on. The Brushes Palette
This palette either
appears as soon as you open your file or can be opened via the menu command
Window®Show Brushes. This
palette works with all the art tools, from the Airbrush to the Dodge tool. It
gives you the ability to select any of Photoshop’s preset brush shapes or to
create your own. Click one of the preset
brush shapes. The size and shape you see in the box are the size and shape of
the brush. The only exceptions are the rushes with the numbers, which indicate
the diameter of the brush in pixels. A brush can be up to 999 pixels wide
(almost 14 inches). We have not yet selected a tool. You need to type a
shortcut or pick a tool in the toolbox. The brushes palette just influences
the shape of the tool. Brush Options Dialog Box. Double-click a brush and
the options dialog appears. Here you can select the diameter, hardness,
spacing, angle and roundness of the brushes. The harder a brush is (nearer
100%), the more defined the edges of paint will be. A brush with a setting
around 20% has a more translucent appearance. The next option is for
spacing. If left unselected, the speed of your mouse movements determine the
spacing of discrete drops of paint. If you move more slowly, paint appears in
a continuous line. If you move the mouse quickly, circles of paint appear
with spaces between them. By selecting the spacing
check box, you are able to set a standard spacing of paint, no matter what
the rate of the mouse movement. Anything around 25% should give you a very
smooth line of paint. As you increase the percentage, the spaces increase. Select the paintbrush, double-click on it. See how the different
spacing settings change the stroke. Set at 25%, 50% 100% and 200%. You
can also set the angle and roundness of the brush. Experiment with these to
get a brush line that duplicates a real paintbrush. You can either enter numerical values or adjust the graphic.
You can save a brush you like in your file with the Save Brushes command found
in the brushes palette menu. Click on the upper right corner to open the
menu. You must name your brush. Tool Options Palette
This can be opened either
by clicking on the Window®Show
Options menu or by double-clicking on a tool. The tool options change
depending on the tool you are using. Notice the slider that sets the opacity.
Click and hold the right pointing arrow next to Opacity field to enable the
slider. A low setting applies a thin layer of paint – nearly transparent. The
closer you come to 100%, the more concentrated the color. Wet Edges creates a sort
of watercolor effect when you paint. Experiment with the wet edges on and
off. Fade, when used with a
full brush of paint makes the paint run out after a set number of steps, just
as if you were using a real brush. You can set the fade amount from 1 to 9,999 steps. Try starting with a Fade
setting of 24 to get an easily controllable brush stroke, neither too long or
short. Experiment with the settings to see the different effects. The Stylus Pressure
options affect the way that Photoshop responds to a pressure sensitive
digitizing tablet, ignore it for now since we are not using this. Blending modes affect the
way a layer of paint interacts with whatever is under it. Brushes
Airbrush
This tool, sprays paint
(or pixels) on the canvas. It is like an artist’s airbrush that uses
compressed air to spray paint through an adjustable nozzle. The Airbrush
applies paint with diffused edges, and you can control how fast the paint is
applied. You can adjust it to spray a constant stream or one that fades after
a period. Experiment with different brush sizes and shapes. The longer you
hold the Airbrush tool in a single spot, the darker and more saturated a
color becomes. Type J to activate the Airbrush or click it in the toolbox. Paintbrush
The Paintbrush tool is the
workhorse of all the painting tools in Photoshop. Type B to use the Brush or
click on it. Double-click to open the Brush Options palette if it is not
already open. The Paintbrush behaves very much like the Airbrush, only paint
is applied more evenly. That is to say, if you hold the mouse clicked in one
area, paint does not continue to flow onto the canvas. To paint a straight line,
constrained either vertically or horizontally, hold down the Shift key as you
drag the brush. To draw a straight line between tow points, click once on the
canvas to set the first point, and then Shift-click to mark the end
point. A line appears between the two
points. Eraser
The Eraser tool is unique
in that it can replicate the characteristics of the other tools. It can erase
with soft edges as if it were a paintbrush painting with bleach. It can erase
a single line of pixels as if it were a pencil, or it can erase some of the
density of the image as if it were an airbrush. It can also act as an
ordinary block eraser. The first three options are controlled via the Brushes
palette-size, harness, and so on. These characteristics are set on the Eraser
Options palette. You can also Erase to
History. This lets the eraser work with the history palette so you are
erasing to an earlier version of the picture. Before you begin to
erase or make any drastic changes to your picture, you can take a snapshop of
it by choosing New Snapshot from the History palette. Pencil
The Pencil tool, works
like a paintbrush except that it createshard-edged lines. To set the diameter
of the Pencil, double-click on it to bring up the Options palette. One option
unique to the pencil is the Auto Erase. Whenever you start to draw on a part
of the canvas that already has a pencil line on it, you pencil becomes an eraser and will erase
until you release the mouse. Let us experiment with
some of the paint tools. 1. Open a new page, making it big enough so you have
some elbow room. About six to 8’ square is fine. 2. Open the Brushes palette (Window®Show Brushes). On the same set of palettes as the
brushes, you’ll see a tab for Swatches. 3. Click Swatches to open an electronic paint box.
Click on any color. 4. Type or
click on the Paintbrush. 5. Click the Brushes tab to go back to Brushes to
choose a brush shape. 6. Press and hold the mouse button as you move the
brush over the canvas. 7. Try the Airbrush and Eraser tools too. Assignment
Create a drawing using the
painting tools.
Digital Painting
Students will gain
knowledge to choose and apply colors using the tools learned in the previous
lesson. They will also learn about the blending tools. Foreground and Background Colors
At any given moment while
working with Photoshop, you have two colors available – two active colors a foreground color and a background color. The
foreground color is the one you use to paint, to fill or to stroke a
selection. This is the color currently on your brush or pencil. The
background color is the color Photoshop uses when you erase or delete a
selected area on the background layer. This is the color of your canvas. Selecting Colors
The fastest and easiest
way to select color is to use the foreground or background swatch in the
toolbox. The color swatch to the upper left is your foreground color and the other one is the background color. To
set either color, click its swatch. The small icon to the
lower left of the swatches, which looks like a miniature version of the
swatches, resets to the default colors (black and white). The little curved
arrow to the upper right of the swatches toggles between background and
foreground colors. To change the color, click
either of the swatches. This opens the Color Picker. The Color Picker
This lets you select color
in several ways. You can click the color spectrum to select a color or drag
the triangle up or down if you’d rather. You can click the large swatch (the
color field) to select a color, or you can enter numbers in the color model
boxes. By default, the Color Pick
opens in HS model, which stands for Hue Saturation and Brightness, with the
Hue button active. HSB mode is often preferred by artists . You can change it
to RGB which is the colors your monitor displays. Remember when working in
RGB you are working with the way light affects color. Experiment with the Color
Picker. The Color Palette
The Color Palette has
several advantages over the Color Picker. It can be left open on the
desktop,so you can change colors without opening the Color Picker. Change
your setting to RGB or CMYK depending upon your output. The Swatches Palette
This is the easiest way to
choose color. The Swatches palette works like a paintbox. Dip your ‘brush’ in
a color and paint with it. This palette opens with the current System
palette. You can add colors from the Color Picker or select a color system
such as Pantone (this is for printing). You can also customize the color with
the eyedropper tool. To add a new color 1. Click the foreground color swatch in the toolbox. 2. Use the Color Picker to select the desired color
and click OK. 3. Open the Swatches palette. 4. Using the tab in the lower-right corner, drag the
window to enlarge it. 5. Move your cursor into the space below the existing
swatches. It changes to a paint bucket tool. 6. Click and the new color is added. 7. If you press Shift, you can add the new color
anywhere, replacing another swatch. You can create a
customized palette and save it. The Eyedropper Tool
When you move the cursor
over a color swatch, you see the eyedropper tool. Its function is to pick up
bits of whatever color you touch it to. You can also use it to pick up a
color in you r picture to have a perfect match. Blending Modes
If you were using paint,
the colors would blend together. There are several Blending Modes in
Photoshop. They can be found on a
pop-up lit in the paintbrush options window. Experiment with the different
modes. Moving Paint
Students will learn to
manipulate the paint like a painter as well as some darkroom techniques.
Students will learn to use the blending tools. Smudges
Smudge means blending two
or more colors. The Smudge tool is the easiest way to blend. This tool looks
like a finger. This tool picks up color from wherever you start to drag it,
and moves it in the direction you drag. You can use the Options window to set
the pressure of your smudging finger. At 100%, the finger simply wipes away
the paint. At 50%, it smears it. At 25% the smear is smaller. You can also
set the width of the “finger”. The Smudging tool can also
mimic finger painting. This option starts each stroke with the foreground
color. This can e used to blend color into an existing picture. To do this
check finger painting in the options menu. The Blending modes are on
a pulldown menu. The Focus Tools
Blur and Sharpen used for
touching up an image as well as bringing items into sharper contrast. They
cannot save a bad photo but they can increase contrast and sharpen up one
that is a little off. Sharpen rings up the
contrast to create the illusion of sharper focus, while Blur is useful to rid
the background of unwanted clutter and de-emphasize parts of the picture you
don’t want viewers to see. Selection Tools
Students will learn
several ways to select a piece of a picture. Students will use their
knowledge of these tools to manipulate a photograph into a new image. The Selection tools are:
the Marquee tools, the Lasso tools, and the Magic Wand. Rectangle and Oval Marquees
The Marquee tools, both
rectangular and oval, are found in the upper-left corner of the toolbox. To
select the rectangular marquee, just click it or type the letter M. to select
the oval marquee, click and hold the rectangular marquee in the toolbox for
the rollout menu to appear. Select the oval marquee. You can switch back and
forth between the two -- Shift-M. To select: 1. Click the marquee tool. 2. Move the tool over the canvas, the cursor appears
as a crosshair. 3. Click and hold the mouse. 4. Drag out a marquee. Experiment with the different
marquee tools. Drag in different directions. 5. If you hold the shift key while using the marquee,
you can make additional selections. (You will see a plus sign under the
crosshair. Where the selected images overlap, they’ll merge to form a larger
shape. ) 6. To select an area inside another area, (a “knock
out”) press the Alt key as you drag the inner shape. The thin horizontal and
vertical marquees select a single row of pixels. They are useful for cleaning
up an area. When dealing with
selections, only the area within the confines of the marquee can be edited.
Before moving on, you must deselect the area. This is done by clicking
outside the selected area with one of the marquee tools or by typing
Control-D. Lasso
To select irregular
shapes, use the lasso. This requires a steady hand and good eye-hand
coordination. You can add to the original selected area by holding down the
Shift key and selecting additional parts of the object. To make a selection: 1. Select the lasso tool or type L 2. Click and carefully drag the lasso around the piece
of the image you want to select. You will see a blinking line. Be careful not
to release the mouse. If you do, you lose the marquee. It automatically
closes the selection. 3. When you are close to completely enclosing the
selection, you can release the mouse. The two ends automatically join. Polygon Lasso
The polygon lasso behaves
in much the same way as the regular lasso tool. The difference is that it makes irregular geometric selections.
It is easier to use, easier to control. You click the polygon lasso to lace
points and Photoshop inserts a straight line marquee between the points. You
can place as many points as necessary. Magnetic Lasso
This lasso works well with
objects that are clearly defined. The marquee will snap to the edges. This
tool works by looking for differences in contrast. Use the Options menu to
set the parameters. The Lasso Width refers to how close to the edge you must be
to have the Lasso recognize it. Magic Wand
This tool selects pixels
based on color values. By holding the Shift key, you can select more than one
area. The wand selects adjacent
pixels based on color similarities. Its tolerance can be set in the Options
palette. Tolerance refers to color sensitivity. The lower the tolerance, the
less tolerance the wand has for color differences. The Wand is best used for
selecting objects that are primarily one color. The Selection Menu
In addition to the above
tools, there is a Select menu. The most useful commands are the top four. Select All draws a selection marquee around the entire
picture. Deselect
removes the selection marquee.
Reselect
replaces the marquee. Inverse lets you select everything but an object, by
selecting the object and then inverting. Feather lets you make the edge of the selection fuzzy or
feathered. This is useful for selecting an object from one picture and
pasting it in another. Modify This has a submenu. Border changes the selected area
so instead of the whole object, you have only selected a border around it.
You can set the width of the border in the dialog box. Smooth is useful when working with a shaky hand. Cutting and Copying
This allows us to borrow
from one picture to add to another. Cropping
Cropping is the term for
trimming away any unwanted parts of the picture. To crop a picture: 1. Select the Cropping tool from the toolbox. 2. Drag it across the picture, holding the mouse
button down. 3. Use the handles on the Cropping window to fine-tune
the selection. You can even twist the Cropping window, by clicking the doted
line and dragging when the double-headed bent arrow appears. 4. After you have the tool placed where you want,
double-click to delete the area outside the window. Assignment Use the selection tools on
an existing photo. Select, cut, copy, paste to create a new picture. Transformations Often you find that your
picture is not the correct size or shape for you needs. You may need to
change the size, straighten it, tilt it, reorient the objects (direction) or
put something upside down. These transformations and more can be done in
Photoshop. Resizing
You can change the size of
the picture y resizing the canvas or the image. Resizing the image makes the
picture bigger or smaller. Resizing the canvas makes the picture area bigger,
while leaving the image floating in it. Image
To resize an image, open
the Image®Image Size dialog box.
Make sure Constrain Proportions is checked. You can change the image by
percentage or by size. Be aware that the dimensions affect the file size. Canvas This gives you extra
workspace around the image, instead of changing the image size. You can
determine where you want your original image to be on the canvas. Selection
You can also resize a
selected object. First select the object or piece of image. Use whatever
selection tool is easiest. With Marquee active, choose Edit®Transform®Scale. This places a window that has handles around
it. Drag on the handles to change the size. Hold the Shift key down to
constrain the proportions. Rotating
To rotate the entire
image, use the Image®Rotate
Canvas submenus. This will have 90 degree rotations. You can also rotate the
canvas by choosing Image®Rotate
Canvas®Arbitrary to open a
dialog box. Enter the number of degrees and the direction. Rotating
Selections
To rotate a selected
object, first select it. Choose Edit®Transform®Rotate. This places a box around the selection.
Rotate by dragging a corner of the box. Flipping
This creates a “mirror”
image of your original. Selection
Transformations
Resizing and reorienting
can be applied to either the whole canvas or a selected object. The following
can only be applied to a selected object. Skewing
Selections
Skew means to place at an
angle. In Photoshop you can slant it, twist it, stretch it and distort it. To
do so: Layer®Transform®Skew. Distorting
Selections
Layer®Transform®Distort to crush or stretch an image. Changing
the Perspective of a Selection
If you want to change the
perspective, use the perspective tool. The opposite corner of the one you
drag becomes a mirror image. Perspective automatically adjusts both corners
when you drag one. Assignment
Repeat Design
Choose a simple image that
can be isolated for a repeat design. To this design, add an appropriate title
using type. To find stock photos
within Photoshop, follow the following directions: File®Open®C®Program
Files®Adobe®Photoshop®Goodies®Samples®(at this point choose a photo to use). It will probably be easier
to select the background areas and Invert to select the object. Copy the
object. You may want to change the image size to make it work into your
pattern. Pull Guidelines down from
the ruler. (If the ruler is not showing, bring it up). The guidelines will
not print. They help you bring order to a repeat pattern. You may find after you
have created the repeat that it does not look aesthetically nice. Crop the
picture to get the desired effect. Add a background color to
your picture. This can be done by going to your first Layer and adding color
if you did not begin with color. Choose an appropriate word
to add using the type tool. Work on the spacing and color of your type to
make it work with your design. Remember, we print in black and white so you
need to think about the contrast. Name_______________________ Mrs. Pawlowski Period_____ Project
#3 Repeat Design
Assignment: Choose a
simple image that can be isolated for a repeat design. To this design, add an
appropriate title using type. 1. Explain the steps you used to isolate your
photographic image from its background. 2. How can you control the placement of your image to
create your pattern? 3. How was color added to your background? 4. How did you apply the type? 5. Are you satisfied with your completed image?
Explain. 6. What could you have done to improve your
design? Filters
One of the fun
applications of Photoshop is the use of the many filters. You can create many
different effects ranging from changing a photograph to look like a painting
to distorting the photograph in swirls or waves. This lesson will involve
some exploration on the part of the students. They are to choose one photo to
work from. This can be from their own disk or on the hard drive. Students
will create a reference file of the different filtered effects. They will
take this knowledge and create a design for a book cover using one or layered
filters as well as type. Different Types of Filters
Sharpen
Some filters are useful for correcting common
photographic problems. One of the most common problems is the out of focus
picture. If a photo is slightly out of focus Photoshop can create the
illusion of sharper focus using the Sharpen
filters. The first two Sharpen
filters, Sharpen and Sharpen More, provide different amounts of the same
function. They find areas in the image where there are significant color
changes, such as the edge of an object. At these areas, Photoshop increases
the contrast between adjacent pixels making the lights lighter and the darks
darker. If the photo is not
enlarged too much, the effect looks good. (Sharpen More is the same as
applying Sharpen twice) Unsharp Mask
Unsharp masking is a
traditional technique used in the printing industry for many years. It is
probably the best bet for precision sharpening. It corrects blurring in the
original image or scan as well as any blurring that occurs during the
resampling and printing process. The Unsharp Mask works by locating every two
adjacent pixels with a difference in brightness values that you have
specified, and increases their contrast by a specified amount. Note: Many Photoshop
experts recommend always applying the Unsharp Mask filter to every image you
process, for print or the Web. You can at least try this. Blur Filters
The Blur filters are
useful tools when you want to soften the effects, either of a filter you have
just applied or of brushstrokes in the painting. Blurring can gently smooth a
harshly lit portrait or, when used on a selection instead of the whole image,
can throw an unwanted background out of focus. The Blur filters include: ·
Blur ·
Blur More ·
Gaussian Blur ·
Radial Blur ·
Smart Blur ·
Motion Blur Blur, Blur More
There are two basic blur
filters – Blur and Blur More. They do exactly what they say. Blur is very
subtle, and Blur more a little less so. They can smooth out the wrinkles in a
portrait or soften a hard edge. Gaussian Blur
This is a more
controllable blur filter. It uses a mathematical formula (the Gaussian Distribution
Equation or the bell curve) to calculate the precise transition between each
pair of pixels. This filter is a useful retouching tool when applied to an
area within the picture that you want to de-emphasize. Radial Blur
This filter gives you two
choices, Spin and Zoom. Spin gives you a blur that looks as if the image is
spinning around a center point. Zoom gives the effect of zooming the camera
into or away from the image. Smart Blur
This is probably the most
useful blur filter. It blurs everything in the image, or selection, except
the edges. It is the perfect filter to take 10 years off a portrait subject’s
face, smooth out a teenager’s skin or remove the texture in a piece of cloth
without losing the folds. Motion Blur
This tool can add the appearance
of motion to a stationary object by placing a directional blur for a
predetermined distance. Fading Filters
Sometimes filters do too
much. You can fade the effect from 1 to 99% by opening up the Filter ® Fade. Artistic Filters
Photoshop offers
approximately thirty different filters that you can apply alone of in
combinations to turn your so-so picture into a masterpiece. Distortion Filters
Other filters in Photoshop
distort, stylize and pixelate the photos. Experiment with the different ones
to see what they do alone and in combination. Assignment
Select one photo from the
clip art photos that comes with Photoshop. Using your selection tools select
different areas of the photo and apply one filter to it. Do this on ten areas
of the photo. On at least three areas, apply a second (or more) filter.
Notice how some filters distort the image beyond recognition. Book Cover Design
Assignment: What is a book cover? What
is it used for? What kind of information must be included on it? Think of
these questions as you create sketches for an original book cover design.
Your sketches are your method of visual brainstorming. They can be as tight
(detailed and carefully rendered) or as rough (simple shapes, figures) as you
want. The sketches can include words and other notations (such as which
filters you want to use). Once you decide on a
sketch, start to acquire the necessary photographs for your art. These can be
taken from the Internet or they can be scanned onto your directory. Criteria
Size: 5” x 7” Show evidence of filter
use. Be careful not to over filter and lose your images. Include a title. Include the author – you.
It is not necessary to write ‘by’ before the author’s name. The final art will be
printed in color. Include your sketches when you hand in your log sheet. You
do not have to do any additional sketching. CD Cover Design
Assignment
Now is the chance to put
together all we have learned so far and create a CD cover. You can use an
existing group or, even better, make up a group. Perhaps you are the latest
musical rage. For this assignment, go online to obtain photos. Make sure
that you are not copying any logos, existing CD covers, illustrations or
typography from the Internet.
Collect photos of your chosen musician. Make use of layers,
typography, and different opacities. You can filter, select parts of photos,
transform images and have some fun with the cover. Criteria
Size: 4.752 inches Use of at least two
photographs to create your CD Include the artist and
title If time allows, create a
back cover. The finished art will
be printed and placed into actual jewel boxes. Currency Design
Assignment
You are an important
dignitary in a new country. It has been suggested that new tender be designed
incorporating your photograph. To make sure the currency cannot be
counterfeited you must use complex patterns in it as well. Design this
currency. Criteria
Size minimum: 3” x 5” Full color Your photograph must
appear in it. Make sure you use the selection tools to isolate the head. You
can use the picture within a shape or . . . Pattern(s) in the
background A denomination A country Your imagination Log sheet upon completion. If you finish the
front, you may work on the back.
Self Portrait
Assignment
You have been commissioned to create a self-portrait for an upcoming museum exhibition. Using a photo of yourself either scanned into the computer or taken with a digital camera, create this self-portrait. Try |
