Graphic Design - Photoshop (Period 4) Assignments
- Instructors
- Term
- Spring 2010 Semester
- Department
- Visual and Performing Arts
- Location
- A3
- Description
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Students will become familiar with the basic concepts in the graphic design field through computer graphics in the areas of fonts, layout, illustration, and finished art using the programs: Adobe Photoshop and Microsoft Power Point. Emphasis will be placed on the use of art elements and art concepts for lighting, asymmetry, symmetry, photo compositions using tools for: adjustment, coloration, extraction, reflection combinations, actions, liquify, channels, filters, and gradient layers, plus the tasks of saving, printing RGB, setting up CMYK, layering and identifying various methods to achieve desired results. The internet will be used along with personal digital jpgs taken specifically for use in class.Projects and topics may include the following: graphic artists, internet research, basic computer compositions, font effects, design concepts for a CD cover, advertisements, vocabulary word meaning posters, and object replacements.All projects should be 8.5x11 inches RGB unless instructed differently.After project 5: All composites should have the composite at the bottom of the page and the originals in miniature forms at the top of the page (lined up in orderly fashion)All projects should be saved to your H (home drive) and the T (teacher drive)Print each project once to be evaluated in hard copy form, besides the psd document
Upcoming Assignments
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Past Assignments
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Tuesday May 25 or June 2:
Power point final due:
1. Create a power point with slides showing each of your projects
2. Slide one must read:
Graphic Design CS3
Your name
Date
3. on each slide: Label each project and tell what tools were used for each project
4. You will have to save each project as a jpg in order to place them in the program
5. optional - slide each jpg into the slide
6. end slide should be labeled end or the end
7. may use animation and music to make it more interesting
8. must be finished before final exam day
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Projects and brief instructions for this class are listed in the attachment below:
1. Veggie face
2. face
3. Photo Repair
4. Zebra 1
5. Zebra 2
6. Mona Lisa - should be finished to here by Febr 5
7. Car advertisement
8. Door/window
9. Word meaning
10.Recolor
11.Liquefy
12.Egret
13.Egret style - your own
14.Celebrity
15.Asymmetry
16.Metal type
17.Wine glass reflection
18.Manimal
19.Extraction
20.Photostich
21.Actions
22.Mag cover
23.Power Point final
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Monday May 17, 2010:
Actions project due:
Using the actions tool: Choose one of your personal photos
1. create 3 different actions effects with at least 3 stopper points in each
2. should use filters/ photo adjustments/ transformations and any other effects you wish to change the photo
3. show the teacher how each action works before submittal
3. submit the printout of the end result of each action labeled
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Tuesday May 11, 2010:
Photostitch project due:
1. Combine your 3 panorama photos together in one composite on a landscape document
2. Use any tools you can to make them match into one photo
3. Submit the composite and show the originals used to create it
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Friday May 7, 2010:
Extraction project due:
Using one of your personal images taken:
1. Extract a large object from the photo leaving the image to look like nothing was removed
2. The end result must look like a document that has not been altered and must still tell some kind of a story, message like the original did
3. Submit the composite with all the originals showing also
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Tuesday May 4, 2010:
Manimal project due:
Using at least 2 images from the internet -
1. create a new creature and name it
2. match coloration and connect parts to make it seem like it is a real animal, creature
3. the composite and originals must show on the submitted document
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Thursday April 29, 2010:
Wine glass reflection project due:
1. Find a half to 3/4 full white wine glass on the internet
2. Find a background to use it in
3. Find a table or surface for it to sit on
4. Reflect (upside down) the image from the background in the wine only
5. Show the originals and the composite in the submitted document
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Thursday April 22, 2010:
Metal type project due:
1. following the instructions provided for creating metal type, choose a word in a type face that is not too narrow - create and label it as metal type
2. On the internet find photoshop tutorials for different styles of type treatments
Choose 3 of them ad do them to show the end result on the word you have chosen
List the internet site address underneath each example you created
submit it with all four examples labeled
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Monday April 19, 2010:
Asymmetry project due:
Using the portrait of you provided in your examples folder, cut the image in half along the nose to create 1. a new image of two left sides and 2. an image of two right sides.
3. create a quad image composite also by finding 3 other people from your photos or on the internet - a composite of those 3 as quarter images and 1/4 of you
4. Final submital should have all examples showing:
a. right sides b. left sides c. original d. quad + originals used to add to it
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Thursday March 15, 2010:
Celebrity project due
1. Using one of your group photos with 3 or more people - insert a celebrity image
(800-1000 pixels for size to get better info and size to use) from an internet source
2. the celeb must be between the people in the final composite image
3. Match the coloration and lighting so that the celeb looks to be a part of the photo
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Thursday April 1, 2010:
Egrit style due: With 3 of your own photo images, create a composite using all the processes you learned from doing the masks, channels, filters, and gradient of the egrit project.
Submit it as your last name egrit style.psd
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March 26, 2010:
Egret using channels and masks due
1. Using the provided packet - follow the directions to create a composite of the 3 provided images in the egrit folder in your examples folder
2. submit as your last name egrit.psd
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Friday March 19, 2010:
Projects recolor and liquify are due
Recolor:
1 image of object with bright color - make 3 new layers of it - hue/saturation -
saturation of two of those copy layers to make them grayscale (Black & white looking with all the color info still in the photo image)
1. name one - erase (erase the object that is colorful, so that the underneath color shows through - link together
2. name the other - recolor a. using the brush - recolor the same object (at 20-30% you judge)a different color - end result must not be just a blob of color, must have details of the original
3. label and show the original, the recolor, and the erase on portrait 8.5x11
4. label the paper with your name/ grade level
Save as: your last name recolor.psd
liquify:
1. choose one of your pet images
2. Make 3 layer copies of it
3. File - liquify - choose 1 tool to use for each layer copy - create a new looking pet
4. label each with the tool name chosen and the original
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March 9,2010:
Due before Midterm exam:Word meaning composite
1 background
5 images added
Convey the meaning of the term you chose without using text
Save as: (your last) name word meaning.psd
Type the term under your grade level for final document
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March 5, 2010:
Recolor project:
Using one of your photos: Make two layer copies of that image from the original and turn the eyeball off on the uppermost layer
The first copied layer:
- Change the photo coloration by going to Image - Adjustments - Hue/Saturation
- Slide the saturation bar completely to the left
- Erase one thing on the first layer so that the original color shows through from underneath
The second copied layer(the uppermost layer):
- Turn the eyeball on
- After saturating this layer: Choose one thing on the second copied layer to recolor using the paintbrush at an opacity of somewhere between 30-60%
Submit as (your last) name recolor.psd
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Friday, February 26, 2010:
Word vocabulary composite project:
From the word you have drawn in class, look up its meaning online
Create a composite on a background with 5 more images (pictures) from online
No words can be used in the composite for meaning
Get the meaning across by the arrangement and use of appropriate images
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Friday, February 19, 2010:
Two projects related to each other: Door/ Window
Part one:
Using your picture of a door (can be on a house or may just be the complete door)
Create the illusion that you have opened that door and are looking in at a new scene that you have placed there on another layer
The door must have a threshold and be angled like it is open so that we can see the width of the door that is only 2-3inches thick
Part two:
Remove all the scenery from the window as taken
Replace that scene with another that you have taken and then make the glass look as if it is still there
Both projects should be submitted separately with each showing the 5x7 composite at the bottom and the component originals showing smaller arranged nicely at the top
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Friday, February 5, 2010:
Project 7:
Car advertisement:
Using a car photo that you took - make a composite with it as the focal point for selling
It must be placed on a background that you took
Add a person into the picture from your digital photos...have them near the car or trying to sell it
It should have text on several layers with different treatments: cost, a slogan to sell it, title of the car
Make the composite 5x7 on 8.5x11 background
Show the smaller originals above the 5x7
Submit at (your last) name car ad.psd in the T drive and make a printout with your name and grade on the lower right hand corner
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Project 6:
Zebra 2 -
Clone stamp out the Zebra hanging over the back of the front Zebra
Add an appropriate background (African location) - match the coloration and composite them to look like they belong together
Show at the top of the paper - your two originals
Make the composite to be 5x7 inches in size on that letter size document
Print & submit as: (your)last name Zebra 2.psd
on RGB 8.5x11
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Project 5:
Mona Lisa
Create a new face for Mona Lisa by erasing her face and replacing it with a person from an internet jpg.
Requirements:
1. Match the picture color to the Mona Lisa yellow-greenish tint using any or all of the following: Color balance/hue & saturation/levels/brightness-contrast
2. Use the clone stamp(alt-click or alt-drag), blur and filter tools to match the edges and the noise grain pattern of the original
3. Use the Edit-transform-distort or skew tools to adjust the new face to fit the Mona Lisa
4. Should be RGB, 8.5x11 canvas
5. Print plus submit as (your)last name Mona Lisa.psd to the T drive
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due Tuesday, January 19, 2010:
Project 4
Using the zebra 1 example: select the white stripes and recolor them ROYGBIV - the rainbow colors.
submit it to the T & H drives as: (your)last name zebra 1.psd
All projects from now on will be submitted to the T (teacher's drive) and the H (your home drive)
Print out 1 copy each project for grading purposes
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Digital pictures due by this date: after the 19th, they will be considered late:
Bring them in on a thumb, flash, zip drive or CD to load in your folder
Name and organize them according to the list given
See attachment for picture taking list:
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due Friday, January 15, 2010:
Project 3
Using the example, photo repair: clone stamp soft brush, copy/paste, and layering to repair the damaged photo to look complete. It should have a black border of the same material provided on the damaged one and will look brownish, but will look undamaged.
Submit it to the T and H drives as: (your)last name photo repair.psd
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due by Friday, Jan 8,2009:
Project 2
Using the internet: Find at least 9 objects to create your own type of face similar to the project 1 document.
Copy save pictures into your H drive to use on this project. Make a folder to organize the project all in one place
8.5 x 11 inches RGB
It should fill the center of the page and be at least 5-6 inches tall
Submit it to the T & H drives as: (your)last name face
Print it out with your name and grade level in lower right corner
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Veggie face: project 1
Using the magic wand and the lasso: create a face from the food jpgs given
Tools of selection, menus, layering, transformation, & erasing should be used for this project
8.5 x 11 inches on RGB
Save as: (your) last name veggie face.psd into the T drive and your H (home drive)
Type .psd after the name of each project's name to insure that the lab machines save it properly
Print it out - lower left corner give your name and class grade level (11, 12)