Photoshop...

Zombies, lightsabers, and cartoons have proven we need to up our photoshop skills a little bit... Today we will strive for that.

Your task:

• find 3 photoshop photo effect tutorials that interest you and follow them, editing your own images.
• TUTORIALS HERE
  
• Our goal is to gain a deeper understanding of some basic photoshop skills like working with layers, masks, selections, etc.
• We will turn in our 3 edited images as .jpg files in one folder.
  

examples

One day assignment...

Your task today is to create one of the following modified portraits:

• A Zombie
  
• A cartoon   (be sure to follow each step, some get a bit confusing)
• A lightsaber action scene (if you follow this tutorial create it on top of your image, not on a grey background)

To accomplish this you will need to shoot an appropriate image(s) and follow a tutorial to create your desired effect (links above).  This is a one day assignment.

Timeline:

• 35 minutes to shoot
• 1 hour to edit/modify your image.

Due at the end of the period today as a .jpg file in the classes folder on the staff server.

Spring

Spring is one of the four temperate seasons, the transition period between winter and summer. Spring and "springtime" refer to the season, and broadly to ideas of rebirth, renewal and regrowth. The specific definition of "spring" as a season differs, however, the phenological definition of spring relates to indicators, the blossoming of a range of plant species, and the activities of animals, or the special smell of soil that has reached the temperature for micro flora to flourish. It therefore varies according to the climate and according to the specific weather of a particular year.

Our assignment: SPRING IN SHORELINE (or Seattle, or WA, or your spring)...

How can you represent spring in an image? What are spring colors? What happens in the spring?

Think about what you do in the spring, events, sports, places to go, activities, things you eat, flowers or fruit in season, etc.

to turn in... abstracts.

• 12 edited pics on a contact sheet (2 of which must be in black and white)
• 1 full size fav pic

turn in today:

contact sheet with 25 new abstract images, (10, of your 50 total, must be slow shutter). Make a contact sheet with 5 rows and 5 columns and save it as a .jpeg file. Turn in to the classes folder on the staff server

Editing Abstracts...

Tools to edit your abstracts:

• Vignette
• Selective Focus
  
• Contrast
• Saturation
• Photo Filters
• Fill Adjustment Layers

Remember to make your images unique, creative and interesting. If you can obviously tell what it is, it is NOT abstract, choose another. Be ware of the entire image being out of focus, something should be crisp in focus (unless super slow shutter).

Images and contact sheet of 12 edited will be due on Monday.