Digital Image Processing in PhotoShop

This is a “get-to-know Photoshop” assignment. You’ll choose some “stock” digital photos and one or more of your own and alter them in various ways using many of the tools available in Adobe Photoshop.

How Do You Learn PhotoShop?

Learn by Watching & Doing: exploring the tools, watching demos, lessons, online tutorials, watching and asking classmates.

Also learn by following these links:

Cropping

Level Adjustment

Selections – tools; feather; add/subtract; invert

Merging Pieces of Different Images (Layers)

…and if that’s not enough: Grade 12 PhotoShop pages

Make Sure You Master These PhotoShop Skills:

(Watch the demos, and ask me for help!)

• Opening files, noting size and type
• Resizing
• cropping
• Changing brightness and contrast
• Changing hue & intensity, Master channel and individual; colours
• Selecting areas to modify, copy, delete etc.
• Creating new layers, changing order, size, rotation, transparency of layers
• Filters
• Cloning to cover unwanted parts e.g. removing hydro wires
• Much more – experiment with lots of tools!

What Do You “Hand In”?

You don’t literally hand anything in. Instead, you save at least 6 jpeg photo files and a PowerPoint presentation in the folder mentioned below. I will collect these electronically (but only if you name your folders correctly) and open the files to evaluate them. Keep the original file names, or else name them Photo1, Photo2, etc. . Save them as JPEGs, but only when you’re finished i.e. you may want to keep the layers you create separate until you’re done, which means saving in Photoshop format (.PSD). Delete all PSD files before I collect.

When you’ve got your 6 most artistic and skillful image manipulations, make a PowerPoint Presentation with them.

· Each slide should show a full-screen picture.

· For each of them, add small text explaining very briefly what you did to the original picture(s). You could do this in a tiny font (not for viewers to read), or on the preceding slide

e.g.

“Beach pic cropped, Cat rotated, higher contrast; palm tree greens made more blue, copied and faded; cloned water to cover up the boat; water selected and texturized”

SAVE the Powerpoint as Photoshop.ppt in the same folder : G:/AWT3/ Photoshop Asst/

How Do You Get A Good Mark?

Be creative with the files – take the pictures and make something striking, beautiful, powerful etc. from them. Also, make your pictures and accompanying text demonstrate that you’ve mastered the list of skills above. Think about meaning in the photos, as well as the elements and principles of design. In the end, make it obvious that you know how to use Photoshop to make create interesting art from good photos. Also, make sure there are only the required jpeg files (originals and finished work) plus one Powerpoint file in the correct folder.

Where Are the Pictures You Can Use?

Use any photos you want from the folder on the “Student” drive, I:/AWT3/Sample Pics by Mr. Martin. The reason I want you to start from there is that I know all the pics (I shot them!), and I’ll know what you started with. You can also use your OWN digital photos, provided you save the unaltered original jpeg in the asst folder. Do not use pics that you’ve already worked on (e.g. in Comm Tech). You can also use a few pics from the Internet, but you MUST download the original jpeg and keep it in the assignment folder so it gets collected. You must still use at least 2 from the class folder. Think of using an object from a shot you the day we did some shooting of “unusual angles” in our classroom

Where Do You Save the Modified Pics? In the folder G:/AWT3/Photoshop Asst, that’s where!

Make a folder named AWT3 in your G: drive. Make a folder in AWT3 named Photoshop Asst, spelled EXACTLY like that (so I can collect it automatically).

Put all your jpegs and your Powerpoint there. There should be NO PSD files!

Examples

4 manipulations of a stock photo:	5 manipulations by Mary-Lynn Hurn and 1 by Greg Simon