PhotoShop Page Assignment

Using the instructions here, create a collage that would fill exactly the top half of a left-hand colour page.

Requirements:

• Use images from at least 3 different photos that you find in 4 different folders in Shared/Pics.
• Find good, interesting images, and try for at least one obscure one that no-one else will use.
• One of the photos must be taken by YOU, outside class, this week, preferably outside. This is partly to encourage you to take more photos – we need lots of good ones of different groups of students. Borrow a camera if you need it. Save these pics, as usual, in appropriate folders in General Use Photos.
• One of the images must be a picture of YOU added to another group of people to look as though they belong there.
• Make sure your 3 images overlap.
• Remove a substantial amount of the background so that it's white or some other solid colour or gradient.
• Use only part of the photos, not the whole thing e.g. one person or a group
• Select or erase very carefully, so that you get clean, soft edges. FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS on Selection & Merging!
• Adjust levels as necessary
• Add an appropriate text title in a large font. Use an appealing effect under the Effects tab.
• In a size 9 font, list the filenames & folder names of all photos you used. Indicate which one you shot by adding (mine)
• DO NOT mark the source files as USED, even though you normally would for real pages.
• Create a new folder under Shared/Student Assts/Photoshop Page Asst, using your full name.
• Save your half page as both a PSD and finally as a Jpeg in your new folder. Use your full name as the filename.

Evaluation Based On:

• Following the requirements above carefully
• Overall appeal of the result
• Quality of photo taken by you (technical & suitability as a Yearbook photo).
• Challenge – how difficult were the selections your chose to make & merge?
• Quality of merges – clean soft seamless edges; proportions look right; lighting consistent; no grey shadows left.