Creating a Scene

In class today, choose at least three to five images to create a scene. Your theme is inspired by this sentence.

"The calm before the storm"

You can use any of the following images below as a background and find images on the web to add in, however, use discretion.

• Consider resolution: must be high enough: do not use images below 500 pixels
• Use at least three images
• No Inappropriate images: weapons, drugs, violence, nudity, sexual connotations

Collect your images and put into a folder on your desktop. Next week will begin the illustration. New color and effect tools will be introduced and demonstrated to add to your tool box.

 

Creating a montage

Creating a photo illustration using Photoshop

 

Steps:

• Read the copy
• Right click save all 4 images to your desktop into a new folder called photo illo
• Watch demo and follow handouts
• Create your own version of the illo

 

We will begin to explore several of the fun filters and features of photoshop which many of you have discovered through experimenting but really never knew how to incorporate. You also will be working in layers and measuring the resolution. Remember: do not work in RGB, do not stretch photos beyond their compacity and save in photoshop not as a jpg. Do not flatten.

 

Photo Illustration - is conceptual photography which combines unity imagination and a message. It could be considered surreal and definitely driven by the imagination. Illustration is the visual solution to a literal meaning and has always been created thru drawing, painting, collage. . .but with the invention of photoshop came the manipulation of photography. This opened up the avenue to use photography as a technique in illustration as well.

We will complete several small exercises which will require you to implement the tools you will be learning the next few days. Your ability to demonstrate how to apply this effects will aide you in your photo illustration in our project on Dante's Inferno. Lets begin!

Down load the following images to your shortcut folder into a new folder called Photoshop filters.

Following the demo of the tools and the handout you were given, create your own layout of these elements. You must incorporate:

Ghosting - altering opacity
Silos - selecting using the wand or path
Feather - softening the edges
Smudging - breaking the definition
Invert - flipping the color
Fills - adding color
Cropping and enlarging - for positioning
Layers - pages images reside on
Resolution - maintaining the appropriate PPI
Movement tool - begin able to move images within the layers


I also recommend you apply any/all of the transform and color tools, cropping, cloning tools we have implemented.

These lessons will take a few days. Concentration is vital. If you are feeling confused at anytime, you can come during study, lunch or after school on Tuesdays. Please give me advance notice for after school.

Idea book page: photo illustration

Creating a photo illustration








For your Idea book, fill a page with digital and hand collaged photo illustrations found in magazines. Must be appropriate and the page must be filled with at least 20 different ones (cannot use the ones on this blog). Online, you can also look at Amy Guip, www.illustrationmundo.com, or Google digital photo montage. Fill a page with a mix from magazines and computer not all one. Put together on a document, print at 1505 or 1500 and collage together with magazines. Print images ganged up on one - three pages please not single images on one page.


1. Finish Matt Mahurin blog: answer question and complete digital assignment
2. Begin the idea book page.


Due by Next class November Dec 3/5, 2014