Week #8: Midterm - "HOLOCAUST"

Week#7 – Typography Graphic

Assignment: Image Requirements:

Choose one typeface and one piece of text {haiku, part of a poem, lyrics, quote from a person, quote from a newspaper article or your own poem...} that will set the tone and theme for this graphic.

Use one background graphic, or create a composited image that supports and works with your text. Prepare your background using image editing skills we have previously covered. You may use original photographs, stock photography, a web graphic (provide a credit if you do).

You may choose to try the filter techniques outlined in my video tutorials for this week or try a technique of your own.

Work to integrate your text as a graphical element within the imagry. Establish a focal point in your graphic, and apply appropriate tracking, leading and choose a typeface and type treatment that aptly conveys your message. You may include a title for your text and who wrote it, or give credit in the email when you submit it.

Final Image:

Text Tutorials (Adobe Photoshop CS4, one-on-one):

Week #5 - Introduction to MASKS

Assignment:
Create a mask and a subsequent composite graphic using the Mask from Scratch + the Putting the Mask in Play tutorials covered in this weeks lessons.

Mask Requirement:
Select a an image of your choice to practise making a mask using the above technique. You will find that the above technique does not apply to all types of photographs, so try various photos if need be. Pick a figure, or an object to mask that doesn't have too much background detail and is a bold

Here is the original picture used as a mask:


The Final Image:
On the picture is the Chobot LAKE (close to Concord, CA). The tree is my mask from a different image.


Text Tutorials (Adobe Photoshop CS4, one-on-one):

Week #4 – Color Your Way Perfect / Colorizing a Greyscale Image

Assignment:
Work with your levels, hue & saturation, match color, and the other tools reviewed in the tutorials to correct colors and enhance the imagry. Work using use multiple layers, and blending layers with the layer opacity and layer effects. Pay close attention to developing an intentional color scheme. Use at least two sources of imagery.

You may choose to use cool colors (green, blue) or warm colors (red, orange, gold). You may choose to use a color palette that is analogous, or you could choose a complimentary color scheme.

Here are the original images used for the assignment:

The Final Projects:

Colorizing Image
This image is captured in Madeira. There is a valley covered by clouds that remind me a border of the Czech Republic; therefore, I show the border in the lower left corner.

Gradiant Map
A picture of the cost in Borneo. I used a gradient map.

Text Tutorial (Adobe Photoshop CS4, one-on-one):

Fixing A Color Cast Tint and Color

Colorizing a Greyscale Image

Correcting Camera Raw

Week #3 - DUOTONE

Assignment:
Using at least two sources of photographic imagery, and the compositing techniques that you learned by using Photoshop’s Selection tools in lesson 2, cut out part(s) of one photograph and merge with another. Make sure your composite has clean edges, and is scaled appropriately.

Here are the original images that I used for the assignment:


The Final Projects:

Week #2: THE BASICS OF SELECTIONS & RESOLUTION

Text Tutorials (Photoshop CS4 - one-on-one):
Selecting Regions of Continuous Color Quick Selection and Refine Edge

Selecting an Irregular Edge
Drawing Precise Curves