Photoshop Basics Project
Overview
This is your first graded assignment. It will cover the following.
Scanning, saving, download, and organizing digital images and folders.
Basics of file formats.
Photoshop operations, including sizing, adjusting, selecting, cutting, pasting, changing colors, tone, brightness, levels, balance, filters, erasing, combining.
This project will be divided into several components. You will get credit for completing each component, either as an in-class lesson or as homework.
At the conclusion of this assignment you will turn in five original images that you creatue using the skills you learned in the lessons, online tutorials and instructor assistance. These five images will be included in your midterm and final portfolios for the course.
Lesson: Scanning and Saving
In order to have some files to work with, you will need to scan five images. Use the following settings:
Color (not transparent)
240 ppi
actual size
save as jpeg
Pick files that need some repair-torn or scratched photos, bad color, etc. Save all the files to a folder called "scans". Keep it in your "working files" folder.
Take a screenshot of your folder, save it as "scans.jpg" and drop it in my dropbox.
What you need to do:
Scan at least five images that need correction and adjusment.
What you need to turn in:
A screen shot of your folder with all of your images in it, saved as "scans.jpg"
You will get credit for submitting your screenshot correctly.
Lesson: Image correction with tutorials
First, correct these images. These files also have links to them with handy tutorials. We will go over the steps in class, and you will learn the basics of fixing images.
Here are the steps we will take:
In the first file, fix the red eye.
In the second file, fix the tone.
In the third file, clone out one of the camels.
In the fourth file, fix the color, and clone out the rope that is attached to the horse.
In the fifth file, repair the photo.
What you need to do:
Correct the five files as directed.
What you need to turn in:
A folder, containing the five corrected files, saved as jpegs. Name the folder "Corrections1_astudent".
You will get credit for submitting the correctly completed files on time.
Projects: Five images of your own
You will put the skills you've just learned above to work to demonstrate basic competence with photoshop by creating 5 digital designs that require the use of the following tools/functions: selecting, cutting/pasting, merging files and layers, resizing images, transformation, color balance, hue/saturation, erasing, type manipulation, canvas size, layer effects and blending modes.
Here are the five images you will include in your portfolio:
PsdBasics_astudent01.jpg An image that includes figures or objects cut from one location and placed in another.
PsdBasics_astudent02.jpg An image in which an old torn photo or document has been scanned and restored, showing both the before and the after state.
PsdBasics_astudent03.jpg An image in which you have successfully completed an online tutorial.
PsdBasics_astudent04.jpg One more image of the your choice.
Technical Outcomes: All tools/functions are evident, used correctly, no pixelization, sloppy cutting, errors of format or size, etc.
Formal Outcomes: Dependent on projects. Colors and textures for merged images are appropriate, resolution sufficient for screen or print.
Conceptual Outcomes: none
As appropriate, make comparison files of each of these files.
If you have repaired an image, you might put the whole image in twice, side by side. If you are doing a tutorial, you could put your starting image on the left, or maybe the tutorial example.
What you need to do:
Create the five files as directed.
What you need to turn in:
The five completed files as jpgs, correctly named.
These files will be included in your midterm and final portfolio.