Digital Lab Assignments

As we work on enlarging prints in the darkroom, we are simultaneously going to be working on some Photoshop assignments in the digital lab! You will find a Photoshop tutorial and handout in the previous post (Boxer Restoration).

1. Scan your collage (the original) into Photoshop (if you need a refresher on how to use the scanners, see here), save it as a jpeg, and post it to Flickr. ALSO create a B&W negative of your collage, save it as a jpeg, and post that to Flickr, too. Add these to our class group.

2. Name tag Photoshop assignment!

Using your portrait, gum photo, color collage, and B&W collage negative (must somehow incorporate all 4), create a name tag to use on the darkroom/digital lab board:

• Find your portrait & gum photos on the hard drive (go to Shared Items in the Finder window>Base Station>Sturges> our class folder. (Make sure to click the eject icon on the Base Station after getting your images, so that others can access it!)
• Drag your collage images from Flickr into Photoshop
• Create a new document that is 5" tall by 3.5" wide at 150 resolution
• Make sure to include a text layer that has your name and period on it
• Save a PSD to your USB drive
• Flatten the image and save it as a jpeg
• Save the final, flattened jpeg onto the hard drive in the "Final Name Tag" folder

3. Restoration of the boxer image

• Use the tutorial & handout below to help you restore the boxer
• Make sure to save it as a PSD on your USB drive as you work

THINGS LEFT ON THE DESKTOP WILL BE DELETED! (This is to protect your hard work!)

You can print out the Boxer Restoration handout if you like! Make sure that you change the page formatting/layout to horizontal first.

Boxer Restoration

Its Photoshop time! Download the boxer image below by clicking on it to enlarge it, dragging it to the desktop, and then opening Photoshop. Go to File>Open>Desktop>boxer_original.jpg. Click Open. (Or, just drag the downloaded file into Photoshop.) Wooo!

Use what we've learned in class as well as the Photoshop Tools/Boxer Restoration handout (below) to follow the steps (in the handout) to explore the different tools and restore your photo. Remember to save your work to your USB drive as you go AND before you try something new, so if you mess up you can just undo it.

If you get stuck, you can check out http://www.freetimefoto.com/photoshop_cs3_toolbox for more info on the different Photoshop tools.


cs3_tools

CLICK!: Family

This week's prompt is: FAMILY!
Due on Wednesday 12/15 (uploaded to Flickr by 11:59 PM on Wednesday 12/15)

Voting will NOT begin until the week of December 20th, because the other Photo I classes are getting this assignment NEXT weekend.

Remember: Title your photo "Family" and post it to the CLICK! group
This CLICK! assignment will be graded on the previously mentioned criteria (if you want to remind yourself of what these are, look up at the top of the blog & click (hehe) on the tab that says "CLICK!")

We are going to be STRICTLY FOLLOWING the time deadline, since everyone now has had the chance to work through any Flickr issues, so make sure your photograph is well considered and on time!

Questions? You can always email! (caroline_sturges@hcpss.org)