Assignment 2 / Composite using Familiar and Everyday Objects

• New Document > Pixel Dimension = 2400 X 3000
• Create a composite using at least 1 image taken by you.
• and/or use Drawing or Painting in your image

 

What images can you use?

• You can use an object from around your house
• Take a picture of a family member or of yourself
• Use an image that you have taken for another purpose. Perhaps it's a landscape or a portrait.
• Combine drawing or painting techniques into your work.
• Be inspired by the artist that you researched for Exercise #4. Try to incorporporate something that you like about their work and use it in yours.

 

Yanez, 2019

 

Technical Considerations:

• Selections must be clean
• Use masks to blend between combined elements
• Use cloning methods to blend between combined elements
• Work non-destructively (as much as possible)
• Use color-matching and tonal-matching methods
• Use transformation methods

 

File Structure when you Work at Home:

folder:
lastname_a2-home

worked images:
lastname_a2.psd
lastname_a2.jpg (when you are totally finished)

all source images:
placed in a sub-folder called: "assets"

What to Turn in to CANVAS:

Folder:
lastname_a2

Files:
lastname_a2.jpg
lastname_a2-screenshot.png (or whatever the format is, don't change it, just rename the file not the extension)

When you are finished file managing your assignment folder,
Right Click or Control Click on the Folder and choose
ZIP or Compress or Archive. Email me if you need to use something else or have questions.
Upload or Submit File for the Assignment (like you did for Exercise 4)

SCREENSHOT

Take a Screenshot of your Photoshop Layers

Because our PSD files are too large to upload to CANVAS, we will turn in a screenshot of our layers. Move your layers panel towards your canvas and drag it down so that as much as possible is visible. Then you will use one of the many screenshot options I list below that works on your computer (our class is now using both MAC and PC at home).

How to take a Screenshot

on a MAC:

• shift command 4 - allows you to click and drag across what you want to take a picture of
• shift command 3 - takes a picture of the entire desktop

 

On a PC:

• Print Screen(PrtScn) - it is now on your "clipboard" and is waiting for you to paste. In Photoshop, create New, allow for the default settings, and then Paste the image onto the canvas. Save as a .jpg
• Alt and Print Screen - will take a screenshot of an open window
• on Windows, holding the Windows button and Print Screen - places a screenshot of your entire screen in the screenshots folder

 

 

Student Examples:

For more - Open this PDF

 

Galindez, 2019

Golden, 2019