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This assignment is to transform everyday images into letters. We will be photographing the alphabet by using different techniques of composition, cropping, angles, colors and shapes. The point of this assignment is to use the skills you have developed in the class and show the techniques you have learned. This is a very fun, challenging Thing to do. It makes you think outside the box a bit, and look at things around you a little closer.
Simple RULES:
-You CANNOT use words or other letters ( signs)
-You CANNOT make your own letters
-You can shoot from above, below, side, or forward
-Uses shadows, colors, light, shapes and crop
-You can turn images upside down, but you cannot use the same image twice.
-Don’t go search letter by letter, search whatever you see.
Crop each of your photos to 2:3 (4:6) in the CROP W x H x Resolution drop down box.
Go to Save a Copy and Choose Jpeg from the drop down menu
Name your file "Letter A.jpg" or whatever letter it is
Make a new page in Photoshop
File New > Width = 17, Height = 11 Hit Create
File Place Embedded
Choose your letter jpeg
Click done or the check mark to lock it in
Use the MOVE tool to Move it around the page
Do this for each letter leaving a small white space in between each letter.
Go to the fx button at the bottom of your layers panel.
Click Stroke
Put a 10pt stroke around each letter
To align all of your letters, use the horizontal align tool and the spacer tool. (look at the example below)
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