Choose a photo from somewhere online that has a decent amount of objects in it without being too cluttered. Things like:
Interior design rooms
A city street
Screenshots from movies, tv shows, or video games
Famous paintings or photographs (in color)
Still life pieces
Etc.
Your job is to create a “spot the difference” game by changing at least 10 objects from the original image using photoshop. You can change objects in an image by manipulating their size, color, quantity, perspective, adding in a new object, or erasing things from the image entirely.
Of your 10 changes, you must have used each of the following tools/techniques at least once:
Brush tool
Used to draw on an image
Used to duplicate part of an image or draw over something to cover it up
Used to erase objects from an image
Used to select part of an image and manipulate it
In this instance, I want you to use it to change the color of an object
After selecting something with the selection tool and copying it onto a new layer, this is what you use to change its size, perspective, rotation, etc.
Used to hide parts of an image without erasing it forever
After selecting something with the selection tool, this is what you use to erase it from the image
Be sure to save the image with and without all of your changes so people can see the original and spot the differences you made in your edit.
After you have saved your edited image, create a new layer and label each tool you used for each section of the image. Circle your edits using the brush tool and write the name of the technique you used next to it using the text tool. Save this image as a 3rd, separate image.
When everyone has finished creating their edits, a new student will take a look at their work and try to not only find all 10 changes, but also see if they can guess which tool was used to achieve that effect. Whichever student gets the most right gets extra credit on this assignment, so use that as incentive to make your differences and edits sneaky!
You will have 2 class periods to complete this assignment
Student must have made at least 10 significant changes to the original image (10 points, 1 per)
Student has used all 7 of the tools/techniques below at least once in their edited image: (20 points, 3 per)
Brush tool
Clone stamp tool
Heal brush
Selection tool
Transform tool
Masking
Content aware fill
Student has posted the original image, the edited image, and their labeled image on their website in a subpage called "Spot the Difference" (15 points, 5 per)
Note - You may only do this extra credit if you have finished the main assignment and gotten it cleared with Ms. Jones!
For extra credit, find an image of the interior of a building (house, store, kitchen, shopping mall, police station, etc.) and paste it into photoshop
Your image can be from any source, such as from a video game, movie, tv show, or just a regular interior design photo
Once you have chosen your image, using the power of editing, reimagine the image as if it was taken during one of the following scenarios:
It is being actively invaded by dinosaurs
It has become a post-nuclear apocalypse wasteland
It has been long abandoned and overrun by plant life, with holes in the walls, peeling wallpaper, water damage, etc.
Make it look like it is the zombie apocalypse
Animals have escaped from the zoo and are rampaging through the image
The place you chose is now a crime scene, put clues in the image to show where the murderer escaped to
Aliens are invading
Use the editing skills you learned in the Spot the Difference activity to recreate your image. You may take any images from anywhere on the internet to add to your new image.
You will be awarded up to 15 extra credit points, depending on how much effort, creativity, and technical skill you apply to your reimagined image