Techno Person Montage

A Photomontage is a multi-image picture created with a photographic film or digital process. Photomontage works are often constructed to convey a message, whether that could be a commentary on environmental, political, social, or many other issues. When done correctly, they can have a dramatic impact.

The Photomontage you develop will be relating to a THEME to convey a message. This finished image investigates the different methods of representing the human body with technology (this also includes industrial or mechanical type photos). The final completed image will visually illustrate the combination of combining human and technology/mechanical attributes into a single being. For ideas think of the possibilities of genetic engineering, human cloning, the production of so-called "cyborgs" and the idea of "digital humans" in a futuristic era.

In the arts, a theme is a broad idea or a message conveyed by a work.
​Themes in art are often messages about life, society or human nature, and are usually implied rather than explicitly stated.
A theme is not the same as the subject of a work. For example, the subject of the movie Star Wars is a battle between the Galactic Empire and the Rebel Alliance, whereas the themes might be moral ambiguity or the conflict between technology and nature.

• Source: Boundless. “Themes in Art.” Boundless, 26 May. 2016. Retrieved 24 Oct. 2016 from https://www.boundless.com/art-history/concepts/themes-in-art-0-6115/

You can only use images from the following free stock photography websites:

• https://unsplash.com/

• https://www.pexels.com/​

• https://pixabay.com/

• https://stocksnap.io/

Project Requirements & Objectives: Students will...

• Develop basic skills in digital imaging with Adobe Photoshop

• Produce a photomontage using Adobe Photoshop that uses a theme that revolves around the ideas humans and technology combining.

• Develop and utilize new skills we have learned in exercises with Photoshop using filters, layers, layer masking, blend modes and adjustment layers

• Use multiple Layers (8 to10) with this image

• Save correctly to your Google Drive when finished and submit to Google Classroom as a PSD, JPG file or screenshot for grading.

Step 1

Download around 20 or more photos (better to have many to choose from to create this project) from the following free stock photography sites to make your Techno Person Photomontage:

• https://www.pexels.com/​

• https://pixabay.com/

• https://stocksnap.io/

• https://unsplash.com/

On these websites please SEARCH for the following types of images:

• humans, people, faces, hands, eyes

• computer chips, circuits, wires, ports, electronics, digital backgrounds, technology, hardware, etc.

• mechanical machines, machine parts, gears, electric pipes, outlets, rusty pipes, factory parts, construction machinery, gauges, rusty machine parts, engines, etc.

• peeling paint, rust, old metal, concrete, old rustic pipes, textured wall, decay

Drag and drop or Copy and Paste the downloaded photos from these stock photography websites to your Google Drive > Computer Art > Techno Person Photomontage folder.

Now that you have all your photos copied from your downloads folder to your Google Drive folder, you may begin to create this image. This image will be put together using the techniques we learned in the exercises using filters, layers, layer masking, blend modes and adjustment layers from the exercises we have done so far.

​You must use a minimum of 8 images for this project, but no more than 10. The background does NOT count as one of these photos.

Step 2

VIDEO DEMOS on Completing this Assignment

Read over the following steps below to help you work on this project. These steps review parts of the videos above.

Step 3

Open one of the multiple photos you saved

Drag and Drop photos into this document using the Move tool in Photoshop

*Remember you need to use at least 8 and no more than 10 total photos

Select the Move Tool and check both of these Auto Select and Show Transform Tools

With the Move Tool click on the open photos and drag and drop them into the TechnoPerson.psd file one at a time

Step 4

Resize photos if they are too large using this technique...

Go to Edit Menu > Free Transform or Press CTRL + T on the keyboard to open Free Transform

You will now see the edges of the photo highlighted in blue

Click on the image and drag inward on the photo to make it smaller.

Hit the Enter Key when you have the new desired size or click the Checkmark in the options bar.

Step 5

Add Layer Masks to the photos in the Layers palette and begin to MASK out or hide areas of the photos by painting you don't want visible with the Brush tool.

Remember what you did in the layer masking exercise

* Remember that you need Black as your selected color to hide parts of the photo and White as your selected color if you need to bring parts of the photo back

Select the Brush Tool

The Opacity of the brush along with the Wacom tablet will give you more control of how much you mask and how quickly it goes away.

The Options bar controls these settings.

Step 7

Use Layer Blend Modes and Opacity changes to mix photos together in a different manner. Remember you do this in the Layer blend modes

Layer Opacity can be lowered to make an image semi-transparent (see-through)

Step 8

Use Adjustment Layers on photos to give them different looks that are NOT permanent. Remember you do this in the adjustment layers exercise

Step 9

Create realistic looking embedded wires, holes, and drop shadows on face. Add a shadow (paint, photo or edge to add depth)

Make a hole from a photo - Make a hole from paint

Use the edge of a photo to make a realistic embedded plug into the face

Step 12

When completed Save as Techno_Person.psd to your Google Drive folder

Then turn in this document into Google Schoology for grading