Personal Portraits

Due Tuesday Sept 25

Working with basic photography skills, layers, selection tools, adjustments, dodge/burn/sponge tools and overall fine tuning a photograph.

Objetive: Show color in 3 different areas of your black and white photo.

I want to see that you are mastering the idea of layers in photoshop as well as incorporating the tools we have been discussing. In addition to photoshop this is also about TAKING a photo and incorporating your eye as the photographer as well as the photo editor.

Objective: Turn your color portrait into a black and white and color portrait.

For this assignment you are using a personal photo you have taken. You can use your phone or another camera to take this. If you don't have access to these please see me and I will get you one.

*I recommend you save this image in your media arts folder on google drive as well as the folder created on your desktop!

You will be photographing a portrait of you or someone else.

In Photoshop:

• Duplicate the Layer - name your layers.
• Make the top layer black and white and adjust it - look at the levels and brightness/contrast and adjust until it is to your liking.

Using the eraser, paint brush (think soft brushes and opacity), and selection tool you will make 3 parts of the photo color.

You will also alter the background using the dodge and burn tools and/or paintbrush tool to darken or lighten parts of it manually,

For my demo lesson I will be teaching you how to do all this! This is a process and you will learn by doing so just keep on using the tools I show you and you will be learn photoshop and always ask questions!

Before submitting this for a grade:

Ultimately, you will flatten this image (go to layers - merge visible or flatten image) and convert it to a .jpg to be submitted for a final grade on our google classroom.

Think you're done?

Have you checked your adjustments - brightness/contrast, levels, color balance etc.?

Have you altered the opacity? Once Flattened, you can duplicate the altered image and continue to edit it using the opacity tool in layers.

If you truly think you are done and your work looks like it will earn you 100...please find a black and white photo and try to add color using the brush tool and various color palettes. This will count towards your participation grade.