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Historically a darkroom was used to develop photographs as well as to enhance the photographic images. Digital photography relies on software such as Adobe Photoshop to do this. Many of the tools available on Photoshop "mimic" traditional techniques used in a darkroom. This work task looks at some of these techniques and is designed to give students a grounding in the use of a number of the common techniques that a photographer would use when producing quality photographic images. The final part of the task involves you creating a digital artwork that has its origin in one of your photos.
The links below are online Photoshop tutorials. You are to complete the 5 short tutorials on the links below. This task is aimed at improving Photoshop skills rather than photographic skills so it is not necessary to take photos for this task. Use a right mouse click to "save" the online images to use in the tutorials. In your visual diary you are to write down the steps used and show "before" and "after" images. Dot points are fine for documenting the steps.
Digital Art Work
This task requires you to use Adobe Photoshop to create an original artwork from a photo you have taken. There are many ways that you can do this task but the following steps are a simple way to go about it.
Find (or take) a photo that you think would be suitable to "trace".
Open this photo in Photoshop and create a new layer.
Use the paint brush tool to trace the image onto the new layer
Experiment with: colour, gradient, filters, selection tools.
Delete the layer that contains the original photo.
Flatten the Image.
Print.
The final step is to briefly write down the steps you used to create the artwork on a sheet for your display folder. Include an example of the original photo to show the changes made.
Here are a couple of Links to some Photoshop tutorials that use different methods to create a digital artwork from a photo:
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