Owning It: Design: Projects: Photo Collage
Also known as Assemblage, create a familiar thing using other things as the building blocks.
- How do I create a convincing image by the effective use and manipulation of other images?
What am I making? And Examples
The Internet has lots of Assemblage examples! (Google Image Search)
Ferris Plock's Food Faces
Jennifer Kralyevich's Pet Stories
How do I make it?
You can see a Video of me making mine - recommend scrubbing through it rapidly
Follow the Steps below...
Steps
Imagine what you will make out of smaller images - a Face? a House? a Body of a human or animal? a Car?
Then imagine, what kinds of building blocks you would use -- like tomato slices for car wheels?
Using Photopea or Photoshop, create a new blank document,
300 DPI, 8.5 inches by 11 inches
Using the File menu, do Save or Save as PSD often so you don't ever lose a lot of work!
Copy and Paste at least 10 images into your scene, for each image...
Name the Layer by double-clicking on it
Use Selection Tools like Magic Wand to select and delete the background from the pasted image
Also can use Eraser to delete unwanted parts (after using Select menu, Deselect)
Edit menu, Free Transform to do resizing and rotating and moving
In the Layers panel, drag Layers up and down to change how they overlap
Naming your layers really helps - double-click on the name to change it!
Apply Effects to help Blend the elements together
Layer menu, New Adjustment Layer lets you adjust brightness, exposure, levels, etc...
then do Layer menu, Clipping Mask so it only affects that one image and not everything beneath it!
Click eff or fx at the bottom of the Layers panel to add Layer Effects such as Outer Glow or Stroke or Drop Shadow
Can also experiment with Blending modes, change Normal to Multiply or one of the other ones
Look at the Grading criteria below, make any adjustments needed
Using the File menu, do Save or Save as PSD one last time
File menu, Export menu, Export As... and use the JPG format
On Google Sites, under Pages, create a new page called Photo Collage.
Use Insert Image or a layout to place your photo collage.
Make sure you uncrop it
Write one or two things about What You Learned in doing this assignment.
When done, push the Publish button, review the settings, and publish.
Then click the chain-link button, Copy the link for your page, and turn in the link.
Grading
Uses Graphic Design Principles such as Alignment, Emphasis, Contrast to effectively present an image concept
Blended: Find a way to make all the image "parts" work together
Quantity: Quality matters most, but find a way to include at least 10 different images into your composition
Fill the Page: create a full Composition that uses the whole page
Career Connections
Flex those Photoshop skills! This will empower you for many future projects
Resources
Some extensions you can pursue in Adobe Photoshop Resources for Photomontage