Shadow Collage
Photos
If you have not taken your photos from your room already then you need to because they are needed for this assignment. OVERVIEW
Create a well balanced photo collage that reflects who you are. Use pictures of things that you like and represent you (minimum of at least ten pictures in collage). Your final collage will count as as a Task grade and will be graded on quality.
Standards
Review the following Photoshop tools:
- Lasso and crop
- Highlights, dodge, saturation
- Invert and duplicate
REQUIREMENTS
Document Size
Create a new Photoshop file that is 4x6 inches (portrait), 200 resolution (not 100 like the image below), and RGB. In the video tutorial below it will have different dimensions but follow the ones above. Name the file userID tutPS Shadow.
Videos
Watch video I & video II & tutorials. In the video it will tell you different document setup directions but ignore them and use the ones above. In the video, when it tell you to type your name, type a nickname that some people call you. This could be a name your parents called you when you were a little kid or close friends use. Do not use the name that is on the class sign-in sheet or Renweb.
Shadow
- Create a large shadow of a side profile shadow photo of yourself and it should fill most of the page.
- Fill only your shadow with the pictures. Add your nickname in big text above your shadow.
- Use special text effects for the name.
- Do not add your signature photo/name (created by Your Name) since your shadow and name is already on the page
Cutting
Use any of the following tools to cut out your pictures:
- Use any type of Lasso to cut out something or someone from an image
- use the feather tool at least once when cutting out a picture
- Use the Magic Wand to take our a picture that has a solid background
Tools
Apply each of the underline words below to at least one picture in your collage. Label each layer appropriately (a picture of a basketball would be labeled basketball) and type the underlined word in a set of parentheses (e.g. (dodge)). If you use more than one underlined work, type both for the layer.
- -Your nickname should have at least the following Text Effects: -outer glow pattern overlay (164), drop shadow, and stroke
- -Invert the color of an image (hint: cmd + i)
- Duplicate an image (hint: cmd + click) and flip horizontally (hint: Edit > Adjustments > Flip) and
Invert Subtraction
Delete the parts of pictures outside the face shadow.
-Click on the Face Layer
-Click the magic wand and click on the face to select the face
-Go to Select > Inverse (CMD + Shift + i)
-Click on the layers of objects that bleed outside of the head shadow and delete the layers
RUBRIC
Meet Requirements 80%
Appearance 20%
o Layout
o Organization
o Creativity
o Picture Quality
Total 100
Grading Appearance
When I grade it, I am looking for a good balance that is not too busy and overcrowded but it is not spacious and boring. When you feather your pictures, they should mesh and connect well together. The picture edges should not have a sharp edge unless you cut out an object. If you place cutout objects over a collage feathered background it looks really good.
Post
When you are finished, save it as a JPG (name the file ca12yourClassID) and post it along with a screenshot of allyour PS layers. Post to posterous (it may look slightly different on posterous than it did on PS but that's okay. Then post the JPG to the MF Picasa album.
Do not do:
- -Replace Color: Replace the color of part of a picture (106)
- -Dodge tool to add highlights to part of an image (110)
- -Sponge tool with saturate to brighten part of a picture (111)