Final Exam Project

Create an instructional tutorial that includes at least 2 functions of Photoshop CS3. Examples could include, but do not have to include items in the list below. Create a tutorial relating to things you have learned in the course, and teach other students how to learn things like the following

• Layer Masks
• Line Art Selection
• Color Correction Techniques
• Layer Adjustments
• Quick Mask
• Channel Selections

The tutorial can include blog posts, youTube videos (less than 5 min in length), handouts, illustrations, images, etc. DO NOT CREATE 2 SEPARATE TUTORIALS. This is to be one tutorial that explains all the steps and will include at least 2 Photoshop CS3 functions that create a desired image result. I will be grading on clarity of instruction and the steps to produce the desired effect along with what a student would learn from the tutorial and why this tutorial is useful for that purpose. Post your tutorial to your blog (or a link to your outside instructional material) by April 30th 11:59pm - no later. When posting your tutorial, include the Tutorial title, a brief description of what the student will learn by completing the exercise and any useful introductory information.

Example Post to Blog:

Working With Quick Masks
This tutorial will go through the necessary steps to teach you how to create a quick mask for use in selecting portions of an image. The student will find examples on how to build a library of selections by saving these selections as alpha channels.

(Tutorial or links begin here)

Final Exam Written Test

The Final Exam Written Test is posted as a link on the right for download

Project 7: Layer Masks

Project 7 is an exercise in experimentation, with Layer Masks. Follow the video tutorial on YouTube, here, and download the handout listed under Images / Project Files at the right. Create 2 to 3 creative layer mask images after you've watched the video and read the handout.

Project 6: Photo-stitching and Text application

The Project 6 assignment is to take 3 or more photos from your personal collection and “stitch” them together to make a single photo using layers, adjustments and some of the tools from the tool menu.

Those of you who were part of the eLIVE class on the 23rd saw a demonstration of this process in action where I stitched together a set of photos of the shoreline mountains, taken from an AK ferry. For those of you who missed this class, it is strongly advised that you view the recorded class from the UAS Central website archive to get an idea how this process is done. This will not only teach you about layer properties, but it will also give you a framework to experiment with some of the adjustment menus and tools in the toolbox.

You do not have to do a landscape as I did. Try your skills at stitching together a variety of other subjects. For example: it often will happen that the platen area of one’s scanner is not as large as the piece one wants to scan. This has happened to me many times over where I need to scan the same image, in different sections, and stitch the separate scans together to make one image.

Below is a duo-stitched image (I actually used pieces of a third) of a very large group of people at a conference I attended. I took the photo in three separate shots, positioning myself as directly in from of the area that would fit in my viewfinder. This repositioning of the vantage point was to eliminate as much perspective distortion as possible. To try and fit all of them in one photo would have made everyone tiny. There were a few people missing from the original, including myself, since I was taking the photo, so I took separate shots of them and “Photoshopped” (that word is bound for the dictionary yet) them in. Can you find them all? (hint - I am #128)

Original Photo / Right

Original Photo / Left

Selection Mask Channel - notice that I did not use a straight selection outline here. I selected around individual people since their position may have changed from one photo to the next. In the demo, where I worked on a landscape, there was little or no movement from one photo to another.

Final Stitched Photo

Identification Outline (traced in Painter X)

Once you have stitched your photo together, give it a title of some kind and apply the type to the image and set it in place as I did with the image above and the Alaska beach panorama that adorns our blog homepage. Post your original images and the stitched final WITHOUT the text first. Then apply the text and post that separately.

If you have any questions, please contact me as soon as possible so I may address them – possibly for the rest of the class.

Midterm Assignment

Using the link on the right, download the CIOS 152 Midterm Assignment PDF and read carefully before beginning. In a separate document, list each tool group as a heading for the tools that are contained in each of their fly out menus. List the individual tool’s name along with a brief, one line description of what the tool is used for. And yes, there is no "X". We were so close to 26 tool groups that it seemed more appropriate to use Z for the Zoom tool.

Project 3a: Selection Mania

Try and duplicate the selection outline and then fill it in (Edit > Fill) with a color (any visable color) and post on your blog.

This is a 5 step process:

1. Create a new document (File > New)
2. Set the size to 8in X 8in @ 72dpi and white background
3. Define your entire selection area
4. Fill the defined area with a color (any visible color)
5. Save as jpeg and upload to your blog with comments

Points will be subtracted for cheating (yes, I can tell).
You cannot:

1. Use Layers
2. Select and fill an area more than once
3. Select and delete an area to drop out the color inside an area

Hint:

• Add to your selection by holding down the shift key
• Subtract from your selection using the ALT key (option on the Mac)

If you have problems, post early and I will help.

Project 3b: Doing the PS-CS3 dance

Using either of the old B&W dance images (posted on the right under Project Files) as a base, take a personal head shot of yourself (in the appropriate position) and superimpose it on the base image of one of our dancers. Be thoughtful of lighting and expression to make the transition as realistic as possible.

You may also choose a base image of your own, but appropriateness and good taste will need to be thought out and applied. I am interested in the display of quality and skill more than humor or personal statement.

Steps for success

Choose an appropriate base image Obtain a quality head-shot of yourself using a camera or other means (existing photo acceptable if it fits the pose). Select your head from one image Transfer your head to the base image Adjust and flatten the image (Layer > Flatten) Save as jpeg Upload to blog with comments (2 original images and compostite)