You will be producing ideas, experiments and more using Adobe Photoshop.
These tasks will help introduce you to some basics and extend your skills.
If you already feel confident with Adobe Photoshop, you can move ahead and begin creating a set of photo-montages that show your understanding of the methods and concepts too.
You can use a combination of your own images, found images and images provided in the M : Drive too to create a set / series of images that explore facets of OCCUPATION V LIBERATION.
Don’t forget to upload your manual photo-montages via the MEDIA LIBRARY (they are stored in the M : Drive) and try to relate your experiments to the work of other photo-montage artists that you have looked at and been inspired by…
TECHNIQUES
Basic Image Adjustments
- Brightness
- Contrast
- Exposure
- Monochrome
- Using Levels
- MANUAL CUT-N-PASTE (SCISSORS, SCALPEL AND GLUE)
- PHOTOSHOP –
- selection tools (to cut and move elements of images)
- free transform (CTRL T)– to move, re-size and shape elements
- layers and layer masks
- Layer Via copy (CTRL J)
- opacity control methods (double exposure)
- blending options
- cropping
- distortion
- proportion
- scale
- Superimpose / juxtapose 2 images
- Cut-n-paste
- Flip and mirror
- Layers and Opacity control
Create a set of blog posts that clearly show your progress, outcomes and inspiration. Include an evaluation and screen shots of your development in Adobe Photoshop