Assignment # 18: What to do when it rains...

Tutorials:

Learn how to use Spot Removal Tools in Lightroom:
https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom/how-to/lightroom-healing-brush-visualization.html?set=lightroom--fundamentals--retouch-photo

How to Color Correct Photos in Lightroom:
https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom/how-to/color-balance-photos.html?set=lightroom--get-started--essential-beginners

How to Correct Parts of a Photo in Lightroom (using Adjustments Brush)
https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom/how-to/dodge-burn-adjustment-brush.html

How to use Radial Filter
https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom/how-to/introducing-radial-filter.html?set=lightroom--key-techniques--advanced-photo-editing

How to use Tone Curve to adjust Color
https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom/how-to/lightroom-adjust-tone-curve.html?set=lightroom--key-techniques--advanced-photo-editing

More Info on Enhancing Isolated Parts of an Image (using Radial and Gradient tools)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fUvfUfdfGU#t=36

More Tips on using Adjustment Brush
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lplFkS1RJCA#t=183

The Digital Sketchbook Project!

The Sketchbook

I have been keeping a sketchbook as part of my studio, art process, and all around capturing tool for as long as I can remember.  When I don’t have my sketchbook, I use a napkin, a receipt, a ticket stub...whatever is available to remember my thoughts, sketches, ideas I have in the middle of whatever I am doing.  I often have several at one time and go back to older ones to see where I’ve been and where I need or want to go.  Your digital sketchbook will allow several things to happen:  it creates a safe place in which to create, you will be able to watch your own creative process develop - ideas that work well along with those that could use more, and most importantly I will be able to watch you problem-solve.  You have a list of prompts to work with and "capture" - think of this as a record of REGULAR creative thinking outside the classroom. Sketchbook work is due every OTHER week, uploaded to your blog by the end of day Sundays.  Lightroom and Photoshop may be used and manipulation is encouraged!Sketchbook Assignments:

•  The list of prompts is posted, lower right.  They are to be done in order.  Due dates are also posted.
•  Label your photograph with the prompt and your name.
•  Subject matter is your choice based on each assignment.
•  Sketchbook work is to be done outside of class.

Sketchbook 1 is due August 30

Assignment #1: Photography as Art vs. Photography as Snap Shot: What makes a photograph art or not art?

 

I like to take photographs...lots of photographs.  I look around and watch everyone using their cell phones, digital cameras, "old fashioned" film cameras and I have to wonder - what makes an "art" photograph different than a snap shot?

Now you have a chance to think about this and visually show your opinion.  Be prepared to explain your choices.

The Assignment:  Bring in two images - one you believe to be "art" and one you believe is not.

Due date:  August 19

How many ways can you change Color to Black and White in Photoshop?

I know, I know...simply click the button on your camera to "discard" the color...but wait!  What if you could have a number of ways to change your images to black and white with complete control over the value and end result you really want  - just like the professionals?  Try the 6 ways here and know that much more!

Desaturate

1)    Image – Desaturate

2)    Image – Mode – Grayscale

a.    Click “Discard”

Hue/Saturation Tool

1)    Layer – New Adjustment Layer – Hue Saturation

a.    Move Saturation slider all the way to the left

Lab Color

1)    Image – Mode – Lab Color

a.    Go to Channels (this is in your layer bar)

b.    Select “Lightness” Channel

c.     Image – Mode – Grayscale

d.    Click “OK”

Gradient Map

1)    Make sure your Foreground/Background are Black and White

a.    Layer – New Adjustment Layer – Gradient Map

b.    Click “OK”

Channel Mixer

1)    Image – Adjustment – Channel Mixer

a.    Check “Monochrome”

b.    Manipulate Red, Green and Blue (but numbers must add to 100%)

                                              i.     If under 100%, image will go dark, if over 100%, image will lighten

•Red – 100% Red

•Yellow – 50% Red, 50% Green

•Orange – 75% Red, 25% Green

•Cyan – 50% Blue, 50% Green

Dual Hue/Saturation

1)    Layer – New Adjustment Layer – Hue/Saturation

a.    Move the Saturation all the way left, click “OK”

b.    Click on the Background

c.     Layer – New Adjustment Layer – Hue/Saturation

d.    Click “OK”

e.    Change Layer Blending Mode to Color

f.      Double-Click on Hue/Saturation, manipulate Hue.

How does adding lens color filters change your black and white image?

Filter – Noise – Despeckle

Image – Adjustments - Curves

…and the last one…promise...

What does "kinoptic" mean?  What does "kinoptic art" look like?

Your final CLASS assignment is to research this term and create a kinoptic, photographic piece of art.  You will need to think about two images that are opposites of one another (sun/moon, flower blooming/flower bud) and, using Photoshop, piece them together (this is where you'll have to do the visual research to see how to create the final piece...no examples posted here!).

Due May 18th, end of class.

Color me ________!

Color says a lot about who you are to those who see you.  Much like what you choose to wear, the colors you surround yourself with express everything from your personality to your unique sense of style.  In this assignment I want you to show just that – your personality and sense of style.

Using ALL of the 7 – 10 images, created a final piece based around a poem you feel strongly attached to.  Using Photoshop, you will be creating an art board approximately 12 x 12”.  You may crop and edit any way you like but please make the final image more than just a collage of square/rectangular images stacked together with the poem in the middle.  Think about the font you select and make sure it MATCHES and REFLECTS the feel of the final piece and poem.  You may use your own poetry or that of someone else but give the appropriate credit.

Oh, one final instruction.  Create your name as part of the visual piece and fill with either the color you have chosen or a photograph of the color you have chosen.  You learned how to do this earlier this year…

Due date:  March 16