FA27 Digital Design Professor Tom Klinkowstein fatik@hofstra.edu https://fa27spring2018.wordpress.com/

Assignment Three Manipulated Images Software Photoshop Deliverable Exercise images and creative images placed in your slide presentation, then embedded into your blog via slideshare. Goals Use Photoshop tools and appropriate design and aesthetic principles to create a manipulated (combined) image that relates to the theme developed in the previous assignment. Complete related exercises. Deliverables PowerPoint presentation with exercise and creative images laid out and pasted-in in as specified below, saved as a pdf, posted to slideshare.com and embedded in your blog. Three Parts of the Assignment There are three parts to this assignment: 1) Making and finding images to use in parts two and three below.

2) Exercises with various Photoshop tools to gain familiarity with the software. 3) Creating an aesthetically successful image combining two images in Photoshop to create a connotational image, suggesting (but not describing), the theme from assignment 2 (in my example it is, “Technology and Women in Developing Countries”). Procedure Part 1, Making and Finding Images Make images with a camera and find images online (see details below). In part two you will use these for the exercises to learn Photoshop techniques. In part three, you will use these to make a visual statement with these images relating to the theme you developed in assignment two. -- Make photos (minimum 20 to chose from) with a camera (use the highest resolution / biggest file size setting). You can use a smartphone camera or a stand-alone digital camera. These photos should be of a “texture” (probably close-ups), not the whole object. That is, they should be unrecognizable, except that they are a pattern or texture of some sort. One of these texture images will be the background for the combined image you make in part 3. --

For the example texture photo below, I photographed the venting grill on a computer. Example of a texture image:

-- Find the other image (the foreground image) using your own social media sources or stills from unknown films. Find 20 to choose from. Do not choose illustrations or cartoon or images with text. Do not use “stock” photos. -- For my foreground image, I choose a film still from a Nigerian movie.

Post all 40 images, one per slide in your slide file. Label the texture image slides, “Texture Images”. Label the foreground image slides, “Foreground Images”. Part 2, Photoshop Tool and Technique Exercises Do the exercises in the order below (they progress in difficulty). Pick background and foreground images from part 1 to use in this part. -- There is a simple open-source tutorial url associated with each exercise. Note that some of the tutorials may show an older version of Photoshop than you are using. While the appearance of the software interface may vary a bit, the action will be essentially the same. If you are having a problem doing the exercises, search YouTube and Vimeo for related tutorials (this is the way professionals do it).

RGB mode (Image>Mode>RGB) is used for images to be shown on a screen. CMYK is the mode used for images that need to be printed. Work in RGB. If we print out your creative results (last part of the project), change the mode to CMYK. -- After you complete each exercise, place that file in the PowerPoint file with the appropriate sub-header (name of the exercise) in the upper left-hand corner as in the example below. One exercise image per slide with appropriate sub-header. Place the photo as large as possible without crowding the sub-header (the sub-header is the name of the exercise). Work on all exercises below using these specifications:16 (wide) x 10 (high) inches, 150 dpi, save as a png file Under Image>Mode, choose RGB. -- Exercises: *Cropping (crop to 16 (wide) x 10 (high) inches, 72 dpi, save as a png file) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss3MFY1Kxzc

Example for the cropping exercise slide:

-- Exercises: *Use of layers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIcYWEQH4z4 *Contrast and Density Change http://99designs.com/designer-blog/2013/12/02/how-to-use-adobes-adjustment-layers-photoshop-cs6/ *Color balance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_Ws9amshi0 *Image Rotation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ARHWOrzGfw *Burning and Dodging http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKqTnhBngBA&playnext=1&list=PL8D898A60427B4463&feature=results_main *Saturating and De-Saturating

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDB_FMRRlk8 *Text tool http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwINAIGE9uA

*Lasso Tool http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AqwrAJYf5Q You may use the Polygonal Lasso Tool to combine the foreground and background images for part 3 of this assignment: use the Polygonal Lasso Tool to select the part of the foreground image you want to transpose (most likely a head, face or head and shoulders), then Copy>Paste that selection onto the background image. You will further need to blur the edge of the transposed foreground image and balanced the color, contrast and lightness / darkness of the two images so they appear to, “belong together”. *Transposing Images Using Opacity http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUzBUpPZy2g *Spot Healing and Healing Brush http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jGJeik6IV0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTzR318WQUE *Magic Wand http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9zJts240Vk *Clone Tool http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nQRe6gbQ2Y

In addition to the above tools, find five others in Photoshop, search for related online tutorials and add exercise examples with appropriate headers to your slides. Part 3 Create five combinations of two images that suggest (but does not illustrate) the theme from Assignment Two. This is called, “connotative” (suggestive). The opposite of connotative is denotative (meaning, specific and illustrative). Connotative results are more abstract than denotative and generally produce a richer more participatory and rewarding experience for the viewer. -- Use any of the techniques from Part Two. You may also try other techniques using Photoshop you find on your own. In Part 3, the aesthetic result is of the upmost importance rather than the kind or number of tools or techniques you use. The goal being, to suggest the theme from assignment 2, but not literally illustrate it. -- Unsuccessful examples of combining images: It is important not to have the background and foreground compete with each other visually as in this example (below) of two combined images. Do not use clichéd (too often seen) images like the Earth, puppies, kittens, anything that you have seen many times before that is trite, generic or totally expected. Bad example #1:

Bad Example # 2: The background image (the photo you take yourself), should be a non-specific (abstract) texture, not a recognizable representation of something, like the bad example of photo sprocket holes here:

The reason not to use clichéd or overly specific images or easily recognizable backgrounds is that they leave no room for the viewer to participate in helping to create meaning from the combined image. --

-- Aesthetically successful images get completed in the viewer’s mind”, not with effects or clichéd content, that, “say too much”. Examples of Well Done Combined Images: Here are a few examples of successfully combined images. This GOOD example shows a clear differentiation between the foreground (the bird), and the red textured, somewhat abstract background, the two parts of the image do not compete for the viewer’s attention:

-- In this other successfully combined image, the texture (soft cloud-like image), was inserted into the center of the image. The fact that the cloudy texture is “soft”, means it complements the sharper natural background.

My Example of a Combined Image

I used these tools and techniques in the example (you can use these or others): -Cropped the found (woman) and created (grill) images

-Blurred the grill to increase separation between it and the woman -Pen tool to combine the images -Curves to adjust the tonality on both the found and made image -Blurred the edge of the woman (just a few pixels) by using the regular lasso tool and then using Filters>Blur>Gaussian Blur This is just one example of achieving good results; the tools and techniques you use may of course be different. -- Place the combined image file from Part Three in the PowerPoint slides with the sub-header, “Final Connotative Combined Image”. -- Part 4 Add one “action word” relating directly or indirectly, sincerely or ironically to one of the five images from Part 3. It should be large enough to be the first of second most important element in the final composition. Begin by using one of the recommended fonts (see course blog). Be sure the text is readable. You may optionally add a semi-transparent rectangle as a “surface” onto which you place the word, to increase readability. Avoid outlines and shadows. --

Place the image in InDesign, and create a layout as below, with, in the bottom right, in 12 pt. Helvetica, place this identifying text: Significant Issue Series, FA27, Digital Design Manipulated Photo with Action Text Your Name, Professor Klinkowstein Make the longest line flush with the right edge of the image above. When placing the image, add approximately 5% extra space around all margins. Example:

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