Postcard Activity

Today we will begin our postcard creating assignment.  You will choose the city in which you will create a postcard for.  The requirements are:

- 2 pictures (one in the background, one in the text)
- text (name of your city)
- you must rastorize the text to create layer effects.

Submit the result in .jpg form to me via LoopMail

You signed up for this city:
Carolyn - New York, NY
Edmund - Washington, DC
Nathan - Las Vegas, NV
Jonathan - Beijing, China
Erik - Philedelphia, PA
David - San Francisco, CA
Isaac - Portland, Maine
Alex - Los Angeles, CA
Edward - Tokyo, Japan
Kevin - London, England
Alejandro - Macau, China
Daisy - Paris, France
Stephanie - Guangzhou, China
Irene - North Pole, Alaska
Kristen - Istanbul, Turkey
Ju -  Seoul, South Korea
Joe - Sydney, Austrailia

Image within Text

Today we are going to practice placing an image within the boundaries created by our text that we write.

Animals in the Wild!

Today, I am asking you to take an image of an animal place it within a picture of its regular habitat.

For example, a penguin in Antartica, or a macaw in the jungle.

Be creative and make it look realistic.

Use today to practice.  We will submit tomorrow!

Painting!

1. Trace(Outline) a cartoon character(s) using the pencil tool and paintbrush tool.

2. Paint the image with the paintbrush tool, paintbucket tool, and/or selection

tools(edit-stroke/fill).

3. Smooth the edges using the smudge tool.

Requirements:

1. 5 colors including the background.

2. Create a new layer,

3. Change image mode to RGB.

4. Image size needs to be larger than 5 inches for width and height.

5. Experiment and be creative.

6. Part of your grade will be based on the degree of difficulty of the image.

DO NOT paint on the original (background layer).7. Save as = LastName_FirstInitial_Painting.PSD
8. Submit a .JPG copy to me via LoopMail

Painting assignment will allow you to practice the following PhotoShop skills:

Double Watch Assignment

Your assignment is to produce a .jpg of two watch faces that

have images inside the watch faces. Replace the background of the watches with a background image of your choice or create a background with a gradient.

1. Combining several images into one to create layers.

2. Selecting and deleting unwanted pixels.

3. Changing the opacity and the mode of a layer.

4. Rearranging layers.

5. Adding a gradient.

6. Using special tools such as the magic eraser.

7. When finished send me a Loopmail message with the .jpg as an attachment.
8. Using the text tool and layer effects for you name.

Cat Dog!

Today's assignment will require you to find images of animals and select parts from one and apply it to the other.  For example, you can take the head of a cat and place it on a dog's body.

You will continue to use the selection tools in Adobe Photoshop to only select the part that you want to apply to the new image.  You will need to rotate, scale and transform the images so they look as "real" as possible.  Be creative and choose whichever animal you want.

If you have forgotten how to use some of the selection tools in Photoshop, please refer to your classmates and other parts of this blog.

When you are finished, please save a .PSD version of your work to your flash drive under the Photoshop Folder called: "FirstName_LastInitial_Animal"

After, please choose to send a .JPG to me via school loop.  The subject of the LoopMail should be Animal and your file name should match the one above.  Please send only .JPG images and not .PSD

Melon Head

Today we will be continuing our learning of Photoshop.  The skills we will be focusing on today are:

• Copying and Pasting images from the web
• Rotating, Scaling, and transforming images
• Creating original art using technology

Teacher Demonstration: (10 Minutes)

Student Activity: (25 Minutes)
1. Copy (CTRL + C) and Paste (CTRL + V) this picture into photoshop.  It will act as your background.

2. Copy and Paste each image below into your project.  Remove the white background by using your selection tools (Magic Wand) and reveal only your fruit or vegetable (Delete Key).  Each paste creates a new layer
3. Rotate, scale, and transform fruits and vegetables (layers) into the form of a face (Select > Edit > Transform)
* You may have to change the order of the layers to make some parts of the images visible and not visible.
4. Save the final project as "FirstName_LastInitial_MelonHead" in the PSD Photoshop format on your Flash Drive.  You will need to create a new file in Photoshop called Melon Head.
5. Then save the image for the web (File > Save for Web and Devices) as a .JPG
6. Submit to me your final .JPG via LoopMail, for the gallery.
7. Monitors off to show me your are finished.  When completed, be helpful to your classmates.

Gallery: (Last 10 Minutes)
Get feedback on your original works of art!

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