Digital Imagery

Submitted by Mrs Parra on Tue, 2008-08-26 22:41.

General

Projects

Project ONE -Project ONE Using digital photos and experiment with color. Create a collage of your new images. Save this document with your initials and collage (ex: jh collage) and save it onto the desktop folder on my computer.

Project ONE- The final collage project is due on Friday November 21st. To finish up you can get a pass to come in at lunch into my room, you can see me after school on any day but Wednesdays usually, or you can come in early on Mondays and Tuesdays before school starts. Just make arrangements with me.

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Project TWO-Enhancing photos to improve how they look. In this project you use the photos in the Photos to Fix Folder, and using PhotoShop Elements, adjust the color levels, color cast, brightness, crop, use the clone stamp tool...whatever works to improve how the photo looks.

Create an 8.5 by 11 inch document in PhotoShop Elements and place all of the photos on this document side by side, as before (the originals) and after (the ones you "fixed") examples. Save this document with your initials and fixed photos (ex: jh fixed photos) and save it onto the desktop folder on my computer.

Project TWO- This project is due on Friday November 21st. To finish up you can get a pass to come in at lunch into my room, you can see me after school on any day but Wednesdays usually, or you can come in early on Mondays and Tuesdays before school starts. Just make arrangements with me.

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Project ONE Using digital photos and experimenting with color.

First look at these websites to understand about color enhancement.

What Is Color?

Photoshop Color Balance

Photoshop Adjusting Brightness and Contrast

Photoshop Hue and Saturation explained

Project One- Discovering Color Enhancements in Photoshop.

Select a photo to enhance. You may use a photo from www.everystockphoto.com or from www.pics4learning.com

First you will save the VERY SAME PHOTO SIX DIFFERENT TIMES WITH SIX DIFFERENT NAMES.

1. Find your Photo. Click to get a big version, not a small thumbnail. Save it using control key. To do this, click on the picture and at the same time, hold down the Control Key. Select "Save image as" and name it with your initials and original. Always keep an original when you plan to edit and change photos. (ex. np original owl)

2. Now using the SAME PHOTO, do a SAVE AS again with the Control Key and save with initials hue saturation. (ex. np hue saturation owl)

3. Now using the SAME PHOTO again, do a SAVE AS and and name it with initials replace color. (ex. np replace_color owl)

4. Now using the SAME PHOTO again, do a SAVE AS and save this one with initials and color variations. (ex. np color variations)

5. Now using the SAME PHOTO again, do a SAVE AS and save this with initials and brightness contrast.
(ex. np brightness contrast owl).

6. Now using the SAME PHOTO again, do a SAVE As with initials and shadows highlights.
(ex. np shadows_highlights)

7. You will open each picture separately in PhotoShop Elements to experiment with the Enhance Menu. Find the various ways to change the pixels in the pictures to create different photos. You will find the commands under the Enhance Menu either in Adjust Color or Adjust Lighting. Do Command-S to save each one after you have the colors enhanced like you want them for each picture.

The Final Project.....Create a collage in Photoshop with all of your newly colored photos. Use the feathering feature if you'd like. To do this:

Open Photoshop Elements On the first screen that pops up click close to close that screen. Then, while in PhotoShop, go to the File Menu and select New File. Make it 8.5 by 11, 300 pixels per inch, RGB Color. Call it your initials and collage. (ex: np collage) Be sure all the other pictures you made are open. Then using the Move Tool you can move them over to the Collage File one at a time. Be sure to name each layer like the example shown in class.

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Try to fix the two photos at the bottom of the page (called "woods" and "window in dark") using your skills in PhotoShop Elements.

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Project Three- Claymation

Here are the steps to creating your Claymation Animation Movie. You can add music from GarageBand.

After you have downloaded all of your photo into iPhoto it is time to start the Claymation Animation Movie!!!
1. Open iPhoto
2. Make a New Album (it’s under the File Menu) Name is the name of your movie with initials space bar in front. (example: Nj gh rt Travels to Outer Space)
3. Drag in your photos
4. Click once on your new folder.
5. Go to File and select Export.
6. Click on the Quicktime Tab.
7. Be sure the default music is off.
8. Export it into the Movies Folder in the Students Directory

9. Next open iMovie and set up a new Movie File (be sure you are not on someone else’s) Name it the same as the folder’s name (see # 3 above)
10. While in iMovie, Go to File select Import and bring in your Quicktime movie. (or just drag it onto the panes under Clips in iMovie)
11. If it is too slow, you can increase the speed using the Editing Tab in iMovie, then select Video FX and Fast,Slow, Reverse.
12. Include a title in the beginning.
13. Include credits at the end. (your names and any help you received, like Ms. Ulmer)
14. Include music and if you want you can get sound effect. (GarageBand has some interesting stuff in the sections labeled Ambience and Foley)
15. Save your movie along the way.

When done we will save it as a Quicktime. To do this…
1. Go to share, Quicktime.
2. Pull down the menu and select Full Quality and save it into the Movies folder. This compresses it into a Quicktime Full Quality Movie which we can put onto a DVD.

The first Project, "How To Take Better Photos Podcast" deadline is Friday Sept. 26th. I am available after school on any day except Wednesday.

You can also make arrangements with me to come in early in the morning. I am available at 7:30.

Web Page Resources

Free Photo Bank

Free Foto

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Examples of Good Photos

Photo.net Gallery

Better Photos Online Photography Galleries

Taking Better Pictures

Rule of Thirds and Head Room- At this page read these 2 sections and click on the links that explain Rule of Thirds and Head Room

Rule of Thirds- Digital Kids Club

Rule of Thirds Video