What you need for this class:
headphones (essential)
a good attitude
Log into the atomic learning website http://broward.atomiclearning.com
user name is: 354112, 354211, 354110 (the last two digits depend on your grade level, 12, 11, 10, etc.)
password al (AL small letters)
Click on Atomic Learning under Resources (left part of window)
Click on "Take me to Atomic Learning..."
Click on the Our Tutorials tab (blue tab)
Click on Mac and on the letter P to help you find the Photoshop tutorials
Scroll down the list to select Photoshop CS3 Extended
Go through tutorials 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5 in section A.
Then go through tutorials 1, 2 & 3 in Section B.Go through tutiorials 3,5,7,8 in section C.
You should bookmark Atomic Learning so that you can access the tutorials when you wonder how to use a tool or feature of the program that you are unfamiliar with.
Project 1-
"Eye x 25 "
For this project, you will be using the same
"eye" image to create 25 (yes, 25!) variations of the eye. By working through these exercises, you will be learning techniques that can be used later on and you will become more familiar with what you can do with Photoshop.
You should save all of the images into a folder titled "yourname.eye folder"
As you work through the lessons, which are pretty easy, label the image as "001" "002" and so on.
Lesson adapted from: Photoshop 6 Cookcook by Froebisch, Linder & Steffen
Directions for the first 25 Variations.
Project 2
Surreal Images
For this assignment, you will have to create two surreal images. The first one is a 'directed' images, meaning that I will give you specific instructions on what to do. The other is one that you will create yourself, using the images that you find online or from photos that you take with a digital camera.
Lesson Adapted from: Photoshop Fine Art Effects Cookbook by John Beardsworth
Surrealism is a style in which fantastical visual imagery from the subconscious mind is used with no intention of making the work logically comprehensible. Below are some of the artists who are associated with surrealism.
Project 3 -
Pop Art Images
You will be creating images (2) in the style of Andy Warhol's Pop Art silkscreen images. The first image is directed, and the second image will give you the opportunity to apply what you learned in the directed lesson.
Lesson Adapted from: Photoshop Fine Art Effects Cookbook by John Beardsworth
Project 4 -
Comic Strip Pop Art Images
You will be creating two images in the comic style of Roy Lichtenstein. You will be first creating an image using the directions, then you will create your own image, using what you have learned in the directed lesson.
Lesson Adapted from: Photoshop Fine Art Effects Cookbook by John Beardsworth
Roy Lichtenstein used comic book and advertising styles to create images that were very "campy." Most of his best-known artworks are close copies of comic book panels.
Roy Lichtenstein Foundation
Roy Lichtenstein images
Project 5 -
Pointillism
This one is pretty easy - you'll be creating 3 pointillist images in the style of Georges Seurat.
The first image will be a directed image. The other two will be created using one of your city and landscape images.
It is important to remember that pointillist images are subtle in color.
Lesson Adapted from: Photoshop Fine Art Effects Cookbook by John Beardsworth
Pointillism is a form of painting in which tiny dots of primary-colors are used to generate secondary colors. It is an offshoot of Impressionism, and is usually categorized as a form of Post-Impressionism.
Post-Impressionism is an umbrella term that encompasses a variety of artists who were influenced by Impressionism but took their art in other directions.
Project 6-
Post Impressionist
Van Gogh style
One of the most famous painters of the Post-Impressionist era. His style is unique and very recognizable - characterized by swirls of color.
For this assignment, you will be creating two images that emulate the work of Vincent Van Gogh.
The first image will be directed, using the images below. You will create the second image using one of your flower images (not the close-up image) OR a portrait of a person (a head-shot)
Lesson Adapted from: Photoshop Fine Art Effects Cookbook by John Beardsworth
Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch draughtsman and painter, classified as a Post-Impressionist. His paintings and drawings include some of the world's best known and most popular pieces.
The fact that he cut off his ear is very well known, as is the belief that he was driven to an early suicide by lack of recognition of his genius.
Project 7 -
Fauvist Style Painting
Fauvism grew out of Pointillism and Post-Impressionism, but is characterized by a more primitive and less naturalistic form of expression.
For this assignment, you will create two images that are in the Fauvist style.
The first image will be a directed image, using one of the images below. The second image will be one of your choice.
Lesson Adapted from: Photoshop Fine Art Effects Cookbook by John Beardsworth
Paul Gauguin's style and his use of color were especially strong influences.
The artists most closely associated with Fauvism are Albert Marquet, Andre Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck and Henri Matisse.
Project 8
"Joiners" -
a Photo Collage Technique
Between 1982 and 1987, artist David Hockney experimented heavily with photo collage, creating works he called joiners. A joiner consists of a series of photographs taken from different viewpoints, arranged (overlapping) to form a single piece.
You will be creating three digital “joiners” by using Photoshop techniques to emulate the work of David Hockney.
Images of a scene created by a number of smaller prints often overlapping and at angles rather than the simple straight line are called 'joiners'.
David Hockney popularised both the method and the term in the early 1980s.
Project 9
Digital Mandala
A Mandala is a circular image that includes symbols that relate to you and your being.
For this assignment, you will be creating two Mandalas - one is a directed image using at least 5 of pictures that are provided. The other mandala will be one that uses images that represent you and your life. Do not use images of people for this assignment.
In practice, the mandala has become a generic term for any plan, chart or geometric pattern which represents the cosmos metaphysically or symbolically, a microcosm of the universe from the human perspective.
When you have completed your second Mandala, send an email to the teacher that explains what images you used for your personal mandala and why you used those specific images. Use complete sentences and elaborate on why you chose these image. BE SPECIFIC.
Project 10
Digitally Designed Pinwheel
As you know, Sept. 21st is International Day of Peace. We celebrate this day of non-violence with Pinwheels for Peace.
You will be creating a digitally designed pinwheel that will be printed and assembled for Sept. 21st.
For this assignment, you will basically follow the directions for the mandala, however, you can use whatever filter you wish (you don't have to use the stamp) and you don't have to fill in areas with the paint bucket.
Be creative! come up with a good design that illustrates your ideas about peace.
When done, save as a JPG and put in the teacher drop-box.
Label the image: yourname_pinwheel
Project 11
Peter Max Style Image
Peter Max is known for his widely published posters that used gradients and bright colors - almost cartoon-like. You will be creating two images in the style of Peter Max. One of the images will be a directed image that uses one of the images below.
Peter Max is associated with the 60's psychedelic Pop-Art movement. In the late 1960s, Peter Max was known throughout the world for his popular depictions of the world around him, both cosmic and earth-bound. During that period, he wanted to discover a way to make art accessible to everyone.
Project 12
Sgt. Pepper image
You need to get started on this assignment because it may take a while.
You are going to emulate the artwork on the Beatles "Sgt. Pepper Lonely Hearts Club Band" album cover.
Part 1
The first thing you are going to do is decide on a theme. Choose something that you are really into - i.e. music, art, football, cartoons, baseball, etc. It should be a topic that includes a lot of people (not objects).
You will need to find 64, yes 64, people related to your topic - people that are important to your topic. You will need to search and find 64 images of these people.
Try to find full length figures that are not too small (because they will become pixellated when you put them into your image).
First collect the images, then delete the backgrounds so that all you have is the person - no background.
Save these in a folder.
Part 2 - directions
While you are collecting these images of people, make a list of the names of these people and write a sentence as to why they are important to your topic.
Don't just forget about this part of the assignment....
For the Sgt. Pepper album, open the document below to see the names of the 80+ people in the image.
Project 13 -
Patterns
For this assignment, you will be creating two designs using pattern. The first design will be created following specific directions.
For the second design, you will use your name to create a design. This design will be repeated, rotated and flipped to create a pattern.
Pattern
Pattern is the repetition of shape or form. It can also reflect the underlying structure of a design by organizing the surfaces or objects in the composition
One artist who used pattern in his paintings was Frank Stella.
Project 14
Abstraction
For the first part of this assignment, you will zero in on a flower and in the process, you will abstract the image, much in the style of Georgia O'Keefe. For the first image, you will use one of the flowers provided.
Now, create another abstraction, using your own image - this should not be a flower - it should be an object of some sort that you will abstract much like the previous assignment of the flower.
Georgia O'Keefe was an American artist, known for her paintings in which she synthesizes abstraction and representation in paintings of flowers, rocks, shells, animal bones and landscapes.
Project 15
Express Yourself
In this project, you will be dealing with value, which is an element of art.
Before you start working on your self-portrait, you will have to do several things:
- Using Microsoft Word, create a list of 10 words that describe you (i.e. funny, loyal, honest, etc.). Label this list "describe".
- Skip down a few lines in your Word document and create a list of 15 or more people who are important in your life. Label this list "family and friends."
- Skip down a few lines and create a list of 20 things that you like (i.e. pizza, going to the movies, etc.). Label this list "likes."
- Skip down a few lines and create a list of at least 4 quotes that you would live by. Search and get good quotes. Label this list "quotes."
Save the list as yourname.list.doc and put it in the teacher drop box.
value scale
Value is the lightness or darkness of something.
Value links:
What should be in the drop box for this lesson:
List document
value scale
self-portrait
Project 16
iTheme
For this assignment, you'll have some fun creating images similar to those in the iTunes ads.
silhouette
noun
the silhouette of the dome OUTLINE, contour(s), profile, form, shape, figure, shadow.
theme
noun
the theme of her speech SUBJECT, topic, subject matter, matter, thesis, argument, text, burden, concern, thrust, message; thread, motif, keynote.
Project 17
Eye x 100 Part 2
For this project, you will be using the same "eye" image to create 16 new variations of the eye.
By working through these exercises, you will be learning techniques that can be used later on and you will become more familiar with what you can do with Photoshop.
You should save all of the images into a folder titled "yourname.eye folder2"
As you work through the lessons, which are pretty easy, label the image as "026" "027" and so on.
Lesson adapted from: Photoshop 6 Cookcook by Froebisch, Linder & Steffen
Use the eye images from Project 5.
Project 18
Magazine Cover
For this project, you will be putting youself or your artwork on the front of a magazine. Please look at an actual magazine so that you get all of the details, fonts, barcodes, pricing, etc. correct.
Make sure your final image is 300 resolution.
Label it as yourname_Magazine.jpg and put in the teacher drop box.
Project 19
DIY - Extreme Makeover
For this assignment, you will be taking an empty room and adding furniture, decorating the walls/floors/window, etc. - even adding an outdoor scene! You want to make the room inviting, a place that's "you" - some place where your friends would like to hang out for a while...
The room template is basic - just walls, windows, floor, ceiling. Here are the requirements:
- decide if the room is a living room, game room, bedroom or ????
- add a minimum of 3 large pieces of furniture (a couch, chairs, bookshelf, etc. - or, if it's a bedroom, add bedroom furniture - add whatever you need for the type of room you have)
- Paint the walls or wallpaper them
- do something to the windows (curtains, style, blinds, or you can even eliminate or move the windows)
- do something to the floor - paint it, add a carpet, rug, tile, etc.
- put a poster or piece of artwork on the walls - maybe two or three?
- add some sort of lighting.
- put other things in the room to make it inviting and "cool" (plants, baskets, etc).
- Add a scene that you will see outside the windows - a location for your house/apt./condo, etc.
Important to remember: you need to make the furniture look like it's actually in the room. Once you get the furniture in the room, you need to use the edit>transform>distort feature to make the furniture "fit". The furniture should line up with the floor and the walls. Things that should be vertical should be straight. Make it work.
What you need:
Everything else should be online - go to furniture places to find things to up in your room. Here are some popular furniture sites - or, you can go wherever you need to to get your shopping done. There are many interesting furniture sites online - find a place that reflects YOUR personality!
Have fun shopping for your room and decorating it!
Start with the floor, ceiling and the walls and then add the furniture.
When your room is completely furnished and decorated, save it as yourname.room.jpg and put it in the teacher dropbox.
