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Tuesday, 22 June 2010

Getting Creative!

Create your own imaginative pictures using the tools and techniques learnt on PhotoShop courses.

To begin choose two or three images and think how they could be combined into a story. Choose an image for a background setting - a landscape, seascape, cityscape or an interior. Think of an idea for your picture, a story, and plan it, so you know what additional images are needed and what effects to aim for.

With a little imagination and PhotoShop know-how, you can create a complex image of your own. The origianl images, which may be your own photos, combined with images sourced from elswhere, you can transform them into a unique and personal compostion that when printed on high quality paper could be framed and displayed.

Getting Creative, from Digital Imaging Level 2, Session 16.

Friday, 30 January 2009

Starting Digital Imaging and Basic Digital Imaging – 2008-09

Students’ Images

Glenys Vallis	Sharon Boyle
Sue Waddington	These images were created using PhotoShop tools, Polygonal Tool, Paint Bucket Tool and Gradient Tool.
These photos were modified using basic PhotoShop tools, making selections and applying Filters and adding text using the Text Tool	Carri Wilkins
Jeff Francis	Glenys Vallis
Kim O’Shea	Jill Pratt
The image above has been sourced from three images. Selection tools were used to copy and paste the images onto the background and the original colours were modified. The Posterize command was used to make the image appear less like a photograph and more like a drawn illustration. The eyes of the figure in this painting by Andrew Wyeth were replaced by those from a painting by Johannes Vermeer. A number of tools and commands were used, including selection tools, Free Transform and Layer Masks	Pat Jones
Vi Wagner	Nicol Grainge
The painting above, by Lord John Leighton, has been given a new background by selecting the original background, deleting it and pasting in a background from a different image.	The picture above uses the same image but this time it has been mixed with another painting, a figure from a painting by Johannes Vermeer.
Two images were also used to create the picture on the right. The effect of one being superimposed on the other was achieved by using a Layer Mask and the Gradient Tool. Two images are merged in the picture below, using similar techniques.	Sue Waddington
Margaret Sarfas	Miguel Pecina
	In the original photo the penguin was at an angle and there were distracting objects in the background. Transform and the Rotate Command, and Clone Tool were used.
Helen Bull	Jennifer O’Sullivan
Madeleine Knowles	Students can record their progress and annotate the images they have produced by creating contact sheets in PhotoShop.

Tuesday, 15 July 2008

Posting on the Blog

To open the Blog, type www.showoff-acl.blogspot.com

To post your own images or comment on other posts you have to Sign In with your email address and password. It is good practice to keep a list of the passwords you use with different websites – you will forget them, especially if, as it is advised, you do not always use the same one – you will forget them, oh yes, you will!

From the Dashboard, you can click on + New Post and go straight to the page where you can type a message and give it a title. The toolbar has the usual text options plus two picture icons that allow you to add an image or video. Clicking on the first one will open a window from where you can upload the image from a file on your computer. You can add five images at a time and choose how any text interacts with the images.

Formatting the post can be tricky but at least you can edit it, even after you have opted for PUBLISH POST. (You can even opt for SAVE NOW and it will save as a draft that you can return to later.) Click on Preview to see what your post will look like when published to the Blog. Click on View Blog to return to the main page.

You can also edit the post even after it has been published, which is useful if you discover the odd typo. To do this, surprisingly, you click on New Post, top right. This opens the page where you can make a new post but by clicking on Edit Posts a page appears with a list of your posts and it is from here you can edit them.

Add comments to any post by clicking on: comments at the bottom of a post. This will open up a page where you can type your comment. Click on PUBLISH YOUR COMMENT for the comment to be added to the post. Return to the main page by clicking on: Post a comment on: Show Off ACL. Comments can be viewed by clicking on comments. You can remove your own comment by clicking on the bin icon at the bottom of the post.

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Happy blogging!

Monday, 14 July 2008

Digital Imaging

Digital Imaging courses at ACL are aimed at those who are interested in optimising and enhancing their own digital photographs or who wish to build further upon their skills and learn more advanced techniques. The images here are from courses that cover basic procedures using PhotoShop and those where tools and commands have been applied more creatively. In most examples digital images have provided a starting point but others demonstrate how PhotoShop can also be used independently to create original and personal results.
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Most students gain the confidence to plan outcomes and produce imaginative and satisfying results when transforming photographs. Many also discover their potential for making effective judgements about colour, composition and themes when using this new medium.
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