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BASICS COURSE ASSIGNMENT 4 Figure&Ground, Working w/Adjustment Layers

There are three goals for this assignment:

1. The first is for you to continue practicing using the selection tools.
2. Second is for you to make adjustments to your image using adjustment layers.
3. And third is for you to experiment with the basic elements of color: hue, saturation and brightness.

The assignment has two parts:

• Part 1 First asks you to improve and clarify the quality of an image by making selections and adjusting the image using adjustment layers. Then part 1 asks you to dramatically alter the look of an image, again by making selections and adjusting the image using adjustment layers. Part 1 leaves you with two finished images
• Part 2 Asks you to take you perspective image and create four distinct copies of the image. Each image with play with a specific characteristic of color

The completed assignment should also give us some insight into your interest in your topic.

To begin

• Start my visiting the Adobe CS3 Video Workshop site, under the product Photoshop, watch the video for "making and refining selections" and "making tonal corrections" and the Adobe CS4 Video Workshop site under making adjustments. The first shows you how to use the quick selection tool and the refine edge feature. The second is a great example for working with with Adjustment Layers in CS3 and the third updates you on the new and improved adjustment layer panel in CS4.
  

PART 1
IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF YOUR IMAGE and CHANGE THE ENTIRE LOOK OF YOUR IMAGE

Choose your image from assignment 3- "Changing your background.

• The image should clearly have a Figure and Ground (your subject and the foreground and background) What this means is that there should be an object in your image that is clearly your Subject. It is also helpful if the background is able to be selected into two parts, a shallow ground, called the foreground and a more distant ground called the Background.

• The image should need improving. Do not pick a perfect image. For example choose one where the background might be too dark, or the object is slightly blurred.

• This image should also be of high resolution. No less than 1MB in size.

HERE IS HOW YOU DO THAT STEP BY STEP:

First improve the image

• With the image opened in Photoshop, Select the object within the image using the appropriate selection tool.

• With the selection on, save and name the selection.

• In your layers palette select the adjustment layer, located at the bottom, middle section of the layers palette. (Remember the object should still be selected and the layer that you want to adjust is highlighted.)
  

• With the adjustment layer selected, scroll down and choose the adjustment needed to improve upon the quality of your image. (For example your object is too blue, choose the hue and saturation or color adjustment to change the hue.)

• Repeat this step for your foreground and your background.

SECOND EXPERIMENT WITH THE IMAGE

• Using the same image follow the same steps this time experimenting with tools in the tool bar, change the look of your entire image.
  

• What this means is that you will use the adjustment layers and image altering tools, not to simply improve on your image, but rather use them to dramatically change the look of your image.

• For example with the adjustment layers you can increase the saturation to give it a psychedelic feel or desaturate the image to create a feeling of nostalgia. With the image altering tools such as the "spot healing brush tool" you can completely remove parts of your image, or with the brush tool you can create a graffiti look to the image or with the "pattern stamp tool" you can create a mozaic affect.

PART 2
CREATE A 4 PANEL COLOR STUDY FROM YOUR PERSPECTIVE IMAGE


Choose your images from assignment 3- "Creating Perspective".

• IN PART Part 2 Take your perspective image and create four distinct copies of the image. Each image with play with a specific characteristic of color

1. The first image choose a color and make it monchromatic
2. The second choose the colors compliment and create a contrast of hue
3. Third play with the saturation, either decreasing or increasing it.
4. Fourth play with the brightness, either decreasing or increasing the value.

Due Next Week:

midnight the night before class:

• Format for the web

1. your original image
   
2. the improved image for part 1
3. the image the dramatacly changed image for part 2.
4. 4 panel color image
   

• Upload them to your blog.
• Write a description about what you changed.
  
• Explain how the changed image in Part 2 communicates to us something about your topic.

Bring to Class.

• Your original image. (This image should either be a high resolution jpeg, tiff.)
• 2 .psd files from Part 1 and Part 2 (These should include the adjustment layers).

• Remember to name your files so I can easily identify them.