APPROPRIATING IMAGES, When to Call it Yours.

To Appropriate: "to take without permission or consent; to sieze or capture."
Plagiarize: to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (a created production) without crediting the source.


When using images, other than your own to create artwork, you should be attempting to locate the line where an image or design that was originally created by someone else, ceases to be theirs and becomes yours. To accomplish this, think about how you can insert your own ideas, changes, critiques into the image.

How much of a remnant of the original artist remains before you can claim authorship?

How little of your mark needs to be inserted to make the work your own?

As artists and designers we appropriate images and ideas all the time. The idea of a "true original" in many respects does not exist. Every creation is in some way influenced and inspired by other creations. Yet when can we call those images our own?


Here are some opinion's and critiques on appropriation, concerning the work of Shepard Fairey:

Authorship&Appropriation. "The act of appropriating an image to sell something will always be different than the act of appropriating an image to say something." Matt

Terry Gross's report on Shephard Fiarey's poster of President Obama "Inspiration or Infringement"



"What initially disturbed me about the art of Shepard Fairey is that it displays none of the line, modeling and other idiosyncrasies that reveal an artist’s unique personal style." Critique by Mark Vallen

OBEY Shepard Fairey or else you...

MANAGING YOUR PRINT OUTPUT IN PHOTOSHOP

Once you have formated (image size and resolution), edited and manipulated your image in photoshop, you are now ready to make the final adjustments for printing your photo. With a few simple, but important adjustments you can produce satisfying prints that match or come close to what appears on your screen.

Here are the steps to take for PS-CS3:


1) Go to File/Print

• (notice that you are skipping the "page set up" option.)

Here the "Print" window will open. (See above) The print window is divided into three sections:

1. "page layout viewing" section.
   
2. "layout adjustment" section.
3. "color management" section.
   

2) In "page layout viewing" section position your paper by either choosing landscape or portrait.

3) In the "layout adjustment" section, choose your printer, the # of copies you want to print and position the image on the page: either by checking center or entering the inches from the top and the left.

DO NOT USE THE SCALE OPTION: You ideally want to adjust your size in photoshop before you print. Also notice that the "Match Print Colors" is not available. This will become available later when you color manage your photo.

4) In this same section now click the "Page Set Up" window. (See Below) In this window, choose your paper size and make sure you are printing to the correct printer then click OK.



5) Now back at the "Print" window over at the "Color Management " section choose color management, document and under color handling choose "Photoshop Manages Colors." A message will appear that asks you if you have disabled color management. You haven't yet but you will later.

6) Now it is time to Pick your Paper. In the "Color Rendering" box choose the type of paper you will be using. And under that choose the rendering type. Either "Relative Color Metric" or "Perceptual" Also check "Black Point Compensation"

Once you have completed this, notice that the "Match Print Colors" in the "layout adjustment" section is now checked. This acts as a way to soft proof your image in the "Print" window. If you uncheck it you will see the difference (if any) between your photo and what will be printed. If there is a large difference between your photo and you print output, you can go back to the image and add Adjustment Layers, without changing the original image. NOW CLICK THE PRINT BUTTON.

7) With this second print window open, look for where it says "Copies and Pages". (See Below) Under this window box, click the arrow in the blue box to the right and scroll down to Print Settings.

8) With the Print Settings open (See Below) Click Advanced and Unclick HighSpeed.

9) Now scroll down from "Print Setting" to "Color Management" (See Below) With Color Management open Choose "OFF (No Color Adjustment)" This is telling the computer that you do not want the printer adjusting your colors. This is what you have already done yourself in PS!

10) OK now you can print your beautiful photograph! Turn on the Printer and Position Your Paper and Click Print.

DIGITAL TOOLS ASSIGNMENT 5, Anything Goes!

This last Photoshop assignment is more open ended than the first two. The main point of this assignment is to combine the skills you have learned so far to create a complex collage of images that is dramatically different from the originals. Your images you use can now include images other than your own. Remember the final image should relate somehow to your subject and most importantly your particular interest in that subject, not only visually but also conceptually.

Before beginning this assignment please review the post on Appropriating Images

some Tools you should be using are:

• The Selection Tools
• Layers to construct your work.
• Copying and Pasting Multiple Images. (or simply click and drag)
• Free transform tool.
• The Edit/Fill Tool
• Adjusting the Color and Value of the Images-from the menu bar: Image/Adjustments
• Adjustment Layers

AND one or two other tools you discovered in Photoshop Help: either the section on

• "Retouching and Transforming"
  
• "Painting"
  
• "Drawing"

The Assignment:

1. Begin by thinking about your subject and ask yourself: What idea or theme would I like to express? Consider the image above. Jo's was working with the topic of "The Culture of Trash" and wanted to show a worst case scenario world. This project lends itself well to this idea. Photoshop allows you to dream up the fantastic, fictional space for better or worse.
2. Once you've thought of your idea, you can now move on to collecting images. You can use images you have taken and images that you have found on the web. Remember to use only large images from the web and also don't forget to cite the sources of all your images.
3. Take your images and drag them into 1 Photoshop file and have fun cutting, pasting and using the new tools you learned on your own!

Due next week:

Post to your blog:

1. The original images formated for the web, that were used to create your new image. This should include atleast one image that you have appropriated from the internet.
2. A description of the images and a link to the website you culled the appropriated image from. Remember to give credit to the artist (if known).
3. An image (formated for the web) of your finished assignment.
4. A description of your assignment: how it creates a story about your subject and the new tools you used to create the image.

Upload to Server

1. The original images, saved as tiff's.
2. The finished collage, saved as a tiff or a .psd-with layers.