DIGITAL TOOLS ASSIGNMENT 2

MANY PERSPECTIVES ON YOUR SUBJECT

The main thing you will be doing this week is to continue taking pictures of your subject and formatting the images in Photoshop, in order for them to ready to print and to upload them to your blog.


HERE IS THE ASSIGNMENT STEP BY STEP:

Photograph at least 10 separate and distinct perspectives of your subject:

1. Begin by setting the image size in your camera to highest quality.
2. If your camera allows it, set them to take TIFF's, otherwise JPEG's are fine.
3. Now that you've begun to document your subject in the context of your daily life, you can know begin to pay more attention to the subject itself. For this week take pictures of the many facets of your subject. Photograph your subject from the front, the back, upside down, close up...get creative, for example you can take a photograph as if the subject was the camera's eye or tare your subject apart and photograph the inside...etc. The idea of this exercises is to broaden your habits of looking and understanding the thing you are looking at.
   
   

Download your images to your laptop and save them to your class folder.

1. For this section you will need to rename your images after you download them. When they are downloaded from your camera they are assigned a number. Add to the number your name, a title and the word original. Note: It is important that your include the word "original" with your name. This way it clues you in not to edit it and you will then always have an original to return too.
   
2. If your images are jpegs then you will also need to open the image in photoshop and resave them as tiff files: In the Menu Bar go to File/SaveAs and in the Format Window highlight tiff and click ok.
   

• It should look something like this: 00505091256JoeSteel_PenutShells_Original.tiff
  

Imbed relevant information with each original saved image. This is handy for creating a place to add short notes about the image.

1. With the image file highlighted but not open goto: File/Get Info.
2. Copy and Paste the relevant information in the comments section of the "Get Info" window. Note: this info does not transfer when you rename and save the file

Format your images in Photoshop

1. You will be making minor adjustments to your image, such as cropping, adjusting the brightness & contrast...etc.
2. You will then reduce the size of your image and saving the image as a jpeg. Follow this link: SaveForWeb function for the step by step instructions on how to do that.
3. Now close your image and make sure you Rename your image and Reformat this image as a photoshop file. The suffix will be .psd. (Note: this is important to do. In the fourth week I will be asking you to submit all your work done in photoshop as photoshop files.)

• The two files should look something like this: 00505091256JoeSteel_PenutShells_increased saturation.psd
• 00505091256JoeSteel_PenutShells_increased saturation_forweb.jpeg

Post to your blog your images.

1. First upload the 10 images to the post that you already created last week, which lists 10 daily events in your life. See the link: Posting Pictures on Blogger for help with this. (Remember these need to be re-formated in PS for the web too.)
2. Post to your blog a description of your subject and what so far interests you about this subject
3. Post to your blog 6 of your best images describing different perspectives . Write a description to go along with each of your images.

Due Next Week:

Your 3 blog posts with images and description.

1. A post of the images of your 10 events from wk 1
2. A description of your subject
   
3. 6 images relating to your subject, with descriptions.
   

Bring to class your original images, your reformatted .psd files (atleast 6), along with your images formated for the web, all saved to your thumbdrive and uploaded to your dropsend acc.

You should have a total of atleast 42 image files.

• Folder Named Original:
  

1. 10 original images (wk 1)
2. 10 original images (wk 2)

• Folder Named For Web:

1. 10 images saved for web (wk 1)
2. 6 images saved for web (wk 2)

• Folder Named Photoshop Files

1. 6 images saved adjustments made, saved as .psd files or tiff's.