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.