Assignments and Projects
Module 2 - You Ought To Be On TV
If you've always wanted to be on TV, now's your chance!
Instructions
Using one of the TV images provided in this week's zip file, use a clipping mask to put a picture of yourself onto the TV screen. Some notes:
Use the selection tools to make a clean selection of the TV screen - no extra or missing pixels. Your selection should follow the edge of the screen precisely.
Once you have your selection, press Cmd/Ctl J to make a copy of your selection into a new layer.
Duplicate that new layer so you have two copies in your Layers window.
Use one of the copies as a clipping mask to clip your picture, and then use the scaling tool to fit your photo onto the TV screen - your picture should fill the selection with none of the screen showing through at the edges.
Use the other copy of the screen to add the reflection back in over the top of your photo by changing the layer mode to something other than normal. Your best bets are Overlay and Hard Light, but experiment and see what gives the best balance between the reflection and preserving the photo's original colors (it will vary depending on which TV image you use).
If you're up for an extra challenge, use the "TVBonus" image instead of one of the straight-on pictures. If you use this picture:
Once your picture is sized, hold down the Cmd/Ctl key and click on the corner points around the picture to align the edges with the perspective of the TV. Same requirements as above, no screen edges showing.
Then, use Edit>Transform>Warp to bow the picture out slightly (they didn't used to be flat screens...).
Submission
Please, upload BOTH your Photoshop .PSD file and a JPG of your final images exported from Photoshop.
Your files should be named LastNameFirstName_OnTV.PSD and LastNameFirstName_OnTV.JPG.
Your PSD should have all layers LABELED and no extraneous layers.
Module 8 - Five Up
Take five of the same kind of object from five different photographs and put them together in a background as if they belong in the same shot.
Instructions
Pick up the photos of your items and be sure you consider:
Camera angle (shot from the same or nearly the same angle, and should match your background)
Light direction and intensity (should match your BG image - don't forget you can flip images if the light is on the wrong side)
Image resolution (start with large images - you can always scale down, you should *never* scale up!)
Scale (the object's position on the background image and its relative size - they don't all have to be the same size, but they should look like they're all in the same scene)
Overlap (create depth by overlapping element).
Color balance(should match background)
Light and dark balance
Edging
Appropriate shadows (grounds the object in the image, hand-painted or a multiply layer that has been distorted and softenend)
Select your background and *eight* potential objects to include, and make your decisions on which five you're going to use by dropping them into the background image.
Submission
Please, upload BOTH your Photoshop .PSD file and a JPG of your final images exported from Photoshop.
Your files should be named LastNameFirstName_5UP.PSD and LastNameFirstName_5UP.JPG.
Your PSD should have all layers LABELED and no extraneous layers.
Looking forward to seeing what you come up with!
Module 10 - Double Exposure
For this week's assignment, you'll be leveraging some of the skills you've previously learned, like selections and masks, and combining two separate images into a double exposure image. When you're done, your final image will look something like this:
You'll be combining a picture of a person (preferably a profile or near-profile picture) with a natural element, cityscape, or some other non-human image.
Instructions:
Combine two or more photos into a double exposure image. One photo must be of a person (either you, a friend or relative, or a stock photo -see below), and the other photo(s) must be of a natural environment or human-made element.
You will be submitting two files: your Photoshop file with all your layers intact (no flattened files), and a .jpg file (larger side 1500px minimum).
Submission:
Please, upload BOTH your Photoshop .PSD file and a JPG of your final images exported from Photoshop.
Your files should be named LastNameFirstName_DoubleExposure.PSD and LastNameFirstName_DoubleExposure.JPG.
Your .PSD file should have all layers LABELED and no extraneous layers.