Media Arts 2019-20

ATMOSPHERIC PERSPECTIVE Below is a landscape of some hills. What do you notice about the color of the hills as they get farther away? Does the color stay the same or change? Why do the hills in the distance appear bluer? Are they really bluish gray in real life? No. If you were to hike over to the hills in the distance they would be just as green as the ones in the foreground.  Now let's talk about value.  The word 'value' means how light or dark something is. In order to make it easier for you to look at the value, here is a photograph in gray scale. The hills appear to fade into the distance and they become lighter as they get farther away. Why do you think they do that? Gray scale photograph This picture clearly shows how objects fade in the distance. The hills in the background appear lighter in value. Let's look at some other landscape photographs now In all of the a...

Change the Color of an Object 1) Save the image in your folder. 2) Open the image in Photoshop. 3) Use a Selection Tool to select only the pumpkin. If you're unsure of what tool that might be, remember what we've been using... it selects only part of the image like magic 4) After the pumpkin is selected, we can now change the color. To do so, find the Adjustments tab on the right hand side.       **If you do not have the Adjustments tab, go to the top of the screen to Window - Adjustments ** 5) Click on the Hue/Saturation tool. It's the second tool on the second row.   6) Now try messing around with the Hue control on the top. Observe what is happening to the color of the pumpkin. Is it the same or different? 7) When done with the Hue/Saturation tool, you're done! You're pumkin should now be a different color. Now, try changing the color of an object in another image! Below are some images for you to try, or you may find your own....

Here are some different exercises to familiarize yourself more with Photoshop.  Exercise 1 Goal :  Copy the ghost and paste at least five copies of it into the castle picture. Use the Transform function on each ghost, and give the layer of each ghost a different Opacity.     1. Save the pictures to your folder. 2. Open the pictures in Photoshop. 3. Use a Selection Tool to Select the ghost. Copy it. Use the Move Tool to place each ghost where you want it. 4. Use the Transform functions to change the way the ghost looks. 5. Give the ghost's layer an Opacity that's less than 100%. 6.  Repeat at least 4 more times to have at least 5 ghosts at the castle.   Exercise 2 Goal: Use a combination of Selection Tools and Filters to alter an image. 1. Save the picture to your folder and open it in Photoshop. 2. Use the Selection Tools to Select different areas in the picture, and add a filter to each area.  The Filters are ...

If you are done with the Coloring assignment, you may begin the next one is which we insert people different places.  Here we have the Leaning Tower of Pisa. But wait, what's the on the top? It's a person! This next assignment will again be using the select tool, as well as resizing the image Directions: 1) Go into Photoshop and create a new file. Call it YOURNAME Insert Person (ex: Lindsay Wasserman Insert Person) Height: 8.5 inches Width: 11 inches Resolution: 250-300 pixels/inch 2) Now you must select a location. It can be somewhere local here in Brooklyn, or anywhere else! Google image somewhere and copy the image. If you don't know where to select, below are some choices to choose from. 3) Below are a variety of people that you can use. You may choose any one of them.           4) Try pasting the figures into the bac...

To open your zentangle in Photoshop, go up to the top of the page to File-Open (insert picture) Find your Folder  and then open your zentangle image. Awesome! You have your image up and ready to edit! The first thing we are going to do is just clean up some of the image.  If I were to zoom in to the image, I notice some stray lines/marks in the images. I want to get rid of those. Before we paint anything though, we need to make sure we match the color correctly. To do so, we are going to use the Eyedropper tool .   After we have chosen it, we can click anywhere on the image that we want to copy the color from. After we have matched the color, we are going to use the Paint Brush tool on the left hand side in the tool bar. You can change the setting of the Paint Brush, from the size to how soft/hard the brush is.  All of those options are up on top. Once you change the size to better fit where you want to put the brush, you can begin painting over ...