Personal Collage
Using Photoshop CS6, create an artistic digital collage about you. The final composition should be a collage-style illustration that combines at least 10 separate photos.
Your personal collage should be an “overall” representation of your likes and interests! It may include any of the ideas listed below, but is not limited to this list. Be sure that it is appropriate and do the best job you can. This is one of a few collages you will complete this year, so it is important that you learn how to use the Photoshop tools effectively.
Find photos on using Search Creative Commons (Google Images, Flickr) that represent your likes and interests. There should be NO photos of you, rather we want to see things that represent you, who you are, and your likes and interests.
In order to make you think about what is really important to you, you will be limited to 10 photos. You may use single words to represent ideas, but you will be limited to THREE words that represent you.
Photos should be re-sized to signify importance to you – things that are larger will be more important. You should also attempt to use layers and effects to blend your photos together so that they look to be integrated together to tell us a story about you.
Use SCALE and EMPHASIS in your project as seen in the PowerPoint slideshow on the Elements/Principles in Photography
Images that represent you could come from the following list of topics:
Your personal collage should be an “overall” representation of your likes and interests! It may include any of the ideas listed below, but is not limited to this list. Be sure that it is appropriate and do the best job you can. This is one of a few collages you will complete this year, so it is important that you learn how to use the Photoshop tools effectively.
Find photos on using Search Creative Commons (Google Images, Flickr) that represent your likes and interests. There should be NO photos of you, rather we want to see things that represent you, who you are, and your likes and interests.
In order to make you think about what is really important to you, you will be limited to 10 photos. You may use single words to represent ideas, but you will be limited to THREE words that represent you.
Photos should be re-sized to signify importance to you – things that are larger will be more important. You should also attempt to use layers and effects to blend your photos together so that they look to be integrated together to tell us a story about you.
Use SCALE and EMPHASIS in your project as seen in the PowerPoint slideshow on the Elements/Principles in Photography
Images that represent you could come from the following list of topics:
- hobbies
- movies
- sports
- music
- technology
- fashion
- travel and vacation spots
- college
- pets
- food
Step 1
Find Large size photos thru Search Creative Commons (Google Images, Flickr), or Flickr > Advanced Search. Save them to your Z: drive folder. Create a folder in your Z: drive labeled Personal Collage.
Step 2
Create an New document in Photoshop with the following dimension and resolution (see Width, Height, Resolution from picture below):
File > New
Find Large size photos thru Search Creative Commons (Google Images, Flickr), or Flickr > Advanced Search. Save them to your Z: drive folder. Create a folder in your Z: drive labeled Personal Collage.
Step 2
Create an New document in Photoshop with the following dimension and resolution (see Width, Height, Resolution from picture below):
File > New
Step 3
Open up one image you saved in Photoshop.
Use different selection tools we have learned - Quick Selection Tool, Refine Edge Command, Quick Mask Mode and the use of Layers to combine your photos into this new document.
Continue this procedure with all 10 or more of your images.
Move, Resize photos, and rotate photos to complete your collage.
Open up one image you saved in Photoshop.
Use different selection tools we have learned - Quick Selection Tool, Refine Edge Command, Quick Mask Mode and the use of Layers to combine your photos into this new document.
Continue this procedure with all 10 or more of your images.
Move, Resize photos, and rotate photos to complete your collage.
Step 4 - Bad Example
Student did not use the PowerPoint slideshow on the Elements/Principles in Photography and the straight edges from the original images are visible in some photos. These should not be seen. See the Good Student Examples below.
Step 5
Save this to the correct folder on the V: drive as YOUR LAST NAME_Personal Collage.psd
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