Graphic Design Fall 2013

Open a jpeg picture of your choice in Photoshop.

1. Make a Rectangular Marquee selection.  Click Select –> Inverse.  Change this selection under Image –> Adjust with the adjustment of your choice.
2. Make an Elliptical Marquee selection, Change this selection under Image –> Adjust with the adjustment of your choice.

Save the image as a jpeg and post it to your blog under the title Assignment Four.

Write about your experience with the Rectangular and Elliptical Marquee Tools. What possibility do you see with these tools?

1. Download the file Layer_Practice.psd. Open Layer_Practice.psd. in Photoshop. Change the order of the layers on the document so you can see all the features of the South Park character.  Find a jpeg photo from the internet to use as a background for her.  Copy and paste it into the Photoshop document.  If it isn’t the right size, adjust it under Edit –>Transform–>Scale.  Make sure the background is the bottom layer.  Flatten the image under Layer–> Flatten Image.  Save the image as a jpeg and post it to your blog under the title Assignment Three.

2. Write about your experience maneuvering Layers in Photoshop.

1. Download the file move_practice.psd. Open the file in Photoshop.  Use the Move tool to assemble these pieces into the South Park character.  Once you have assembled the character, flatten the image under Layer–> Flatten Image.  Save the image as a jpeg and post it to your blog under the title Assignment Two.

2. Write about your experience using the Move Tool in Photoshop.

For the first assignment, you will adjust a photo in six ways.

You will begin by choosing a jpeg image and saving it to My Pictures.  Create a new folder called Assignment 1.  Save the original version of the photo in this folder under original.

You will then open it in Photoshop under File –> Open.

Under Image –> Adjust adjust the following:

Brightness/Contrast:

Name this photo brightness/contrast and save it in the Assignment 1 folder.  Close it and open the original photo again.  Adjust and save it under the following into the same folder:

Hue/Saturation:

Desaturate:

Gradient Map:

Invert:

Threshold:

Create a post on your blog to showcase and label your original photo, as well as each adjusted version. Title it Assignment One: Adjusting Your Photo. Include an introduction where you describe your first experience with Photoshop. What did you do? Was it easy or difficult? Which adjustment did you like the best? Remember to use correct English grammar and punctuation.

*note – we have 5 versions of photoshop at this school.  I apoligize for this.  If you only have Photoshop Elements 8.0, you can complete this assignment, the Photo Adjustments were just moved to different places:

Enhance -> Adjust Color –> Adjust Hue/Saturation

Enhance -> Adjust Color –> Remove Color (=desaturate)

Enhance -> Adjust Lighting–> Brightness/Contrast

Filter -> Adjustments –>Gradient Map

Filter -> Adjustments –>Invert

Filter -> Adjustments –>Threshold

My name is Bethany Waggoner and I am the Art teacher at Seward High School.  This is my 5th year teaching at SHS and living in Seward.  I love riding my bike, running, snowboarding, sledding, crosscountry skiing, cooking, listening to music and watching movies.  Of course I also like Art, and graphic design in particular.  I like magazine covers, album art, advertizements, etc…  I use Photoshop to create posters, cards, ADs, and to plan art that I will make by hand.