Tag Archives: Fall 2019

Computer Graphic Design

Design Reflection – Impossible Images 2019

Objective:

  • I can reflect on my most recent project and how effectively I used the Photoshop tools and techniques studied in class.

Topics Discussed:

  • Reflection

Links:
https://classroom.google.com

Topics Discussed:

  • Reflection
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Digital Photography
  • Original Artwork

Assignment:

  1. Connect to the Google Classroom site and click on the link to the Google Form at the bottom of today’s assignment post.
  2. Use your completed “Impossible Images” design to answer the questions in the Google Form. Review the previous posts on Photoshop techniques if you need a refresher on what a particular tool or technique is called.
  3. You must have at least one complete sentence for each question in each prompt, but use as many sentences as you need to complete your short answer.
  4. Please be specific on each question as to what exactly you did on your banner design to represent each of the four principles.
  5. Once you have answered all the questions, click the Submit button at the bottom of the page. Do not click any other buttons or navigate away from the page before submitting your answers, or they may be erased. You may even wish to type your answers in a Google Doc or Word Document and then transfer them to the form.
  6. Once you have submitted your form, return to the Google Classroom assignment post, and click the Mark as Done button to mark this assignment as completed and ready for grading.

Assigned: November 21st, 2019
Teacher Pacing Due Date: November 22nd, 2019

Computer Graphic Design

Adobe Photoshop 2019 – The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly

Objective:

I can recognize the variety of ways professionals use Photoshop to manipulate digital images, as well as their reasons for doing so.

Links:

Hacker Factor Blog: “Body By Victoria”

Refinery 29: “Confessions of An Anonymous Victoria’s Secret Photoshopper”

Kotaku East: “A Brief History of North Korean Photoshops”

Google Image Search Result: “Photoshop Disasters”

Assignment:

Last week, we tested our acquired Photoshop skills by building a composite image using several smaller images. Today, we are going to look at some examples of professional Photoshop alterations. Some good, some not so good, some gone horribly wrong.

Keep in mind as you view these images, that these were done by professional Photoshop artists who were paid for the work.

Read the Hacker Factor Blog article entitled “Body by Victoria” to see firsthand what kind of modifications are applied to even the most beautiful supermodels’ bodies using Photoshop tools.

Read the Refinery 29 article entitled “Confessions of an Anonymous Victoria’s Secret Photoshopper“.  We’ll discuss why virtually all clothing companies feel the need to manipulate the images of women to fit a subjective ideal body type, and why you should never, ever read beauty magazines or bodybuilder magazines (spoiler: they will only make you feel ugly and inadequate using Photoshop trickery).

Even governments get into the act. Read the Kotaku East article entitled “A Brief History of North Korean Photoshops” to see how the North Korean government uses Photoshop to (badly) alter images for their own purposes. The images may be good for some chuckles, but we’ll discuss in class the implications of government-sponsored image manipulation.

Finally, Do a Google Image Search for “Photoshop Disasters” link. Look through the examples of Photoshop Disasters, and have a good laugh at some professional Photoshop artists who probably had a really bad day at the office when they made these obvious mistakes. As you browse through the disasters, be on the lookout for one that you think you can correct using the image repair techniques we have studied in class. (Keep it school appropriate!)

Tomorrow, we’ll select a prime example of Photoshop fakery and use our skills to recover some of these “Photoshop Disasters”.

Presented: November 7th, 2019