Digital Imaging Assessment: Lesson 8
Today was our last lesson (boo!) and we had our biggest assignment yet. We all had to create a storyboard and take photos to tell the story we’d chosen. My group decided to tell the bloodcurdling tale of some innocent picnickers (including Paddington Bear and Punk Rock Barbie) who fell afoul of an evil Bratz vampire. Or did they…? We used Photoshop to add in essential details, but I think the photos speak for themselves…
Digital Creativity Lesson 7
Today we worked with retouching photographs, and learned more about the clone stamp, and the spot and healing tools. We used the clone stamp on this motorbike photo to duplicate the motorbike rider and insert more people into the crowd:
We also retouched an old photo of a girl by erasing the folds with the clone stamp and also blending using the spot and healing tools:
We also finished our Me, Myself & I assignments. Here’s my attempt at making sweet music out of my name:
Digital Creativity Lesson 6
We did a recap of the Pen Tool from last lesson in lesson 6. We drew a heart using the tool and manipulated the anchor points to create lovely curves and make it more heart-like. We also learned about paths and how it’s possible to fill a path with colour to finish your image, amongst other things. We also used the Freeform Pen Tool to decorate our names, which we’d written down. We smoothed out any edges using the Convert Point Tool and deleted any unnecessary anchor points using the Delete Anchor Point tool, then converted our names into something more pretty by using brush strokes to add colour and texture. Here’s my name:
For the last part of the lesson, we worked with a scanned image to make it more colourful and add in stuff. We cropped the picture to keep only the part we wanted and created layers for the leaves, bark and grass. We added texture using the Texturiser and Burn Tool, and made a sky using the Gradient tool. Next week we’re finally going to be able to do our own names using the images from our Me Myself & I assignment! The picture I’ve chosen to edit of my own name is below, under my attempt at editing the scanned image.
Digital Creativity Lesson 5
In lesson 5 we learned about different colours, how to select them using the colour picker, and about suitable colours for websites. We also learned how to create shapes with the vector tools, which was a lot different from the usual JPEG photographs we work on. Lastly, we got to use the pen tool to create shapes and curves.
We also scanned in our Me Myself & I assignments, where we had to write down two sentences, one about something we liked and one about something we disliked, and incorporate it into our name via a drawing. I chose music and sports to like and hate, respectively. We then had to choose one we liked and try to further it. Sadly I chose to use colouring pencils to do mine, so the quality isn’t as good as it should be…
