Task 2; Photoshop Skills & Self Portraits
This task begins 26/9, week 11 term 3 and continues into term 4
Do this:
- Read through the NOTES below
- Open your photo with Photoshop CS5
- Do this by finding your photo in your folder - right click - open with - PSCS5
- Follow the the how-to photoshop videos numbers 5 through 13 - use your photo
- If you have time continue on with other videos
- If you are unable to use the videos (either because you were banned or because it just doesn't work for you:
- Follow the link to the manual and look on pages 3 through 5 and 9 through 12 (skip pages 6, 7, 8)
- Your goal is to learn how to select, transform, use tools
- If you need to open another photo you can find one by following this pathway;
- Artpool / A1 Visual Resources / general image resources
- Saving your work
- You will need to use the Dropbox to do this but beware - if ANYONE uses this privilege inappropriately then you will all be required to bring a usb flash drive or you will not be able to save your work.
NOTES
- A copy of your school photo is in your folder. The "pathway" to that folder is:
- Artpool / 9Dlb / your name
- This task involves you working firstly with a photo of yourself to experiment with photoshop tools as you build your skills.
- You can work at your own pace because you can choose what tools and what methods you want to use.
- There are videos you can watch (keep the volume low or you will be banned from using the sound after the first warning)
- You'll find the videos if you follow this pathway:
- Artpool / A1 Visual Resources / CS5 Photoshop How To / PhotoshopCS5 Video_Tutorials
- You can also choose to follow the manual called "PhotoshopBasics-SCManual1.pdf" - you can follow this pathway;
- Artpool / A1 Visual Resources / CS5 Photoshop How To / CS 5 Photoshop Resources
Task 1; Visual Research & Google Docs presentation
We worked on this task 5/9, 12/9 & 19/9
Visit the current major exhibition of Roy Lichtenstein’s work in Chicago, USA online;
There are video’s and drawings that show the development of work.
1. follow the link in the Galleries & Museums tab;
A. select a theme
B. read about that theme & select some information that you feel is important
C. select and copy that text - paste it into the google doc you're going to create
D. select a painting that you like
2. Click on the painting, when it loads - right click and “save image as...” Save To Desktop
note: you may have to just right click the image to avoid large sizes - if you do this you can try just copying and pasting directly into your google doc when you create it
3. Create a new document in Google Docs
4. Title your document "9Dlb, YOUR NAME Pop Art"
5. In your document you've copied and pasted text and an image - if you haven't done this check with the teacher so you can catch up
6. Make sure your painting has details under it such as title, date, media, size, location - you can copy this from the image - see the example of the painting with details below.
7. Once you have this you're ready to make a comment about the text you've selected. Ask yourself "what about this text?" "What does it say that I feel is important?" explain this to your reader.
For example:
"In the late 1950s, Lichtenstein made an abrupt change in his painterly style. Earlier works owe a heavy debt to Cubism and were executed in a faux-naive realist style. By 1959 newly energetic brushwork, specifically in the mode of Abstract Expressionism."
This is telling us that Lichtenstein's style changed. As you can see from the painting "Untitled, 1959" below it appears completely unlike his early comic strip images and instead looks like an abstract painting.
Untitled, 1959
Oil on canvas
86.5 x 71.3 cm
Private Collection
8. Now you need to write about the painting itself. Describe the image, the colour, the style - how is it different or similar to other images and styles you are familiar with? What area in the image attracts your attention the most? Why?
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