Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Monday, March 7, 2011
Photoshop syllabus
Instructor: Christina Freeman
christinahfreeman@gmail.com
class blog: www.universitysettlementphoto.blogspot.com
University Settlement Photoshop:
The focus of this course will be improving straight images,
particularly images you have already taken and have problems
with that you would like to resolve.
This is a great course for orienting yourself with Photoshop and
also if you want to improve on the skills you already have.
It is highly recommended that you have access to a computer
with Photoshop to practice.
There will be weekly lessons posted on the class blog, and I
would like everyone to practice the lesson at home and bring in
an example of their work each week.
Keyboard shortcuts will also be on the class blog.
Week 1 (March 9)
Introduction/Review:
Workflow – planning and organizing
Photoshop Tools Palette – Crop Tool, Zoom, Hand Tool, Burn,
Dodge, Sponge, Eraser,
Photoshop Essentials- Opening files, Undo (History), History
Palette Snapshot, Layers Palette, Brushes, Save, Save As
Week 2 (March 16)
Working with Adjustment Layers: Levels, Curves, Hue/
Saturation, Brightness/Contrast, Threshold, Invert
Working with Selections: Marquee Tools, Magic Wand,
Lasso, Feather, Adjustments to selections, Copying & Pasting
selections
Week 3 (March 23)
Paint Brush, Paint Bucket, Eye Dropper, Default colors
Move, Blur, Sharpen, Smudge, Merge Down, Merge Visible,
Flatten Image, Filters
Week 4 - (March 30)
Masks, Quick Masks, Channels
Week 5 (April 6)
Retouching: Clone Stamp
Week 6 (April 13)
Retouching: Pattern Stamp
Week 7 (April 20)
Retouching: Healing Brush, Patch Tool, Pen Tool
Week 8 (April 27)
Review of all lessons + Type Tool
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Inside Out
http://www.insideoutproject.net/site/about
INSIDE OUT is a large-scale participatory art project that transforms messages of personal identity into pieces of artistic work. Everyone is challenged to use black and white photographic portraits to discover, reveal and share the untold stories and images of people around the world. These digitally uploaded images will be made into posters and sent back to the project’s co-creators for them to exhibit in their own communities. People can participate as an individual or in a group; posters can be placed anywhere, from a solitary image in an office window to a wall of portraits on an abandoned building or a full stadium. These exhibitions will be documented, archived and viewable virtually.
INSIDE OUT is a collaboration between the artist JR, the TED Prize and you.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Artists working with narrative:
Artists working with narrative:
cindy sherman
lorna simpson
http://lsimpsonstudio.com/photographicworks18.html
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/163661/Counting
nikki s. lee
http://www.tonkonow.com/lee.html
sophie calle
http://www.paulacoopergallery.com/exhibitions/56
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Calle
alessandra sanguinetti
http://www.yossimilo.com/artists/ales_sang/
kelli connell
http://www.yossimilo.com/artists/kell_conn/
takashi yasumura
http://www.yossimilo.com/artists/taka_yasu/
tierney gearon, the mother project (trailer)
http://www.themotherproject.com/
http://www.yossimilo.com/artists/tier_gear/
sally mann
http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/mann/
nan goldin
http://www.matthewmarks.com/artists/nan-goldin/selected-works/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z3sihEuiEk
duane michals
http://www.pacemacgill.com/duanemichals-5-1.html
http://www.artnet.com/artists/lotdetailpage.aspx?lot_id=8099122D3C22D198CC018DABABFDF44A
jeff wall
http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2007/jeffwall/
philip lorca di corcia
http://www.davidzwirner.com/artists/115/selected_works_1.htm
dawoud bey
Camilo José Vergara
jen davis
http://jendavisphoto.com/index.php
janine antoni
http://www.luhringaugustine.com/artists/janine-antoni#/images/33/
justine kurland
http://mocp.org/collections/permanent/kurland_justine.php
suzanne szucs
http://www.suzanneszucs.com/support/pages/Journal_movie.html
Narrative References:
narrative (wiki)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrative
This American Life
(This is your life episode)
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/428/oh-you-shouldnt-have
The Moth
Virginia Wolf, To The Lighthouse
Junot Diaz, Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Julian Schnabel
http://www.literaryzone.com/?p=255
Artists working with narrative:
Artists working with narrative:
cindy sherman
lorna simpson
http://lsimpsonstudio.com/photographicworks18.html
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/163661/Counting
nikki s. lee
http://www.tonkonow.com/lee.html
sophie calle
http://www.paulacoopergallery.com/exhibitions/56
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Calle
alessandra sanguinetti
http://www.yossimilo.com/artists/ales_sang/
kelli connell
http://www.yossimilo.com/artists/kell_conn/
takashi yasumura
http://www.yossimilo.com/artists/taka_yasu/
tierney gearon, the mother project (trailer)
http://www.themotherproject.com/
http://www.yossimilo.com/artists/tier_gear/
sally mann
http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/mann/
nan goldin
http://www.matthewmarks.com/artists/nan-goldin/selected-works/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z3sihEuiEk
duane michals
http://www.pacemacgill.com/duanemichals-5-1.html
http://www.artnet.com/artists/lotdetailpage.aspx?lot_id=8099122D3C22D198CC018DABABFDF44A
jeff wall
http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2007/jeffwall/
philip lorca di corcia
http://www.davidzwirner.com/artists/115/selected_works_1.htm
dawoud bey
Camilo José Vergara
jen davis
http://jendavisphoto.com/index.php
janine antoni
http://www.luhringaugustine.com/artists/janine-antoni#/images/33/
justine kurland
http://mocp.org/collections/permanent/kurland_justine.php
suzanne szucs
http://www.suzanneszucs.com/support/pages/Journal_movie.html
Narrative References:
narrative (wiki)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrative
This American Life
(This is your life episode)
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/428/oh-you-shouldnt-have
The Moth
Virginia Wolf, To The Lighthouse
Junot Diaz, Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Julian Schnabel
http://www.literaryzone.com/?p=255
photoshop syllabus march april
Instructor: Christina Freeman
christinahfreeman@gmail.com
class blog: www.universitysettlementphoto.blogspot.com
University Settlement Photoshop:
The focus of this course will be improving straight images, particularly images you have already taken and have problems with that you would like to resolve.
This is a great course for orienting yourself with Photoshop and also if you want to improve on the skills you already have.
It is highly recommended that you have access to a computer with Photoshop to practice.
There will be weekly lessons posted on the class blog, and I would like everyone to practice the lesson at home and bring in an example of their work each week.
Keyboard shortcuts will also be on the class blog.
Week 1 (March 9)
Introduction/Review:
Workflow – planning and organizing
Photoshop Tools Palette – Crop Tool, Zoom, Hand Tool, Burn, Dodge, Eraser,
Photoshop Essentials- Opening files, Undo (History), History Palette Snapshot, Layers Palette, Brushes, Save, Save As
Week 2 (March 16)
Working with Adjustment Layers: Levels, Curves, Hue/Saturation, Brightness/Contrast, Threshold, Invert
Working with Selections:Marquee Tools, Magic Wand, Lasso, Feather, Adjustments to selections, Copying & Pasting selections
Sponge
Week 3 (March 23)Paint Brush, Paint Bucket, Eye Dropper, Default colors
Move, Blur, Sharpen, Smudge, Merge Down, Merge Visible, Flatten Image, Filters
Week 4 - (March 30)
Retouching: Clone Stamp
Week 5 (April 6)
Masks, Quick Masks, Channels
Week 6 (April 13)
Retouching: Pattern Stamp
Week 7 (April 20)
Retouching: Healing Brush, Patch Tool, Pen Tool
Week 8 (April 27)
Review of all lessons + Type Tool
Monday, February 28, 2011
Syllabus: Constructing a Narrative
University Settlement Digital Photography
Instructor: Christina Freeman
christinahfreeman@gmail.com
class blog: www.universitysettlementphoto.blogspot.com
Syllabus: Constructing a Narrative
Learn how to use photography to tell a story- whether it be truth or fiction. Students will explore narrative both through individual images and series. We will discuss narrative both in documentary photography and in staged fine art photography by referring to works that have shaped the medium. Some of the photographers we will discuss include: Sebastiao Salgado, Nikki Lee, Sophie Calle, Cindy Sherman, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Kelli Connell, Graciela Iturbide, Duane Michals, Sally Mann, Nan Goldin, Collier Schorr, Jeff Wall, Phillip Lorca Di Corcia, Dawoud Bey, Lorna Simpson, Hank Willis Thomas.
This workshop will address the following questions:
Is the narrative about a person(s) or culture?
Is the narrative about a place or other inanimate object?
What is the time span of the narrative? (5 years, 30 years, 1 day?)
Is the narrative fiction or non-fiction?
Who or what inspires the narrative?
Will it have a specific order (sequence)? Will it have a non-traditional structure? Will it start in the middle or at the end?
Will it be made of straight photographs or images constructed in Photoshop? Or a combination of both? Will you use found imagery?
What form will it take? One single image or a series? Very small photographs or very large ones?
Why is this narrative important to you?
Subjectivity vs. Objectivity: from whose point of view is the story told?
Course Outline
week 1 (march 9): what is narrative?
outline for the workshop
documentary narrative vs. constructed narrative
slideshow of artists
brainstorm of ideas
week 2 (march 16):
slideshow of artists
students present outline for project
discuss student ideas and look at preliminary images
review technical elements of photography
week 3 (march 23):
slideshow of artists
discuss student ideas
week 4 (march 30):
field trip
week 5 (april 6):
slideshow of artists
group critique
week 6 (april 13):
slideshow of artists
group critique
week 7 (april 20):
slideshow of artists
group critique
week 8 (april 27):
students present final project
Sunday, February 27, 2011
March 2: Filters, Preparing the image for print, Image Size, Border, Canvas
Week 8 (March 2)
Filters
(After right-clicking the image from the blog and saving it to your desktop)
1. Open Photoshop (From your Start Menu> Programs> Adobe CS2)
2. Open your image by going to the File menu and selecting Open.
3. Choose File and click Open
4. Make sure the Layers Palette is visible, if not go to Window> Layers
5. Copy your background using the keyboard shortcut CNTRL + J (Command J)
6. Go to the Filter Menu > Filter Gallery . . .
7. Open the drop down menus by clicking the triangles
8. Choose a filter and adjust the sliders to modify the effect
9. Click OK to commit the changes.
Preparing the image for print, Image Size, Border, Canvas
1. Go to the Image Menu > Image Size
2. Uncheck Resample Image, check Constrain Proportions and set the dimensions, 300 dpi at 6.75 inch height and 9 inch width
3. Click OK
4. Go to the Image Menu > Canvas Size
5. Set the Canvas at 8 inch height and 10 inch width
6. Set the Canvas extension color
7. Click OK
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
layer masks
Layer Masks
(After right-clicking the image from the blog and saving it to your desktop)
1. Open Photoshop (From your Start Menu> Programs> Adobe CS2)
2. Open your image by going to the File menu and selecting Open.
3. Choose File and click Open
4. Make sure the Layers Palette is visible, if not go to Window> Layers
5. Choose the Picture of the Dog
6. Go to Image > Rotate Canvas > Flip Horizontal
7. Select All by using the shortcut CNTRL + A or COMMAND + A
8. Copy the image (CNTRL + C or Command + C)
9. Click on the Picture of the Car Dashboard and then Paste the image of the dog (CNTRL + V or Command + V).
10. Use the Move Tool (V) to move the dog to the left side of the image.
11. With the top Layer selected click on the Layer Mask button.
12. Fill the Layer with Black, by going to Edit > Fill, choose Black.
13. Paint White with the paint brush to reveal the Dog. Use Black paint to make touch-ups.
14. Use the move tool (v) to move the dog and make it look like the dog is driving.
The End.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Adjustments to selections, Copying selections, Merge Down, Flatten Image
Adjustments to selections, Copying selections, Merge Down, Flatten Image
(After right-clicking the image from the blog and saving it to your desktop)
1. Open Photoshop (From your Start Menu > Programs > Adobe CS2)
2. Open your image by going to the File menu and selecting Open.
3. Choose File and click Open
4. Make sure the Layers Palette is visible, if not go to Window > Layers
5. Copy your background using the keyboard shortcut CNTRL + J (Command J)
Magic Wand
6. Click on the Background Copy and Click on the Magic Wand (keyboard shortcut is W).
7. Set the Magic Wand Tolerance to 20. Select the hot spots in the photo (the sky and other light areas) by clicking on an area and adding additional areas with shift+click. Feather the selection by 10 pixels (either Right Click > Feather or Refine Edge > Feather).
Levels
8. Click on the Cookie and select Levels. Drag the Black slider to the bottom left edge of the histogram. Adjust the Gray slider as you choose.
9. Click CNTRL + E (Command + E) to Merge Down (Or choose Merge down from the Layers Palette Menu).
Hue / Saturation
9. Click on the Background Copy and Click on the Marquee Tool to select the skyscraper on the middle of the left side.
10. Click on the Cookie and select Hue/Saturation. Drag the Hue slider to +25 and the saturation to +35. Click OK.
Invert
11. Click on the Background Copy and Click on the Wand.
12. Use the Wand to select the turquoise areas on the ground. Shift+Click to Add areas.
13. Click on the Cookie and select Invert.
Curves
14. Use the Magnetic Lasso Tool to select the building and billboards on the left side of the photo.
15. Click on the Background Copy then Click on the Cookie and select Curves. Use the 3-point system to increase the contrast. Click OK.
Paint Bucket Tool
16. Click on the Background Copy.
17. Choose a new foreground color.
18. Click on the Paint Bucket Tool (G). Put the paint bucket mode in Dissolve. Opacity = 80%.
19. Click on the sky areas to fill with color.
Copy and Paste Selection
20. Use the Rectangular Marquee Tool to select the Kodak sign. Feather the selection 10 pixels.
21. Copy (CNTRL + C or Command + C) and then Paste the selection (CNTRL + V or Command + V).
22. Use the Move Tool (V) to move the selection to the other side of the building, so that the two are parallel.
Flatten Image
Choose Flatten Image from the Layers Palette Menu
The End.
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Paint Brush, Paint Bucket, Eye Dropper
Paint Brush, Paint Bucket, Eye Dropper
(with selection tools)
(After right-clicking the image from the blog and saving it to your desktop)
1. Open Photoshop (From your Start Menu > Programs > Adobe CS2)
2. Open your image by going to the File menu and selecting Open.
3. Choose File and click Open
4. Make sure the Layers Palette is visible, if not go to Window > Layers
5. Copy your background using the keyboard shortcut CNTRL + J (Command J)
Magic Wand
6. Click on the Background Copy and Click on the Magic Wand (keyboard
shortcut is W).
7. Set the Magic Wand Tolerance to 20. Click on the top left corner of the
photo to select the area with the wand. Click on Refine Edge to Set the
Feather to 10 pixels.
Eye Dropper
8. Click on the Eye Dropper Tool. Click on the top left of the photo to select the
color.
9. Click on the Foreground Color to adjust the color. Move the circle to change
the color slightly.
Brush Tool
1. Click on the Paint Brush (keyboard shortcut is B)
2. Set the Mode to Normal. Opacity = 45%. Flow = 100%. Hardness = 30%
3. Cover the selected area with the new color. Click CNTRL or COMMAND + D
to deselect the area.
Paint Bucket Tool
9. Click on the Paint Bucket Tool (keyboard shortcut is G).
10. Set the Opacity to 70% and the Tolerance to 30.
11. Click on the area on the right side under the arm.
12. Set the Paint Bucket to dissolve and click on the area under the other arm.
13. Click on the Create New Layer Button.
14. Choose a new foreground color and keep the paint bucket mode in dissolve.
Opacity = 80%. Fill the new layer by click the paint bucket on the layer.
15. Drag the new layer behind the Background Copy.
16. Click on the top layer in the layers palette.
17. Choose Clear for the paint bucket mode. Set the Tolerance to 40.
18. Click on the figure, to clear the pixel information in that part of the layer,
revealing the layer beneath.
19. Choose another foreground color. Set the tolerance of the bucket to 20.
Mode = Dissolve.
20. Click on the bottom shadow to fill with color.
The End.
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