Week 8

Exercise -Visual Pun Composits

Using your pen tool and selection skills combine two or more images to depict a visual pun.

Planning:             Make up a list of some possible puns such as: strong box, watch dog, coat of arms, six feet underground, shoe tree, navel orange, and light house. Visualize an image from these words. (A box with muscles, a watch in shape of dog head, etc.) Look through samples file or gather other potential images. Complete 2 thumbnails of ideas. Get checked off by.

Document:         Set up a Photoshop document 5” x 7” or 7” x 5” with a resolution of 100 dpi, RGB. Save your image with into your own work folder. Selections will be made from multiple images and put into this file. Canvas size can be enlarged or cropped to meet the needs of the image. Keep all associated images used and save the finished products as a jpgs and post them to your blog.

Description:        Students will create visual representation of selected pun or words that sound alike. Masks and the pen tool skills are to be incorporated in the process. Write down steps describing tools and techniques used

Definitions

Visual Puns: Visual pun is the use of symbols to suggest two or more meanings or different associations. Visual puns combine two or more symbols (picture and/or text) to form a new meaning. The viewer must mentally elaborate on the visual stimulus to interpret the message

Visual Puns: Creating an artwork in which several visual forms which look alike (thinking by appearance in the right hemisphere) are connected and combined so as to bring out two or more possible meaningful ideas in a humorous way.

Possible Visual Puns

Watch Dog, Fan Club, Second Hand Store, Water Closet, Strong Box, Photo Bug, Bookworm, Loud Tie, Toothpick, Gatorade, Handcuffs, Horse radish, Fireman, Wisdom Tooth, Mail Man, Boxing Match, Book Worm, Butterfly, Moth Ball,  Garden Hose, Horse Fly, Eye Ball, Handball, Football, Siamese Fighting fish, Paradise fish, Fire mouth Cichlid, Convict Cichlid, Zebra Cichlid, Rosy Barb, Tiger Barb, Harlequin Rasbora, Dragon fish, Wolf fish, Snake pipefish, Great pipefish, Spiny Dogfish, White Cloud Mountain Fish, Swordtail fish, Bleeding Heart fish, Blind cave fish, Silver Dollar fish, Pencil Fish, Penguin Fish, Scissors Tail Fish, Glass Fish, Armoured Catfish, Jewel Fish, Picked dogfish, Dragonet, Leaf Fish, Clown Loach, Australian Rainbow Fish, Archer Fish, Beacon Fish, Egyptian Mouth-breeder, Mosquito Fish, Flag fish, Black Widow fish, Pirate, Perch, Toadfish, Striped Squirrel fish, Fruit Punch Devilled Eggs Bird Names for Visual Puns, Bee-eaters, Bellbirds, Birds of Paradise, Ovenbirds, Canvasback, Catbirds, Corn Crakes, Cowbirds, Elf Owl, Scrub fowl, Seabird, Secretary Bird Flycatchers, Frogmouths, Fork-tailed swift, Turtle Dove, Kingbirds, Kingfishers, Man of War Bird, Night Hawk, Grasshopper Sparrow, Egyptian Plover, Rock Hopper Penguin, Yellow Hammer, Umbrella Bird, Grey Winged Trumpeter, Fruit Dove, Elephant Bird, Dollar bird, Tiger Parrot, Sandwich Tern, Firecrest, King Penguin, Rose Headed Parakeet, Festive Parrot, Scissor -Tailed Nightjar, Spotted Ant bird, Flower Bulb , Jack Frost, Dreadlock , Fire Drill , Dragon Fly, Dr. Pepper, Money Order, Star Fish, Serial Killer.

Week 7

1.      Catch up lesson - Items to be posted to your blog along with comments

Selection              - Black A4 page 300dpi with selected circle, letter S, girl, printer, and at least three other objects of your own choice copied and pasted to the page.

Layers                   - A4 page 300dpi of the class exercise using the images                                      provided.              

                              - A4 page 300dpi of own composition based on a theme.

Clone Tool           - Exercises posted to your blog.

                              - A  altered image of your own choice using the clone tool .

Research work sheet

                              - Principles and Elements of design work sheet completed.

Colourising          - Class colourising of a black and white image provided.

                              - Your own colourised image.

2. Research Photo montage and (in your own words) supply a definition. Your definition should include old and new techniques used and why photomontages were created.

Post your definition, research and at least three examples of old and new photomontages that you find appealing with an explanation of why you like them.

Week 6

1.       Follow the demonstration by your teacher on the selection tools in Photoshop.

2.       Follow the link below for a repeat on how to use the pen tool for selection in Photoshop.

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/photoshop/cs/using/WS08E4D386-15E9-4dcd-91E6-DF4219CC6D24.html

3.       On the public drive in the class folder is a document with a list of shortcuts used with the pen tool. Open it for reference.

4.       In the same class folder is an image titled circle.jpg. Open it into Photoshop.  

5.       Create a new canvas in Photoshop 21 cm x 29.7cm 300 (pixels/inch) and use the fill tool to create a black background.

6.        Using the pen tool select the circle from the cirle image, convert the path formed by the pen tool into a selection and then copy and paste it across to your new canvas with the black background.

7.       Check to see you have made a correct selection. If there is white showing try again.

8.       Repeat for all the other images in the folder then try your own images.

9.       Have a go at using the other selection tools to select the practice images but only paste across your pen tool selection. You must get proficient with the pen tool.

Week 5

1. After a demonstration from your teacher complete the layers exercise.
Using the images supplied create an abstract layered composition.
Collect images that relate to a selected theme. The images can come from the internet or they can be photos you have taken yourself. Use these images to create your own abstract layered composition.

Week 4

1. After a demonstration from your teacher complete the Clone tool exercises.
Find two images that you can alter with the clone tool.
Save the images (before/ after) as jpgs and post them to your blog.

2. After a demonstration from your teacher complete the layers exercise.
Using the images supplied create an abstract layered composition.
Collect images that relate to a selected theme. The images can come from the internet or they can be photos you have taken yourself. Use these images to create your own abstract layered composition.

week 3

1. Follow the research links below and fill out the Principles & Elements of design hand out sheet.

http://articulation.kcjenkins.com/

http://www.johnlovett.com/test.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_elements_and_principles

2. After a demonstration from your teacher on colourising a grey scale image incorporating the brush tool, brush size, layers, colour selection, opacity and layer mode.

Use realistic colour to colour the grey scale image given to you by your teacher.

Repeat the process with your own selected black and white image.

Save the images as jpgs and post them to your blog.... comment upon them.

Week 2

1. Observe a quick demonstration from your teacher covering Photoshop basics.
2. Follow the exercises from the Photoshop work sheet hand out.
3. Explore Photoshop by using as many of the tools you have discovered from the work sheet to create the weirdest most bizarre image you can.
You can manipulate an existing image or create one from scratch.
Use this exercise to explore Photoshop or show off your existing skills.
4. Save your final image as a JPG and post it to your Blog.
5. Comment upon your image and list the tools you used.
6. Follow the research links below and fill out the Principles & Elements of design hand out sheet.

http://articulation.kcjenkins.com/

http://www.johnlovett.com/test.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_elements_and_principles

extra class exercises

7. layers exercise.

8. Clone tool exercise.