Communication Technology
1035 Graphic Tools
Part 2 - Assignment
1035.1 - Cut and Paste Assignment
We used to just have students switch heads for this assignment. It was pretty boring. So we switched the assignment. Your assignment is to take a subject (a person, a cat, a dog that is in some interesting pose. Then, using Photoshop, you will carefully cut out this subject from its surroundings and you will paste it into six new settings. This may require you to edit the new surroundings image as well.
Post your exported jpgs unto your edublog. Include a small write up explaining your experiences using photoshop for this assignment. Also, you must upload all of your six photoshop files to the appropriate place in Google Classroom for Com1035.
Here is an example:
Original Photo:
Edited Photos:
1035.2 - Am I Talking to Myself?
Your assignment here is to use Photoshop to combine many pictures of yourself or a friend to compose a single impossible scene. You will use one of the images whole with the subject and background all intact. All other images will have the subject cut out and placed into the scene in an interactive way. Make sure that you use layering feature in Photoshop as we discuss in class.
Export and post your compiled image as a jpeg and include a short written caption explaining the scene you created. Also, upload your photoshop file to the appropriate place in Google Classroom for Com1035.
See examples below:
1035.3 - Introduction to Adobe Illustrator: Building with Shapes?
As you may have noticed, Adobe Photoshop is a great application useful in the editing of photographs. There are some drawbacks though. If you ever tried to put a small image in a document and make it bigger, you would have noticed that the picture might become pixelated. That is because it is a raster graphic. There is only so much information in the image. When you blow it up you will see the tiny squares of colour become big squares. A vector graphic is different. A vector image consists of mathematical formulae that represent the lines of the image. When you zoom in, the mathematical formulae ensure that lines are always crisp and clear. Vector graphics will always be crisp and clear ... no matter how much you zoom in. Vector graphics are great for cartoonish type images ... not so great for photographs.
To introduce you to vector graphics, you will complete this assignment where you will follow a turorial to draw a cute little popsicle guy.
Export and post your compiled image as a jpeg and include a short written caption explaining the scene you created. Also, upload your illustrator file to the appropriate place in Google Classroom for Com1035.
1035.4 - Draw Yourself
In this assignment you will begin with a photograph of yourself. A bright photograph with a contrasting background will work best. Using Illustrator and the youtube videos posted below, you will create a digital self portrait.
Export and post your compiled image as a jpeg and include a short written caption explaining the scene you created. Also, upload your illustrator file to the appropriate place in Google Classroom for Com1035.
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Part 1 - Background
Most images in multimedia can be categorized as either a raster graphic or a vector graphic. Watch the following video which describes the differences between the two.
