Exercise 8 - Photoshop: Redesign History

Welcome back class,

We begin the 2nd Quarter with Adobe Photoshop.  After this we will work with some photography to incorporate Raster Images.

Adobe Photoshop is the industry-standard image editing software, used worldwide by professional photographers, amateur photographers, and designers who want to perfect their digital images.  

Exercise 8 Due October 17
100 Points

The idea is to change history. Alter an instantly recognizable photograph so that the context has been significantly changed. The appearance of the original photograph must remain intact. The new situation must still look believable.

 *DISCLAIMER* This project is not intended to make light of some very serious and often tragic situations. Rather, it is an effort to teach Photoshop skills in a manner which turns tragedy into creativity. The idea is to change the historical context of very famous photographs.

You will learn how to use the 3 most common selection tools, copy, paste, how to edit a pasted object and make the picture look like it was there in the first place.

1: Choose 10 different photos and change the context of the photo using photoshop.  

You will find the photos to use in the Mr. Komar Shared Folder under Graphic Design > Exercise 8 - History Photos.  

For one of the photos, you may choose a site from around the world and put yourself there.

Follow my step by step instructions in the initial presentation to get started.  You will find the presentation in the same folder.  

2: Make sure the photo still has its realistic look to it

3: You will have to turn in all 10 files with names like below:
1_lastname_firstname_8x1
1_lastname_firstname_8x2
1_lastname_firstname_8x3 (until you get to file #10)

I used to have students turn in a folder but we can no longer do that because of permissions and Apple security designs.