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 Photoshop techniques research project.

 

Overview:

This project is ramping up to our commercial photography segment and pulling from the past knowledge learned in the identity mapping and emotional landscape projects as well as all the Photoshop RAW editing I have shown you.  I have taught you step by step how to do basic editing, removing blemishes, using selective brush controls to effect areas differently in the RAW editor, masking, layer effects and more.   There is sooo much out there.  For this project you need to learn how to find information and teach yourself some of the extra things that are out there...it is endless.  Researching and teaching yourself things will be part of your work more than likely as your jobs in the future will sometimes be things we have not thought of yet.  You will learn even more from teaching it to the rest of your group.  Get in groups of 3 to 5.  Each of you need to do a google search and type in "Photoshop techniques for photography" and choose one to learn (such as how to change eye color, tilt - shift technique, how to remove a person from a group photo, how to use the pen tool to make a subject be placed onto a different background making it look realistic, how to leave an object in color and the rest black and white, etc.).  There are a lot of choices, but do not do what you learned in the identity mapping project since I already taught that.  You will turn in a paper listing who is in your group and what they are learning to teach the rest of you by the end of class this project is started. Put in into each of your folders you create in Dropbox called "Photoshop Techniques". IT CAN NOT BE something I have already taught you.  You each have to teach something different.  Choose something that interests you and get permission by asking me before you turn your paper in. You will have a little over a week to do this yourself on your own photos.  Then you will have two full class days to teach your technique to each other and answer the 7 questions below on each presenter/student.

 

Requirements:

Reaserch and Learn

Do a google search for Photoshop Techniques for Photography and learn one to apply to your own photos. 

  1.  Write a list of who is in your group of 3 to 5 students and list out who is learning/teaching what skill. Put a copy in each of your dropbox folder for "Photoshop Techniques."

  2.  TURN IN THAT FINISHED PHOTO(S) AS A JPG IN A FOLDER YOU NAME "PHOTOSHOP TECHNIQUES" in your individual dropbox folder.

Instruction/Group Feedback

  1. Get in your groups of 3-5 students.

  2. Each student takes a turn teaching/demonstrating the Photoshop technique they researched and learned and did on their own to the group.  Move to each students computer as needed for them to access their sample work.

  3. At the end of each demonstration the group will discuss and write a short paper TOGETHER as a response (0NLY 1PAPER FOR WHOLE GROUP).  PAPER IS PUT IN THAT STUDENTS FOLDER on dropbox in their folder called “Photoshop Techniques.  Call this paper “Response.”

  4. RESPONSE PAPER

Write out the following (or copy and past from here) questions along with the answers.

  1. Name of student

  2. Names of students who are in the group observing.

  3. Description of how the technique is done in a half page give or take paragraph.

  4. On a scale of 1 to 10 how prepared was the student?  Did they understand what they were teaching/demonstrating?

  5. On a scale of 1 to 10 how hard was the technique to you?

  6. How man of you would use this technique in the future.

  7. Make sure you do this for each student and it is put in their folder!!

 

 

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