Making a contact sheetHere is a tutorial on how to create a contact sheet of your photo shoots using Adobe Bridge CS5 and Photoshop.
It is important for you to upload all shoots using this technique. so that you save space on your Weebly and in turn demonstrate an additional technical skill. Contact sheets are also a valuable tool for deciphering strong images from the weaker in a photo shoot. Within a quick glance at the contact sheet, you will be able to determine which images grab your attention or intrigue you, and more importantly the ones that don't. I have included it as a visual document and as a downloadable file, should you wish to print it.
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Making a gif in photoshop
GIFs are animated images which blend the boudoirs between photography and the still image. They allow you to create stop-motion like sequences and are a great way of creating interesting transitions.
Use the attached step-by-step guide and the video tutorial to learn the process of turning a selection of your images into a GIF, and then upload it as an image to your weebly. I have included some very basic examples below. |
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Photoshop tutorials
As your individual needs process, and your ideas change, tutorials and powerpoint will uploaded to this page which will link to all, most or some of your themes.
Use these not only as resources to help you become more technically accurate, but also to encourage your experimentation, which is a major part of your course assessment - AO2.
Youtube is also a great place to find Photoshop tutorials, just ensure you are searching for the CS5 version of Photoshop.
Ulric Collette - merged genetic portraits
Creating beams of light
Artists who are concerned with light:
Gregory Crewdson Giles Coulon Ideas: Illuminated, fabricated, discovered, spotlight, supernatural, exposed, atmospheric |
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Daniel Crooks
Daniel Crooks is a contemporary film and photographer whose work looks into the multiple layers in our universe and the complicated notion of time. He distorts film and still images to try to show the many different moments contained in movement.
Learn to create distorted images which show a split figure or abject and a flowing stream of pixels using the video tutorial. This technique could be used to infer the following meanings: journey travel apart / together connections blending of people or objects linking people or/and objects Use the additional Powerpoint to help you understand the process further. |
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combining textures and an imageYou may want to create an edit in Photoshop which layers a texture or surface directly over another image. Use this tutorial to learn how to do this.
It helps with themes of: revealing hidden elements creating an artificial effect linking painting or texture in physically distorting portraits and landscape Artists who link to this idea: Flora Borsi Gerhard Richter Ryuta Lida Caroline Krieg |
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Building on from the above tutorial, this shows you how to make your own custom brush shape, which you can use to paint into a mask layer with.
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FONG QI WEI IMAGE AND GIFQi Wei produces moving GIFs that splice different time periods into single GIF “prints.” In doing so, Wei recreates single land masses and seascapes as looping, strobing kaleidoscopes. The GIFs, Wei describes, are a “constant shimmer of... time.”
Use this tutorial to create the still image, and then revisit the one at that start of this page to make it into a GIF. |
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Creating a kaleidoscope effect
Tutorial on how to create a repeated mirror image, forming a kaleidoscopic effect.
This works best with textured images that have repeated patterns within them, i.e. buildings, reflections and trees. It is basically a repeat process of duplicated a layer, flipping it over, merging it and then rotating this. You then use the blend modes on your layer's bar to adjust what you see and don't see. The more complicated and the more stages you go through on one image, the better it will turn out so be patient and persevere! |