PhotoShop Exploration Project:

Objective: The goal of this project is to become familiar with using PhotoShop as a photographic and artistic tool.  Some of you have already begun to experiment with the many capabilities of PhotoShop.  Some of you have only used the program for minor enhancing, cropping and sharpening.  This project will require you to use PhotoShop to fulfill two very different objectives.  The first objective will be to make a multi-scale mosaic image, and the second will be to experiment with the many different filters and effects to dramatically alter a photograph in an artistic way.

To learn how to make a multi-scale image, click on the link to the left.

I will leave the playing in PhotoShop to you.  Try using all the different filters and effects, one at a time, on a photograph to get a sense of the different options.  I then give you full freedom to experiment.  Try to do unconventional adaptations.  The more your picture is manipulated and shaped by an idea or theme, and the less randomly altered it seems, the more compelling it will be.  But by all means experiment with random effects to get ideas.  Enough said.  Have fun!