Thursday 9/19

Today students will continue working on their "Parrot Eye" activity.  When students are done, they need to show me and when given the "ok" they will be able to begin searching for a photo they would like to recreate with words.  Students may choose either an animal or a person. 

Directions for Design:

Step 1:  Choose your image (Human or Animal.  NO CARTOONS) and save to your H: Drive

Step 2:  Decided your composition and change it as you need.  Don't change to make it simple, change it to make it interesting!
              -Are you going to keep your image the same size?
              -Are you going to crop your image to choose the most interesting part?

Step 3: Create a new document and open your saved Image

Step 4:  Change your Image size by going to Image > Image Size and change only your resolution to 300.  Leave the actual size as is.  If this makes your image HUGE then use your Ctrl and +/- key to make it smaller (or larger if your image is small)

Step 5: Choose in your head how you are going to execute your image.  Will you use words? Will you use letters?  Will you use a combination or both?  Whatever you choose, make sure that the letters or words relate to your image.  For instance if you used a Zebra.  The letters that make up Zebra would be good letter choices.  

Step 6: Think about the color theme you will use. 
             - Will you match your letters to your background?
              - Will you use all light wording on a dark background?  Or vice versa.
              -Will you come up with a color theme of your own like changing colors from one color to the next. 

See examples below for inspiration.  Or Google "typography as images" and see what you can find.  Use examples as inspiration...not to copy! :)


Things to remember as you are going through this project

1. Think about the contours (lines/shapes) of your 3D object.  Try to capture those curves to make your image appear 3-D.
2. Think about your fonts, sizes, adding in boldness, italics and s p a c i n g.
3. Most importantly, make it look like your image!  When you take your picture away, it should still appear as the same image.
4. Breathe!  This is a frustrating but rewarding project.  Take your time, and have fun with it.  If you need a break, take one, just don't make it too long or bother others that are trying to work.
5. I am here to help.  I don't know you are having trouble or frustrated unless you tell me.  :)