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Winston Smith, hand made montage
Project #2: Digital Triptych Montage
STEAM PUNK TIME TRAVEL
Objective:
You will create a digital triptych responding to an over-arching theme we will choose as a class. Every piece will start with our chosen theme for their conceptual place of departure.
You will create your digital montage in Adobe Photoshop from specific source material. You will use the same 25 source materials as your subject matter. The strategy you use to pick your images is up to you. These 25 source images are to be comprised of some combination of the following: scanned objects (flatbed scanned), images appropriated from books and magazines (flatbed scanned), and images downloaded from the Internet. At least one of the images you use must be of a word that is visible to the viewer.
All images are to be found or otherwise appropriated (including the word – scan text from an original print source). Use Adobe Photoshop to creatively combine your image elements into cohesive image compositions that will exist as a diptych. Remember, each of your images MUST include all 25 of your source images in each composition! Consider the conceptual link between image, object and word that will be created by their combination.
Very important! Save your images with layers intact as we will be further using your image for the next project (animation). I will show you the specifics in class.
Examples:
Consider the possibilities of Adobe Photoshop to cut, paste, resize, etc.. Scan photographs from family albums, magazines, etc.. Bring in various found objects to scan - junk, a meaningful keepsake, etc.. Pick a word or words, either scanned from text, handwritten or otherwise created outside of the computer, scan it and include the work in the image. Think about how the creative unexpected associations of disparate images and texts functions to establish new and multiple readings of the works.
Techniques:
Much of this you will learn by doing – basics will be demoed in class - Adobe Photoshop, image scanning, image sizes, resolution, etc.
Image Size for each of the images:
Due Dates: 2/10
Part 1 - Completed Triptych posted to your blog! Save your files in the above noted size and resolution. !!!!Save a second set of each image, first flatten each image in the layers palette, then save at 50% at 72ppi for web resolution - then and only then upload the images to your blog. Be sure not to overwrite your originals!
Some useful Photoshop Tutorials:
http://vimeo.com/14437441
http://vimeo.com/15139239
http://vimeo.com/14551877
These are just a few of the many thousands of tutorials available free, online, take a look try some of these techniques! If you are curious about specific functions of any program, type in the name of the function in Google with "_________ tutorial" and you will find the information you need!
Please take the time and look through the powerpoint slides embedded above and the links below.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/14/hannah-hoch_n_4591557.html?ref=topbar
Jon Feinstein
http://winstonsmith.com/
http://www.jonathanallen.org/collage.html
http://matthewrosestudio.net/Matthew_Rose_COLLAGES_A_KICK.html
http://hollischorno.com/index.html
http://www.fredtorres.com/artists/george-rahme/
http://www.chamblissgiobbi.com/index.html
http://mattcusick.com/paintings-collage/map-works/view/197
http://www.chamuconegro.com/
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