Digital Photography: Photoshop Techniques

For this assignment you’ll learn many different digital photography techniques by reading the

tutorials on the Take server/CD or Folder R. You will use the tutorials to create images similar to

the ones in the tutorials. The tutorials are titled:

1) PS Adding Focus (2 images), which shows you how to blur the background to emphasize the

subject.

2) PS Art History (3 images), which shows you how to make photographs look like paintings.

3) PS Black & White (3 images), which shows you how create a full range of tones in a black

and white photo. Try this technique on more than one photo to get a great B&W photo.

4) PS Comic Book Portrait (1 image), which shows you how to give your photo a retro comic

 book effect.

5) PS Cubism (1 image), which shows you how to make a photo look like a cubist painting.

6) PS Cyanotypes (2 images), which shows you how to recreate one of the very first

 photography experiments.

7) PS Expressionism (1 images), which shows you how to make a photo look like an

Expressionist painting similar to The Scream by Edvard Munch.

8) PS Fauve (3 images), which shows you how to make a photo look like the Fauve painting

exhibited in Paris in 1905.

9) PS Find Edges (1 image), which shows you how to use one of the most interesting filters in

Photoshop.

10) PS Futurists (1 image), which show you how to take a photo and turn it into an abstract

impression of a moving machine.

11) PS Jones Soda (1 image), which is just a template to put a really cool black & photo into.

12) PS Patterned faces (1 image), which shows you how to put a funky pattern on your face.

Please use your own portrait.

13) PS Pointillists (2 images), which shows you how to create a pointillists painting from a

 photo.

14) PS Romantic Landscape (1 image), which shows you how to make a photo look like a 19th

century romantic painting.

15) PS Sepia Effect (3 images), which show you how to create a sepia tone photograph and a

duotone photograph.

16) PS Surrealism (1 image), which shows you how to create a Salvador Dali-type surreal

 painting by combining photos in Photoshop.

17) Caricature (2 images: practice image plus your own photo), which shows you how tocreate a caricature drawing.

18) Paul Cezanne (2 images: practice image plus your own photo), which shows you how to

create an impressionist painting.

Begin by looking through all of the above PDFs. Notice the types of photos that are used for each

technique, for example, the expressionism technique uses a portrait photo that has a blurry

 background. When you do this technique you should have a similar photo or the technique will

not turn well.

 Note: You may have to take more photos at home to bring in for this assignment.

Once you have looked through the PDFs, you will go through your original photos and choose

 photos that will work for each technique.

You will complete 5 techniques.

Save the before and after photos.

 Note: You might have to go out and take more photos! I will give you a due date for the work.