Assignment #1 – Photoshop “Best Shot”  Composite Images

Students are to demonstrate their knowledge of using Photoshop tools including masking tools, image resizing, and filters. They must use a background of either 1024×768 pixels or 800×600 pixels,  bring in the photo from below and a minimum of 5 images from the web to create a fantasy composite image. Composition, masking, detail, perspective and other basic design technique will be included in the grading. Files must be saved as native .psd and also as a .jpg. Students will upload the original landscape photo and their final piece as a jpg to their ePortfolios as a page/kid to Digital media with the assignment order number, and a detailed assignment description (can be copied and pasted from here) and reflection restating what they did, how they did it, and how they feel about their work.

“Best Shot” Due  – 40 Points

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Reflection- For this assignment I got to pick my own image as the background because I am a Photoshop “pro.” I selected the background that I did because it looked like there was a lot that you could do with it. Originally, I thought about getting rid of the trees and making it all water using the clone stamp, but then I decided to have ice there instead. The rest just came as I went along, and I made it a winter theme. I made this using a lot of tools in Photoshop such as the clone stamp, the magic wand, magnetic lasso, text, and effects. I think I did pretty well on this assignment. I recently went through my old 6th grade photoshop pieces, and I have gotten a lot better. However I do notice that the image is pretty unrecognizable from it’s original state which is both good and bad. All in all, I think it looks pretty cool.