SPECIFICS:
1. Your collage should measure 8” x 10”, 100 dpi. You may set it up in portrait or landscape orientation.
2. Your collage must tell a story about yourself. (Hobbies, Goals, Past, etc.)
The collage represents 3 generations of brothers and sisters in my family: My mother and her brother, my sister and I and my sister’s two kids.
3. Your photos should be professional.
4. You should use at least four photos that you have taken in your collage. You may use more, if desired.
5. You should make at least three adjustments to photos in your collage. You may utilize the power of Photoshop to make enhancements and/or manipulations such as teeth whitening, blemish removal, adjustments, strokes, shadows, etc.
I made many manipulations, touchups and other adjustments. Including; cutouts of each image to highlight focal points. Dodge and burn tools for shading and highlighting. Liquify tools bloat and pucker. Patch tool. Non-destructive and destructive filters. Rendered and 3D lighting and lens flares
6. At least one of your photos included in your collage must be black/white.
7. Using the text tool put your name and career major on this photo.
8. When your project is complete, upload it to Behance and include:
a. An explanation of the design choices you made for selecting images and creating your collage.
The images were selected based on the subjects’ relation to each other. Each set of subjects is brother and sister.
b. Describe the photo manipulations you used on your collage.
I used the eraser and lasso tools to cutout each of the images. I removed and corrected blemishes, highlighted eyes and hair and whitened teeth with the dodge and burn tools. I accomplished seminary and uniformity the bloat and pucker tools. I used the patch tool to remove under-eye circles and skin blemishes. The backlight was a 3D and rendered effect combined and the lens flares were used on an earring and necklace.
c. Explain one new technique you learned during this project.
The liquify tools of bloat and pucker were both new to me. The allowed me to correct for angles and achieve uniformity in balancing the shots.
9. Turn in rubric for grading.
