Food for thought: Irina Werning's Back to the Future project

South American photographer Irina Werning completed a personal project last year titled 'Back to the Future', in which she had her friends pose for recreations of photographs from her childhood.  Have a look on Irina's website at the work.

How do you think she managed to recreate not only the poses and settings, but the visual nature of the recreated photographs- the colour balance, softness, tone etc?

SnapIT: National Youth Week photography competiton

For anyone interested:

The National Youth Week committee has launched a photography competition.  It closes on the 17th April and the details can be found here.

Research task: foundation digital photography

This is also posted onto the intranet.


Please use the internet to answer the following questions, and post your answers onto your blog.

1)       What should your PPI be for printed media? Why?

2)       What should your PPI be for the web or emailing? Why?

3)       What do RGB, CMYK  and Grayscale refer to?

4)       How can you dodge and burn in Photoshop?

5)       Name the ways you can make selections in Photoshop?

6)       How can you crop images in Photoshop? Write the procedure.

7)       How can you make perspective changes in Photoshop? Write the procedure.

8)       How should you sharpen your images in Photoshop?

9)       What are some of the ways you can make tone, colour and contrast adjustments?

     10)    What does RAW, JPEG and TIFF stand for in file management?

Finding your way around Adobe Photoshop

Below is the basic Photoshop workspace. 

1. Toolbar

• The toolbar contains the basic tools that you can use in Photoshop.  These include selection tools, drawing tools, type tools, retouching tools, vector tools, etc.

2. Photoshop menu bar

• The Photoshop menu bar contains various menus that allow you to edit your file.  These include image adjustments, layer adjustments, filters, workspace and viewing options.

3. Tool menu bar

• The tool menu bar contains all of the settings for the tool you are working with.

4. Expanded palette
5. Hidden palettes

• All of the palettes in the Photoshop workspace can be expanded or collapsed to maximise image area.

6. Navigator palette

• The navigator palette contains a very small ('thumbnail') version of your file and allows you to navigate to particular areas of the file at high zoom levels where the entire file cannot be displayed on the screen.

7. Layers palette

• The layers palette is probably the most important palette in Photoshop.  This palette displays all of the layers of your file, plus whatever effects you have added.

I have uploaded a file onto the cLc called 'CS3 Toolbar Explained', which contains everything you ever wanted to know about the functions in the toolbar.  Make sure you save a copy onto your home drive for reference, it's a handy thing to have when finding your way around Photoshop.

Before we go and start the selections exercise I want you to find the following Photoshop features and functions and list what they do:

1. History palette
2. Eyedropper tool
3. Brushes palette
4. Levels and Curves
5. Burn and Dodge tools

Creating your research blog

Creating your blog is actually pretty easy. 

The first thing you need to do is create a Google account if you don't already have one.  Go to http://www.blogger.com/ and click on 'Get Started'.  If you already have a Google account (or a Gmail account), log in using your account name and password on the right hand side of the screen.

If you need to create a Google account, you will find yourself at this page below.  Fill out the details and submit.

The next step is actually create the blog.  The first thing you need to do here is come up with a name!  It could be as simple as 'Niki's Design Blog'...or feel free to be creative (but nothing rude or inappropriate please).

Next you need to select a basic startup template.  Don't stress too much if you don't really like the ones on offer- you can customise the template or select an entirely new template later on.

Now that you have created your blog, spend some time customizing it to suit you.  Your only requirements are that you leave the comments function enabled and allow others to subscribe to your blog.  You can enable the latter by adding a 'subscribe to' gadget in the design section.

Finally, make a post! 

After you have created your blog, please post the URL to your blog in the task forum on cLc.  This way I can find it easily and subscribe to it, and so can your classmates.

Welcome

Welcome to digi@bundah. 

This blog is my own, and will take much the same form as your own research blogs.  Here I will provide interesting links, tutorials, photographic examples and class notes that are not able to be posted onto the cLc forum.

I will link everyone's blogs to this site to allow for a better collaborative environment.