EI Assignment

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Objectives:

To create a self-portrait using multiple images and computer creative techniques.
This images should say something about you: your personality, hobbie, your likes, etc.
Not just a pretty picture.

Assignment General Outline:

Using a scanner to digitize two or more photographic images, and Adobe
Photoshop software, generate a creative composite image that is visually creative
and requires the compositing of at least two separate computer images.
You must use a photograph of yourself that is current enough as to be easy
to reconize that it is you and not so small you can't be found in the finished image.

Procedures:

  1. Select two photographic images, scan the images, save to disk with
    the file sizes of no smaller then 5X7no Larger then 8X10 at 200dpi.
  2. Using Adobe Photoshop software, create a composite image.
  3. Take the image that will be the background for the other images,
    open that image, re-name the file and use this as the 'master" image.
  4. Import the separate images one at a time until the composite is complete.
    Use any creative techniques (such as Filters or Mode shifts) desired to
    achieve a creative final image.

Requirements:

  1. Submit for grading, a final image that will be printed as a dye-sublimation
    or ink-jet image, by the end of the semester.
  2. Final image must have at least one creative technique applied to the image.
  3. Final image must be composited from at least two separate scanned images.
  4. Image will be displayed in class using the monitor display mode in
    Adobe Photoshop.

Updated 2/25/02

Michael Meagher