Self-Portrait Assignment
Students took self-portrait photos with either a digital camera or the camera on my cell phone, opened the photos in Adobe Photoshop, and experimented with a variety of filters.
Students were instructed to duplicate the background layer, apply filters to the copies, and then label the layers by the appropriate filter-name. For example, in this image, I inverted the colors on the first copied layer, turning it into a negative (my shirt was green in the original), I created a layer mask and erased the area inside my face and neck.
Then I copied the background layer again and applied the "Mosaic Tile" filter to the copied image. I labelled the Layer, "Mosaic Tile," and moved the layer behind the inverted layer, revealing the mosaic-tiled-face through the layer mask.
Finally, as working artists often do, and in order to upload their files to their own portfolio pages on their websites, I flattened the file and saved it as a .jpg, saving both the .psd and the .jpg files (one for the site, the layered one to put in their DropBox, to be graded.
Students were instructed to duplicate the background layer, apply filters to the copies, and then label the layers by the appropriate filter-name. For example, in this image, I inverted the colors on the first copied layer, turning it into a negative (my shirt was green in the original), I created a layer mask and erased the area inside my face and neck.
Then I copied the background layer again and applied the "Mosaic Tile" filter to the copied image. I labelled the Layer, "Mosaic Tile," and moved the layer behind the inverted layer, revealing the mosaic-tiled-face through the layer mask.
Finally, as working artists often do, and in order to upload their files to their own portfolio pages on their websites, I flattened the file and saved it as a .jpg, saving both the .psd and the .jpg files (one for the site, the layered one to put in their DropBox, to be graded.