TEXT WEEK assignment #3

Text AS Image

This week has been all about combining TEXT AND IMAGES.

Find a quote you can use for today's project -
http://www.brainyquote.com/

Then GOOGLE IMAGE SEARCH and find an appropriate photo to insert this quote into.

Here's the CATCH- the TEXT (either the entire quote or PART of it) SHOULD COMBINE WITH AND BECOME PART OF THE IMAGE ITSELF.

I don't like to show many photographic examples or DO a DEMO of this project BECAUSE everyone just copies my example when I do that... BE ORIGINAL-

DO NOT USE these examples- But-

Einstein said "creativity is more important than knowledge." So, you'd find a picture of him and have this quote literally exploding out of his head/brain done in crazy energetic colors and fonts.

Lincoln said " A house divided against itself - cannot stand. " So, you'd find a picture of a demolished house and -scatter- the words of the quote amongst the building's debris.

Chagall said " Great art picks up where nature ends." So, you'd find a picture of A PAINTING of flowers and insert the quote into the flowers petals a color shade darker than the petals- or type it in green on the stems.

Don't forget to ATTRIBUTE your quote in the lower right hand corner of your image- That means- TYPE THE NAME OF THE PERSON WHO said this quote!

AND- just like the other 3 assignments- Post it in your TEXT WEEK album in PhotoBucket and only fill out ONE EVALUATION SHEET at the end of the week for all 4 assignments...

Good luck dudes!

TEXT #2- photo collage name

You will be assembling your name from letters taken from different photos.

Find internet images for each letter of your name.
The M from the MCDONALD'S sign.
The S from a stop sign.

Use the Increase Canvas size feature in Adobe Photoshop Elements and the CROP and MOVE tools to assemble it. Edit with the CLONE STAMP as necessary.

THE HARD PART- at least ONE of your letters has to be an IMPLIED letter- NOT AN ACTUAL LETTER (see the Eiffel Tower above ,standing in, for the letter 'i'...?) FROM A PHOTO YOU TAKE. Yes, yes, you MAY have to walk around school and look for shapes in the architecture...

This goes in your TEXT WEEK folder on PhotoBucket when you are done... And feel free to be creative with this- if you'd rather do your MOM's name or your BOYFRIEND's name- go ahead!!!!

Each TEXT WEEK ASSIGNMENT is worth 10 points and ALL 4 text week projects are due NEXT Tuesday Feb. 21st... PLEASE- only ONE evaluation sheet should be filled out for the entire week of projects...

TEXT WEEK assignment 1

DEFINE A WORD with an IMAGE



In this project, you will be inserting a SINGLE WORD into an IMAGE in a way that the WORD is enhanced/explained by the image it accompanies.

WHAT will YOUR word be?
Steer clear of super simple words like LOVE and HATE, think of something more complex, use an online THESAURUS to find a synonym of a word if you think it's too simple.

Think about an image that would help to EXPLAIN the word and also think about word placement- WHERE ON THE IMAGE is the most appropriate PLACE for the word?

Remember- you will be doing this with one of YOUR OWN IMAGES!!! You'll need to take a SINGLE PHOTO just for this assignment...

TWO MORE considerations are the FONT style and the COLOR of the word... the word INVINCIBLE written on the side of a HUGE monster TRUCK might not be appropriately done with a swirly cursive font in light, neon orange color...

All of the MINI-TEXT-WEEK assignments go in your TEXT WEEK album on PhotoBucket- Only fill out an Evaluation Sheet when you are done with all 4 projects and they are all in your PhotoBucket.

ONE EVAL SHEET FOR THE ENTIRE WEEK!!!!

Each TEXT WEEK project
is worth 10 points-
making this week
worth 40 points
total!!!
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PHOTO CUBE

NO WRITTEN BLOG RESPONSE TODAY-
REMEMBER THAT YOUR 5 MERGES ARE DUE!!!


Go back to the BIG HUGE LABS site:

http://bighugelabs.com/cube.php

You'll have to CREATE AN ACCOUNT at BIG HUGE LABS to do the cube- but don't worry- it is so easy.

ONE of your cube 'sides' needs to be a TEXT side (see my example above)


IMPORTANT STEP- after you've made and SAVED the cube with ONE BLANK SIDE, open it up in PhotoShop and use the 'T' text tool to type out your TEXT side.

AT LEAST 3 of the cube sides need to be YOUR PICTURES if you want me to print this out next week.

How could this be a cool VALENTINE'S DAY gift?

Save money!

Magazine and Motivational Poster

Yesterday, you had the chance to use BIG HUGE LABS to make a fake MAGAZINE COVER (click here), today you get to make a MOTIVATIONAL or DE-MOTIVATIONAL poster (click here) from one of your pictures.

Remember to SAVE these to your PhotoBucket and I will PRINT THEM (full page, full color) next week.

These can be really cool if you put some time into them.
Remember Valentines Day is coming!!!

TODAY's BLOG is to check out these TWO sites:

http://p-rposters.com/popular.php



http://www.despair.com/viewall.html

Do you like the SINCERE motivational posters, or the SARCASTIC de-motivational ones?
What do you think of these?
Does any one catch your attention?
Was it the QUOTE or the IMAGE that you liked???

Shoot it, THEN eat it

PHOTOMEMES:

A photomeme is an online photography project that contains a series of shots all on the SAME SUBJECT-

http://www.eat22.com/

Why would someone do this?

Would you have the patience to do this?

What sort of MEME do you think you and your friends would contribute photos to?

How do you think this could help someone with their diet/nutrition?

*PHOON photomeme anyone?

Have 6 hours to kill? CLICK HERE.

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-type in your COMMENT in the pop-up window
-end your comment with your First Initial and LAST NAME
-select ANONYMOUS from the drop down COMMENT AS menu
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PhotoShop Disasters

Where'd her LEG go????



This is a site that tries to expose some of the VERY BAD
and amateurish ways some magazines and websites manipulate their photos.

BEWARE: some of these images are a bit 'saucy'- even badly photoshopped sex sells )... so be mature and DO NOT GO INSANE!!!!

Take a look:
http://www.psdisasters.com/search/label/spooky%20body%20parts

You might think you are no EXPERT in photoshop, but these people are getting paid handsome salaries to do... THIS!

Talk about one particularly awful one that caught your eye...
Talk about one you probably wouldn't have noticed on your own...
Maybe talk about one that EVEN YOU could have fixed...
Or talk about one that doesn't look like a mistake at all, but a creative/artistic decision...

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HOW TO POST-
Please use Mozilla Firefox- not internet explorer
-click the little brownish link below that says the number of comments on this blog-
-type in your COMMENT in the pop-up window
-end your comment with your First Initial and LAST NAME
-select ANONYMOUS from the drop down COMMENT AS menu
-hit the POST COMMENT button