Photoshop

This page contains sample of Adobe Photoshop assignments.

Standards Covered:
 * 1) 1.1.12 Demonstrate knowledge of basic data communications components and trends.
 * 2) 1.1.16 Demonstrate basic knowledge of the Internet
 * 3) 1.1.17 Access the Internet
 * 4) 1.1.18 Utilize Internet services
 * 5) 38.1 Demonstrate how to formate page layout
 * 6) 38.1 Demonstrate basic knowledge of technical art skills
 * 7) 38.2 Demonstrate knowledge of design principals
 * 8) 38.4 Demonstrate knowledge of available graphic software applications
 * 9) 38.5 Construct digital graphics
 * 10) 38.6 Manipulate digital graphics
 * 11) 38.7 Integrate knowledge of typography

__**Assignment #1 (Quote)**__ This first assignment, demonstrates students ability to create a new project in Photoshop, add and rearrange layers, add and modify text layers, place and resize images, and add color and texture to the background layer.

Assignment #2 (Text Effect - Neon) In this assignment students will build upon the skills learned in previous and start exploring layer styles. In this completed example, a custom pattern is created, strokes, shadows, glows, and bevels were applied to the text "Neon", then students had to come up with a design concept for a magazine cover that incorporates their "Neon sign".

Assignment #3 (Book cover) In this assignments, students learned how to create additional patterns, download and load patterns from the internet, download and install additional fonts from the internet and apply these new skills to to create a book cover for a theme of their choice.

Assignment #4 (Fruit face) This was a fun assignment where students learned how to use the eraser tool and how to adjust the hue, saturation and opacity of an image. For this assignments, students had to take a piece of fruit, place a picture of their face and erase everything on their face except their eyes, nose and mouth. After adjusting the color and opacity, the final project looks like a piece of fruit with the students facial features.

Assignment #5 (Sayings) No new tools were used for this assignment, but it allowed students to practice and to decide which tool to use and when. For this assignment students had to use pictures and words to dipcit an old saying. This was a fun assignment, because students could tell the meaning of the saying, but not the saying itself. Other students had to guess what they were trying to say.

Assignment#6( Postcard) For this assignment students learned how to use guideline and grids and how to create a clipping mask that insert pictures into letter. They applied these skills to create a post card for a place of their choosing.

Assignment #6 (Avatar) Our far most challenging assignment to date. For this assignment students had to turn their face into an avatar. During this assignment students used hue and saturation, learned how to select and color portions of a face and place on seperate layers. In addition, they learned how to use the liquify tools and the importance of layer sequence and naming layers.

Assignment #7 (Pop Art) This is the first of several assignments where students will learn about different types of artistic styles. Students explored the characteristics of Pop Art, then selected a picture of their choosing to convert it into pop art.

Assignment #8 (Surrealism) After a class discussion on the difference between the words 'inspiration', 'intepretation' and copying, students then studied and discussed the characteristics of surreal art. Students had to find a surreal picture that inspired them, the complete their intepretation of that image. During the completion of this assignment, students were introduced to the pen tool and how to use it to select portions of an object. They also learned how to use the burn tool.

Assignment #9 (Christmas Theme)

Assignment #10 (Animal Collage) In this assignment the focus was on cutting objects out from another picture smoothly and neatly. Students had to create an animal collage, by selecting animals from other pictures to create another image. For an example, I was doing an animal clock, but I did not finish it.

Assignment #11 (Save the Animals) This was a fun project where students had to take the coat/fur/hair off of an endangered species and create a scenario that shows us taking care of animal skin. Some students turned the skin into a coat, hung it on a clothes line, or in the shower. It was very difficult because we had to imagine what the animal looked like without its skin. We used a lot of gradients, the patch tool, the spot healing brush, smurs and blurs.