Lesson 17: Photoshop Techniques

Transforming Digital Photos with Photoshop Techniques (Folder R)

Digital Photography: Photoshop Techniques

For this assignment you’ll learn many different digital photography techniques by reading the

tutorials. You will use the tutorials to create images similar to the ones in the tutorials. The tutorials are titled:

1) PS Adding Focus (2 images), which shows you how to blur the background to emphasize the

subject.

2) PS Art History (2 images), which shows you how to make photographs look like paintings.
https://drive.google.com/a/umich.edu/file/d/0BxhKnNVl1uQ8X2VnYlVsRVpaNnM/view?usp=sharing

3) PS Black & White (2 images), which shows you how create a full range of tones in a black and

white photo. Try this technique on more than one photo to get a great B&W photo.

4) PS Comic Book Portrait (2 portraits), which shows you how to give your photo a retro comic

book effect.
https://drive.google.com/a/umich.edu/file/d/0BxhKnNVl1uQ8RjM4TEpMUFJmR0k/view?usp=sharing

5) PS Cubism (2 images), which shows you how to make a photo look like a cubist painting.
https://drive.google.com/a/umich.edu/file/d/0BxhKnNVl1uQ8QnlIYVN6MkhOc0E/view?usp=sharing

6) PS Cyanotypes (2 images), which shows you how to recreate one of the very first photography

experiments.

7) PS Expressionism (2 images), which shows you how to make a photo look like an Expressionist painting similar to The Scream by Edvard Munch.
https://drive.google.com/a/umich.edu/file/d/0BxhKnNVl1uQ8ZTlJOHpQdnRLNEU/view?usp=sharing

8) PS Fauve (2 images), which shows you how to make a photo look like the Fauve painting

exhibited in Paris in 1905.
https://drive.google.com/a/umich.edu/file/d/0BxhKnNVl1uQ8MjFVSG1tSkdNbUE/view?usp=sharing

9) PS Find Edges (2 image), which shows you how to use one of the most interesting filters in

Photoshop.
https://drive.google.com/a/umich.edu/file/d/0BxhKnNVl1uQ8YXM0bE5ZWWl0QXc/view?usp=sharing

10) PS Futurists (2 images), which show you how to take a photo and turn it into an abstract

impression of a moving machine.
https://drive.google.com/a/umich.edu/file/d/0BxhKnNVl1uQ8YjBXSndtcW9hMUk/view?usp=sharing

11) PS Jones Soda (1 image), which is just a template to put a really cool black & photo into.

12) PS Patterned faces (2 images), which shows you how to put a funky pattern on your face.

Please use your own portrait.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxhKnNVl1uQ8UjdwUUpsTVBJVTQ/view?usp=sharing

13) PS Pointillists (2 images), which shows you how to create a pointillists painting from a photo.
https://drive.google.com/a/umich.edu/file/d/0BxhKnNVl1uQ8dUpyWWdaZkFxSTg/view?usp=sharing

14) PS Romantic Landscape (2 images), which shows you how to make a photo look like a 19th

century romantic painting.
https://drive.google.com/a/umich.edu/file/d/0BxhKnNVl1uQ8YlVsZXVESFI2MEE/view?usp=sharing

15) PS Sepia Effect (2 images), which show you how to create a sepia tone photograph and a

duotone photograph.

16) PS Surrealism (2 images), which shows you how to create a Salvador Dali-type surreal painting by combining photos in Photoshop.
https://drive.google.com/a/umich.edu/file/d/0BxhKnNVl1uQ8bU9rYWdLQlp4WW8/view?usp=sharing

17) Caricature (2 images (practice image does NOT count)), which shows you how to create

a caricature drawing.

18) Paul Cezanne (2 images, images (practice image does NOT count)), which shows you how to

create an impressionist painting.

Begin by looking through all of the above PDFs. Notice the types of photos that are used for each

technique, for example, the expressionism technique uses a portrait photo that has a blurry

background. When you do this technique you should have a similar photo or the technique will not turn well. Note: You may have to take more photos at home to bring in for this assignment and with this example you may have to blur the background before you begin

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Once you have looked through the PDFs, you will go through your original photos and choose

photos that will work BEST for each technique or take new ones. You may NOT use images that you have used for other assignments and posted on you weebly for credit.

You will complete 3 of the techniques. You will have at least 8 images in total and each image is worth 10 points. You will need to turn them in on your PUBLISHED WEEBLY. Unpublished or not done work will receive a zero.