Using Photoshop to blend images

When attempting to do anything in Photoshop or any other computer application, one of the best resources is right under your fingertips. LITERALLY!!! That's right, the computer. The internet. ONLINE! There are so so many fantastic (and not so fantastic) tutorials out there that are just waiting for you to learn from them.

Your task right now is to find one that will be useful to you for this digital surrealism project and share it with your colleagues.
1. Find a tutorial that you can use and that works well. (Remember that we are using CS2 at the moment and so your tutorials should be for this version of Photoshop)
2. Read through it and try it out with some sample images.
3. Post your results and give the following information in your posting
a. The before/after images
b. The link (hyperlinked!) in your posting AND start a links list if you haven't already and add this link to the links list. Make sure you title it effectively so readers will know what it is.
c. Was this tutorial easy or difficult? Elaborate on why/why not?
d. Did you need to make any modifications in order to make it work for you?
e. Would you recommend it to others?

Here are a few that I have found, that you can take a look at just to get you started.
Blending Advance Pshop techniques
Letting an image edit itself (using blending modes in Photoshop) This one touches on the use of blending modes, as opposed to stiching or merging images together, however it's very useful and can help in editing the photos in the first place and getting the most out of your work.
Blending two images together (Youtube how-to video. Part 1)
This is Part 2
Part 3
These are just options. I haven't viewed all of them, but as you can see, there are many tutorials out there. If each of you finds one that you find useful, and shares your information, we can all learn and have access to a lot more learning!

Please add this to your blog by Friday the 12th at the end of the day.

Using free web applications for multimedia!

By now you should have created an account on Flickr and also on Vuvox. Both applications serve as a means to display, catalogue and share your image based work, however vuvox can be useful to also embed audio, text and video into your vuvox collages - a great tool for multimedia journalists to provide a rich story that integrates written text, photographic image, illustrations, audio sound bites or podcasts and also video.

You'll find that Vuvox links directly to Flickr and allows you to easily view and use any of your Flickr images. If you prefer photobucket, you can also use this application, however vuvox does not link to photobucket.

Your task:

1. Edit your 8 best images from your photo shoot the other day. Enhance the photos using the crop tool, levels or curves, dodging and burning, and the clone tool - or any combination that you need.

2. Save them in a folder as photoshop files (psd) AND also save another copy of them in a different folder marked "web" as jpg files. You need to compress them in order to upload them to the web.

3. Create a flickr account and upload all 8 of your images. You can explore flickr and create a set so that you can arrange them in an order you'd like for your slide show.

4. Create a slide show and share it by copying the html code and inserting it into a blog post while you're in html mode. It should automatically come up as a slide show so that anyone can view it on your blog.

5. Go to vuvox and create an account. Access your flickr photos by entering your username and password and start creating a collage in vuvox. Review any of the introductory videos and take a look at some other work before you start to get a sense of what's possible.

6. Once you're happy with your vuvox collage, you can grab the html code and insert it into another blog posting. Don't forget to title all your blog posts!!!

7. Write a comparison of the two applications. What do you like, what don't you like. What's missing from either of these programs that you would add if you could? What makes them easy to use or difficult to use.

8. Find one other free web based multimedia application that can be used to share, display and catalogue your work. Provide the link in a new post and give a description of this application. Tell us what's great about it and what it can do that vuvox and flickr can't! Is this something you would recommend using?

Flickr slide show

Charcoal Grid

OK Year one students, your next blog assignment is to take this raw photo and make it publishable. You will need to crop, rotate, colour correct and post the improved image on your own blog with a short description of the original assignment.

Remember to give credit to the original artist: "The Third Class Carriage" by Daumier. Your goal is to correct the image to make it look as lifelike as possible with crisp, clean contrast of value.

Copy the image onto your desktop and then open it in Photoshop to begin. Remember to 'save for Web' and keep the final version on your desktop folder.

Walls and Barriers 2 - Institute for Contemporary Culture at the ROM

Zak. Katelynn and Mike: you are all famous! Plus so many of your art pieces are in the video. Try to find them all! Congratulations everyone!

I hope everyone picked up a copy of the Metro this weekend because Niem, Elijah and Stephen represented LCI in a photograph taken at the ROM with some of our art works. The Toronto Star will run a long article on the Walls and Barriers project in the Oct 2nd edition. Several LCI students were interviewed and photographed so make sure to pick up a copy or two. It will look great in an art portfolio!

Walls and Barriers project VOTE NOW!

Support Art! Vote for Walls and Barriers

Support the Walls and Barriers project and help us win $25,000 in funding!

Walls and Barriers is an art education project. 500+ young students from across the Greater Toronto Area will create a public art installation in response to the work of internationally renowned African artist, El Anatsui.

Lakeshore CI CyberARTS students have their work at the ROM from Sept 25th to Oct 23, 2010.

Walls and Barriers project VOTE NOW!

Please vote now!

Support our Walls & Barriers project by voting
online every day until October 31. We will be exhibiting Walls & Barriers at
the ROM from Sept. 25 to October 23.
Please vote and tell all your friends at school! There's strength in numbers.

http://www.refresheverything.ca/wallsandbarriers

Walls and Barriers is a large collaborative art project created by young artists from secondary schools and community agencies across the GTA. 500+ young artists will create a public art installation in response to the work of internationally renowned artist El Anatsui. Inspired by Anatsui’s practice and his concept of walls and barriers, each participant will create an individual art response reflecting on the obstacles they encounter in their lives. These works will form a series of moveable walls, and in the process become part of a larger community project.

A note from the ROM:

Hello Everyone,
The El Anatsui exhibition does not open until the 2nd October and we have just heard from the ROM that the complimentary tickets that are being sent to you in the schools are not valid until the opening of the El Anatsui Exhibition.

This being said we will now move the Collaborative Community day to Sunday 3 October at 3:00p.m. so participants can view the student Walls and Barriers panels and then go upstairs to the ICC to view the El Anatsui retrospective.

***Please note that you can use the complimentary tickets any time before Walls and Barriers comes down on the 23 October, 2010/