Image Portfolio Assignment

Learning Goals

• Apply principles of aesthetics
• Learn basic image editing - show that you are able to edit images in a variety of ways.

Overview

Using PhotoShop, Fireworks, or another image editor, create a set of SIX edited images and upload them to Flickr.

Choose a theme

• Practical – posters or flyers
• Abstract or creative art
• Current events-related
• A set of postage commemorative stamps
• Christmas cards
  
• Humorous transformations, or de-motivational posters
• Parody an ad for a car, item of clothing, gadget, perfume, food, beverage.
  • A parody is a humorous copy that criticizes something.
    
  • It either means the opposite of what it seems to say or shows something that is not expected.
    

Gather images

• Start with raw bitmapped images that are larger than you need. They can be:
• Digital photos – original or from Flickr
• Scans – from a snapshot, magazine, etc.
• From the web –Google images or other
• Keep track of where you get the images; you will be asked to cite where they come from (name, URL, etc.)

Keep copies of all three image stages!

1. Original unedited image
2. Edited PhotoShop file
3. Submitted JPEG

Transform the Images

• Make a COPY of the original image and use an image editor to transform it to your liking.
• Leave your original copy untouched and work on the copy.
• Show that you can do a number of the following:
  1. Cropping, scaling
     
  2. Editing or erasing
  3. Distortion, sharpening, or blurring
  4. Filtering
  5. Combining multiple images
  6. Layering or transparency
  7. Adding – text, line, fill, etc.
  8. Color adjustment
     

Export the edited images

• AT LEAST 640 pixels wide by 480 high
• JPG format

Publish the images

1. Post all six images on Flickr or another image-sharing website. In the description, include:
   • Source of the original image – a specific name and URL, not "Google" or "Flickr"
   • Transformation – what you did to the image (see step 2)
2. Pick your favorite and post it to your blog

Example