Self-Portraits
Students will:
Students will use the Levels Adjustment, Object Selection tool, Gaussian Blur effect, Displace effect, and create a Displacement Map in order to create a self-portrait portraying their individual personality, background, and/or culture in Adobe Photoshop.
Self-Portrait with Repeated Text or an Object
Day 1
Find a self-portrait that you can use with this project.
It should show your entire face even if you chose a picture with a mask. Then upload the image to Photoshop.
If you are using words, open a Google Doc and create a "word wall."
Highlight, copy and paste the "word wall" in a new layer on your self-portrait project in Photoshop (I will show you how to cut it into a shape next class).
Create a word-wall in Google Docs by copy/pasting the words repeatedly
Highlight the entire word-wall and copy/paste into a Text Layer in Photoshop.
If you are using an object, find a high-quality picture of it and upload the image to Photoshop. Cut the object out, and create a pattern with the object so that there is no background like the example below.
Find an image of an object(s) you want to use for this project, download it, and open it in Photoshop.
Use the Object Selection tool to select the object. Copy/paste the selected object into a new Photoshop Project. Group pasted objects together so that they overlap without any background in between.
Repeat pattern to fill the project space without any of the background showing through. SAVE as a PSD file.