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THE PAINTED PORTRAIT

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Link to the slides CLICK HERE. DIRECTIONS FOR OUTLINING: 1. Make a few dramatically-illuminated portraits of someone (or yourself). Dramatic facial expressions will make your final image... 2. Open the photo(s) in Photoshop and identify the areas of value. 3. Create a NEW LAYER  (transparent) over the background. This layer will hold the black outlines you will draw in the next step.  4. Set the PENCIL or PEN tool to 5-6px in width, with HARDNESS set to 100% 5. Carefully, with black pencil or pen, outline the different observable areas of value.  DIRECTIONS FOR PAINTING: 1. Go to  https://color.adobe.com/create/color-wheel 2. After exploration, choose an intentional color scheme for use in painting your image.     - Screencap the scheme of your choice: This color scheme screencap will be posted to your site along with the final image.  3. Open the screencap in Photoshop to use with the EYEDROPPER tool for color selection 4. General painting guidance: A. Paint the areas of HIGHLIGH

'SCAPES 1-3

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WHAT IS DUE . 'SCAPE 1:  A Landscape with only land elements  (combine FOUR+ land elements) 'SCAPE 2:  A landscape that incorporates and integrates (through careful selection/erasing/cloning) six or more  animal/humans/object elements 'SCAPE 3:  A 'scape that is entirely of your own creation  (three+ added elements).  This can be a cityscape, landscape, surreal scape, dream scape...it does not need to grounded in reality. Odd, unexpected, surprising are good.  *A total of THREE  separate Photoshop designs/composites will need to be created to be scored.  **Total points possible: 12 (4 points per 'scape) RATIONALE  (WHY ARE WE DOING THIS?) To practice and focus skills in Photoshop regarding  layers ,  placing/rasterizing , adjusting  color/value ,  edit+transforming  selections,  selection  tools. THE THREE IMAGES. Create  THREE  separate  'scape  composite images. Use very high-resolution images (1000x1000 minimum) from image searches. See links below.