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Beginning Photography Assignment: Recreating Vintage PhotographsTuesday, January 19, 2016Perform a Google image search for “Victorian photo portraits”Select 10 photos of people with different poses.Get your camera equipment and use other students as models to recreate the 10 photos you selected. The models must be in exactly the same pose as in the photo and you must photograph the model from the same angle. You can use backdrops from the gray storage bin labeled “solid backdrops.” You may not use any other props or backdrops in the classroom.Before the end of class, upload your photos to your folder on your computer.Thursday, January 21, 2016If you have not finished your 10 photos from Tuesday, do that now then upload your photos to your folder on your computer and do the Photoshop assignment below.Photoshop Instructions: Giving Images a Vintage Black and White LookTo Open Photoshop:Open Photoshop by double clicking the Photoshop icon on your desktop.If prompted, select the Image Editor option.If prompted to install an update, click Install on Exit.Be sure you’re in Expert mode (at the top center of the screen).To Create Vintage Effects on your Photo:Click File Open. This will open the navigation window. In this window, click Desktop (on the left) then find your folder (on the right) and the photo you want to work on. Click Open (button on bottom right). This will open your image in Photoshop. Click Window Layers. This will open the Layers palette on the right side of your screen. You should ALWAYS have the Layers palette open when you are working in Photoshop.The Layers palette is the heart of Photoshop and what makes Photoshop so special and powerful. The way it works is that you create digital layers on one image. It’s like if you had a stack of transparencies sitting on top of each other with a solid photo on the very bottom. You can see through each transparent layer all the way to the photo on the bottom. But if you put something on one of the layers (like words, for example) you can see down to the words but you can’t see through the words because they hide what is right under them in the stack of layers. I hope this makes sense. If it doesn’t, I’ll explain more when I return. Until then, follow the instructions below.Look at the Layers palette. You will see a small image of your photo with the word “Background” next to it. This is like the bottom layer in that stack of layers. At the top of the Layers palette you will see a few icons. The first one looks like a sheet of white paper with the corner folded back. This is the “Create a new layer” icon. TIP: If you hold the mouse above any icon or tool in Photoshop (don’t click the mouse, just hold it there) in a few seconds a little window will pop up to tell you the name of that tool.Click the “Create a new layer” icon. This will create a new layer in the Layers palette just above your background. The new layer will be called “Layer 1” and it will look like a white and gray checkerboard. TIP: When you see the white and gray checkerboard on a layer or on your photo it means there is nothing there. That part of the layer is transparent.TIP: Click on the background layer in the Layers palette. You will notice the layer is now highlighted in blue. Now click on Layer 1 and notice that it is highlighted in blue. While you work, keep in mind that whatever layer is highlighted in blue is the layer you are working on. It is very important to always work on the correct layer.At the bottom of the toolbar on the left side of the Photoshop screen you will see two overlapping squares. They are probably two different colors. Click the top square. This will bring up At the menu bar at the top of Photoshop, click Edit Fill Layer. This Color Picker window.Select a pale yellow from the Color Picker and click OK.Click Edit Fill Layer. This will open the Fill Layer window. From the drop down box, select Foreground Color then click OK.You will notice that your photo and Layer 1 just turned yellow. That is because you filled Layer 1 with the yellow you selected in the Color Picker. If you look at the Background layer you see that your photo is still there. The only reason you can’t see it is because the yellow that fills Layer 1 is on top of your photo and hiding it (in other words, Layer 1 is on top of the Background layer, hiding it).TIP: Click the icon to the left of Layer 1 that looks like an eye. This hides the layer so you can see what is underneath it. Click it again to show the layer again.Click the eye next to Layer 1 to hide it. Click the Background layer to select it. It should now be highlighted in blue.In the menu at the top click Enhance Adjust Color Adjust Hue/Saturation.Slide the Saturation bar all the way to the left then click OK. Your photo should now be black and white. Click the eye next to Layer 1 to make it visible again.Click on Layer 1 to highlight it.In the layers palette just above Layer 1 you will see a drop down menu. To be sure you’re in the right place I will tell you that the first two items in this menu are “Normal” and “Dissolve.” Click each item in the drop down menu until you find one that gives a vintage yellowed look to your photo similar to the vintage photos you found in your Google search in the last class. TIP: If you don’t like your yellow if you need a more orange/brown color to match your Google photo, go back to steps 6-8 to refill the layer with a different color.In the menu bar at the top, click Filter Noise Add Noise. This will open the Add Noise window. Noise makes the photo look kind of dirty and older.Click the box next to Monochromatic.Move the slider bar to the left and right to adjust the noise in the photo to where you like it. Decide whether you prefer Uniform or Gaussian noise Distribution.Click OK.In the menu bar at the top, click Enhance Adjust Lighting Shadows/Highlights. This will open the Shadows/Highlights window.Move the “Lighten Shadows” bar until the shadows look as light as your Google photo. You’ll notice that in many of the vintage photos the dark areas have faded so they are not truly black anymore.Click OK.Hopefully your photo has a vintage look now!In the menu bar at the top, click File Save As. It is VERY important to click Save As and not just Save.In the navigation window, be sure you are in your folder and not somewhere else. Look at the file name (it should be highlighted in blue). Add the letter A to the end of the file name. This will save the Photoshopped image as a new image instead of replacing the original photo. TIP: You always want to put a different letter or number at the end of a file name when you save a Photoshopped copy of it because if you don’t it will replace the original file. You never want to replace an original photo. You always want to keep the original in case you mess up in Photoshop then you still have the original to go back to and start over. Click the Save button. Congratulations! You have successfully created a vintage photo effect for your photos (I hope!)!!! Now complete this process for all 10 of your Victorian photo portraits. ................
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