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Digital Myth Making

Digital Myth Making

Due: Monday March 5th, beginning of class

Create a collage in Photoshop, and relate it to the concept of Myth.

Concepts

Digital Erasure and Addition, Collage, Myth and Collective Storytelling, Fiction and Narrative

Techniques
Collecting and Managing Photo Archives, Color Matching and Adjustment, Erasing, Compositing, Cloning, Layers
Software
Adobe Photoshop CS5

INSTRUCTIONS:

Step 1: Select a Myth. Start by choosing a story you would like to reinterpret as an image. This can be a classic myth, a historical story, a creation myth etc. Imagine the component images you will need to piece this image together.

Step 2: Organize your Photographs. Start collecting photographs to use as pieces of your final image. Scan any physical images you want to use, import photographs from your camera or cell phone, collect images you find on line.

Step 3: Color adjustments. Using Bridge to organize your files, start to make color adjustments to your images so that they will work well together. Make sure to use non-destructive editing, so that you can continue to make changes.

Step 4: Cut and Paste. Start building your composition with the component parts, use masks and adjustment layers so that you can continue to refine your changes.

Step 4: Compose the image. Make sure the whole is greater that the parts. Rearrange the pieces until the final image both tells a story and works as a good visual composition.

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