jonathan gabel . com
dma105
Class Resources:
-
Photoshop Self Portrait Workshop
Today we are using photoshop layers with blend modes to make an altered self portrait. This is a one class project where we can step away from thinking conceptually about our work, and concentrate on the formal aspects of photoshop and digital collage. Use can use whatever source material you want to alter your face. more…
-
DMA105 students: watch “Photoshop Essentials” through chapter 18.
-
Student Logo Projects
more… -
Project 2: Digital Myth Making
For our second project, we will delve into Photoshop and learn how to tell stories by stitching images together. On a technical level, I am going to be looking for your ability to take parts of from different images and balance the color, the scale, and the textures so that when placed together they form a cohesive whole. On a compositional level I want to see you form an image just as you would if you were using any other two-dimensional medium. And on the level of content, we are going to making our own images relate to the idea of Myth. So before we can begin, we need to ask what exactly is Myth? (view the assignment) more…
-
You should have finished watching “Illustrator essential training” through chapter 14 “Transforming and Positioning Art”.
-
Project 1: Logo Parody
For our First Project, we are going to learn how to use Illustrator to create vector graphics. Most of the time when we think of digital media, we think of images made up of pixels. This is a great way to reproduce and manipulate photographic imagery, but what about clean, smooth lines? This is where vectors come in, because they can be expanded to any size and still stay just a crisp as the original. more…
-
color theme
Dma105 students:
Here are the colors you chose in class. Use them wisely! more…
