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Homework Due THIS CLASS
- Finish your painting. Make sure it’s protected with tracing paper.
- Bring your original hi-res Value Portrait and Posterized Portrait (saved to thumb drive). We will be scanning your painted portrait and creating short videos with your original Value Portrait.
- If you didn’t contribute to the Visual Library yet this week, do so! You should have added at least 8 posts by next class. Consider adding an image that demonstrates: Contrast.
Materials Needed THIS CLASS
- original hi-res Value Portrait on thumb drive
- Posterized Value Portrait on thumb drive
- flash/thumb drive
Visual Library
Let’s designate a facilitator and take a look at your new Visual Library posts, looking at images that demonstrates: Contrast.
Discussion
What is Transformation?
What is Transparency?
Lab: Scanning & Animating
Using the scanner in class, scan your Painted Value Portraits with the following settings to your thumb drive:
- Format: Color
- Resolution: 300dpi
- File Name: FirstnameLastName.PortraitPaintingScan.jpg
Paint to Pixel Transformation
- In Photoshop, open your painting scan: FirstnameLastName.PortraitPaintingScan.jpg
- Adjust Rotation: Image > Image Rotation, if needed.
- If there is uneven framing, use the Crop tool.
- Save as: FirstnameLastName.PortraitTransformation.psd
- View Screen Capture.
- Choose Image > Image Size. Change the resolution to 72dpi and change the Height to 1080 pixels.
- Choose File > Place > Embedded and select your your original Value Portrait. Use the resize handles to adjust the size and placement, if needed. Press return.
- Repeat above for your Posterized Value Portrait, if you wish to use it in your animation.
- View Screen Capture.
- Choose Window > Timeline to reveal the timeline. Choose Frame Animation. Add “keyframes” and transitions or “in betweens.”
- We will create a 10 second frame animation in class; transforming your original Value Portrait into your Painted Value Portrait.
- The goal is to show the transformation of your portrait from one medium to another using only achromatic values.
- In doing so you should think about how you want the transformation to play out.
- Will it be a slow, smooth transition? Or will there be a dramatic, jarring climax in the middle of the transformation?
- Think about the mood/emotion and the story you are telling with the transformation.
- Consider using a blur filter or other subtle effects to create transparency.
- Keep it simple and limit your palette to grayscale.
- View Screen Capture.
- Save your work as an animated gif.
- File > Export > Save for Web.
- View Screen Capture.
- Preview your animation in a web browser.
- Save your animation to Dropbox or GDrive and create a sharable link to add to your Deliver post.
NOTE: Please DO NOT upload to OpenLab Media Library. - If you missed this class, follow along with screen captures above.
LABS
- Use one of the following labs to complete your digital transformation:
- Student Labs
General Building 600 - Learning Center Lab
Atrium Ground Floor (AG 18)
- Student Labs
Homework Due Next Class
- All parts of Project #3 are DUE! Post your work to the class site following the Deliver > Documentation & Feedback guidelines.
- If you didn’t contribute to the Visual Library yet this week, do so!
Materials Needed For Next Class
- flash/thumb drive