Last Portrait Editing Project!

1. Split Faces/Famous Couples


Alrighty then, time to get weird. With all of the good work we've done with portraits and faces and surrealism, let's put our editing skills to the absolute profile/portrait/personality test!

Start with a "famous couple". Whether in history (King Richard the 8th and pick a wife, any wife), the movies (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the Notebook) or Celebrities/Politicians (Brad and Angie, Prince Edwards and Kate) our goal is to find a couple that we can then merge their faces.


Let's start by finding the images of the duo and making a new file at 180 PPI, and a height and width of 8x10" whatever way you deem necessary. Do your FIVE edits you do to every image and then immediately right click on the layer and duplicate it. From there you will use your layers and erasers, blur tool, clone stamp, spot-healing, patch tool, etc. etc. to "combine" the faces.


















2. Two Faces, One Head


Weird? Yeah, but this is a studio art class and this collage effect has been used in movie posters, graphic design, digital art, etc. and is a worthwhile one to explore.


Let's start by finding an image of a person (Celebrity, Social Media, you, etc...school appropriate) and making a new file at 180 PPI, and a height and width of 8x10" whatever way you deem necessary. Do your FIVE edits you do to every image and then immediately right click on the layer and duplicate it. From there....

Portrait Photography, Photo Shoot #2

Your next shots will be portrait/candid photographs. You will shoot and edit 10 portraits and 10 candids. Remember our class discussions about the difference between a candid and a portrait. Keep in mind the top 10 Do's and Don'ts when shooting portraits. You may edit the shot as you see fit for a total of 20 photos.

In the meantime... While we take the time to shoot our portraits and edit our pictures, we will also be doing more research into the wonderful world of Digital Photography and learning more about our editing software. We will work on this Project concurrently with project #2.

Project 3: In class editing, Re-Writing History

For your next project you will be editing an existing photograph/image and placing yourself into the existing shot. You will need to find a famous or recognizable shot on Google Images and (must be at least 500x500 pixel size) place yourself into it. You must place at least your face, but you can use your entire body. Your grade for this project will be based on the quality of your editing not on your ideas (though cleverness does indeed count). This is a chance for you to show me your Photoshopping and editing skills.

Start by looking for the image you want to use.  Strategize - If it's your face you're inserting, you want an image that has the same direction and hopefully lighting as your image...  Any image source of your face will work, (personal hotos, social media, etc.) just remember that quality counts - If it's a bad image to begin with, it will probably still be a bad image, though there are plenty of things we can do to work around that and/or fix it.