Photoshop Actions

Sepia Toned Imagery

Photoshop Actions and How to create your own
Learn how to set up the adjustments to suit your aesthetic taste and reapply to each photo you create.

Creating A Myth

•       Select a location a character-animal or human, special location, specific point of view

•       Select a mood or tone

•       Select from several options:  black and white, color – saturated or limited, selected color, duo tone

•       Artistic effect filters

Common elements to think about:

Jux-a-position: One element in direct contrast of the other

Change of Scale:  Opposite size of element than natural state

Metamorphosis:  Transform on element into another in a seamless manner

Levitation:  Elements have abilities to float or fly that is unnatural

Setting the Mood:

·         Artistic filters

·         Painting with brushes

·         Mode- BW, color balance, etc.

·         Rotating, multiplying, or warping elements

·         Opacity

Doors, Windows, Archways, and Passage Ways

Take photographs of an interesting door, the detail in the knob or key hole. Observe the finish of the door and look for an interesting way of seeing this passage way. Worms-eye, bird's eye, or normal view of the same space looks very different from different points of view. Here are a few good examples to help get you thinking. Remember a window, an archway, hallways, tunnels, are all candidates for this photo shoot. Be creative- think about mirrors and frames as portals or passage ways for the myth project.

Exploring Photoshop Color Enhancement Tools

Selective Color with the History Tool

Leading Lines- Compositional Tool

Leading Lines  video link

10 photographs demonstrating this compositional tool - Due Monday   

Leading lines are lines within an image that leads the eye to another point in the image, or occasionally, out of the image. Anything with a definite line can be a leading line. Fences, bridges, even a shoreline can lead the eye. If you can pair leading lines with a subject that is placed according to the rule of thirds your image should be very strong.

Layer Mask- More Information

Links that will be helpful to watch and read if you are still struggling with mask layers.

 

Mask Tutorial

Written document link about the mask layer


Try to experiment with the different artistic filters besides the blur filter as seen in the photo in this example. 

Media Art Portfolio Progress

Alyssa Davis

Click here to see portfolio-Media Art Portfolio