Portrait

    This was our starting assignment in Communication Systems. We had to become well acclimated with the Photoshop program, that way we would know different method available to us for manipulating photo. This first assignment was designed to expose us to the basics of the general drawing tools available on the CS version.
At first we simply practiced with the tools, getting familiar with how the manipulate the tools in Photoshop to create different types if lines, shades, and even duplicating parts to attempt to keep the picture symmetrical. For those who have used some basis paint programs this activity was more a focus on learning how to use the tool bars and layers more effectively. For tools, the program has the basic crop, brush, bucket, etc, but mastering how to manipulate those tools with the tool bars was the main focused of this assignment. This portrait assignment just grazes the potential of the Photoshop program. Another assignment of this unit is one in which one learns how to crop part of a photo and then join it with another photo creating a composite image. First we got together with a partner worked together to make adjustments to a V. W. There we learned how to properly adjust the color and other properties to the photos to get them to blend together. Also we learned about the filters and how to use them to create deferent affects on the pictures.

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In this photo here I took a photo of me and few of my friends, cut us out of it and cropped us to a photo of an Oswego sunset, then after adjusting color I added text as a title for the shot.

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For this photo here I was practicing with changing the scale of the images that I was combining using a transform technique. Then to try to blend the pictures together I adjusted the images’ properties, and blurred the edges of the imported photo using a blur tool.

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    In my methods class we invited a large group of home schooled students to the college as a way to give them and opportunity to see what SUNY Oswego’s technology department has to offer and to get them interested in technology. While they were here we gave them a few small lessons to expose them to what a technology class would be like. The teacher candidates that were in both that methods class and the communications class had to teach a lesson on using power point to create a panoramic photo. During the lesson we also showed the students how to use the filters to adjust the image’s composition. As a way to make the class more rewarding we then took what ever then made and ironed it into tee-shirts for them to bring home. This here is and example of that.

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