'Terrible Photos' assignment Due today before class starts!
Intro to the elements of design & composition
- The visual world is described by a specific vocabulary that crosses all art disciplines
Composition is the arrangement of visual elements on the picture plane. In art we accomplish this when framing an image while shooting the photograph or when altering an image in the darkroom or image editing software. In general composition helps the photographer define the important elements in the image. There are many ideologies concerning composition two of the classic ideas are the "Rule of Thirds" and the Golden Ratio.
Orientation
Golden Ratio
Rule of Thirds
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The Adobe Capture App
Adobe Capture CC is a versatile app that lets you create a variety of digital media files. The files it generates can be used in software programs like Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop, Illustrator and Premiere. The app can translate a photograph in six different ways, it’s most important feature being it’s ability to create a vector image from a photo. Vector images are scalable and are used often by graphic designers.
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Materials - turns a photograph into a 3D texture that can be applied to virtual 3D models.
Type - Compares a photograph of type to Adobe’s type database to provide you with the closest vector font available to the font in the image.
Shapes - Turns a photograph into vector shapes.
Colors - Looks for the 5 most prominent colors in a photographs to create a color bar (schema) for that image.
Patterns - Turns a photograph into a complex pattern
Brushes - Turns a photograph into a brush that can be used in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator
- Download the app
Project 1
ART116 Spring 2022
Experiment with Imagery
Due fri Feb 11th before class
In class
Step 1: download the Adobe Capture App & Google Photos App
Step 2: find an image on your phone. Using the app alter your photo as a; material, shape, colors, look, pattern and brush.
Step 3: go outside the classroom and take a photo in the app and alter the photo as a; material, shape, colors, look, pattern and brush.
Outside of class
Take 5 images using the Capture App make a material, shape, colors, look, pattern and brush of each.
- upload your favorite 5 experimental images to the class 'Art116 Assignments Sp22' Google Photos album by the beginning class on Fri Feb 11th
