Photoshop Session Three!

The session went over rather well.

Oh, more....yes, more. So in our class (Chris and Ryan) we went over the concept of compositing (blending two or more images). Some of the best examples of this include what you may see on Conan O'Brien:

So you have Sienna Miller and Daniel Craig...



Which then when composited looks like this:



A face only a mother could love...

Now, we did not expect our students to make something as disturbingly awesome as what you see above. However, many of our students took to the exercise well, and made some pretty cool pictures in the process. Take DJ for example, who used a smiley face as part of one of our exercises and blended it into another background, the before and after is below:

Before:


After:



Colin took a picture from the album cover of Michael Jackson's Thriller and combined it with headshots of students from the class:



Ibadete is planning on making an army of clones to storm a soccer pitch! The work in progress is below, but I can't wait to see the final product!



Especially in Ibadete's work, notice how well her multiple copies are blended in with the other Ibadetes. The work is so well done that it actually looks like there are five of them in this photo.

Besides compositing, the students also learned to work with HDR and adding filters to their pictures. Although to be sure, the students really took to the compositing images above all the other activities, and spent the majority of their time doing mashups.

In the third part of the class, we had our permit test, but beforehand did a quick mock up of Jeopardy to get the kids thinking about the materials. In general, the students did very well in the quiz and will do much, much better on the 2nd permit test once they learn more about Photoshop.

If anything, there should be one very core lesson to learn combined with activity during these sessions. Photoshop is a hard program to learn, and many of the students, especially those who do not use Photoshop during the week (although they should) seem to have to start all over again getting used to the program before they can start the activity. But overall, the class took to compositing, and I hope they keep up with the great projects in the coming weeks!