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ADVERTISING ILLUSTRATION

Thursday's - 8:00am - 12:50pm / Classroom - OE 184

Linda Lowell - GDP, Photography Chair

Course Outline

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DAC Lab Info
Fonts for Mac and PC

Week #1: 1/24

• Intro
• Visual Grammar - SEE (objective/formal); THINK (cognitive/story telling) and FEEL (emotions) -- there are no new subjects, great photographs are RESTATEMENTS WITH A DIFFERENCE.

• John Szarskowski's great photograph: Grace, Economy, Tension, Balance, Visual Wit, Surprise.

• Visual Interest + Concept + Emotional Response = MEMORABILITY

• Big 'MAC' Theory - Mystery, Ambiguity, and Contradiction.

Homework: Due 1/29
Reading: Nature of Photographs - Part I

Creative Choices (see Course Outline)

Photo Assignment:

Assignment # 1
Shoes with Character
Select a shoe with the most 'character'. Ilustrate this with maximum impact. Should be a quick read. Introduce surpise or visual wit. These images will be combined in a class poster. How will your image stand out from the rest?

Week #2: 2/1

Lecture:
Nature of Photographs - Part I and II
• Depictive Levels: flatness, frame, time, focus
• Cognitive Perceptions (Mental Level)
• Formal (physical) vs. Narrative (story)

Homework: Due 2/5
Reading
Nature of Photographs - Part II

Photo Assignment

Assignment # 2
Business on the Move - Restatements with a Difference. Avoid literal predictable solutions. Create an image that says 'business' without the standard business icons. Image should be serviceable for stock photography (ie., obtain model releases where necessary).

• High Impact

• Quick Read

• Clever

Reject your first concept - others will have thought of it too.

Sample 'Word List' Questions:

1. What is it?
2. What is it's opposite?
3. Where are there associations between lists?
4. Where are the contradictions?
5. Which choices provide the strongest visual opportunities?

Avoid literal, predictable solutions!

Week #3: 2/7

Lecture:

- SCANNING
- DAC SERVER
- INTRANET

Lab: Scanning / Servers

Homework
Reading

Copyright & Registration Issues (online)

Photo Assignment

Assignment # 3
PSA - Part I
Identify and research a public service ad campaign that you would like to photograph. Present your idea to a decision board for approval to proceed with your campaign.
1. Select a topic that you are passionate about (smoking, cancer research, Attention Deficit Syndrome, AIDS, dislexia, world hunger, homeless, MADD, green peace, child abuse, body image, health care, anorexia, etc.).
2. Research the topic (library, online - google).
3. Develop the concept for the visuals and copy.
4. Present a presentation to a 'board of directors' (us) for approval. Include thumbnails. Define what we will 'see' next week.
5. Answer the question: What will I be moved to do when I see this ad?

Week #4: 2/14

Lecture:

• Global Village website - promotional and PSA collaborations
• Round table discussion on PSA proposals.
• Pitch your proposal. Identify what the 'board' will see in a week.
• What copy will accompany your ad?

Lab:
Create the Shoe Poster.
1. Select all the shoe images from the DAC server.
2. Create a poster with up to 30 images.
3. Refine design in class week 5.

Homework: Due - 5/21

Assignment # 3 (continued)
PSA - Part II
Submit finished ad.

2. Create Hi Res files from Shoes and Business on the Move assignments.
3. Bring in portable media (CDs or zips).

Week #5: 2/21

* Guest Lecture

Friday, Feb. 22, 2002
FeBland Theater
9:00-12:00pm

Tom Campbell
Underwater still and Hi Def Videographer
Nationall Documentaries
New Hi Def Video ree
and
Tom Sanders
Arial Cinematographer

109 Ratio Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

209 Ratio Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Lecture:

PSA ad council - historically important campaigns

Lab:
• Scanning Assignments: PSA's and Shoe Poster
• place both Master and Lo Res in DAC server

Homework: Due 2/26 - on CD or Zip

• Review basics Portrait Patterns Assignment

• Review RATIOS basics (ratios2, ratios3, ratios4)

• Read: "Appropriation" article

Photo:

Assignment #4

1. Final PSA ad (first 90 minutes of class will provide time and assistance to finish ad campaign.

• Bring Epson paper for output.

2. Peace of Mind (new)

Create an ad for one of the following industries:
1. HMO's
2. Fitness Center
3. Life Insurance
4. Internet start up
• Use same slogan below: "There's no substitute for peace of mind."
• Avoid obvious associations.

Updates / Research

• Orlan - artist who uses her body as canvas (through plastic surgery) to emulate historical represeantations of beauty. Social commentary and answers to questions regarding body in society.

Handouts:
1. Studio Forms
2. Copyright and Registration info (Michael Grecco)
3. Article on "Appropriation"

Lecture:

• First 1-1/2 of class for refining PSA ad and printing out

• Studio and Lighting Basics
• Digital Camera Demo l (Canon D-30)
• METERING (review)
• RATIOS (review)

Lab:

• Create Archive Master Files
• Complete Shoe Posters

Homework: Due - 3/7

Studio Session / Digital Camera / Model Head Shots

1. Glamour Head Shot - Crop x4

• Produce a glamour head shot (Paramount with fashion board)

• Select a male or female model

• Obtain a Model Release

• Clean, high key shot (white background)

• Style the shot (hair, makeup)

• Crop 4 entirely different ways ... suggestions ...

..................combine both left sides into one face

..................combine both right sides into one face; then ...

..................create triptych with all three versions

..................crop to just the eye(s)

..................crop to just the lips

..................digitally exaggerate features

2. Present as four up on a 8-1/2" x 11" file.

3. Schedule the session in the DAC studio.

4. Plan ahead for this session - model, makeup, time for photography (3 hour studio session).

5. Shoot with the Canon D-30 and download to CD or zip.

**6. Bring in 'hi res' files from shoe assignment for distribution and completion of SHOE POSTERS.

Week #7: 3/7

METERING
• MEASURE WITH THE METER PARALLEL TO THE PLANE OF GREATEST IMPORTANCE (in this case it's the face) AND THEN TURN THE DOME IN THE DIRECTION OF THE MAIN LIGHT.
• BE SURE THE FILL SYSTEM IS ACTIVE DURING MEASURE- MENT (in this case the fashion board is the fill system).
• MEASURE THE BACKGROUND LIGHT AT THE HEAD AND POWER IT TO EQUAL YOUR WORKING APERTURE (STARTING POINT - ADJUST AS NEEDED)
• MEASURE THE BACKGROUND LIGHT AT THE BACKDROP IN THE AREA THAT MATCHES THE HORIZONS OF THE SHOULDER AND HEAD AND POWER IT TO BE ONE STOP BRIGHTER THAN YOUR WORKING APERTURE.

DOWNLOADING IMAGES FROM CAMERA TO COMPUTER:
1. When done, download to the G4 next to the large format printers. Use the USB cord in the camera bag and attach to both the camera and the computer. The Canon Image Browser will automatically download the images from the camera to the browser. BE VERY CAREFUL WHEN DISCONNECTING THE USB CORD FROM THE CAMERA, IT REQUIRES PUSHING THE BACKSIDE OF THE CORD AS YOU RETRACT IT FROM THE CAMERA'S CONTACT POINT.
2. In the camera's browser, download all your images to the Canon Image Window. Once in the window environment, select as many images as you would like to save and under MENU>EDIT select Adobe Photoshop. This will upload your images directly into Photoshop. From Photoshop you can save them to the DAC server and then to your portable media (zip or CD).
3. AT THE END OF YOUR PHOTO SESSION, REMOVE THE BATTERY AND REPLACE IT WITH THE CHARGING BATTERY ON THE COUNTER TOP TO THE LEFT OF THE G4 COMPUTER. REPLACE YOUR USED BATTERY IN THE CAMERA WITH THE FRESHLY CHARGED BATTERY.

Lecture:
Substitute Instructor - Derrick Bruce (Agave Studio)

1. DAC photo studio will be open for glamour shooting; Derrick Bruce will be available for technical assistance.
2. Download images to CD or zip.
3. Work on Shoe Poster in Hi Res (Image>Image Size: 8.5x11 inches @ 300ppi -- should create approx. 24 MB file) . RESCAN IF NECESSARY.

Lab: Glamour Head Shot (one light -- background or hair light optional)
1. Recommended working apertures between f/5.6 and f/11
2. Use a Fashion Board (white or silver mat board)
3. Recommended lighting pattern: Paramount
4. Recommended ratios are between 1:1 to 1:3 -- completely flat to no more than one stop between highlights and shadows (under the nose and neck area)
5. Background should be middle to light grey (natural fall off on a white background approximately 4' away will produce values in this range)
6. Background light can be directed back at the subject's hair or on the background itself. Direct towards hair with white seamless backdrop. Direct towards background with muslin backdrop.
7. Create clean lighting to compliment quality makeup application (for color photography the recommendation for eyes and lips is 'a little more' than nightime applications)
Canon D-30 Instructions:
1. Refer to the instruction manual in the front zip pocket of the camera bag when necessary.
2. Turn on both 'ON' buttons on the back of the camera.
3. Push 'MENU' button on back of camera and check quality setting (use top 'LARGE' setting)
4. Check ISO setting (below 'Quality' setting in MENU) and make sure it's set to 100.
5. To change either settings above, turn the large circular dial on back and options shift from 'QUALITY' to 'ISO' etc. Stop at the option you wish to change and push the center button in the middle of the large circle dial. Then rotate the dial until the desired setting is selected, then push the center button to lock in the desired setting.
6. After shooting there is a short preview of your shot on the LCD monitor. To see you shot(s) for a longer time, press the 'play' button on the lower left back (looks like a sideways triangle). A full screen image will appear. Push 'INFO' button to see your image with its corresponding histogram.
7. Make sure your histogram on final images is optimum (as illustrated in class on the demo shots of Lisa). DO NOT INTENTIONALLY OVER OR UNDER EXPOSE YOUR SHOTS.

Homework:DUE: 3/14
1. Download glamour shots to DAC Server Folder and Portable Media.
2. Create a minimum of four variations from one head shot (see week six for some suggestions) on one photo page (8.5x11)
3. Bring Epson Photo Paper for printing head shots.
4. Refine and complete 24x30 Shoe Poster submission.

Week #8: 3/14

Lecture:
Output Control
1. Digital output quality is dependent upon 4 things;
a) Original Exposure (traditional or digital capture)
b) Scan Quality
c) File Management
d) Printing Parameters

LL#1 . . . Quality In = Quality Out
1. Expose Normal / Scan Normal (MASTER ARCHIVE FILE)
.....create over/under effects in Photoshop
2. Check for Robust Histograms
.....continuous tone images should produce 'full' histograms; if not, rescan
3. Purpose your MASTER ARCHIVE FILE for RGB desktop printers: Image>Image Size
..... 300 ppi / 24MB file size for 8-1/2" x 11" photo paper.
4. Minimize Information Loss during Image Manipulations
.....don't over adjust levels, curves, HSB, color balance, USM, etc.
5. Assign Proper Color Space - Adobe RGB 1998
.....Image>Mode>Assign Profile>Adobe RGB 1998
.....This allows the monitor preview to match output very closely.
6. Assign Proper Printing Parameters (see Lab)
.....Command/Shift/P (for page setup); Command/P (for print)
7. All digital prints require subtle sharpening (see USM #1)
8. All images for the web require optimized sharpening
9. Sharpen as a Last Step Before Printing.

Printing Parameters w/in Photoshop
To create a print that matches what you see on the monitor:
1. Select Page Setup - Command/Shift/P or File>Page Setup
.....Orientation: Portrait (Standard) or Landscape (Centered)
2. Select Print - Command/P or File>Print
.....Media Type: Photo Paper
.....Ink: Color
.....Source Space: Adobe RGB 1998
.....Paper Space:
..........Profile: Epson Stylus 1270 Photo Paper
..........Intent: Perceptual
.....Mode: "Custom" ... Click Advanced ... in new window check:
..........Color Management: click 'NO COLOR ADJUSTMENTS'
..........Media: Photo Paper
..........Print Quality: 1440 dpi
.....Click "OK"
..........Double check printing settings (in box or upper left area)
.....Click "Print"

USM METHOD #1 - LAB
1. Flatten Image
.....Layers Window>[arrow] Flatten
2. Convert to LAB Mode
..... Image>Mode>LAB
3. Select Lightness Channel
..... Layers Window>Channels>Lightness
4. Select USM
.....Filters>Sharpen>Unsharp Mask
.....Amount: 125% / Radius: 1.5 / Threshold: 3
5. Convert back to RGB
.....Image>Mode>RGB
6. Print

Lab:
Image Variations Slide Show

Homework: DUE: 3/21

Photo Assignment:
"Timeless" - Roughs due (finished work due the following week).

1. Finished work on Glamour 4up (files in DAC Server)
2. Finished 300dpi files on the winning posters (congrats to Dustin, Fernanda, and Star)

Week #9: 3/21

Two Guest Speakers Today

• stock photography

• photojournalism

• sample 'glamour crops' application - 4x6 promo card (cover)

• sample 'glamour crops' application - 4x6 inside spread

Lecture:
Guest Lectures

1. Robin Eldredge - Raw Talent Photo Agency
• This local startup stock photo agency looks for new photo talent to promote emerging photographers and working professionals looking for a place to display some of their more innovative and personal work.
• A typical stock agency requires photographers to submit at least 200 "acceptable" images just to gain representation. Raw Talent selects only the best images a photographer has to offer, and if that amounts to only one image, then so be it.

2. Rick Quinn - Assignment Editor and Assistant Photo Editor for the Ventura Star newspaper.
• Rick's topics will include what makes the most compelling news photos and a discussion on the photographer/reporter collaboration.

Lab:
1. Create a print of "TIMELESS"
2. Create a print of "GLAMOUR - 4 UP"
3. Poster Winners: complete "print" files (300 dpi, 24"x30" files)

Homework: DUE: 3/28
1. Hi res/Lo res files on all 'first-half' assignment in DAC server by assignment name.

2. Children's Book Cover - preview the work of PDN's article on the photographer and created a children's Book Cover for his own portfolio resembling an old children's book.
• roughs and concept 3/28
• finals 4/11
•our creative 'spirits' are adult manifestations of our inner kid 'self'
• research childrens books online or Border's Bookstore
• create a photo illustration that would be enticing for your own portfolio, but with a childish theme

Week #10: 3/28

Lecture:

1. The power of photojournalism - subjects revisted
.......National Geographic - Sharbat Gula after 17 years
.......USA Today article; the photographer Steve McCurry
2. Contempary ART Photographers
3. Vogue SHAPE issue / commercial applications
4. Line Art Techniques - Children's Book Cover applications
............monochrome
............watercolor wash
............impasto and palette knife
............oil paints

Lab:

1. RedHairGirl.jpg - create the four effects above (in the DAC server > Class Materials > 214 folder)

Homework: DUE: 4/11

1. Finals on Childrens Book Cover (see 3/21 description)

SPRING BREAK

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SoMA Showcase - May 24, 2002
click here for
Submissions / Deadlines

APRIL 1 - 5

Week #12: 4/11

Lecture:

Multi-Media Web Story
• National Geographic - Sharbat Gula multi-media web story
• USA Today article; the photographer Steve McCurry

• Diane Fenster: Photo Illustrator / Commercial Applications

• Contemporary Fine Art Photographers - slide show

Guest Lecturer: Chris Zsarnay (Commercial/Digital Photographer); Ventura studio

Lab:
• Complete Children's Book Portfolio Cover

Homework: Drafts DUE: 4/18 (finals 4/25)
Six UP
This is the Typography/Photography Class Playoffs

6 illustrations - Same Subject:
1. Scale
2. Negative/Positive
3. Pattern
4. Congestion
5. Tension
6. Playful

Week #13: 4/18

Ansel Adams Documentary
PBS Special
Sunday, April 21st @ 9:00pm

Linda's House
410 Palm Ave - Studio B14
Caprinteria ... 745-8771

Las Cositas Exit, R at end of ramp, R on Carpinteria,
L on Palm Ave, Warehouse units on L before railroad tracks.

Lecture:
• Review / critique Children's Book Portfolio Covers
• Revew / discuss 6 UP - Typography/Photography playoffs

• Photojournalists (WHNPA awards slide show)
• Photo Essay - concepts and development
• PHOTO STORY
• Famous Photojournalists / Documentary Photographers
• Sabastian Salgado Exhibition Site (QuickTime VR); Brassai; Margaret Bourke-White, Diane Arbus quote.
• Eugene Atget, Lewis Hine vs. Jacob August Riis, W. Eugene Smith
• Duane Michals - "The problem with young photographers today is that they have all the know-how, but they have nothing to say; they just regurgitate cliché."
• Michael Ackerman - "... if you are not brought up where you are born you are forever a little restless. [it clarifies]...what it means to be an outsider, to not belong, yet have some strong feelings towards where you are. For one thing, it means you are a guest and what you are after is unattainable. Maybe you are always looking for yourself. It does seem to me that as an outsider you often get deeper inside. You often see what others may be blind to. For example, classic reportage photograpy, with its beginning - middle - end narrative is completely boring to me. It lacks something so essential. Yet work done by certain photographers who have that reslessness, that feeling of not belonging, like Louis Faurer, Robert Frank, Leon Levinstein, Josef Koudelka, for example, I find fascinating. Its open eded. The more I look at it the more I see. For me it's important to show what life FEELS like, not what it looks like. Maybe that quest is for the truth that lies beyond the fact, beneath the skin. That thing that is true to everyone."

Lab:
• Work on 6 UP assignments
• Work on 10 Print Final Portfolio
• Work on SoMA submissions (one per category)
. . . Photojournalism . . . Fashion . . . Portrait
. . . Landscape . . . Abstract . . . Fine Art . . . Still Life

Homework:
• 6 UP - due 4/25
• SoMA submissions - due 5/8
• Photo Essay - due 5/16

Week #14: 4/25

SoMA submissions - due 5/8
Photojournalism . . . Fashion . . . Portrait
Landscape . . . Abstract . . . Fine Art . . . Still Life

Lecture
• CRITQUE - " 6up Same Subject"
1. Scale
2. Negative/Positive
3. Pattern
4. Congestion
5. Tension
6. Playful

• INDIVIDUAL CONFERENCES
..........review assignment grades
..........select SoMA submissions
..........edit for "10 Print Portfolio"

Lab:
• Retouch Demo (new layer > soft light mode > 50% grey)
• SoMA submissions - due 5/8
...........select files
.......... clean files - view @ 200%, click scroll right/left and down
...........size to 300 ppi (no larger than 24MB)

Homework:
1. GROUP PORTFOLIO EDIT: DUE: 3/28
..........bring in 15-20 of your favorite images (can be drawn from more than one per assignment)
2. Work in Progress - Photo Essay

3. SoMA submissions - due 5/8
4. Photo Essay - due 5/16

Week #15: 5/2

SoMA submissions - due 5/8
Photojournalism . . . Fashion . . . Portrait
Landscape . . . Abstract . . . Fine Art . . . Still Life

Lecture:
• 10-Print Final Portfolio Preparations
.......Edit and Spot (rubber stamp @ 200%)
.......Retouch (selective burn/dodge techniques)
.......File management for prints (300 ppi)
.......Paper selections (Epson only)
..............Heavy Weight Matte (all printers)
..............Premium Gloss/Semi-Gloss (870's/1270)
...........................Alternative approved papers for our printers
..............Lumijet Paper (Museum Parchment, Classic Velour)
..............Arches Watercolor 90# Cold Press
.......Portfolio options
• New Quad Ink Printer for true B&W output
.......carbon-based pigment (4 shades of grey)
.......Jon Cone Edition ink set
.......MUST get image approval; instructor operated.

• 9:30 to 11:00 - guest lecture COLIN FINLAY
Documentary photographer with an Emmy for video and four POY awards. Since 1997 Finlay has worked for KTTV/FOX TV in LA. His work ranges from live breaking news to special investigations and features. Most recently, his videography experience has been with FOX Network and CNN. Assignments have taken him to Ukraine, Northern Ireland, Haiti, South Africa, Romania El Salvador to name a few countries. His photo essay on child labor was selected for inclusion as the wrap-around cover for "The Human Contition", published by Graphis Press.

Links of Interest:
dip·tych Pronunciation Key (dptk)
n.
1.A work consisting of two painted or carved panels that are hinged together.
2.An ancient writing tablet having two leaves hinged together.
3.A list of names, originally contained on such a tablet, of living and dead Christians for whom special prayers are made during
the liturgy in many eastern and western churches.
trip·tych Pronunciation Key (trptk)
n.
1.A work consisting of three painted or carved panels that are hinged together.
2.A hinged writing tablet consisting of three leaves, used in ancient Rome.

Q. A diptych is two pictures, a triptych is three pictures; what is the name for four pictures connected like this?

• Sites w/ Historical & Contemporary Diptychs, Triptych / Collage / Assemblage
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/nce-photo/pages/larjosto/acctracks.htm
http://www.cake.de/kaiser/wallviews.html
http://01interactions.net/winfredevers/fg04.htm
http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/b/bosch/painting/triptyc1/
http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/b/bosch/painting/triptyc2/
http://www.imagesoftheland.com/html/triptychs1.stm
http://www.bonniebergman.com/Art_Gallery_Details.cfm?LinkType=Triptychs
http://www.giraffe.com/Triptychs.html
http://www.ferrisphotographs.com/toc.triptychs1.html
http://www.cindymcintyre.com/Galleries/triptychs.htm

Critiques
• Group Portfolio Editing

Lab:
• 6 UP Same Subject
• SoMA Submissions
• Select final portfolio submissions

Homework:
• SoMA submissions Extension to Friday May 10th @ NOON
• Photo Essay - due 5/16

Week #16: 5/9

SoMA SHOWCASE submissions - EXTENDED

... ... NEW DEADLINE - FRIDAY (5/10) at NOON ... ...

Photojournalism . . . Fashion . . . Portrait
Landscape . . . Abstract . . . Fine Art . . . Still Life

Lecture:
• Guest lecture: Deborah Samuels - (http://www.deborahsamuel.com)
Fine Art, Commercial, Music Industry, Celebrity Photographer with two books published and a third in production.

• Sharpening Techniques II
...............Lab Method
...............High Pass Filter
• Masking Technique (from the image itself)
1. From the DAC server, Class Materials Folder, get LA Sky and RedHairGirl files.
............. Drag LA Sky file into RedHairGirl file creating a second layer with both images - girl and sky (drag w/ commandShift).
2. Duplicate the background layer in this new file.
3. Drag the sky image layer so that its positioned below the girl image layer.
4. Select the girl layer and go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Channel Mixer.
5. Once in Channel Mixer, click on Monochrome (lower left of box).
6. Slide Red to approx. –130. Slide Green to approx. +200. Slide Blue to approx. +25. Click ‘OK’.
7. Select Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Levels and pull highlight slider to the left, midtone slider to the left (or right) and shadow values to the right -- until you have good contrast between background and model’s hair and figure (don’t lose fine hair detail).
8. Select ‘Select > All’
9. Select ‘Edit>Copy Merged’
10. Select ‘Channels’ in the Layers window
11. Select ‘New Channel’ (at base of window) --- the icon looks like a document page. This will be called ‘Alpha 1’ by default.
12. Select ‘Edit>Paste’ – you should now have a new Alpha Channel (mask) of the image you adjusted in Channel Mixer previously.
13. Select ‘Select > Deselect’.
14. Now use the burn and dodge tools (selecting midtones, shadows or highlights as appropriate) to selectively exaggerated the difference in values between model, hair, and background. Remember to burn and dodge selectively in Shadows, Midtones or Highlights. [Recommended percentage is 30%]
15. Once ‘mask’ is all black and white, Invert it so the model ‘area’ is all white and the background area is all black.
16. Load this mask as a selection by clicking the Load Channel icon at base of Channel window (dotted circle). [Another way to do this is to ‘command click’ on the Alpha channel.]
17. Return to the Layers window and turn of the ‘eye’ icon for the Channel Mixer layer(s).
18. Select the model Layer and ‘load’ this selection as a mask. This is accomplished by clicking icon at the base of the layer window that looks like a square with a circle in the middle.
19. Clean up mask with paintbursh and/or eraser tools.
20. Your done ... Yeah!

Lab:
• SoMA Submissions (dueFriday noon)
• Select final portfolio submissions (in class edit)

Homework:
1. Photo Essays - Due May 16th

Week #17: 5/16

Lecture:
• Final Sharpening Technique (12 Step Method)
...............Lab USM Method
...............High Pass Filter Method
...............RGB Channel Method

RED Channel / Edges Selection Method

• This technique selects the edges with the most contrast without selecting the homogenous areas of tone (less chance of creating non-descript artifacts). Only the more “contrasty” edges are sharpened and will be the most subtle USM method. Good for people and images with fine detail.
1. Select the Red Channel
2. Duplicate the Red Channel.
3. Filters – Stylize – Find Edges
4. Image – Adjust – Invert
5. Filters – Noise – Median, radius @ 2
6. Filters – Other – Maximum, radius @ 4
7. Filters – Blur – Gaussian Blur @ 4 (airbrush any spots out at this stage)
8. Click RGB layer and Cmd/Click the 'Red copy' (the new alpha channel you've been working on). This selects the areas of highest contrast as a selection.
9. Filter – Unsharp – set amount at 125%, radius at 0.3, and threshold at 3 (in a digital capture try a setting of 75%, radius 1.5, threshold 3).
10. Deselect
11. Alpha channel to trash
12. Repeat for increased sharpness if necessary.

Additional Suggestion:
• If sharpening effect is too intense, start over and adjust the unsharpen threshold to a value of 1.
• Make an Action function key out of these steps and you can repeat this effect progressively at will by hitting the pre-assigned function key.

• Colorizing Techniques

Critique:

• PHOTO ESSAYS

Lab:

10 - Print Final Portfolio

Finals Week: 5/23

Critique:

• PHOTO ESSAYS

Lab:

10 - Print Final Portfolio

GRADUATION WEEK: 5/28

FINAL PORTFOLIO REVIEW

HAVE A GREAT SUMMER !

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