Digital Photography: Photoshop Techniques

For this assignment youll learn many different digital photography techniques by reading the
tutorials. You will use the tutorials to create images similar to the ones in the tutorials. The
tutorials are titled:
1) PS Adding Focus (2 images), which shows you how to blur the background to emphasize the
subject.
2) PS Art History (2 images), which shows you how to make photographs look like paintings.
3) PS Black & White (2 images), which shows you how create a full range of tones in a black and
white photo. Try this technique on more than one photo to get a great B&W photo.
4) PS Comic Book Portrait (1 image), which shows you how to give your photo a retro comic
book effect.
5) PS Cubism (1 image), which shows you how to make a photo look like a cubist painting.
6) PS Cyanotypes (2 images), which shows you how to recreate one of the very first photography
experiments.
7) PS Expressionism (1 images), which shows you how to make a photo look like an
Expressionist painting similar to The Scream by Edvard Munch.
8) PS Fauve (2 images), which shows you how to make a photo look like the Fauve painting
exhibited in Paris in 1905.
9) PS Find Edges (1 image), which shows you how to use one of the most interesting filters in
Photoshop.
10) PS Futurists (1 image), which show you how to take a photo and turn it into an abstract
impression of a moving machine.
11) PS Jones Soda (1 image), which is just a template to put a really cool black & photo into.
12) PS Patterned faces (1 image), which shows you how to put a funky pattern on your face.
Please use your own portrait.
13) PS Pointillists (2 images), which shows you how to create a pointillists painting from a photo.
14) PS Romantic Landscape (1 image), which shows you how to make a photo look like a 19th
century romantic painting.
15) PS Sepia Effect (2 images), which show you how to create a sepia tone photograph and a
duotone photograph.
16) PS Surrealism (1 image), which shows you how to create a Salvador Dali-type surreal
painting by combining photos in Photoshop.
17) Caricature (2 images: practice image plus your own photo), which shows you how to create
a caricature drawing.
18) Paul Cezanne (2 images: practice image plus your own photo), which shows you how to
create an impressionist painting.
Begin by looking through all of the above PDFs. Notice the types of photos that are used for each
technique, for example, the expressionism technique uses a portrait photo that has a blurry
background. When you do this technique you should have a similar photo or the technique will
not turn well. Note: You may have to take more photos at home to bring in for this assignment.
Once you have looked through the PDFs, you will go through your original photos and choose
photos that will work for each technique.
You will complete 3 of the techniques. Save the before and after photos.
You will show me your 3 techniques and the images required and place your work into our drop
box.