PhotoSalad

Digital
Art&Design
Project 4 Procedure:
Start by downloading) the following
six elements:
Objective:
To gain further experience with 1) A photograph that you shot
the photographic editing and
manipulation tools and to transform 2) A photograph of a body part
a set of disparate photographic
elements into a unified visual whole. 3) A photograph of a machine or a
machine part
Technical Goals: 4) A stamp or currency
To effectively use the full range
of tools in the application. To use 5) An actual texture
selection and masking to isolate and
control separate parts of the image. 6) A photograph of an object you
To use layers and layer masks to picked at random from a dictionary (not
organize your work. the word itself, but a visual equivalent
of it)
Aesthetic Goals:
These are your raw materials.
Begin by transforming your
photographs and recombining them Convert them to Smart objects.
to the point where they operate in Compress them, stretch them, filter them...
an entirely non-objective way. Then transform them, and recombine them into a
single image.
you can reintroduce photographic
elements in a representational
way. Ultimately this image will On Tues 4/14 you will upload three roughs.
One must be extremely abstract,
have to succeed in terms of formal
one must include some recognizable
relationships (compositionally), but
imagery, and the other can fall anywhere
also in terms of the visual imagery
within that range.
and the narrative implications
of that imagery. It’s strongly
The three roughs must be substantially
recommended that you work towards
different even though your
a disconnectedness or indeterminacy raw material is the same.
of content. A suggested meaning is
much more powerful than an explicitly
For the Final date tba
stated one.
you will upload three refinements of
ONE of your roughs.