Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Exercise Assignment : Creative Collage

Exercise Assignment: Collage Creature

Create a figure out of vintage digital images.

Go to google images and download 10 to 15 images of humans, animals, insects, or plants, which you will use as source material.

Select images that are at least 300 x 300 dpi.

Save images to your flash drive
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Open images in Photoshop three at a time.

Create a new file 5” x 7” 300dpi

Save the new file with the name of your Collage Creature. save as a psd.file ( Photoshop file)

Select sections using the select tools and copy selections and paste or drag on to the new blank file.

Use the transformation tools to scale, rotate, flip and or warp the selections.

Place different images together to create your figure.

See Maggie Taylor’s Web site for inspiration. www.maggietaylor.com
However, I want this piece to be your creation.

Your creature must have at lease 7 different elements form different images.

Show Work in progress on Monday
Final due on Thursday Jan. 28th Be prepared to explain how you created your piece.


Remember to save your file often!

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