Today's assignment is really simple. Second and third year students should have no problem at all with it. But EVERYONE, first, second and third year alike, needs to be able to do this... So do the following things: 1 Watch the video from the DPL Visual Arts YouTube channel titled "FINDING, DOWNLOADING and OPENING INKSCAPE". 2 Find and SAVE an image online that you would like to work with. 3 Find, download and open INKSCAPE PORTABLE 4 Once INKSCAPE PORTABLE is open, go to FILE and then IMPORT. At the bottom of the IMPORT box click FILES OF TYPE and then select ALL IMAGES. Find your image on your computer, select it and then go to OPEN. 5 Once your file opens in INKSCAPE, I want you to look at the tools in the TOOL BAR on the left side of the screen. It looks like this: NOW, I don't care WHAT you do to your image, as long as you REALLY mess it up (that is to say alter or change it) using the different tools in the TOOL BAR. Just experiment with them, see what you can get them to do... PLAY. Your Assignment #3A will be considered highly successful as long as you've drawn, scribbled, typed or otherwise changed the appearance of your image A LOT. Just make sure I can still see part of the original image so I can recognize it.
Using the skills that we practiced while completing ASSIGNMENT #1A, follow the directions below to complete ASSIGNMENT #2A.
DIRECTIONS: 1 Go to our YouTube channel by opening YouTube and searching DPL Visual Arts 2 Watch the video tutorials named WORKING with 2IMAGES in PIXLR and CLONESTAMP and SAVE 3 Using the techniques from the video tutorials, create an image in PIXLR that combines pieces of two different images. Use the CLONE STAMP tool to join the two different images together in a way that looks natural... make the two images look like they belong together. 4 Using the technique from the video tutorials, save your new image as a .png file either on a flash drive, the hard drive of the computer you are using or in any other way you want. Just make sure it is saved so that you can turn it in. I will post directions for turning the work in sometime in the next few days. Until then, just don't lose it. This assignment will be the first in a new series of graded assignments for ALL JLCP Digital Art Students. Like this assignment, future assignments will all also have an "A" in the assignment name.
Don't worry, these assignments will be graded just like all the others and your grades for them will factor into your class quarter grades just like they always have. But for the next month or so, while I am not at school, all of our assignments will be like this one. Really, the work is the same. I'm just giving these different titles to be able to organize them while I am on leave. Just think of them as new assignments... everything else is the same as it's always been. DIRECTIONS: 1. Go to YouTube and search for "DPL Visual Arts" 2. There are 4 video tutorials. Watch them in this order: 1st "Saving Images" 2nd "Finding and Opening Pixlr Editor" 3rd "Opening Pixlr and Using Layers" 4th "Pixlr Select and Effects" 3. Find and save an online image 4. Open the image in Pixlr 5. Select an area using any of the Select Tools and DRAMATICALLY ALTER the appearance of that area by changing the Color or Brightness or Contrast AND by using a filter. Do this for ten (10) different areas. So the BASIC IDEA is that I will be able to look at your assignment and know that you were able to select and alter (change the appearance of) 10 different areas. The more obvious your changes are, the better. WHEN YOU ARE DONE, SAVE YOUR WORK as a .png file by doing the following: 1. Go to FILE 2. Select SAVE IMAGE 3. Give your work a name 4. Click the box that says .JPG for the file type. Select .PNG instead. 5. Save your work on a flash drive, on that computer's hard drive or any other way you can think of. Just make sure you can find it later. For today, please work on your sketches. Do the digital ones if you can, but feel free to work on the hand drawn ones too. Ask for paper if you need it.
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