In this project, you will learn the basics of photo manipulation as well as further exploring composition, elements, and principles of design. You will create a montage of images that communicates a message, opinion, thought, feeling, or narrative. The self-portrait project will be your first experience using Photoshop to create fine art. You will use a digital camera or phone to shoot a picture of yourself specifically for this project. You will also collect additional objects, photos, or images from the web. You will then fade those items in and out of the photo using a variety of Photoshop tools and techniques.
You will also need to use some text. You may use a quote, a passage from the Bible, handwritten notes and more. Be sure to look at the examples for good ways to integrate text. The text that you use should be fully integrated into the image. It should not function as a label sitting on the top of your artwork.
Your final piece should look very descriptive and very much explain who you are. You should not try to include pictures of everything you like. Instead, focus on portraying some sort of abstract idea. Think about how everything conveys that idea; everything from pictures to color choices and compositions affects the viewer’s response.
These three images are my sketches. The one on the very right was my first 11 ideas where I just drew up with anything that came to my head that fit the project. The two on the left are my more finalize sketches and I would pick one of them to do as my final project.
For my final project, I decided to do an image that involves theater art, and other interests that I like. This project required us to have a picture of ourselves, so the picture on the left is the picture I took for the project. The picture on the right is my beginning process where I took a picture of my schools theater and started editing it.
The photo on the left is the next step in my process where I added paint coming from the paint bucket to pillars to help the feeder not stand out as much and the moon. The picture on the right is what I Project looked like before all the photos were edited.
This is my final photo I decided to put myself in the very center because it had to be a Portrait that revolves around you and I added a chef that was a brain because I plan major in psychology for college. I added the theater because I like to act and the paint bucket because I like to draw and paint. Finally the moon in the back of the stage represents my love for video games because it is the moon from Majora’s Mask.
