Intro to Electronic Media: Assignment 2

Photoshop Assignment A2: Color Project

Assignment #2 Guidelines
Color Exercise
(5 points)

Spot Color by Ajiah Daley

Using Color To Create Mood And Editing Your Selections

This is an assignment in the use of filters, painting, and the application of spot color. Take an existing photo and change the color dramatically or drastically in order to tell a different story. Your textbook Design Fundamentals for New Media, Chapter 9 describes several appropriate exercises on p.178. Play with warm versus cool colors, color adjacency, complementary colors, tinting, etc. Choose images that you took or have permission to use or that are royalty-free wherever possible. Pay particular attention to resolution and print quality and most important of all, MOOD. DO NOT WORK ON AN IMAGE SMALLER THAN 6” x 8" in 240 DPI or you will be graded down.

For this assignment, you will be evaluated on the following:

• Creativity/Originality/Effective use of color, mood, and drama

• Design & Composition Choices

• Overall Aesthetics/Decisions

• Fulfillment of Assignment Requirements

• Contrast/Value/Color Choices

• Complexity of Work/Demonstration of Skill

• Clarity/Final Resolution of Output

• Use of PS Filters

• Use of Tools/Attention to Detail

• Blending/Transparency of filtering & color corrections/Finesse

Upload the PS file with layers intact along with a JPG of the original image to the box before class on the day of the critique. Briefly discuss (3-5 sentences) what you chose to accomplish with your color project and what you learned in the process as well as what your finished product has to say about mood and color.