Teaching Portfolio
PHOTOSHOP & PHOTO MANIPULATION
The following projects were constructed by students attending Irvine Valley College, while enrolled in the Digital Media Arts department DMA 10-Introduction to Digital Media Arts course. Students were introduced to the Adobe Creative Cloud (Adobe CC) during the DMA 10 course, and the first program students worked with was Photoshop (PSD). Students completed exercises that introduced them to the tools and menu options available in PSD and allowed them to find ways to combine tools and create different techniques to modify one or more image. The projects displayed below were created using the following guidelines:
- Students were to utilize the following PSD tools: Selection tools (i.e. pen tool, marquee tools, quick select tool, etc.), Paint Bucket tool, Crop tool, Clone Stamp tool, Paint Brush tool, Move tool, Layer Blending options, Filter Gallery, Layer Masks.
- Students were required to combine the approved images, made available to them via free stock photo sites, to create a new composition.
- Students were then required to incorporate at least two textures from the provided textures file and to add 1 to 3 pops of color.
Photo Editing & Composition
The following projects were constructed by students attending Irvine Valley College, while enrolled in the Digital Media Arts department DMA 10-Introduction to Digital Media Arts course. Students were introduced to the basics of photography and composition, learning how to properly balance a composition using the rule of thirds, different types of symmetrical and asymmetrical balance, proper positioning of focal points in an image and how to edit their own photos using light balance and contrast. Students were taught how to achieve the ideal look for their photos/images through the image editing filters and layer blending options in Adobe Photoshop (PSD). Students were tasked with taking multiple photos of their own, picking one portrait of a person or animal, and picking one of scenery and combining them into a digital double-exposure photo.The projects displayed below were created using the following guidelines:
- Students were to utilize the following PSD tools: Selection tools (i.e. pen tool, marquee tools, quick select tool, etc.), Levels, Curves, Adjustment Layers, Hue/Saturation, Layer Masks.
- Students were required to combine edited images to create a double exposure composition.
- Students were required to focus on light balance, composition/visual balance and color balance to create the proper effect of double-exposure.
