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April 16 - 17, 2011
Pacific New Media
University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii
$270 • Register for this class
Although photographers have long combined different photos to create new images, the digital darkroom has elevated the multiple-image collage to a new level. In addition to surreal fabricated realties or image blending to tell a story, the photographic collage is also uniquely suited to portray the more intangible world of ideas, memory and emotion.
In this workshop, we will be using Adobe Photoshop to explore the multi-faceted art of the photographic composite. Our explorations will range from simple collages created using varying opacity or blend mode magic, to the creation of surreal, photo-realistic flights of fancy created from multiple originals.
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Some of the topics for this class include:
• Essential selection, masking and knockout techniques
• Simple collages based on image overlays, blending modes
• The Advanced Blending Options
• Precision collage control with Layer Masks
• Image transformation tools including Free Transform and Warp
• Using Smart Objects to non-destructively transform or warp
• Creating a collage from different source photos
• Multi-exposure composites to control contrast
• Matching color and lighting between images
• Photographic considerations for creating images specifically for a collage.
Click here for a gallery of multi-image composite examples
Please note that this class is not intended to be a total beginner Photoshop class. You should already be familiar with the basics of the Photoshop interface and such common tasks as opening and saving files. This class is alos not for beginning computer users. You should have a comfortable working familiarity with computer basics on either Windows or Mac . All example images used in the class will be provided to you.
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