Tuesday, June 5, 2012

assignment: Put your self in to your favorite movie!

Hey guys,

I'm sorry I'm out today but I'll be back tomorrow.

Hollywood called me last night and wants to see you in the movies. Your assignment today is to Photoshop yourself in to your ideal movie. You must find a background, a photo of yourself, and other actors to create an image from this movie.

Think about what genre your movie will be: Romance? Horror? Action? Comedy?

We will be using these images for tomorrows products. Email me the image as a JPG and submit it to the blog. Be creative! Be professional! Your work is due at 2:50!

Good luck!


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Mr Drozd
MisterDrozd.com

Blog:
8th Period photos
baseball field photos
field trip 1 photos
field trip 2 photos
AUP building
Comic Photos

Monday, June 4, 2012

assignment: AUP registration poster

Dear Graphic Designers,

Today we are going to create posters to promote the Electives classes registration. Be creative and use all the skills you've learned all year. 

Please include the following text:

Register for Your Elective Class for Next Year!

Classes include: Media, Computer Graphics, Dance,  Sustainabilty and Service Learning , Creative Writing, Psychology, Latin American Studies, Architecture. 

Register at aupnyc.org

Deadline: Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Monday, May 21, 2012

Andrew Drozd wants to share "dancers EXTRACTED (PSD) 2012" with you

Andrew (andrew_drozd@yahoo.com) wants to share some files with you using Dropbox. Message from Andrew:

"Use these PSD files for your dance poster!"

View "dancers EXTRACTED (PSD) 2012"

Enjoy!
- The Dropbox Team

Thursday, May 17, 2012

assignment: DANCE GROUP POSTER

Find photos of dancers here:
https://picasaweb.google.com/MrDrozdAUP/DanceClass2012# 


Objective:
Create a poster featuring multiple AUP students that represent our Dance class to the outside community.. Include the AUP logo, layer styles, and all the creativity you can!

Things to consider:
  • color range and desaturate to isolate one color
  • blending modes
  • glowing dots
  • multiply VS screen
  • filters
  • download additional fonts
  • the tyga mixtape technique
  • comic dialogue bubbles
  • ink stencil filter

Go here for video tutorials

Create at least 5 different variations of the same poster by saving each as a JPG but make sure you maintain a PSD layer!

Email me each day your work at the end of class as a JPG! 

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Mr Drozd
MisterDrozd.com

Blog:
8th Period photos
baseball field photos
field trip 1 photos
field trip 2 photos
AUP building
Comic Photos

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

assignment: make this statue of liberty disappear

AIM: How can we distort reality by using the clone stamp tool?

Instructions:

Today you must make at least 4 objects disappear using the clone stamp tool.  The first object must be the statue of liberty! The other 3 objects can be whatever you'd like. Be creative!

For the other objects, send the original image and the image with the item eliminated.

Mr Drozd



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Mr Drozd
MisterDrozd.com

Blog:
8th Period photos
baseball field photos
field trip 1 photos
field trip 2 photos
AUP building
Comic Photos

Monday, May 14, 2012

assignment: use clone stamp to eliminate unwanted objects



Sometimes don't you wish you could just erase or fix some annoying detail in a photo. Well, one way of doing this is by using the Clone Stamp tool found in graphics program photoshop.

.Original picture with dog on the grass 

Original picture with dog.

Dog is erased from picture

Dog has been replaced with grass using the Clone Stamp tool.

 

This is where the Clone Stamp tool is found on the sidebar of Photofiltre.

Toolbar showing clone stamp tool

The clone stamp tool can be used for:

  • Removing an object from a picture which has a consistent background.
  • Fixing blemishes or imperfections. For example, remove moles, wrinkles or freckles on a persons body or face… or correct damaged paintwork on a car etc.
  • Reproducing an object in a picture with some of the background.

Pictures with backgrounds that have a consistent pattern or texture are very easy to work with, such as those with grass, water or sky

Start with opening the picture

Start by opening the picture.

Before I did anything else I:

  • Changed the size to 800 x 600 to make it more manageable.
  • Adjusted gamma, brightness and contrast. I also took the liberty to sharpen the picture slightly as well  :-)

Selecting clone stamp tool and settings

Select clone stamp tool from the toolbar. In this example I used a Opacity of 70, unchecked the Fixed position and sample Radius of 25.

The larger the radius the bigger area you will cover, however for more detailed areas you will want to reduce the radius size.

You start by placing the stamp tool on the area you want to clone. In this example I placed the clone tool on a suitable patch of grass to the left of the dog. Next, press the Control key and then left click on the mouse to make a starting(or origin) point for the clone tool. (if you click without the control key, a pop up box will appear)

The crosshairs of the clone stamp tool

Next, use the cross-hair of the cursor to start brushing out parts of the original image. Notice how the second cross-hair mirrors the movement of the first cross-hair and the image is reproduced from under one cross-hair to other.

Removing the shadow

Having removed most of the dog, I started to remove the dogs' shadow. You may wish to reposition the clone stamp origin a few times to make the background look more authentic due to lighting effects on the original photo and to avoid cloning too many repeating patterns. It depends on what types of photo your working on, sometimes you want bit of randomness such as the grass above, other times you may want a consistent pattern such as brick work.

Dog and shadow completely removed

Dog and shadow have now been completely removed.

Now, finally to do some detailed work….

Removing the dog leash from the hand

Next I enlarged the picture to 300% and selected a Radius of 2 for detailed work to remove the remainder of the dog leash between the fingers.

Dog is erased from picture

Done. Dog gone! ;-)

Notes:

  • Positioning of the starting point or origin takes some practice. You need to experiment a bit first to get this right, and often you need to change origin points a few times.
  • Checking the Fixed position box, keeps the Clone Stamp area in a fixed position. This may be useful sometimes when you want the sampled area to be fixed rather than mirroring the movement of the second cross-hair. Generally go for a larger Radius in this mode and use short clicks rather moving the cursor around.

A few more examples:

Jetski ready to go

Jetski ready to go!

Jetski has gone missing!

Ooiii! Where is my Jetski!!!???

Three men playing golf

Three men playing golf.

Two men playing golf

Only two men now. Three is a crowd. ;-)


Your assignment: use the clone tool to
1. Make the moon disappear.
2. Add 3 windows to the wall.
3. Make the dolphin disappear.
4. Make all the cows disappear. 

Send all images at the end of the period in one email 

Mr Drozd

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv2H7TnnTZQ

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Mr Drozd
Academy of Urban Planning

Class website:
MisterDrozd.com



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Mr Drozd
Academy of Urban Planning

Class website:
MisterDrozd.com



--
Mr Drozd
Academy of Urban Planning

Class website:
MisterDrozd.com



--
Mr Drozd
MisterDrozd.com

Blog:
8th Period photos
baseball field photos
field trip 1 photos
field trip 2 photos
AUP building
Comic Photos

Grades for the first week of MP3

Class Average Statistics
High 97.5%
Low 0%
Mean 69.85%
Median 90.86%
Rank Student ID Average
1 203053947 97.5%
1 274958792 97.5%
1 204095988 97.5%
1 202912291 97.5%
1 226744522 97.5%
1 274291798 97.5%
7 274560002 96.33%
8 204053417 93.52%
9 270655830 88.2%
10 270774722 75.7%
11 203968433 60.94%
12 268953981 59.77%
13 271017287 30.47%
14 268954112 15.23%
15 274562255 12.5%
16 271121899 0%
Count: 16

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Mr Drozd
MisterDrozd.com

Blog:
8th Period photos
baseball field photos
field trip 1 photos
field trip 2 photos
AUP building
Comic Photos

Friday, May 11, 2012

school background image



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Mr Drozd
MisterDrozd.com

Blog:
8th Period photos
baseball field photos
field trip 1 photos
field trip 2 photos
AUP building
Comic Photos

Blending Mode QUiz

Instuctions:

Please demonstrate your knowledge of the topics we covered this week (blending modes, threshold, layer styles, etc) by replicating the attached image, "blending mode quiz." 

You must recreate the image perfectly using the attached files (I've included PSDs of Evans and Drozd so you do not have to extract). 

Please analyze the cheat sheet prior to starting your reassembly of the Teacher Poster so you have an understanding of how to proceed. 

This is due at the end of the period. Good luck!

Mr Drozd

Thursday, May 10, 2012

Fwd: brick wall




here's the brick wall!



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Mr Drozd
MisterDrozd.com

Blog:
8th Period photos
baseball field photos
field trip 1 photos
field trip 2 photos
AUP building
Comic Photos

assignment: stencil graffiti using the multiply blending mode


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_t0L_iL9oc

Follow instructions to create an example of stencil graffiti.

Email me at least 3 examples of stencil graffiti. 


Mr Drozd
Academy of Urban Planning

Class website:
MisterDrozd.com



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Mr Drozd
Academy of Urban Planning

Class website:
MisterDrozd.com



--
Mr Drozd
MisterDrozd.com

Blog:
8th Period photos
baseball field photos
field trip 1 photos
field trip 2 photos
AUP building
Comic Photos