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Lesson 10 - Movement • Camera Raw • Calculations & Masking • Photoshop Special Effects

Three Roses by Nathan Smith

Lesson Description:
This week we'll cover another principle of design - movement. We'll review Photoshop's powerful plug-in - Camera Raw - and go into more depth on the tools available there.  In the past weeks you've learned about the Apply Image command - this week we'll learn about its more powerful cousin, the Calculations command.  We'll also dive into some fun Photoshop special effects!  Enjoy!

Lesson 10 Objectives

1. Principles of Art and Design: Movement
2. Review: Camera Raw in depth
3. Using the Calculations dialog
4. Special effects in Photoshop - Part 1
5. Special effects in Photoshop - Part 2

• Optional:  Just for the Fun of It!
• Even more portfolio exhibit ideas and tutorials!

Blossoming by Nathan Smith

​​​All assignments, rubrics, required readings, exercise files, etc. are in Week 10's module in Canvas

​Don't get overwhelmed! Suggested plan to accomplish lesson 10:

Monday: Go through ​this page and lesson 10-1 

• ​10-1 is about the principle of movement in design and art. Take time to read the assigned article carefully, so that you understand this important concept. You'll want to always consider this as you design your portfolio exhibits. Approximate time: 1 hour

Tuesday: Go through lesson 10-2​​

• 10-2 goes into much greater depth about using Camera Raw. Take whatever time is necessary to learn the tools here. You'll have two exercise files you'll be submitting. You'll be doing two exercise files - choosing two of the three options - Exercises A10-02A, A10-02B, and A10-02C. Approximate time: 2-3 hours.

Wednesday: Go through lesson 10-3

• ​10-3 is all about the calculations dialog in Photoshop. This is even more powerful than the apply image dialog you learned about a couple weeks ago. Take time to experiment around with this. You'll be doing Exercise A10-03. Approximate time: 1 hour.

Thursday: Go through lessons 10-4 and 10-5

• This is more for fun than anything.  I'm sure you've seen some pretty awesome images that were manipulated in Photoshop.  In these sections, I will lead you to many tutorials that details how to do them.  They present many possibilities for your next portfolio exhibit.  This section is an invitation to go explore, play, and do some fun effects in Photoshop.  Spend some time here - how much? Up to you...

Friday: Go through lesson 10-JFF, 10-IDEA

• ​These sections are a continued invitation to go explore, play, and do some fun effects in Photoshop. By now, I've led you to several hundred Photoshop tutorials!

Friday - Monday:

• Finish up the two camera raw and the calculations exercises if you needed more time on them.
• Work on your Portfolio exhibit 7
• Be sure to give good critiques to two other classmates for their exhibit 6.

​Real World Experience - An Opportunity To Work on a Real Project!

Portfolio exhibit 7 challenge:.​ Try something new you haven't done before in Photoshop! Many tutorial links in this lesson!

For your portfolio exhibit, focus on creativity and design! This lesson will have you explore many fun Photoshop tutorials that are freely available to you online. The IDEA section sections in every lesson contain ideas on how you can put creativity, design, and the tools you've learned into practice. When you've completed your portfolio exhibit, please do the following:

• Save your portfolio exhibit photoshop file as Portfolio-7_Your_Name.PSD, and submit it in Canvas.
• Export your portfolio exhibit as a web friendly JPG image and add it to your online portfolio, along with the accompanying description, citations, etc. (See Portfolio in the Weekly Lessons) for more detail and instructions on this).
• When you submit your portfolio exhibit in Canvas, also put the URL for your online exhibit in assignment comments.

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​Page last updated March 10, 2021.  This lesson combines my own work (images, text, videos) which are ©2021 by Nathan Smith.  All other images, videos, and cited text sources are curated from the internet, and are publicly available.