Dynamic Digital Collage Wednesday
$130
  
  Mike Jennings 9:00 - 4:30    

Student Level: Advanced Beginner
Type of Workshop: Process

 

You will learn to use Adobe Photoshop to create digital collages with sophisticated layering. Find out how to quickly isolate elements from their backgrounds. You will learn to make layers interact with one another using blending modes and painting with transparency. Add depth and dimension difficult to achieve in the physical domain using layer styles and transformations. Master the Photoshop Text tool. Filter your elements for fabulous effects.

Optional kit fee of $50 payable to Instructor at class time for a CDROM with a handpicked selection of 14 unusual typefaces discovered to be uniquely suited to digital collage. The fonts on this disc, bundled at a reduced price just for this class by the foundry, will add a distinct element of sophistication and finish to your pieces no matter how you use them, and they will be used in the class examples. All of the kit fee goes directly to the type foundry.

Supplies provided by Instructor for student’s use in class include:
A printer and paper stock
Scanner
Sample images from my own library, including vintage postcards, exotic textures ephemera and other interesting elements

Supply List:
- A laptop or other computer (Mac or Windows is fine). (I will have an extra or two, but you'll need to contact me in advance.)
- A Mouse for your laptop
- Photoshop CS2 or later (the Extended version is not necessary but works if that's what you've got). If you don't already have it, see Photoshop Notes below.
- A few physical collage elements to scan, especially those that have problems that you'd like to correct digitally (annoying backgrounds, brightness and contrast, wrong size)
- Some digital elements you'd like to use such as a digital photo. I will have some to choose from if you don't have any, and we will be making some in the class.
- A rubber stamp that you'd use more often if you could control its size.

Photoshop Notes:
If you do not already have Photoshop, you can download a trial version for free from Adobe. Note that it expires after 30 days so wait until just before the class before installing it. Most of the techniques demonstrated have a corresponding feature in the less-expensive Photoshop Elements, but many have been renamed and relocated in recent versions and I can't guarantee that I'll be able to teach the two programs in parallel. Your best bet is to learn it in Photoshop, then find the corresponding features in Elements using the handout after the class and before the trial expires. Alternatively, Photoshop is available to students for $300 instead of the $650 retail price (most sellers require a school ID).

There is a forum for this workshop at http://dearhubby.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=9

Questions? Email Mike at mike@hannahgrey.com

 

 

 

 

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