Homework 2: Cropping and Resizing Images & Tonal Range due (due 2/10, 2/13 for Monday and Thursday labs, and 2/26 for Wednesday labs).
Required Viewing: From LinkedIn Learning “Photoshop 2024 Essential Training” (please try following along with your own images):
Part 1) Please write a one to three paragraph reflection on how you use photography and image making. How could you represent visually through photography or illustration or the combination of image and text notions of our world at this moment? Create a new html page for this reflection, title it “readings.html” and link to it from your class homepage (index.html). Add a link back to index.html on your readings.html page. Update the readings.html page with each reflection – project or reading reflection.
Part 2) Based on the composition and framing concepts that were covered in the lecture, take at least five photos with lab DSLR cameras.
Choose the two images that you think are compositionally the most compelling and save a copy of both images in their original pixel dimensions (in other words, keep a back-up of the original file). Crop a copy of one of the images to 1920 px by 1080 px and crop a copy of the other image to 5”x7”. Now, modify the Tonal Range of the two images using an adjustment layer following the steps in chapters above. Export these as jpg images and make sure they are under 2 MB in their file size.
Now, add each photo to two new pages on your website. Place each of the cropped images on a separate page and connect them with links to the home page and to each other. Make sure that all pages can navigate back to the home page. On your image web pages, add a paragraph tag to explain why you chose these two images and what compositional ideas you were using to create visual interest.