Find or take a pretty photo that would work well for a poster. Bring it into Adobe Illustrator and make it into an image trace- I used low fidelty photo. Next, bring the photo into Adobe Photoshop and make any changes or add any missing elements- I painted a large sky using a gradient and low opacity brush to make it a poster size rather than square. Finally, add some text with city name or nickname- I added some fog on top cause it’s San Francisco and I also erased the bottom of some of the letters to make it look like the letters were sitting inside the city limits rather than floating on top.

Create some sort of graphic. Design the overall graphic to convey some sort of feeling or theme, but then have text saying something completely contradictory to the theme or feeling. Sort of like one of those old anti-motivational posters, but with more design than a black box with a white frame.”

Create a simple “Go, Vote” poster reminding people of their civic duty. Feel free to use the Library of Congress website if you’re a U.S. citizen, the Library & Archives of Canada if you’re from “up north” or any other governmental archive of historical imagery.

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_cokwr: Use no more than 10 animated GIFs to tell the story of the movie of your choice., _cpzh4: Visual, _cre1l: http://lisahistoryds106.posterous.com/38060181, _chk2m: Tim Owens, _ciyn3: 3, _ckd7g: VisualAssignments3, _clrrx: VisualAssignments, _cztg3: VisualTutorials3

_cokwr: A famous guitar player appears in an image using a guitar that is belongs to another famous guitar player (bonus points for embedding audio from a riff by yet another famous guitar player. This is a relatively simple project that will help improve superimposing mixed images in Photoshop (or any other image editor with layers). It is similar to the Troll Quotes assignment in that it involves bringing together disparate elements into one place and asks readers to figure who's who and what's whose. The technique used is similar to that described in this tutorial on changing faces on a movie poster (http://pinkzap.com/tutorial/how-to-replace-faces-on-movie-posters/). The new image will consist of a famous guitar playing or holding the guitar of another famous guitar player. My TA went added an additional feature to the assignment by embedding an mp3 clip of a riff by yet another famous guitar player. , _cpzh4: Visual, _cre1l: http://cis0835-fa11.blogspot.com/2011/10/troll-steals-axe-challenge.html, _chk2m: Otto Paertz, _ciyn3: 188, _ckd7g: VisualAssignments188, _clrrx: VisualAssignments, _cztg3: VisualTutorials188