Welcome to the tutorial for the One Shot Assignment! This assignment can be tricky so I’m making this tutorial to offer my advice and instruction on a simple way to complete it.

What you will need:

A photo with multiple subjects

Microsoft Word

A photo cropping tool

Step 1: Choose your photo

Either take a new photo or choose a photo that you have saved. I would suggest picking a photo that includes a lot of different subject in it so that you can split it up into a lot of different segments. There is not much instruction for this assignment, but one way to think about it is to try and tell a story through the rearranging of your selected photo. If you do not have a personal photo that you think would be appropriate for this assignment then try finding one online that has lots of subjects. I will be using a personal photo!

Step 2: Editing the Photo

Once you’ve chosen your photo, open it in your photo cropping tool. Before you crop it, make sure you’ve decided how large you want each segment to be.

Crop the photo that you have used the entire picture and you have the desired portions of the photo separated and saved individually.

Open a word document and insert all of the individual portions into the document. Resize them and arrange them next to each other.

Play around with the position of the photos until you’ve got your desired format. Maybe try to tell a story. Maybe try to create a new photo. Make it your own!

Take a screen shot and open up your cropping tool again. Crop the screen shot so that only your photo creation is selected and save this new picture. This new pic is your final product! Easy, simple and fun!

I tried to make my story about a girl who visits a park and then sees some kids reading a plaque about some U.S. history. It’s not the best story, but you’d be surprised how hard it is to come up with a cohesive story out of just one picture.

Good Luck!

Welcome to the tutorial for the Poetry Art Assignment! This tutorial is titled Poetry Art Tutorial for Dummies because I will be using some very simple and easily accessible software to complete the assignment.

What you will need:

Microsoft Word (seriously)

Photo Editing software with a cropping feature. I will be using Picasa (It’s free)

Your Imagination!

That’s It!

Part 1: Choosing your poem and background picture. If you already have a poem and a background picture, skip to part 2.

For this assignment you will need a poem and an appropriate background picture.

-The poem can be one of your own or one that you like from another poet. For the purposes of this tutorial I simply google searched “nature poems” and found one called “the way through the woods” by Rudyard Kipling. Open your a word document and copy and paste your selected poem into a text box.

I used this source for my poem:

http://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/the-way-through-the-woods-by-rudyard-kipling

-The picture should be related to the poem and it should exemplify what the poem means to you. For the purposes of this tutorial, I again google searched “nature pictures” and found an appropriate background picture to match my poem. Save the image as a jpeg and and insert it into your word document.

I used this source for my photo:

http://www.imagescatalog.com/nature-beautiful-hd-wallpapers/

Part 2: Editing Process

Once you have your poem and picture selected, go ahead and screen-shot your text box that has the poem written inside of it.

In your photo cropping tool, crop around the text box and save the picture as a jpeg.

Insert the new cropped photo into your word document

Set the background photo to be in the background and place your poem over top of the picture

If it’s a long poem, just select a small portion so that the poem will fit well inside of your background picture.

Screenshot your word document

Go to your cropping tool and crop around the edges of your new creation and save the photo as a jpeg!

You’re done!

This tutorial demonstrated the how-to of this assignment but you can make it much more creative and or personal by using your favorite poems and pictures or even ones of your own!

Tutorial on How to Make a Chimeratic Composition

Assignment prompt:

Take at least three pictures (your own or someone else’s) mash them together into something that makes them more than the sum of their parts, something that would have been impossible in real life. Include the original images so we can see how they build on one another to make your final composition.

Even though I did not actually do this assignment worth 3.5 Stars during the course of the semester, when I saw it, I thought it would be something cool and fun to do!

I used Photoshop Elements 11 to create this assignment and tutorial but if you have Photoshop you should be able to following this same process. It is a pretty easy assignment and you will only need to use one tool throughout the project.

First find the photos you would like to use and compile together. I started with a plan landscape photo, and then picked four other photos that had objects I wanted to crop out and place onto the landscape backdrop. The following are the photos I used for the project:

Now that you have your photos compiled together, upload each of them into Photoshop Elements 11 in order to begin editing. Start with one of the photos you would like to crop the object out of and select the  Quick Selection Tool, which is highlighted in the toolbox below.

Once you have selected the object, right click your mouse and select Layer via Copy.

Next right click your mouse over the new layer and select Duplicate Layer.

Once you have selected Duplicate Layer, a box will appear. In the Destination subsection of the box, place the layer in the same window as the background photo. The name of the background photo in my project, was DSCN3240.

Proceed with these first few previous steps on each photo used until all objects you would like to use have their own layer with the background photo.

In order to adjust the sizes of the objects, right click on the object you would like to resize, and select Free Transform. Now you will be able to adjust the size to your desire and move it around anywhere on the photo.  Do this with each object until you have created your desired scene.

I wanted to make my objects really big because I thought it would look funny with the tall mountains in the background.

Final Product 

How to Color Splash in Photoshop Elements 11

I remembered doing something like this in a Photoshop class in high school so I just played with some tools and techniques until I found the fastest and easiest way. Here is a blog of my original post for this assignment, which equated to 3.5 stars. Although there are many tutorials for this assignment, I did not see one that included Photoshop Elements 11 or the same process that I used. The following is a tutorial of how to create the color splash technique in Photoshop Elements 11.

Start off by choosing a picture with a colorful subject and opening into Photoshop Elements 11.

First use the Quick Selection found highlighted in the tool bar and select the subject you would like to keep its color. Then right click on the selected subject and select Layer via Copy. This will create a new layer within the project that only contains the selected subject. 

Now select the original photo and go to Enhance –> Adjust Color –> Remove Color.

This step may not be necessary for you, but I wanted the colorful selected subject to pop more. So I went to Enhance –> Adjust Lighting –> Brightness/Contrast. 

Then I increased the contrast all the way to create a more monochromatic background.

That finishes this tutorial! It’s a pretty straightforward and easy procedure.

Original Photo

Finished Product