Unit II: Creating a Virtual Space

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Objectives

The focus of Unit II is on blending images together to create a convincing illusion of space. A special emphasis is placed on creating original source material using Digital Cameras.

Requirements

Students are expected to turn in the following:

• one Unit Image must be developed at a higher resolution for print
• one digital print
• artist research
• Web gallery of 4-6 studies and exercises
  • Scale juxtapositions
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  • "Believe it or not" images
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    • Altered or combined forms
    • "Art of the fantastic"
    • Transformed object
  • Deception
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  • Virtual space and atmospheric depth
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  • Visual contradictions, visual pun

Unit II Deadline: October 14, 2009

Research

Find examples where the artist has createed a seamless realistic illusion that seems visually impossible or not real. Find examples that use both digital and non-digital means. How has the artist used atmospheric depth concepts to make the image appear real and enhance the illusion? Site the sources used for quotes and images.

• Artists and terms: Pedro Meyer, Rene Magritte, Jerry Uelsmann, Giotto, Gericault, de Chirico, Grand Theft Auto, surrealism, fantastic art, atmospheric depth

Terms

• Virtual Space: identify how the following concepts are important to create convincingly blended images
  • Atmospheric depth
  • Distortion
  • Matching scale and perspective
  • Matching color
  • Adding lighting and shadows
  • Digital Landscaping: blending layers using masks
• Improving Source material:
  • Manipulating and correcting images
    • Improving Masking Techniques
      • improving edges
    • Editing a mask with painting tools and gradients
    • Clipping Group
    • Using paths to create vector masks
  • Touch up
    • Clone Tool
    • Sponge tool
    • Healing brush
    • Overlay layer
    • Burn and dodge
    • Variations
  • Color Correction
    • Properties of Color: Hue, Saturation, Brightness
    • Pixel values
    • Channels
    • Color Palettes / swatches
    • Color Modes: RGB, 16 bit channel, Grayscale, CMYK, Index color
    • Color Picker: Lab, Hex, RGB, CMYK colors
    • Pantone colors
    • Index colors / color lookup table
    • CMYK and offset printing
    • Out of Gamit warning
    • Monitor setup
    • Color Management
    • Levels
    • Curves
    • Color Balance
    • Hue / Saturation
    • Using Layers and Selections to isolate corrections
    • Using an "Overlay" layer for value corrections
    • Adjustment Layers
      • restricting to one layer (alt click on line between layers)
      • restricting to a selected area of the image (mask)
    • Eyedropper
• Perspective correction
• Output and File type: jpg, bmp, psd, png
  • Resolution / Output
    • Digital Print / Frontier versus inkjet prints
    • Resolution and print size
    • Offset Printing / DPI / LPI
    • Web / Multimedia