Photoshop Portraits Project Check List

Here is a list of all of the Photoshop projects; make sure that they are completed and posted to your blog.

• Picasso Inspired Multiple Perspectives- Copy/paste and combine two portraits together using Adobe Photoshop. Blend the two or more portraits to look like they are really one person.Try the eraser tool, lighting, blend, stamp, brush tool, different brush sizes and pressures.

• Fractured/Cubist Portrait- Cut and paste parts of yourself so that you will appear to have multiple parts like a puzzle coming apart or exploding. You can try a weave pattern, or square shapes, or more erratic shapes. Try using the drop shadow to make the pieces look like they are physically there. [25+ cut and pasted parts]. Include a background that will appear behind the parts you cut out. What would be inside of you

• Textured Portrait- Select using the square marquee tool and add a different filter to different areas of yourself. You can use more than one filter effect to each area. Try 50+ different filters and combinations.

• Cracked/Monty Python Inspired Portrait: Make what is inside of your head explode out of it. Cut off the top of your head and have different interests, parts of your personality pop out. You will have to copy and paste then scale the items that you choose.