Pun ASSIGNMENT

Create a visual pun.
 

Your assignment is to create a visual pun using Photoshop.  The assignment is structured to allow the student to gain comfort in the use of several Photoshop tools.  A variety of selection tools (marquee, lasso, magic wand, crop) should be used in conjunction with a variety of retouch tools (clone stamp, healing brush, spot healing brush, patch tool) in order to create a seamless image that translates into a visual pun. 

Rules and Ideas:

-          The final work may use images taken from the internet.  Some sites to consider:

o   iStock Photo

o   Google Image Search

o   Getty Images

o   Corbis

o   Fotosearch

o   Bing image search

-          The work should be set to 72 dpi, therefore, it is not necessary to change the resolution of the images taken from the internet, but they may need to be resized or transformed.

-          The final work must contain a minimum of 2 photographs

-          The final work must appear a seamless as possible.

-          A minimum of three visual puns should be made.

-          Post the work to your Blog site.

Ideas for visual puns:

Watch Dog                                                                              Serial Killer                                            
Fan Club                                                                                 Star Fish
Second Hand Store                                                                Money Order
Water Closet                                                                           Dr. Pepper
Strong Box                                                                              Dragon Fly
Photo Bug                                                                               Fire Drill
Bookworm                                                                               Dreadlock
Loud Tie                                                                                  Jack Frost
Toothpick                                                                                Flower Bulb
Gatorade                                                                                 Super Bowl
Handcuffs                                                                               Screw Ball
Horse radish                                                                           Jack Straw
Fireman                                                                                  Shoe Horn
Wisdom Tooth                                                                        Jar Head
Mail Man                                                                                 I pod
Boxing Match                                                                          Horse Shoe
Book Worm                                                                             Rock Band
Butterfly                                                                                   Rock Star
Moth Ball                                                                                 Home Run
Garden Hose                                                                          Back Lash
Horse Fly                                                                                Big Money
Eye Ball                                                                                   Fruit Punch
Handball                                                                                 Deviled Eggs
Football

You will be graded on the following:

Seamlessness of image – Points (10 points per) will be deducted for obvious 
(TIME BOMB, JAIL BIRD, BIRD BRAIN)

BLOG 5 B&W

Instructions for Black and White and Color Blog

• Instructions

Black and white imagery can be very dramatic.  That drama can be manipulated with a little color showing through in parts.  The Adjustment Layer option in Photoshop is perfect for this project.  To get to the option, got to LAYER < ADJUSTMENT LAYER < BLACK AND WHITE.  Next you can manipulate the black and white image by moving the scrubby buttons.  You can reveal the color below the layer by painting on the Layer Mask with a black or white brush. 
For you next blog, each student should make a  minimum of 3 images that are black and white with a touch of color.

Blogger 4- Scanner Darkly

I am having my first bit of success in photoshop.  I'm not even sure this is the assignment but I am so happy I am posting it.  Aesthetically I like it as well.

Exercise

Select Exercise

Blog 3-Texture

I took a drawing I did, a floral arrangement I did, a family photo and a photo of a sign I liked and a picture of my shadow.  I combined, changed opacity, and applied a filter to each. Fun.

FLOWER

I think these colors are hideous but it is a good exercise.

Blog 2- Dreams

Years ago when I was suffering from vivid and unsettling dreams I shared this with my quasi college guru.  Without missing a beat he said, "Gena man, dreams are just throw up of the brain."  Whew, well now I feel better about my nauseous brain and let go of some of the worry of understanding and interpreting these nighttime morsels.   I do feel there are different types of dreams just like there are different types of sleep.  Vomitous dreams? For sure.  Its your brains way of sorting through a lot of imagery and stimulus that it doesn't know what to do with.  Guided dreams also, with the challenge of finding where I placed the misplaced car keys can be the drifting thought.  Ok brain, go to work.  Sensory dreams where you can smell or taste or feel something.  Depending on what it is these can be magical.  The nightmare is technically a dream gone bad.  Walking through that party with every person that you have ever met, wearing only the plastic red keg cup, for example, can be a nightmare.  You are calculating and darting your way from sofa to table to curtain to try to hide the fact that you are nude.  And you know you dream in color because you can recall in great detail the tie that your fifth grade math teacher was wearing.  Dreams like that beg for analysis and an afternoon nap because you wake exhausted.  Maybe another is when you see a path that your higher self is calling you to go on.  You are shook with the fact that a ominous entity seems to be calling you  to task.  Its fortuitous and in your dream you say. 'Yes. I will accept the chaplinship,' and again you see the little blue and white collar.  But then you wake.  you think, I can't become a chaplin!  How would I ever keep dating, _________ and do that? And on and on it goes.