Photoshop Project: Create a Poster

Photoshop Project: Create a poster with your photos and quote about photography

This assignment asks you to write a quote about photography. The quote can be you expressing your feelings about photography, or just about photography itself.

Using the quote and three or more photos taken by you, design a poster. You will use Layers in Photoshop to complete the project. A demonstration on how to use Layers will be given in class.

Be sure you spell check the words used in the quote.

See the example of the poster with photos and quote by legendary photojournalist Henri Cartier- Bresson.

Directions:

Open Photoshop, and select File New. You are creating a blank file to add your photos on to.

For a horizontal: Change the Width to 10 inches and Height to 8 inches

For a vertical: Change the Width to 8 inches and Height to 10 inches

Open Photoshop, and select File Open to open your photos.







Adjust the photos so you can see them on your monitor at the same time.

Select the Move Tool. (first tool on the tool bar)

Click on one of the photos and drag it onto the blank you created and release.

Do this for each photo.

Remember….keep your Layers window open to help manage your layers.

You can change the size of that photo by clicking on Edit> Transform>Scale. Now hold the Shift key down and mouse click on the corner of the image you want to change. Drag until desired size. Release the Shift key and double click inside image to hold the size.

To add your quote, select the Type Tool.

Click and drag on you photo to make a box and begin typing.

You can change the size and font with selections at the top of the Photoshop window.

To change the color, highlight the type and select the desired color using the Color Picker located at the bottom of the tool bar.

When finish flatted the image. Select Layer>Flatten Image.

Crop as desired.

When you are finished, save your photo on your desktop. Please name it with your name. I will pass around a flash drive to collect your photos.