Assignment for Thurs 3/14 and Fri 3/15: Animal Hybrids!

Today’s Agenda:

  • Turn in missing work to raise your grade before I submit them today after school!
  • Since it’s windy today and I will be out tomorrow, we will have to postpone the Portrait Challenge #1 until after Spring Break. Feel free to work on the challenges over the break with your phones.
  • If you’re caught up with past assignments, work on the animal hybrid project below. You can continue working on this tomorrow.

Animal Hybrid Using Layer Masks in Photoshop!

To begin the Animal Hyrbid:

  1. Brainstorm ideas of two very different animals that can create an interesting mash up.
  2. Use Google Images to search for good quality photos of animals that you can use. Save them as JPEG files to your OneDrive.  Save several photos, so you have options. If they don’t save as JPEGs, use the Snipping Tool to take a screenshot. If you don’t know how to do this, ask someone around you for help.
  3. Once you have two photos you think will mash up well, you need to watch the Photoshop video tutorial: Animal Hybrid Photoshop Tutorial

Animal Hybrid Assignment Criteria

Learning Objective: use layer masks in Photoshop to create a “believable” animal mash up. By believable, I mean you did your best to blend and match the photos, including editing colors, brightness, etc. See student examples below!

Assignment: Use the steps from the video tutorial to create, save, and then post your animal mash-up to your blog. Posting instructions are below…

**If you enjoy this assignment/technique, create another mash-up for EXTRA CREDIT.  BUT, it should be something other than animal mash-up, such as:

  • Human + Animal Mash Up
  • Surreal Scene or Creature created from any photos
  • “Put Yourself in History”
  • Something else you can think of!

Posting instructions:

Add your animal mash up photo along with the 2 original photos you used in gallery mode.  Just for fun, name your new species in the title of your post!

If you create a second mash up for extra credit:

In the same post, add a second gallery with your second mash up + the original photos that you used for that one.

Change Link To–> Media File on the galleries.

I will create a Teams assignment for this after break.

Check out some mash up from past students:

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