Distorted Self
Who decides what is considered beautiful?
How does beauty change across time? Across cultures? This unit will continue to explore the topic of beauty. This is the link to the presentation we viewed in class. This is the link to the worksheet you will complete for the next project. |
To begin your portrait:
Here are the prompts for manipulations of self portraits, you may take as many pictures as you need using Photo Booth, and you will make all of the following distortions using only the liquify tool. Save all of your versions as JPEGs and post them on your Weebly site as a Photo Gallery (go to the multimedia tab at the top). Label each of the pictures in the Caption option in the Gallery Element. Make 10-12 different images using the following manipulations:
- Make a new file File > New and choose U.S. Paper
- Now drag your picture in and make sure it fills all the white space. HOLD the SHIFT KEY
- Press Enter.
- Control-click the picture layer and choose Rasterize layer.
- Delete the background of the picture, leaving your head and shoulders.
- Control-click the picture layer and choose Duplicate layer.
- Go to Filter > Liquify and make your distortions. See Below for prompts.
- Save a JPG of every distortion you make.
Here are the prompts for manipulations of self portraits, you may take as many pictures as you need using Photo Booth, and you will make all of the following distortions using only the liquify tool. Save all of your versions as JPEGs and post them on your Weebly site as a Photo Gallery (go to the multimedia tab at the top). Label each of the pictures in the Caption option in the Gallery Element. Make 10-12 different images using the following manipulations:
- Using the last question from your worksheet, make the change to your face that you wanted to make. (ex. If you wished you had a smaller nose, make your nose smaller.)
- Using the last question from your worksheet, exaggerate the feature you wanted to change. (ex. If you wished you had a smaller nose, make your nose bigger.)
- Make yourself look cuter. (hint: bigger eyes and smaller features may help, or a more innocent expression)
- Make yourself look evil, scary, or demonic.
- Make yourself look more like an animal (snail, shark, horse, cat, dog, frog, etc.) You may look up animals online for a reference.
- Displace at least one of your features (move one part of your face to another part, without smudging the original feature.)
- Change the emotion of your face. (ex. If you look happy in the picture, make yourself sad or angry.)
- Change your hairstyle.
- Also do 2-4 other distortions/manipulations of your choice.
Benchmarks:
- Each image is labeled.
- Your distortion must be clear from your original image. (Viewers should be able to tell that it is not just a photograph, it looks different from you.)
- Your distortion is not excessively smeared. (Don't overdo it, it should still look like a photo when you are done just not like your real face, see pictures below.)
- Use the pucker tool in the liquify filter.
- Use the bloat tool in the liquify filter.
- Use the forward warp tool in the liquify filter.