Instructions
1. Prepare your image for print: Go to Project 3 > Fine Art Print – TUTORIAL to edit your image and prepare it for printing. There are important edits all large format prints need, such as selective sharpening and lightening to compensate for printers that normally print a little dark. You will need to follow the instructions for proper sizing or your image will be poor quality and pixely when printed large. DO NOT PRINT FROM YOUR SIZED DOWN IMAGE! It will be pixely when printed large. Go back to your full size .psd or original and do all edits before saving and sizing. Choose your print method from the options on the Fine Art Print – TUTORIAL.
3. Print your work: Quick Ship and Copy has a great printer and is your best bet. DO NOT print on campus, at Alphagraphics, Walgreens, or Walmart! If your print is poor quality or sized wrong, you will need to reprint it before the deadline. So start early. Again, follow the Fine Art Print -TUTORIAL while printing. You will need to take your file on a flash drive to Quick Ship and Copy when you print.
4. GRADING CRITERIA: Your prints need to be high-quality. I will look for good lighting, focus, focal point, angle, and subject matter. You also need to have a unique approach and include at least 3 significant edits from the following list: a border, type (text), levels, adjustment layers, masks, color change, contrast, saturation, filter, misc. custom effects. If you do not want to add any edits to your image, please talk to me and we can work something out. Most images need to have at least levels and sats and maybe clarity or sharpness adjustments to print well.
5. POST TO YOUR BLOG: Size your picture for your blog so the shortest side is 1080 pixels, and post it to your blog. Also show the original image(s) before editing. Add the normal labels and a paragraph explaining your experience and process. Be sure to include the reason you chose this image, where you took the shot, and your photographic and editing techniques used.
6. VIDEO PRESENTATION: Ask a friend to take a short video (1 – 2 minutes) of you showing your fine art print. Tell us about the shooting – editing – printing experience. Save it to YouTube and embed the video in your blog. (You should have learned to do this in Comm 130.)
7. Instagram:
– Find a professional mockup to display your fine art image. You can find a mockup on Behance, Mockup World or by searching “free mockup” online. Post your fine art in a mockup to Instagram. Use the #comm300 hashtag and tag@visualcomm.photos on the image not in the caption.
– Search the #comm300 hashtag and view 6+ classmates’ fine art posts.
– Leave comments on at least three classmates Insta – fine art posts
7. SUBMISSION: Do not submit until everything is complete. Once you submit, be sure NOT to change anything on your post, until after it is graded. When your assignment is complete, click “Open” on this page and submit the following:
1. A working hyperlink to your blog post (not home or log-in page)
2. A screenshot attachment showing your ENTIRE blog post.
3. List how many classmates’ Insta fine art Insta posts you viewed and who you commented on. Example: I viewed 6+ classmates OS-ES; Commented on Lindsey, Ben, and Doug. (3 IS NOT FOR FALL SEMESTER DUE TO THANKS GIVING BREAK)
*Follow these instructions of how to capture a screenshot of your blog post and how to correctly submit in I-Learn. Once you learn this process, it will only take about 1 minute to submit correctly.
Rubric
NOTE: Meeting the minimum requirements is “average” and constitutes an 80% or B- grade, according to the University Grading Guide. To receive a higher grade, students should excel. However, quality and/or difficulty is more important than quantity.
√ SIZING: Photos sized to 1080 pixels on the short side. First part of jpeg filename is student’s name. Example: JakeSpencer-Tetons.jpg. Photos displayed at “Large” size in blog post, per instructions in Week 1 > Photo Blog Instructions. Photos are clickable.
√ PHOTOGRAPHY: Lighting – Focus – Composition; Focal Point – Angle – Subject Matter
√ EDITING: At least 3 significant edits: Good Sharpness, Lighting, Saturation, Levels, Contrast, Border, Type, Filters, Adjustment Layers, HDR
√ QUALITY PRINTING: Finished size = 16×24 size only. Quality edits and sharpness
√ BLOG POST: Size another copy of your final, edited print to 1080 pixels on the short side, Include the original and edited versions of your image in the blog post. You may post the original as a thumbnail or smaller image; Include at least three – five sentences your process. List your edits. Include the following: Reasons for choice; Photography, editing and printing techniques;
√ VIDEO PRESENTATION: A 1-2 minute YouTube video is embedded in your blog post discussing your shooting, editing, and printing process.
√ SUBMIT LINK AND BLOG SCREENSHOT TO I-LEARN: Do not submit until everything is complete. Once you submit, be sure NOT to change anything on your post, until after it is graded.
CAUTION: YOUR ASSIGNMENT IS NOT COMPLETE UNTIL YOU SUBMIT A LINK TO IT HERE. However, you are allowed a one-time extension, if you choose to use your mulligan. Please read about it in the syllabus. We check your blog post for completion right at the deadline, so please do not add things later. Everything needs to be complete when you post the link.