Photoshop for Illustration

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Week 1: Navigating the Photoshop interface. Scanning, opening and saving drawings or paintings in different formats. Basics of adjusting and cleaning up an image.
Week 2: Using layers and various tools to adjust and alter composition of a scanned painting and build up a simple image from separate scanned elements.
Week 3: Scanning black and white line drawings and using them to create block colour elements on separate layers in order to build a completed illustration from them.
Week 4: Materials 1: Create a collaged illustration using digital photographs.
Week 5: Materials 2: Students work individually on their own projects with me providing one on one tuition.
Week 6: Students work individually on their own projects with me providing one on one tuition. Group Critique.

• navigate Adobe Photoshop and have an overview of it’s main functions
• save files in various formats
• scan and clean up a drawing or painting
• use Photoshop to create a photo collage illustration
• use Photoshop to create a colour illustration created from scanned line drawings or paintings