
- Techie Collage (CISW 350 Photoshop Assignment)
Assignment
Choose 1 descriptive/action word about you. Start your project large: 3000 x 2400 (to be saved as .psd). Must be at least 5 layers; all layers must be labeled. Must have these layers:
- Your descriptive word (can be big in background, can be all over, etc. - make it noticeable)
- A photo of you (you can filter, etc.); a large face shot or an action shot make the most interesting collage
- Your name signed like a signature in bottom right hand corner
- The others are your choice - try to make it a collage about you. Think about it as a portfolio website and someone hits the "About Me" link. What collage photos would describe you?
You will save and turn in the file in 3 ways: (1) Save large file with layers as .psd; (2) save large file for .jpg print (Save As > .jpg); (3) Compress and Save for Web: Change the image size of file to 1000 wide and Save for Web (compressed saved as .jpg) under 300KB.
Here is a sample list of words: devoted, sweet, cool, lost, determined, puzzled, random, confused, peaceful, driven, amazing, fierce, unforeseen, and graceful
Implementation
I've been a "techie" my whole life, as you can see from these photos. Background photos (L-R, top to bottom):
- At a computer in the 90's
- Playing with toy cars as a wee lad
- Representing the California IPv6 Task Force at a convention
- Showing off the printout of one of my first programs
- (hiding between the "e" and the "c") My first camera
- (between "c" and "h") Co-instructor at a weekend science program for youth
- A "face shot" of me
- 14 servers and a bundle of cabling in the server room where I last worked
- Me assembling a stereo system for my grandparents
- Co-camp director at Space Endeavour Camp at Vandenberg AFB helping kids launch their first model rockets
- At a rocket launch hosted by the model rocketry and R/C aircraft club I helped found
- Working as staff at a computer at the Endeavour Academy, an applied sciences program at my old high school
- A vendor at the GovTech conference in Sacramento
Inside the letters:
- T: The mainboard (motherboard) of a computer I built myself [Darkone, CC BY-SA 2.5]
- e: Nikon lens I would like for my camera [Hiyotada, CC0]
- c: Some Dell servers [DSV, Public Domain]
- h: Samsung Galaxy S6 (my newest smart phone) [Kārlis Dambrāns, CC BY 2.0]
- i: Baofeng UV-5R handitalkie amateur radio (lic #KK6UAJ) [Baofeng]
- dot over i: A laser refracting (just because it looks cool!) [CILAS, CC BY-SA 3.0]
- e: Java code I wrote in CISP 401 last year
Instructor's comments
WOW! You put a lot of work into this one. It turned our fantastic ~
- 1996-09-23 Baroque Performance
During college, I was a member of the San Luis Early Music Consort (SLEMC). At one performance in Atascadero, CA, I was called on to dress in a period costume and dance the minuet while the chamber orchestra performed. In this photo, taken after the performance, you see (from left to right) the father of one of the violinists, the choreographer and primary performer, the wife of our oboeist, and me.
- Friends in High School
My high school Students Against Driving Drunk club put on an annual Valentine's fund-raiser, taking photos of friends and couples. In this picture, I'm with my friends Eric Bough, Matt Debernardi, and Tony Givogue.