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):

1. At a computer in the 90's
2. Playing with toy cars as a wee lad
3. Representing the California IPv6 Task Force at a convention
4. Showing off the printout of one of my first programs
5. (hiding between the "e" and the "c") My first camera
6. (between "c" and "h") Co-instructor at a weekend science program for youth
7. A "face shot" of me
8. 14 servers and a bundle of cabling in the server room where I last worked
9. Me assembling a stereo system for my grandparents
10. Co-camp director at Space Endeavour Camp at Vandenberg AFB helping kids launch their first model rockets
11. At a rocket launch hosted by the model rocketry and R/C aircraft club I helped found
12. Working as staff at a computer at the Endeavour Academy, an applied sciences program at my old high school
13. 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 ~

A carefully piled grouping of art and photography supplies. This was created for use in a "searching" or "find the differences" type of game.