1. CSC/FAR 020, Computer Graphics, October 21, 2009
Dr. Dale E. Parson
Assignment 5, due November 4

2. Generic Checklist Include a README file describing your steps.
Include all original images, and identify in the README file the steps where they were used. Also identify the output file(s) created using these original files.
All projects through semester’s end require you to add one creative step beyond my requirements. This must be part of the assigned project. Identify it in your README file. It is worth up to 10%.
Files must be in my Parsons Inbox on time.

3. Project 5 requirements
Use your own photographs. You do not personally need to appear in the photos.
(1) Take a portrait that has the following deficiencies (next page), correct them, and save the result in a Photoshop file. Also provide the original image. Try to capture or to use a single original image that meets all of the conditions for Requirement 1. If you do not have such an image, it is OK to use several original images, but you must identify them in the README and provide original images.

4. Deficiencies for requirement 1
(1a) The face in the portrait should have a blemish, pimple, zit, boil, scar, scab, wrinkles, rash, crow’s feet, unwanted hair or other cosmetic blemish that you remove using one or more of Healing Brush, Patch Tool, and Spot Healing Brush.
Describe the blemish in the original image and the steps you took to remove it.

5. Deficiencies for requirement 1
(1b) Image should be underexposed or overexposed.
Use a Level Adjustment Layer OR a Shadows / Highlights on a copy of a regular Layer to adjust the exposure.
(1b alternative) OR the image should be backlit, in which case you should use the Camera Raw tool to correct it as we went over in class. Make sure to identify which tool and technique you used. If you use Camera Raw tool, make a backup copy of the original JPEG first.
You can use two images, one overexposed or underexposed AND one backlit, and do BOTH of the above to satisfy your step beyond my requirements (Requirement 4 below).

6. Requirement 2
Use a Smart Filter Layer with one of the Blur Filters appropriate to the image, for example Motion Blur for a motion-like shot, or Softening Blur to soft-focus a portrait.
Smart Filters automatically add layers masks. Use the layer mask to mask off the blurred effect from part of the image.
Make sure not to flatten the Smart Filter layer into surrounding layers.

7. Requirement 3
Take another image that has a slightly out-of-focus foreground figure, and use either Smart Sharpen or Unsharp Mask to sharpen the focus while keeping the image realistic looking.
Make sure your log file identifies both the original image and the corrected image.
Don’t create a cartoon character! If you cannot get the figure fully into focus, then improve the focus without making it look artificial. You will get more points for a slightly out-of-focus realistic figure than a fake looking one.

8. Requirement 4
Pick one of the other tool features that we went over in the Week 7 classes for this assignment’s extra step beyond my requirements.
They include creative use of Filters, Filter Adjustment layers, Layer Blending, additional Blur Filters other than the one you use for Requirement 2, removing Spherical or Chromatic Aberrations, duplicating color range across images, Color Replacement, or doing both 1b and 1b alternative as documented above. Describe in the log.

9. Next assignment
The next assignment will swing back to a creative composition.
This one focuses on PhotoShop machinery, but feel free to be creative with it.
It is due by the end of day on November 4 in my Inbox.
Go back over these bullets as a checklist before turning it in.