About Me Poster
Purpose:
To create a personalized poster using photography.
Procedure:
About Me:
1. Where were you born? Tell us how many people are in your family. What city you were born in? (2-3 sentences)
2. Three Likes and/or Hobbies: (ie: favorite music, movies, TV shows, books. What are your talents?) (3-4 sentences)
3. Where do you see yourself in 10 years? What college will you be at? What city will you be living in? What type of job will you have? (3-4 sentences)
Review and discuss the following vocabulary words: point of view, composition, font styles, color stroke, layers
To create a personalized poster using photography.
Procedure:
- Answer the following questions on your wiki page.
About Me:
1. Where were you born? Tell us how many people are in your family. What city you were born in? (2-3 sentences)
2. Three Likes and/or Hobbies: (ie: favorite music, movies, TV shows, books. What are your talents?) (3-4 sentences)
3. Where do you see yourself in 10 years? What college will you be at? What city will you be living in? What type of job will you have? (3-4 sentences)
Review and discuss the following vocabulary words: point of view, composition, font styles, color stroke, layers
- Create a summary using your answers from the questions above.
- Now that you have told us more about you, think of a prop to be used in a photograph. The photograph will be used as the background image for your poster. The photograph must include you holding or doing something but not show your face. The photo should be horizontal or you can use two vertical photographers.
- Once you have your photograph taken, upload it to your computer.
- Go to the website http://pixlr.com/o-matic/
- Upload your photo to pixlr and begin adding effects, overlays, and a border to your photo. Save your work.
- Next, open Photoshop. Go to File--> New--> US Preset--> H 11 x W 17
- Then go to File--> Open--> and click on your photo from pixlr--> click OK
- Use the move tool to drag your photo over to the 11 x17 page.
- Resize your photo to fit the 11x17 page by clicking Command + T and dragging the corner of the photo with the move tool.
- Go to the layers window and create a new layer.
- Use the type tool and create a title for your poster using your first and last name. Use Layer--> Layer Style--> Stroke to create a border around your text.
- Create another new layer and type a subtitle that describes what you are doing in your photographer. The subtitle could be a quote or lyric that describes something about your personality.
- Next, create another new layer. Click on the rectangle tool. Choose a color for the rectangle in the swatch window.
- Drag a rectangle on to the page that will be used as a placeholder for your personal summary.
- Change the opacity of the rectangle in the layer window to at least 50%.
- Next, add a new layer. Click on the type tool. Drag a text box over the rectangle.
- Copy and paste your personal summary inside the text box.
- Change the size and font color of your text.