Contact Sheet

The contact sheet assignment was a simple run through of all the basic photo manipulations you can do in photoshop.

The focus of the first row was on resolution. As the image progresses from left to right the resolution increases, meaning the image has more pixels (dots) per square inch (ppi), the more pixels the image has the more clear it will appear.

The second row deals with color modes. the original image of the hearts appears in the RBG column. this picture remains unchanged from the original because the web displays in the RGB color mode already. The 1st image is a desaturated version or black and white. second is a dual-chrome or in this case sepia toned image and the final is displayed using the printing color mode called CMYK

Orientation refers to cropping f the same image. The original is the landscape version, wider than it is tall which involved no cropping. the mountains were then cropped in two ways, the middle show a square version where all sides are equal in length, and the portrait version in column 1 is taller than it is wide.

Row 4 was done with the same crop tool, but this time the image size was unchanged. This created a zoom effect on the woman's face. the image went from the original one the far right, wide angle, to a close up.

Row 5 was exactly the same as row 4 except the zoom in was less representational and more abstract. The goal was to do the same zoom effect but to a place that was more obscure. Essentially, the image went from representational to indecipherable.

The final row dealt with different filters that were placed over an image of myself. The first one up close has strokes to make it appear like a charcoal and chalk drawing instead of being a photograph. The next two are both neon glows however, one highlights the edges and outlines in the image and the following one glows the light tone in the actual image. The final image is the actual portrait.