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Open image in camera raw Minimal edits such as decreasing the highlights, boosting the contrast  Model already has nice skin, so zoom in and get rid of blemishes first Create new layer and label Blemishes Take the regular healing brush...not spot healing brush If you can’t see the blemishes, open a black and white layer Select healing brush and blemish layer and select only current layer and below sampling Delete the black and white adjustment layer Check you blemishes layer, if you went too far, erase Merge layers by clicking Command+ OPTION + SHIFT + E Complete frequency separation.  In high frequencies we have the skin texture, in low frequencies we have the skin color and tone. Make a copy of the merged layer. Label one COLOR and one TEXTURE Turn off the texture layer and go to the color layer Go to Filter, Blur, Gaussian blur Change radius to .1 Increase it just to the point where the skin texture goes away Should sta...

Total Points: 400 Due Date: December 11th What is due: 15 prints and ONE multimedia component and a 1-page project statement. (Also due is a short presentation, due November 14th in class) When are critiques? : Every Thursday from here on out, except Thanksgiving week, and we will present on Tuesday. For the remainder of the semester you are free (!) to work on a project of your own design,  which will make up roughly 40% of your grade for the semester .  Your work on this project must be unified conceptually, formally, and verbally. You have to elaborate your ideas, in other words, in visual, oral, and written form. Your work, however, can literally take ANY form, provided you are using as base material the skills and equipment discussed in class.   The point is that this work should be something you are truly excited about and something that will sustain you for the rest of the semester. Please note that our class time together will shift slightly to allow...

For Thursday's class, present us with a visual pitch for your final projects. This will entail the following: 1. Pitch us your final project concept 2. WHY are you interested in this? What are your driving ideas behind this? 3. Visually, show us what your images will look like. 4. Tell us what your process will be. (Lighting, locations, subjects) 5. Show us 4 artists who are either A) doing work similar visually to yours or B) working with the same ideas and concepts are yours. On Thursday we will present our work to each other so that we have a good foundation for critiques the FOLLOWING Thursday.