Does it articulately tell the story?

Is it successful as a painting?

Does it have depth (multiple layers of imagery: background, middle, foreground)?

Do foreground characters function autonomously from other layers, or are they cemented to the background?

Does it function as theatre?

Is it interesting?

Is it tiled properly, mounted on foam core or board, for a complete physical product?

Is it uploaded to this blog?

photo correction

Our Moab trip

canyon lands

upload procedure

1. Open the .jpg file with no layers you saved for printing.

2. Image> Image Size> Reduce W to 15 in. H will change automatically

3. SAVE AS> (a new version filenamesmall.jpg)

4. Upload to this blog

5. You must both print the project and upload it for full credit. Failure to upload will not be awarded a high grade.

Printing Procedure

Visual Elements Digital Tools Printing Procedures

Photoshop

Before you start, save a version of your file with all of the layers as a .psd document.

One last time, check Image> Image Size and make sure the image is 24x30x150

Layer> Flatten Image> Discard Hidden Layers

Save As (a new version of the file .jpg)
Then:

1>
View> Rulers

2>
View> Grid
View> Snap To> Snap to Grid

3>
Pull Guides from Rulers> every 8 inches horizontally> every 10 inches vertically

4>
Marquee Tool> Fixed Marquee> 8 in x 10 in
Fit into guides

5>
File> New> 8 x 10 x 150

6>
From larger document to the offloader, cut> paste> print
Complete all 9 tiles

color glossary