I want you to identify several photos for our Edit/Repost Activity. (That would be a better title for this article, but too bland for me.)
Use the Search feature on you iPhone or iPad to find photos you'd like other participants to edit or stylize. Give these photos the caption: Tease me (Not a caption you might otherwise use ... ).
Allow the AI to identify the following photos using the Search feature - or review using your own brain power:
- landscape
- lake
- clouds
- sign
- statue
- building (stairs, chairs, windows ...)
- fauna (flower, fern, rose
- machine
- animal ( bird, dog, cat, horse ...)
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This activity is a warm-up, a chance to play and experiment, an opportunity to see possibilities through the eyes and skills of others. You might declare that you are a “photographer” rather than “photo stylist." Then someone in class interprets your photo in a stylistic way. Wow. Unexpected. Next photo outing, you begin to see your path differently with new textures, shapes and colors.
There is freedom in editing images that are not your own. There are times when playing clears the mind and opens the spirit, for then you can begin to create.
Before Day 2, studio participants will have identified five photos of their own that they would like to edit or stylize but are not sure what direction or app to use. Open each photo and add the caption “tease me” so that Photos > Search can identify it easily. (Practice this skill for all other photo work.)
Use Photos > Edit > Extensions > Markup to add your name in a visible color to the photo and adjust the font size as appropriate. (Practice using Markup - an essential skill/tool.)
We will post the photos to our shared album DURING class as directed. Tease Me Challenge participants will download the photos and after class, apply photo edits and stylizing effects to posted images. New versions will be posted DURING subsequent classes. All photos will be posted in individual groups, two on Day 3, three on Day 4 and others on Day 5. Class discussion will summarize photo edits and additional comments added in the shared album.
Editing and Stylizing do not follow a prescribed order of apps. Go with the flow or the feeling at the moment. Do something outside your usual approach to editing. Break the rules. Remove or hide details. Add something.
Posted creations will tease all of us to use our apps in new ways.
REVIEW Crazy Time! Your editing activities will not take as much time as the explanation time of this assignment. Hang in there for posting on Day 3. Photos can be taken with iPhone or another camera.
ANIMALS and TRAVEL are two subjects to include in your postings by Saturday, November 6th. Return on Sunday to download any photos that look interesting to you. Once you download, select the photos and create a new album called Tease me.
The photos saved from a Shared Album will not have the Caption text from the original.
Use any workflow to edit the photos. Save the photo over the original or as a copy (depends on the app you are using to edit). You might edit the photo, merge the photo with another image, create an event poster collage, add a cartoon character ... play!
In Photos add a new caption Teased. The caption can also include brief workflow hints that can be copied and pasted as comment in the Shared Album.
During class you will be prompted to add the edited photo to our shared album. As you post, add your workflow comment.
Thank you for your patience and willingness to try this new twist. All of the brain cells you lost during this introduction will be replace with creative brain cells. Promise!
