Contact Sheet

The first row dealt with differences in resolutions. At first I didn't know much about resolution and the way it affected each picture in the row. I went to Image on the toolbar and clicked Image Size; here, I changed the height to 1in. Here is also where it showed me the exact resolution of each picture. As the resolution goes down you can clearly see the differences. After playing around with pictures and manually changing their resolutions I stuck with the grasshopper. What I did was saved each picture into my Contact Sheet folder, specifically the pictures section, after saving each one I dragged the picture from the pictures folder right onto the word document. The picture showed up, everything was good. After finishing the 1200 dpi I opened the original photo back up and changed the resolution respectfully for each box. I had to change the size each time to 1 inch in height. This is a pretty good tool to use because different photos are meant for different resolutions. Some photos look way better at a certain dpi level. I am new to Photoshop so this is a great tool to be able to use in the future.

The second row was the Format/Mode row. The boxes are labeled CMYK, RGB, DuoTone, BW. I looked at these and had no idea what they meant, although I did guess BW meant black white. CMYK is print color, RGB is monitor color, DuoTone is pretty strange to me, and I still don't fully understand but it was cool beacause you can add different color schemes to it. CMYK is the colored format that is printed from a printer. RGB is monitor meaning colors you see on the web. The original picture is a field that has different colors for each row, which I felt would be a perfect picture to represent each formatted mode you can use with PhotoShop.

The third row is dealing with different orientations of a picture. I found a really nice photo on the internet and used it because a difference in orientation would not affect the masterpiece of this photo. The landscape orientation was done by changing the width to 1.75 inch and keeping the height at 1 inch. As for all the photos on my Contact Sheet they are all 1inch high. Orientation dealt with changing the width. The square orientation is obviously 1 inch by 1 inch and done by using the crop tool from the top left corner - then went and moved it to the right to the spot in the photo I wanted to capture. Portrait has the same height with 1 inch and changed the width to .75 inches; this was also done by using the crop tool from the top corner and then moving to the most desired area.

The fourth row is a photo of a bunch of pencils. I chose this photo because I wanted to show all the pencils and then eventually zoom in to the tip of one or two colored pencils. As you can see in the wide angle photo it shows all of the pencils and I didn't make any changes to the original photo. I used the original photo for the wide angle. I then began to slowly zoom in on the right side of the pencils by using the zoom feature in PhotoShop. Then I chose to zoom in on the left side of the colored pencils, again using the zoom feature. The close-up photo I chose to zoom way in on the middle of all the colored pencils to show the tips of them. All in all this row was a great learning experience with the zoom feature on PhotoShop.

The fifth row deals with the content of a photo while using the zoom feature. I chose a picture of Alexander Ovechkin, who plays hockey in the National Hockey League for the Washington Capitals. He might be one of the best players playing at the moment and also one of my personal favorite players. The representational photo is the photo of Ovechkin made to fit 1 inch in height. I then began to zoom in on the next two photos and ultimately got the the abstract photo. The abstract photo is such a zoom in whereas you can barely tell what is going on in the photo. This row shows the abstract photo and then gets to the representational photo. By looking at the abstract photo you can't tell what the photo is until you zoom out or look at the representational photo.

The last row is dealing with different purposes you can use. I chose to use a photo of a T-Rex in this row. I did this because sometimes when I am dancing around my friend have mentioned that I look like a T-Rex, I don't know - thought it would be funny playing around with the different artistic features with this. The journalistic photo is the original photo fitted to 1 inch in height. I then moved to the CrossHatch by using the smudge feature to smudge the picture a little. The DryBrush photo is my favorite photo because I added the glow feature to it. I did this because it makes it look like glowsticks and rave type atmosphere, in which dancing, and T-Rexin' come hand in hand. The Palette Knife photo was done by using the palette knife feature which smudges the photo a little bit but not as much as the CrossHatch. All of these features are found in PhotoShop by going to Filter then Artistic then choosing whichever feature you want to use to fulfill your purpose in the photo.