Digital Collage 1

Before next week’s class on 2/17/22:

1. Take some time to view the Digital Collage (Photocollage / Photomontage / Image Composites) Lecture .pdf. We’ll talk in more detail about these artists’ work next week, but for now, get a sense of the different types of work that are possible using various approaches to composite imaging.
2. Take a look at the Digital Collage Student Examples from last spring, which you might find informative or inspiring. Remember that composite imaging does not need to involve complex traditional “collage,” and can be as simple as creating diptychs/triptychs that create one seamless file from 2-3 images. Check out this body of diptychs that Marie made for the Intro to Digital Photo class in the Spring of ’20.
3. Begin gathering images that you think you may want to use for your digital collage work. This can include photographing tactile work you’ve made, shooting new images (remember that these are “ingredients”), adding previous images from your catalog into a collection, scanning images, or finding appropriated images on the web. Everyone should have either a folder for collage images or a Lightroom Collection dedicated to images that you might want to use for Photoshop compositing.

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*Make an appointment (via email) to meet with Rebecca if you are feeling particularly shaky or uncertain about this process, or are having issues with your Lightroom catalog or other tech problems.