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First Draft Checklist – Example

You will create a movie cover using pictures of your own or images off the Internet.  The purpose of this assignment is to challenge you to use all of the Photoshop skills that you have learned up to this point.  You can create an entire idea from scratch or copy one that already exists using your own photos/graphics/text.  Use your imagination and be creative.

Using the Internet as your source of images, you are to create an illustration using the inside of each of the objects as your marquee area.  Images will then be cropped, using the proper technique, so that they look like they fit.  Use layer modes as well as filters to make the pictures interesting.  You also need to include your name on the canvas above the glasses.  The text needs to have an original font, be warped as well as include a layer style.  You need to include an image of at least one of the following:

• Sports
• Nature
• Animal
• Famous figure (person)
• Famous landmark

Using the Internet to get the following body parts, you are to create an illustration of a portrait using the watermelon as a head.  The portrait also has to include a picture or gradient background.

• Hat or hair
• Eyes
• Nose
• Ears
• Mouth

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