Another Group of Digital Artists!

We are kicking off another semester of Digital Arts in the Middle School. Our group of talented students is sure to create innovative projects that will amaze us and inspire us. We will explore the world of graphic design, typography, and photo editing through Adobe Photoshop and InDesign. We will also compile an electronic portfolio at the end of the semester using a web-based slide show program called Prezi.

Please visit our blog often to see our creativity come to life. All print projects will be hung in the Middle School. Electronic projects can be saved to a flash drive and shared with you at home!

Take a Second Glance

The Washington Post Magazine regularly features a "find the differences" activity for its readers, where you are asked to compare two photos which appear to be exactly the same, but actually contain ten to twelve differences.

We created our own "Second Glance" photos. Students gathered a smattering of objects they wanted to photograph and then sat down at the computer to begin making subtle changes for their classmates to identify. The changes range from super-easy to incredibly difficult! See if you can tkae a second glance and decide what the differences are! You could be here for a while!

Playing With Our Food

We all know that we're not supposed to play with our food at the table, but when we're taking photos of it, we can make an exception!

Food photography is a specialized niche of commercial photography, with the goal of producing enticing images for placement in magazines, cookbooks, advertisements, or menus. We decided to try our hand at this technique.

Students brought in some of their favorite treats and arranged these vittles creatively to make them look as appetizing as possible. We all worked together to help each other with backgrounds, lighting, and of course, eating the leftovers!

After the original photo was taken, students used Photoshop tools to create various effects, such as watercolors, mosaics, graphic pen drawings, and more!

Mosaic Magic

This project was purely inspired by the students! It was something they wanted to try, so we gave it our best shot. The mosaics turned out beautifully! Each portrait of our class is made up of smaller photo tiles. These photo tiles vary from project to project. Some people chose to take photos of friends, while others chose to take photos of sports equipment, drum sets, and even themselves. If you click on the photos below to make them larger, you can zoom in to see the smaller tiles. This is a great idea, and I will definitely be using it with my classes in future years! Great job, Digi kids!