Editing Spaced Out

Editing of Spaced Out:

Review the work of David Hockney. Click here to view some examples
You can be really creative with this assignment!! As long as you are making a collage of many photos into one canvas, you can do ANYTHING!!

To begin construction of your photo design, create a new blank page in Paint.NET.  You may select the size, but I suggest going large and then you can crop it later.  You might want to try 24" wide by 18" tall at 150 dpi resolution. You can be really creative in your format (long skinny, panoramic, tall, square, rectangle, portrait, landscape, etc.) but you will want to start with a large background.  Later you can crop it down to the size that you want.

Then, you will paste your image pieces onto this blank canvas to construct your image. Be warned! You will have to reduce the size of each individual photo -- they will be too large to fit all of them onto the blank page. So, before you paste it into your background, you will want to do this...Go to Image Menu.  Click on Resize.  Then select "By Percentage" and change the percentage down to 10 or 15%.  You can then copy and paste your smaller image into your 24" by 18" canvas.  Be sure to paste each photo into a new layer.  You will want some freedom to move the image around.  When you get 4 or 5 images onto the canvas, I suggest that you make sure you are happy with the arrangement.  SAVE THE FILE AS A .PDN and then merge the layers down.   Keep a solid white Background layer separate.  You may want to add a background later.


**REMEMBER--AS YOU WORK, SAVE YOUR IMAGE AS A .PDN OFTEN.  When you have many photos and many layers, Paint.NET will sometimes freeze up and crash.  You've been warned!  YOU WILL WANT TO KEEP YOUR PDN in case you need to change something later***

WHEN FINISHED:  Crop your work down to a size that you like.  Add a background photo, texture, gradient or color.  Save your work as a .jpg at the full size (ex: Space.jpg.).  Post it to your blog.

If you are having trouble getting this to load on your blog, you may have to shrink the file down to 50% to 25% of the original size and save again, but make sure you change the title (ex: SpaceSMALL.jpg).  Then you can try to post the smaller version to your blog.  Keep the fullsized image saved though!