The Learn@UW quiz went very smoothly today, most of the students knew the right answers when we went over it. This was especially apparent during the reviews.
When we showed them examples of what sort of things they could do with compositing (artwork, posters, album covers) the students became very excited. The associated projects really sparked their interest, as evidenced by the fact that several of them continued to work, even through their first break!
Here are some examples of what they made:
Here's Diana's HDR (High Dynamic Range) Photo of a city skyline and lights at night. She did a great job of taking the original image, a copy of it with a high exposure, and a copy of it with a low exposure and merging them all to HDR in Photoshop.
Before
After
Here's David's "Granpappy Mixape challenge," in which he had to crop out the image of the elderly man and place into this Photoshop template of a mixtape cover. This really shows David's knowledge of the layering system by knowing which layers to have on top/ be in front with the placement of Mr. 'Pappy.
Here's Carrie's "Smileyevil" project. She did a great job of cropping out the images as well as blending the smiley face with the flaming background. The little halo was a great little compositional and artistic touch as well.
After giving them a while to work on these projects, we did a quick review game, Jeopardy-style. The back-and-forth was pretty entertaining, what with the competitive nature of the whole thing, and it ended up a pretty close score. The "Keyboard Shortcuts" section stumped a lot of them, but that's something that comes with experience, and with learning the tools that fit your style best.
Next, they took their permit test. Some of them finished rather quickly, so it's probably a safe bet that they did fairly well. Here's hoping! After that, they blogged, and we're all looking forward to reading what they wrote.
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