Sense of Place: Landscape or Interior Reference Image for Final Project

Purpose: 

Develop and manipulate imagery to use for your final project color harmony painting. 

Task: 

Select from your own personal photos a landscape (or interior scene) of a place that has significance to you. The photos you submit must be your own original photos, and not from a stock image.   

Step 1: Take or select (3)  three possible reference photo options.

Step 2: Posterize your photo into simple shapes using microsoft word (or photoshop if you are a digital media student) 

Creating a Posterized Image in Microsoft Word 

1. Copy and Paste or drag your first image into a new word document 
2. Pulling from the corner square of the image, enlarge to fill as much of the page as possible 
3. Double click the photo. Under Picture Format, select Color—Recolor---Grayscale 
4. Under Picture Format, select Artistic Effects---Cutout---& change the number of shades to 5

Your Posterized image should look similar to the example below.  When complete, upload your image options to canvas.