There are four assignments in the Photoshop unit the quality of the level of creativity and experimentation that you bring to it is up to you.  I have provided a shot by shot tutorial in SMART Notebook for the animal assignment.  See attached.I expect you to rely heavily on youtube and other tutorial sites.  After you leave this class you will need to be comfortable looking for information yourself online.  You will find the tutorials easier to follow if you find one create using Photoshop CS3 as that is what we have.Assignments :Weekly reflection : Watch this video: http://www.ted.com/talks/erik_johansson_impossible_photography  What is digital art?  What similarities and differences do you see compared to mroe tradtional forms of art like paint or sculpture?How does the example of the boy with the tarp-road exemplify his three rules of merging pictures?  Do you like Erik Johannason's art?  Explain. Click here for his website: http://alltelleringet.com/ a).      Always write using a beginning and end.  Don’t leave us hanging – sum it up and SPELL check.b)    COPY and PASTE this at the bottom of your writing piece and self evaluate with the highlighter pen.Weekly writing assignment – minimum 100 words, clearly focused on question given StrugglingNoviceAcceptableAdvancedCommunicationA challenge to read, not well developed, spelling mistakes are distractingA few spelling or grammatical mistakes,Good intro and conclusion, no more than two spelling mistakesEverything is written correctly and interestingly. 0-2.533.5  44.5  5IdeasIdeas are limited and not well supportedSome support for a main idea but not well developedMain ideas have examples and are clearly expressedA convincing explanation with examples and detail 0-5.56  6.57  7.5  89  9.5  10 Simple merge – to do well you need to pay attention to blending the two images well – work on feathering and colour correcting.Merge two animals. Be inspired by clicking here.  You can also choose to do an animal and a fruit etc….Do a photo touch-up – use skills to change eye colour, whiten the teeth and make the skin flawless.  You are going to do what all magazine layout artists do – take a real person and turn them into a supermodel. Alternatively, you can add bruising, darken and yellow the teeth and add wrinkles. How to change eye colour, Enhancing the eye, and Whiten teethTurn someone into something else.  Example: avatar, lizard woman, Hulk, zombie, vampire…. The key in this assignment is to really show off.  I am looking for skin colour change, liquefying, blurring, blending, reshaping. Cartoon yourself in CS3, Create an Avatar and Creating crazy creepy supernatural  eyes