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Unit 9 Assessment

AOB 3 Edit digital images for a specific purpose.

Task.
You are to edit at least 6 of the brochure and 6 of the magazine images so that they are fit for purpose.

Make a copy of your original image so that this can be displayed alongside the edited version in your blog.

You must evidence at least three different edits. These could include:
Cropping
Scaling
Altering the Levels
Change to Black and White
Colourising
Changing Hue / Saturation (colour adjustments)
Making 'Retro' (light leaks, Instagram etc)
Adding texture through blending modes
Changing shapeEnhancements
Combine images from different sources
Adding effects / filters

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To get a distinction Distinction for this assessment objective you have to:

1. Use a range of techniques effectively and creatively.

2. Explain the purpose of these techniques and describe their possible effects on viewers.

EXEMPLAR BELOW...

Here is an example of one way of achieving the distinction for AOB 3.  The annotation is underneath the images. You will be doing 12 of these in total.

The techniques used include blending layers of colour and texture, vignetting and imitating light leaks. The purpose of these edits was to make the image have a 'retro' appearance and make the viewer feel that they are looking at an old Polaroid.

AOB 2 Transfer Images from a camera.

Task:
You are to organise all of your images into folders on your network folders.

> Start with a root folder called UNIT 9.
> Then 3 folder inside called Nature & Decay / Brochure / Magazine
> Inside these you need to place all of the relevant images that you have taken so far and NAME
   them.

> Take a screen shot (cmd / shift / 4) of the folder and post it to your Unit 9 blog. Annotate the post. 

   See below for example image.

Distinction.
Candidates transfer images electronically from a range of sources independently. They save a large quantity of photographs naming files appropriately for easy indexing and creating sub folders.