Elective B - Designing with Generative Systems Maria Margarida Almeida ALM10286371 MAGB&I LCC 2010
1. Go to the nearest park. It has to be a park with at least 50 trees; 2. Choose any tree and start counting from that. Stop counting when you reach your first number; 3. Stand close to the tree’s trunk, with your back leaned on it. Take a photograph of its crown, so your camera has to be pointing towards the sky. Use the maximum aperture of the lenses; 4. Repeat the same process for all the other numbers, always continuing your count from the last tree you’ve photographed;
5. Import all images into Photoshop. Create a new document, with the same size as the pictures, and put each picture in a different layer. The first number (the lowest) goes into the top layer, and so on, until the last one; 6. Change the opacity of each layer to these values: layer 1 = 15% layer 4 = 60% layer 2 = 30% layer 5 = 75% layer 3 = 45% layer 6 = 95% 7. Merge all layers; 8. Go to Image > Adjustments > Shadows/Highlights. Use these values: Shadows = 0% Highlights = 50%
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