Your job for this project will be to create a series of images relating to the calendar year. Your designs will be based on the theme of the four seasons. You will work with a grid created using the guides in Photoshop which will be superimposed on the image and reflect the gird of the calendar month. Refer to the images and instructions in class. Step One:
Create four folders in your project folder. Name them Summer, Winter, Spring and Fall

Step Two:
Go to the internet and google.com and find images relating to each season. Place the Summer images in the summer folder and the fall images in the fall folder and so on for each folder. For each folder be sure to include images of people, activities, foods, objects and celebrations.

Step Three:
You will choose, or pick, two months which are in different seasons to use as your themes for the project. You will create a 10 by 8 inch , resolution 72, RGB mode, transparent contents file in Photoshop. Bring in all the images related to your month. It is here you will be required to complete additional research specific to your month.

Step Four:
You will begin designing the page. There are many methods you have learned in Photoshop to create interesting backgrounds based on various color schemes. You used the motion blur background technique in the "Poster Project" and you used an interesting method of creating images in any number of projects. Remember creating the space in the "Assessment Project"? You may create interesting patterns using the "define brush method". This is the part of the course where you will be responsible for your own design. We will look at many examples from the class to get you started, but the project is now in your hands. It is important to BEGIN work. Let the process guide you to a conclusion.

Step Five:
Create a grid using the guides and grids to reflect the weeks and days of the month. Use the grid to inhance your project. Look at the square pattern of the grid and begin working with the image to create a push and pull effect. Use the filter menu, brightness and contrast as well as the other image enhanceing methods to change your image from flat to three dimensional. Refer to tthe class lecture and examples in class.
' Save your work.