* DC1 2017 SPRING Week 5: BW Plein-air...

Brainstorm School: Designing with Color and Light Week 5 Demo Time-lapse | VisualPops from Sulmo Kim on Vimeo.

Articles:

• The Art of Composition | IAMAG
• Animator's Guide to Health and Wellness: Part1, Part2
• Computer Graphics Workstation Ergonomics | Kevin Hulsey
• What's Wrong with Home Office and How to Fix it | Ergo-Talk
• A Short Lesson in Perspective | Lins Redding (RIP)
• An Open Letter to Young Freelancers | Thrillbent

Video Channel Links:

• Color Psychology: Montage of How Color Creates Emotion in Film
• Now You See It
• Cinematography Database Show | Watch Now, getting taken down!
• How to Understand Picasso | Nerdwriter1
• Drone Footage Competition Winners | NYCDFF 2016

Artists:

• Simon Stalenhag
• Alberto Mielgo
• Limbolo
• Robh Ruppel | ArtCafe Interview 

HW:

• Make Custom brushes and Shapes, Set up Tool Presets
• 3 Day/Night BW Plein-air pieces at the same spot (Total = 6)
• Set up 2-3 color palettes to bring to class next week to do Color Plein-air during class; I recommend 1 complementary gamut mask with sunset colors, and Atmospheric Triad, or one with nighttime colors city colors.

NOTES: Tips for Custom Brushes/Shapes

• When taking a photo, make sure the edges have the most contrast and are clear of overlap with any noisy background
• If necessary, clean up edges
• Use Hue/Saturation to turn the image into BW
• Using Levels, increase the contrast by bringing in the sliders on the left (for darks) and right side (lights)
• Again in Levels, select the Eyedropper which says "Set in Image to set Black Point" to set the image/pattern you want to be in the brush. 
• In Levels again, select the Eyedropper which says "Set in Image to set White Point" and pick the background to make it completely white (i.e. not be in your brush)

• In PS, use Color Dodge/Burn tool with a soft round brush set to "Highlights" in the upper menu panel to increase the white level along edges
• Use Color Range to select dark shape, then decrease the black levels. Make sure the shape is filled with pure black
• Select Inverse, then delete the background
• In the Layers Panel, CMD+Click the Thumbnail to select just the shape, then go to Edit -> Define Brush Preset. Name your brush and make a Tool Preset

For a Custom Shape, a few Extra Steps:

• After selecting your shape, at the bottom of the Path Panel select the baseball diamond icon "Make Work Path from Selection"
•  Then go to Edit -> Define Custom Shape. Name your shape and it will be found at the bottom of the Custom Shape dropdown menu
• Note: In the Menu of the Custom Shape Tool, select Pixels from the drop down menu in the fare left corner