Finding Letters  in Plain Sight

Photography Section

Step 1: 

• Pick a word or phrase
  • Must be appropriate!

Step 2: 

• Take a photograph of objects that look like letters

B    V

  S          X

• If your word has the same letter twice in it you must pick two different objects for that letter
  • • • Ex the word Soccer
        • Must take two different C photos                                                  

• You may NOT use real letters, create letter out of objects or anything that is draw/painted on a poster or wall

No

• Words for Sale
  • • •  If you pick a theme (baseball, music, beach) it makes it more interesting
        • • Examples of this project that are for sale:

Baseball Theme for Sale

Beach Theme For Sale

Points for word length and theme

• 3 Points
  • 4 Letters
• 4 Points
  • 6 Letters
• 5 Points
  • 8 Letters
• 6 points
  • 10 + Letters

• Each canvas Width will be different depending on the length of the word
  • To get the width
    • Multiple 2 by how many letters in the word
      • 4 letter word   2 x 4=8 inches
      • 6 letter word   2 x 6 = 12 inches
      • 8 letter word  2 x 8 =  16 inches

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Step 3: Guides 

•  Go to View
  • Guides
    • New Guide Layout

 

• Columns 

• • Number:  This number will depending on how many letters you are using. 
    • • Ex: If you have 4 letters  fill in the number 4
        • If you have 8 letters in number 8

• • Gutter:  0.15

• Rows
  • 1
    • (If you have two words make it 2 rows)

• Margin
  • Top 0.15
    • Left 0.15
      • Bottom 0.15
        • Right 0.15

• Color
  • Custom: Pick any Blue color

• Click on the Rectangle Tool
  • Fill:   Black
    • Stroke:  White box with red line through it

• Draw a rectangle in the far left blue graph box
  • Make sure you have a white border around the black box
    •  The blue lines are to give you a guide so you do not make the box the correct size

• Go to the Layers Pallet
  • Double click where it says Rectangle 1
    • Rename the layer to
      • 1 Letter

• Stay on 1 Letter Layer
  • Click Control J (this will make a copy of the black box)
    • Select the Move tool
      • Move the black box to the right into the next graph section

• Continue until you have filled all of the boxes
  • Everyone will have a different number of boxes that is dependant on the length of the word

• Click on 1 Letter on Layers Pallet
  • Go to
    • File- Place Embedded

• Pick the first letter of your word/phrase
• Click Place

         

• Your photo will appear in the middle of your canvas BEHIND the black boxes
  • Select the move tool

• Go to Layer Pallet
  • Click on the layer of the image
    • Be SURE that it is directly above 1 Letter Layer
      • Right click on that layer
        • Choose Create Clipping Mask

• The photo will now be “Clipped” inside of the black box
  • Make the image larger or smaller until it looks perfect to you

• Click on 2 Letter on Layers Pallet
  • Go to
    • File- Place Embedded

• Choose the second letter of the word
  • Place image
    • It will show up in the middle of the canvas behind black boxes
      • Move the letter to the Left and over the second black box
        • Right click on the Layer
          • Create Clipping Mask 
            • The image will be “clipped into the box”
              • Make it bigger or smaller to fit

• Click on 3 Letter Layer
  • Repeat the steps from above until you have placed all the letters in your word/phrase

Step 22

• When word /phrase is complete
  • Flatten Image

Step 23