Materials:

Directions:

Roll the dice

From wherever you currently are, roll the dice. The number you land on will be your number for this project. If you roll a one, roll again. That is the number of pictures you are going to take.

--- I rolled a 5 while in the Ear Training Classroom in the SFSU Music Department.

Take pictures
Look around you and note the main (dice#) of colors in your surroundings. For example, if you rolled a two, and you are in a garden, the main two colors might be green and brown).

Take pictures of those colors by filling your camera lens with a close up of something that color. You want a picture that is mostly a solid color with a distinct texture. Write down the order of pictures taken.

School desk surface	Floor
Curtain	Chalkboard
Wall

Open pictures in Photoshop

After you have taken (dice #) of pictures, upload them to your computer and open them in Photoshop.

Layer the pictures into one psd file

One at a time, copy the other images into a different layer of the first picture you took. (Go to an image, Select-> All, copy, go to your first image and paste image. It should paste the new image to a new layer, if not, create new layer first, then paste.)

You will also need to copy the “background” image into a new layer and turn off the "background" image by clicking the eye on that layer.

Adjust the opacity of the images

For each layer, change the dropdown menu “Overlay” and Opacity to “50%”

Save as PSD, just in case!

Flatten Image

Layer -> Flatten Image

Crop Image

Imagine a grid dividing the image into 6 sections. Select and Crop the quadrant according to your dice #.

Title the Artwork
This is your final image. Name it after the place and the dice number.

My image:

"EarTraining5"

Michi's results

"Humanities Building 5th Floor!"