Understanding Pictures Workshop Resources

INTRODUCTION:
 README FIRST (136 kb)

WORKSHOP SESSION RECORDINGS
•  Session 1 – Myths and Illusions
•  Session 2 – Analysing Pictures
•  Session 3 – Building Pictures
•  Session 4 – Designing Pictures
•  Session 5 – Creating Pictorial Affect
•  Session 6 – Case Studies

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TUTORIALS:
•  File UploadsUpload images, questions, and topics for us to work on together.

UNDERSTANDING PICTURES RESOURCES:
•  Complete Understanding Pictures Resources Package (36.9 mb)

INDIVIDUAL DOWNLOADS:

Overview:
•  How to look at a picture – workshop summary (615 kb)

Critical Distinctions:
•  How pictures come to represent more than they show (35 kb)
•  Understanding Pictures Summary (50 kb)
•  Understanding Colour Summary (44 kb)
•  Elements of Coercion (39 kb)
•  Relations of Ideas or Matters of Fact (251 kb)

Pictorial Design:
•  The Elements and Principles of Pictorial Design (846 kb)
•  LDSSTTHC (18 kb)
•  The Spatial and Temporal Compositions (1.1 mb)
•  Harmonic Intervals Notes (623 kb)
•  Harmonic Intervals Photoshop Image (14.4 mb)
•  Harmonic Intervals Affinity Photo Image (16 mb)
•  On Luminosity (96 kb)

Analysis:
•  Les Walkling Pictorial Design Photoshop_Actions (1 kb)
•  Les Walkling Pictorial Design Affinity Photo Macros (1 kb)
•  Installing Actions and Macros (53 kb)

Production:
•  My Emotional Theory of Print Size (42 kb)
•  My Emotional Theory of Aspect Ratios (378 kb)
•  Drawing with a Lens – Perspective (1.0 mb)
•  Five Compositions – Workflow Example (45 kb)

Colour Acuity:
•  Are you seeing correct colour (59 kb)
•  Kodak Wratten #90 Monochromatic Viewing Filter (URL)

References:
•  The Elements and Principles of Pictorial Design Bibliography (70 kb)

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