Digital Notans- Computer Assisted Art

First Image- Black and White-Symmetrical Notan

Step 1:  Find a picture on your phone, Facebook, Instagram, etc... that you have personally taken.  Save that photo to your student drive.

Step 2:  Open Photoshop on your computer.  <File<New create an 8.5 x 10 inch image 200 ppi

Step 3: <File<Open<Open saved image

Step 4: Use the Crop tool to crop the saved image into a perfect square.

Step 5: <Image <Adjustments <Hue & Saturation

Desaturate the image so that it is black and white.
You may also want to <Image < Adjustments < Brightness Contrast and adjust to your liking.

Step 6:  Use the Rectangle Marque tool to select the entire image.

<Edit<Copy

Step 7: Go to the new blank image and paste the picture.  <Edit < Paste

Use the move tool and move the image into the center of the white paper.

You may also need to resize the image- if so use ctrl + T

Step 8:  It is time to start removing bits of your picture and flipping them out.  This will create positive and negative spaces.  Make sure to use organic shapes during this process.  

Organic shapes are shapes that come from nature and are curvy.

Click on the Lasso tool.  Click and hold the lasso tool and draw a shape that you would like to cut out.

Use the move tool to move the shape.

<ctrl + t to transform and flip the shape.

Repeat until the image is completed.