Filter

Filter: To pass (a liquid, gas, light, or sound) through a device to remove unwanted material. Move slowly in a specified direction. (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/filter)

REQUIRED SOFTWARE

Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator (Optional)

LEARNING OUTCOMES

LO 01: Use mixed media, 3D modelling, and geometric principles to translate drawings into accurate physical forms.  
LO 02: Recognize the environmental impact of materials through hands-on making exercises. 

Step 1 – Mutation

TOPICS
Bitmap Images, Resolution, Color (data storage), File Size management, Naming, Photoshop intro, Photoshop effects&Filters

INSTRUCTIONS

Follow the Mutation tutorial found in the tutorials folder clicking this link.

  1. Use a camera to take photographs of textures from your environment.
  2. Choose one image, and carefully crop it to 7 x 9.9 cm (300 Pixels Per Inch), if the size is not correct you will lose points.
  3. Categorize your image using 3 descriptors related to its form, shape, and texture. You will mention the descriptors in the blog.
  4. Use Adobe Photoshop to manipulate and affect your image in order to generate new textures: 20 transformations.

Required Tarnsformations: 

  • 5 x filters 
  • 5 x filter gallery 
  • 5 x seamless textures
  • 5 x arrays/tiling 

SUBMISSION 1/2*

*Filter is composed of 2 steps, Mutation and Breeding. Make sure you do both. When delivering on Moodle by midterm, create a zipped folder named (Fa25_FoW101_Filter_Name_Surname.zip) containing the folders Fa25_FoW101_Filter_Name_Surname_Mutation, Fa25_FoW101_Filter_Name_Surname_Breeding

Delivery on Blog: 

Deadline: Submit by 23:59 the day before the next session on your blog. If submitted on time, you will receive feedback and have the opportunity to improve for an additional week.

Penalty: Late submissions will result in a -10 point deduction, and failure to submit the following week will result in a permanent score of 0.

Deliverables:

  1. Original picture 7 cm x 9.9 cm (300 Pixels Per Inch)
  2. 3 descriptors next to or below the picture
  3. 20 Pictures organized in a 5×4 grid (35cm x 39.6cm). Create a Photoshop canvas with the indicated width and height to host all the images on a single image.
  4. 5 best transformations and upload them in a large format. Add a caption with a description of the techniques used for the image.  

Delivery on Moodle:

Deadline: Include the content below in the folder named (Fa25_FoW101_Filter_Name_Surname_Mutation)by Midterm 23:59 on 22 October 2025. Correct naming of the submitted files is part of the evaluation.

Penalty: Late submissions or lack of submission both on the blog and moodle, will result in a permanent score of 0.

Deliverables:

  1. Original picture 7 cm x 9.9 cm (300 Pixels Per Inch)
    Fa25_FoW101_Filter_Name_Surname_Original.jpg
  2. 3 Descriptors written in a .txt file
    Fa25_FoW101_Filter_Name_Surname_Descriptors.txt
  3. 20 Pictures organized in a 5×4 grid (35cm x 39.6cm). Create a Photoshop canvas with the indicated width and height to host all the images on a single image.
    Fa25_FoW101_Filter_Name_Surname_5x4grid.jpg
  4. Folder with 5 best transformations named Fa25_FoW101_Filter_Name_Surname_Transformations
    Each transformation named Fa25_FoW101_Filter_Name_Surname_M_01…until 05.jpg.
    Descriptor for each transformation as a txt file in the same folder
    Fa25_FoW101_Filter_Name_Surname_M_01_Descriptor.txt until 05_Des….txt

Step 2 – Breeding

After finishing with Mutation continue with Breeding at the following link.

TOPICS
Photoshop Actions, Flowchart diagrams concept, Flowchart diagram how to draw it

INSTRUCTIONS

FOLLOW THE Breeding TUTORIAL found in the tutorials folder by CLICKING THIS LINK. The tutorial covers the steps below.

  1. Explore Photoshop actions and batch processing to generate new combinations. Define 5 different flowcharts (Photoshop actions) that combine 2 pictures together and use different mutation techniques like filters, tile, and symmetry.
  2. Use each of the 5 flowcharts to combine each of the 5 images from the Mutation exercise with 2 other Mutation images either from your collection or taken from your colleagues, resulting in 50 images in total. The batch processing tool in Photoshop will automate and facilitate this process.
  3. Organize the images that you have created: Create 5 folders (one for every action), named according to the main action: “Breeding-action”. In Each folder create two other folders each containing the Mutation taken from your collection or from the collection of your colleague and the 5 resulting outcomes. Remember to put in each of the 5 action folders your flowchart diagram represented in a way of your choosing. You can also refer to the diagram below for a better understanding of the exercise as well as a diagram style you can use
  4. Select 5 pictures from the offspring and post.

Required Transformations: 

  • Blend Action, 10 offspring + flowchart
  • Recursion Action, 10  offspring+ flowchart
  • Filter Action, 10  offspring+ flowchart
  • Array Action, 10  offspring+ flowchart
  • Combination Action, 10  offspring+ flowchar

SUBMISSION 2/2

Delivery on Blog: 

Deadline: Submit by 23:59 the day before the next session on your blog. If submitted on time, you will receive feedback and have the opportunity to improve for an additional week.

Penalty: Late submissions will result in a -10 point deduction, and failure to submit the following week will result in a permanent score of 0.

Deliverables:

  • Best 5 transformations 7 cm x 9.9 cm (300 Pixels Per Inch)
  • Action Flowchart/Diagram, You can follow the example above to create your diagram by any means. The example above is done in adobe illustrator.

Delivery on Moodle: 

Deadline: Include the content below in the folder (Fa25_FoW101_Filter_Name_Surname_Breeding) by Midterm 23:59 on 22 October 2025. Correct naming of the submitted files is part of the evaluation.

Penalty: Late submissions or lack of submission both on the blog and moodle, will result in a permanent score of 0.

Deliverables:

  1. Folder with 5 best breeding outomces named Fa25_FoW101_Filter_Name_Surname_Breeding
    Each Breeding element named Fa25_FoW101_Filter_Name_Surname_B_01…until 05.jpg.
    Action squence for each Breeding element as a txt file in the same folder
    Fa25_FoW101_Filter_Name_Surname_B_01_Descriptor.txt until 05_Des….txt
  2. The action diagram per the example above Fa25_FoW101_Filter_Name_Surname_B_Diagram.pdf/jpg

Note: Please have Rhinoceros 3D and Illustrator installed on your computer for Session 2. Complete requisite tutorials.

Rubric

Exercise Weight 5%

BONUS:

If you chose to do the Photoshop Certification on LinkedIn and you publish your certification on your blog and send it by email to your instructor you will get 10pts on the Filter Exercise.

https://www.linkedin.com/learning/photoshop-2025-essential-training/

Read  & discuss in your digital lab book:
Evolutionary Algorithms Could Be More Significant Than Machine Learning (https://danielmiessler.com/blog/genetic-algorithms-could-be-more-significant-than-machine-learning/)Interactive Evolution of Camouflage, Craig Reynolds (2011) (https://www.red3d.com/cwr/iec/2011ReynoldsALifeJournal.pdf)

Read  & discuss in your digital lab book: Flatland (1884), Part 1 (https://www.globalgreyebooks.com/content/books/ebooks/flatland.pdf)
Creativity in the design process: co-evolution of problem–solution (2001) (https://www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/AY2013/cs7601_spring/papers/Dorst_Cross2001.pdf)