By The Beacon Staff

In Digital Foundations, a core requirement in the Communications and New Media program, students have been asked to take a stab at using Photoshop to create a version of their own Cubist self-portraits. Each student begins with a selfie (who can’t come up with a selfie?), then selects squares, trapezoids and other shapes to copy to a new Photoshop layer. If this sounds like Greek to you, there are a number of tutorials online; just Google “Photoshop Cubism.”

If playing around with Photoshop in a liberal-arts class sounds fun to you, the Digital Foundations class can take care of an Arts & Humanities requirement. Students also have a chance to create projects with Adobe Illustrator, InDesign and After Effects, as well as gaining a basic understanding of HTML.

Portraits left to right, top to bottom: Ayreal Ziegler, Mary Mandell, Jillian Brazel, Melinda Carmichael, Jay Collay, Paul Kelsey, and Phuntira Tiparos.