Digital Photography and Imaging GCD 61204/ Week 4

 26.10.2023/ Week 4

Siang Huey Yee / 0369549

Digital Photography and Imaging / Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Creative Media

Project 1

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OUTLINE

• LECTURES
• INSTRUCTIONS
• TUTORIAL 
• PRACTICAL

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LECTURES

Week 4: Digital Collage (Introduction to Photoshop 3)

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• Adjustment Layers - a group of a super useful, non-destructive image editing tools that add colour and tonal adjustments to your image without permanently changing its pixels
• Brightness/ Contrast
• Brightness slider- adjusting the highlights in image
• Contrast slider- adjusting the shadows in image
• Level
• adjusting the levels of the shadows, mid tones, and highlights
• Curves
• adjust as many points as you want throughout the entire tonal range of the image
• Exposure
• Exposure slider- adjust only the highlights of the image
• Offset slider- adjusts the mid tones 
• Gamma slider- adjust the dark tones only
• Selective Colour
• adjustment layer selectively modifies the amount of a primary colour without modifying the other primary colours in image
• Filter - to change colour, add blur or create completely new image effect

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INSTRUCTIONS

Module Booklet Information

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TUTORIAL

Week 4: Vital Tools & Project 1 (Demo)

The attached videos below are tutorial videos designed to enhance our skills in using tools from Adobe Photoshop.

Figure 4.1 Video - How to remove background in Adobe Photoshop

(https://youtu.be/4b-swzGzOGw?si=KnIdhlDVnf3mggAd)

Figure 4.2 Video - How to apply adjustment to single layer in Adobe Photoshop

(https://youtu.be/81lAetwbAUs?si=KPE24UVyrjqgTeL_)

Figure 4.3 Video - Fix skin tones in Adobe Photoshop

(https://youtu.be/D2brHNadF8Y?si=xGYSRxNECLyz7hHa)

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PRACTICAL

Week 4: Digital Collage

I have chosen Composition #2 as my best composition and proceeding it with adjustment layers and filters.

Best Composition:

Description: 

I have positioned the fish at the center point to emphasize it as the main character, with the fish's eye guiding the viewer's focus toward the composition above. I've employed the white space technique to centralize all elements in the composition.

Best Composition with Adjustment Layers & Filters:

Description: I adjusted the colours in the composition above to enhance its appeal and make it more eye-catching by intensifying each colour, either by giving them a lighter or darker shade.