Digital Photography and Imaging / Week 4

Week 4 (13/9/2021 - 17/9/2021)
Nurul Adlina Rizal / 0345429 / Bachelor of Design in Creative Media
Digital Photography and Imaging
Group A

LECTURE

Introduction to Photoshop 3

Adjustment Layers & Filters

Adjustment Layers

- non-destructive image editing tools to add color and tonal adjustment to your image without permanently changing it's pixel
- can edit and discard your adjustment/restore your original image at any time
- properties panel allows you to modify your adjustment layer
Normally use
- brightness
- levels
- hue/saturation
1. Brightness / Contrast
- make adjustment to tonal range of image
- brightness = for adjusting highlights
- contrast = adjusting shadow

2. Level
- modify tonal values in an image by adjusting the levels of shadow, mid-tones, highlights

3. Curves
- most powerful and precise tool for editing the tones in an image

4. Exposure
- exposure will adjust only the highlights of an image
- offset adjusts the mid-tones
- gamma adjust the dark tones only

5. Selective color
- selectively modifies the amount of a primary color without modifying the other primary colors

Filters

- essential element of Adobe's graphic editor

TUTORIAL

We watched a couple videos that helped us understand more about the adjustment layers and also the Tips & Tricks on how to navigate the photo filters easily.

PRACTICAL

Adjustment Layers and Filters

We tried out the techniques shown the tutorial videos to our own digital collages.

Week 4 Practical

Fig 1.0: Progress (16/9/2021)

From Fig 1.0, you can see my work process on Photoshop. I am practicing organizing my layers better.

Fig 1.1: Draft (16/9/2021)

In the draft, I focused on the brightness and contrast of the image. I also kept the red saturated so that it stands out as an emphasis to the image. 

Fig 1.2: Final Edit (16/9/2021)

Since the original photo had complementary colors of red and green, I wanted to change the hues to orange and blue, another complementary color. I increased the levels so the overall picture looks darker. Other than that, I increased the contrast of the leaves and the machine so that they appear better in front of the white background.

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