Digital Photography and Imaging / Week 4

08.05.23 / Week 4
Name: ALYSSA AISYAH BINTI 'ARIEF NASRAN (0364017)
Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media
Digital Photography and Imaging (GCD61204) / Section 1
LECTURES

Introduction to Photoshop 3



Adjustment Layers & Filters

In this week's lecture we learned about adjustment layers and filters. Adjustment Layers in Photoshop are powerful tools for non-destructive image editing, they allow you to make color and tonal adjustments without permanently altering the image's pixels and the flexibility of adjustment layers enables you to edit, discard, or restore adjustments at any point, enhancing your workflow efficiency. Understanding and utilizing adjustment layers is essential knowledge for working effectively in Photoshop.

Basic Understanding of Adjustment Layer

By adding an adjustment layer in Photoshop, a new layer is created on top of the image. A 'properties' panel corresponding to the selected adjustment type will appear, enabling you to customize the adjustment layer and make changes to their image accordingly.

  • Brightness / Contrast
Brightness / Contrast makes adjustments to the tonal range of your image. The brightness slider is for adjusting the highlights in your image and the Contrast slider is for adjusting the shadows in your image.
  • Level
Levels modify the tonal values in an image by adjusting the levels of the shadows, midtones, and highlights. It’s one of the most used tools in the adjustment layer panel, and using just a touch of levels will go a long way in correcting images.
  • Curves
Curves let you adjust as many points as you want throughout the entire tonal range of your image, and is the most powerful and precise tool for editing the tones in an image. 
  • Exposure
Exposure lets you adjust exposure levels with three sliders: Exposure, Offset and Gamma. 
Exposure will adjust only the highlights of the image, Offset adjusts the mid tones and Gamma will adjust the dark tones only.
  • Selective Colour
The Selective Color adjustment layer selectively modifies the amount of a primary color without modifying the other primary colors in your image.


Filters

Using filters to edit photos is an essential element of Photoshop. There are filters to change colour, add blur or create completely new image effects. Photoshop offers a virtually unlimited variety of filters for this purpose.

Below is a video we were given to watch about filters in Photoshop and how to edit and use them successfully.

 

TUTORIAL

Vital Tools and Project 1





Matching lighting, Adjustment Layers, Filters

In this weeks tutorial we were briefed about our project 1 and went through 3 different videos that demonstrated how to match lighting, manipulate the adjustment layers/filters, and additionally how to remove a background from a subject in an image, and start using the pen tool.

INSTRUCTIONS

 

PRACTICAL

Digital Collage


In this week's practical, after receiving feedback from Mr Fauzi and having chosen one composition from the 3 digital collages we made, we are then to adjust the image colours accordingly to look visually pleasing. I have chosen the 3rd pre-composite as it was the one Mr Fauzi liked the best since it gave a 'surreal warped dimension look' due to the interesting perspective usage.

Fig 1.0 Digital Collage Before Adjustment

Description: I wanted to try an experimental design by making the street of people climb upwards like a ladder and have buildings coming from the bottom and top, i then filled in the gaps with the leaves, fish and projector and tried to leave some white space as well to not overcrowd the design, i tried to arrange all the elements together to look compositionally interesting to and to also give an illusion of a different kind of perspective without altering the ratio of the images. I learned how to cut out images more neatly with the tools in photoshop, arrange designs in a way that looks visually appealing, and how to apply things such as the rule of thirds or golden ratio when designing something. It's important to consider the size of each element and how it will fit into the design, and where to strategically place it, whether it is meant as a background or the eye catching element, each element should serve a purpose to the overall composition of the design.

Fig 1.1 Digital Collage After Adjustment

Description: I adjusted the hue and saturation of the buildings, fish, and street. I also applied some colour balance and adjusted hue and saturation as well as the brightness and contrast of the overall design, the aim was to make a more “cooling effect” with winter-esque colours. I learned how to adjust the colours of a picture in photoshop and how to make it look visually appealing, it should not be overwhelming, and the colours should make sense with the design and complement/balance each other out in separate elements for the whole design to look cohesive.

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