Digital Photography and Imaging / Week 4

October 17, 2023

Digital Photography and Imaging / Week 4

17.10.2023 - 23.10.2023 / Week 4
Bong Sue Zhiun (0366866)

Digital Photography and Imaging

Digital Composition Review

1. Lecture

2. Instructions

3. Tutorial

4. Practical

LECTURE

Week 4 : Introduction to Photoshop 3

Adjustment Layer

It is a group of non-destructive image editing tools that add colour and tonal adjustments to the image without permanently changing its pixels.
We can edit and discard our adjustments or restore our original image at any time.

Fig.1.1. Adjustment Layer, Week 4 , 17.10.2023

When adding an adjustment layer to the image, a new layer will appear over the image and a Properties panel specific to the type of adjustment selected will pop up.
The Properties panel will allow us to modify your adjustment layer, which in turn will modify the image.

Fig.1.2. Properties Panel in Adjustment Layer, Week 4 , 17.10.2023

1. Brightness / Contrast

Make adjustments to the tonal range of the image.

The brightness slider is for adjusting the highlights in your image and the Contrast slider is for adjusting the shadows in your image.

Fig.1.3. Brightness & Contrast, Week 4 , 17.10.2023

2. Level

Adjust the levels of the shadows, mid tones, and highlights.
Fig.1.4. Level, Week 4 , 17.10.2023

3. Curves

Adjust as many points as we want throughout the entire tonal range of the image.

Fig.1.5. Curves , Week 4 , 17.10.2023

4. 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.

Fig.1.6. Exposure, Week 4 , 17.10.2023

5. Selective colour

Selectively modifies the amount of a primary colour without modifying the other primary colours in the image.

Fig.1.7. Selective colour, Week 4 , 17.10.2023

Filters

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.

Fig.1.8. Filters, Week 4 , 17.10.2023

Photo filter trick in Photoshop : https://youtu.be/gDSbfx67MLg

Reference:

1. How to use Adjustment layer : https://bit.ly/3uZzhGL

2. Photo filter trick in Photoshop : https://youtu.be/gDSbfx67MLg

3. Photoshop filters : https://fixthephoto.com/photoshop-filters.html#:~:text=Photoshop%20image%20filters%20are%20defined,retouching%20and%20improve%20image%20quality

INSTRUCTIONS

TUTORIAL

Week 4

Digital Composition Review

Tutorial for match lighting, Adjustment Layers & Filters :

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b-swzGzOGw&authuser=0

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81lAetwbAUs&authuser=0

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2brHNadF8Y&authuser=0

PRACTICAL

Digital Composition Review ( Week 4 )

Pen Tool Exercise ( Best Composition from Week 3 )

Fig.2.1. Final Digital Collage From W3 , Week 4, 17.10.2023

DESCRIPTION : I turned the universe into a city. We can travel to another planet as easily as going abroad in reality. The old projector acted like a satellite.

Adjustment Layers & Filters ( Week 4 )

We are going to apply the adjustment layers & filters that learn in week 4.

Fig.2.2. Final Digital Collage with adjustment layer & filters , Week 4, 17.10.2023

DESCRIPTION: I adjusted the saturation to make the universe more real, this is what my imagination of the universe looks like. I also adjusted the saturation of the buildings and the planets as well to let them shine more brightly in the universe.