DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY AND IMAGING - Week 4
WEEK 4 (10/5/2023)
Lectures
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.
- You can edit and discard your adjustments or restore your original image at any time.
Tools that are available in the adjustment tool layer.
- Brightness / Contrast: The brightness slider is for adjusting the highlights in your image and the Contrast slider is for adjusting the shadows in your image.
- Level: To modify the tonal values in an image by adjusting the levels of the shadows, mid-tones, and highlights.
- 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 will adjust only the highlights of the image, Offset adjusts the mid tones and Gamma will adjust the dark tones only.
- Selective Colour: Selectively modifies the amount of a primary colour without modifying the other primary colours in your image.
Filters: This feature allows you to apply various artistic and creative filters to your images.
- It includes a variety of artistic filters that can make your image look like a watercolour painting, a sketch, a stained glass window, and more.
- It includes filters that can add texture to your image, such as the Craquelure and Texturizer filters.
- It includes filters that can adjust the color of your image, such as the Color Balance and Hue/Saturation filters.
- It includes filters that can add blur and distortion effects to your image, such as the Gaussian Blur and Ripple filters.
- It includes filters that can create a 3D effect on your image, such as the Extrude and Spherize filters.
- You can apply multiple filters at once in the Filter Gallery tool and adjust the order of the filters to create a unique effect on your image.
Tutorial
Mr Fauzi provided us 3 demo videos of how to use vital photoshop tools for our digital collage such as match lighting. Adjustment layers, Filters and Photoshop Pen Tool.
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Practical
We are required to improvise our WEEK 3 digital collage into WEEK 4 by using Adjustment Layers & Filters on Photoshop.
WEEK 3 - PEN TOOL EXERCISE - (BEST COMPOSITION)
Figure 3.1 Final Composition
DESCRIPTION:
I wanted to create a world where plants and animals are larger than humans, and the animals are floating in the air. To create this image, I have acquired the skill of utilizing the quick selection tool and the magic wand tool to efficiently remove the background of challenging images like the fish, leaves, and the building. The technique is simple to use and it saves me a lot of time. Additionally, there are numerous things in the subway image and I want to be more precise with the edges, so I use the pen tool to construct a path makes it simple to create a mask or precisely composite an object into a new background. I’ve learned that the pen tool is a versatile and strong tool that is helpful in photo editing where accuracy and precision are crucial.
Work-in progress:
I decided to lighten the background to create contrast because I felt that the colour of the leaves look a bit similar to the background,
Figure 3.2 Lighten Background
Then I darkened the image to create more depth.
Figure 3.3 Darken the Image
Figure 3.4 Selective Colour "Reds"
Figure 3.5 Vibrance and Hue
I added a warm photo filter to make the image have a vintage/retro vibe.
Figure 3.6 Warm Photo Filter
Figure 3.7 Hue and Saturation, Filter Gallery
WEEK 4 - ADJUSTMENT LAYERS & FILTERS
Figure 3.8 Final Outcome
DESCRIPTION:
There are many tools available under the adjustment layer tool and all of the tools have enhanced the colour and quality of my image. I have learned to use the selective color tool to adjust the specific color ranges in an image, such as the red, yellow, green, and cyan to make it look more vibrant. I’ve also learned to adjust the image's color balance by adjusting the amount of red, green, and blue in the image. I’ve also use the photo filter to apply an orange color filter to the entire image to create a retro, warm, nostalgic vibe. Then, I used the brightness / contrast tool to adjust the overall brightness and contrast of an image. I used the smudge stick filter tool from the filter gallery to smudge and smear some of the darker parts of the image and also the rough pastels filter tool to make the fishes look a little blurry. I also used the hue and saturation tool to change the fish colour because I though it looked better in yellow.
Links: Project 1
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