Digital Imaging and Photography - Week 4

Digital Photography and Imaging

April 5th, 2021 - April 30th, 2021 (Week 1 - Week 5) 

Rusydina Fazlin Athirah Binti Fauzi (0344000)

Digital Photography and Imaging

Week 4 [April 19th, 2021]

Exercise 1 (Project 1B)

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INSTRUCTIONS

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Class Sessions 

Week 4 (April 19th, 2021)

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Lectures 

[INTRODUCTION TO PHOTOSHOP III]

In this week's class, Mr. Fauzi continued guiding the class on how to manage Adobe Photoshop. With the exercise, he assigned the class last week (week 3), in creating our digital collages with the help of two compositions called 'rule of thirds' and 'the golden ratio' and elements that Mr. Fauzi provided to have the class experiment with, before going into much more advanced editing to it. 

Since last week's lecture, Mr. Fauzi touched on a topic using the pen tool, lasso tool, and how to work our ways through layers in the program. This week, Mr. Fauzi introduced us to 'Adjustment layers' and 'Filters'!

In a sense, he taught the class how to adjust layers meaning it helps keep the layer tab organized when working with a bunch of layers, it doesn't disrupt other elements and it groups them together to our desires in editing, it also offers an advanced way of adjusting the principles like contrast or color on a particular element or image on a layer. 

Next are filters, filters add a more appealing look to the element. Mr. Fauzi guided the class in ways to adjust the brightness and the following aspects to a specific filter to our desires. 

Week 4 Lecture slides (Introduction to photoshop III)

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Practical Session

April 19th, 2021

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Since Mr. Fauzi has commenced the start of digital collaging, this week we were assigned to do the same, though we were assigned to apply the new topics in this week's lecture onto the compositions we worked on. 

We were also assigned to reflect on week 3's composition and write about what we've learned, and comparing the differences in learning new topics like 'adjustment layers' and 'filters' for this week's composition.

WEEK 3 (PEN TOOL & LASSO EXERCISE)

DESCRIPTION:

The composition displayed is an exercise where I learned to use the pen tool and the lasso tool along with getting to know a little bit about the layer panel in Adobe Photoshop. Though before starting out in using the pen tool and lasso tools in photoshop, Mr. Fauzi suggested trying out a game that is similar to the uses of the pen tool in Adobe PS. The game is called ‘The Bezier Game’, it offers a way to understand how a pen tool would work in the program, it displays shapes that are meant to be traced over as practice to be applied into the photoshop when it's finally being used. 

From then on, I worked on the collage in photoshop, did the respective of cutting out the elements that Mr. Fauzi told us to cut out as week 3’s exercise, and worked on 3 different compositions. The one displayed above was the one that Mr. Fauzi suggested further refinement on.

WEEK 4 (ADJUSTMENT LAYERS & FILTERS 

DESCRIPTION:

For the last exercise in week 4 and the finalization of Project 1B, the composition above is a more refined refinement of my composition to better apply the new topics that the class learned during this week. 

In the last exercise, Mr. Fauzi taught us how to apply blending options onto our elements and how to adjust them in an adjustment layer to a determined setting of color, contrast, or heaviness, and lightness we desire it to be. I messed around with the blending options a lot more than applying filters which was also a new thing we learned to be practiced during the exercise. 

The composition I had last week compared to last week, I decided on arranging it with fewer elements since I had many more in the last. It made it easier to work on the blending options with different elements, although adding multiple elements in each layer could be a possibility that could be owned up to, although it needs more practice and exploration. 

I still had a few elements from the previous composition but made sure it still had a sense of what my last composition was so it wouldn’t look too different because it was mentioned by Mr. Fauzi that that shouldn’t happen. I then blended an elemental texture as a start-off in the background and worked on the fishes with the blending options as well.

What I got to learn from this exercise is, managing what colors would contrast better when in a particular blended option.

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