Digital Photography and Imaging - week 4

 April 22,2024

22.4.2024 -17.5.2024(week4)

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Digital Photography and Imaging/Bachelor of Design (Honours)in Creative Media

Lectures 

Adjustment Layer& Filters

The Adjustment Layers in Photoshop are a group of a super useful, non-destructive image editing tools that add color and tonal adjustments to your image without permanently changing its pixels.

 

Fig 1.0Adjustment Layer& Filters

          

Basic understanding of Adjustment Layer

the Properties panel will allow you to modify your adjustment layer, which in turn will modify your image.

Fig 1.1Basic understanding of Adjustment Layer

                        

1.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.

Fig 1.2BRIGHTNESS / CONTRAST

                              

2. LEVEL

Levels modify the tonal values in an image by adjusting the levels of the shadows, midtones, and highlights

Fig 1.3LEVEL

  3. CURVES                          

Curves let you adjust as many points as you want throughout the entire tonal range of your image to achieve better results.

Fig 1.4CURVES  

 4. EXPOSURE

       Exposure consists of three parts--Exposure（only the highlights）, Offset（he mid tones ） and Gamma（the dark tones only）                         

Fig 1.5 EXPOSURE

 5. SELECTIVE COLOR

   The Selective Color adjustment layer selectively modifies the amount of a primary color without modifying the other primary colors in your image

Fig 1.6 SELECTIVE COLOR

                                

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INSTRUCTIONS

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INSTRUCTIONS:

Based on the video tutorial, create one digital collage using the materials provided.

Follow and complete the weekly progress.

 Attach your final digital collage below.

WEEK 3 - PEN TOOL EXERCISE (BEST COMPOSITION)

 DESCRIPTION:  Created an A4 canvas, during the collage I learned how to make the

image mirror flip, use filters to change the shape of the image, and use CTRL +T to

change the size of the image

WEEK 4 (ADJUSTMENT LAYERS & FILTERS )

DESCRIPTION:I used CTRL + U to change the overall color of each image and I also used Curves

mode to change the overall color. To make the people stand out in the image I selected the

glow layer and used CTRL+J to copy the original layer and then used the blur filter.

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REFLECTION

In this lesson I learned how to use Photoshop to change the colours and filters of an image and also found out about shortcuts to change the colours of an image. Better expanding my imagination and colours