DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY AND IMAGING - Week3

  April 22,2024

22.4.2024 -7.5.2024(week3)

QIULIHUA/0365036

DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY AND IMAGING/Bachelor of Design (Honours)in Creative Media

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Lectures

Lasso Tool, Pen Tool &Layering.

1. Lasso Tool

The Lasso Tool allow you to draw and pinpoint specific areas of a document. 

Fig 1.0  Lasso Tool

2.Pen Tool

The pen tool is the way that you add these points and the way you drag the tool as you create the points determines how they will look.

Fig 1.1Pen Tool

Variation of Pen Tool

1.Straight line paths

2.U shaped curves

3.Simple S curves and Complex S curves.

Fig 1.2Variation of Pen Tool

4.Lasso Tool vs Pen Tool

The pen tool is a versatile tool in Photoshop that can be used to create extremely precise shapes and paths, using manually placed anchor points.

5.Layering

 layer without affecting another one to make adjustments. 

The advantage of using Layers is that you can save a Photoshop file with all the layers included. This means you can use layers for non-destructive editing. 

Your adjustments in Photoshop will never destroy the original image. 

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INSTRUCTIONS

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Practical 

Exercise 3

PRACTICAL (Digital Collage)

1. COMPOSITION #1

2. COMPOSITION #2

3.COMPOSITION #3

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REFLECTION

In this class I learnt how to e-collage and also about Photoshop, I learnt how to key and use filters.