Digital Photography & Imaging - Week 4 : Digital Collage

17/10/2023 (Week 4)
Andrea Choo Qin Hui (0366959)

Digital Photography & Imaging / Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media
Week 4 : Digital Collage

---

Instructions

---

Lecture

Introduction to Photoshop 3

           What is Adjustment Layer?: Photoshop's Adjustment Layers are a collection of 

                                                               incredibly helpful, non-destructive image editing tools that 

                                                               allow you to make colour and tone modifications to your 

                                                               image without permanently altering its pixel 

                                                               composition. You can alter, remove, or restore your original 

                                                               image at any time using the adjustment layers. This is a 

                                                               must-know tip that will improve the flexibility and 

                                                               efficiency of your Photoshop workflow.

Figure 1.1 Adjustment layer #1

           Basic Understanding of Adjustment Layer: A new layer will overlay your original image 

                                                                                          when you add an adjustment layer, and the 

                                                                                          Properties panel for the adjustment type 

                                                                                          you've chosen will appear. You can change 

                                                                                          your adjustment layer in the Properties 

                                                                                          panel, which will change your image.

Figure 1.2 Adjustment Layer #2

           1. Brightness / Contrast: An image's tonal range can be adjusted using brightness and 

                                                        contrast. The highlights and shadows in the image can be 

                                                        adjusted with the brightness and contrast sliders, respectively.

Figure 1.3 Brightness & Contrast

           2. Level: By modifying the levels of the highlights, midtones, and shadows of an image, 

                            levels change the tonal values in that image. One of the most often used tools in

                            the adjustment layer panel is the levels tool; a little bit of level adjustment will 

                            go a long way towards image correction.

Figure 1.4 Level

           3. Curves: The most effective and accurate tool for modifying the tones in an image is a 

                               curve, which allows you to make adjustments at any number of points across 

                               the complete tonal range of the picture. 

Figure 1.5 Curves

           4. Exposure: Exposure has three sliders that allow you to alter exposure levels: Gamma, 

                                   Offset, and Exposure. Exposure will adjust only the highlights of the image,

                                   Offset adjusts the mid tones and Gamma will adjust the dark tones only.

Figure 1.6 Exposure

           5. Selective Colour: Without changing the other primary colours in your image, the 

                                               Selective Colour adjustment layer allows you to adjust the amount of 

                                               one basic colour only.

Figure 1.7 Selective Colour

Filter
           What is Filter?: A key feature of Adobe's graphics editor is the ability to modify 

                                        photographs using filters. There are filters to add blur, alter colour, or 

                                        provide entirely other image effects. For this use, Photoshop provides an 

                                        almost infinite range of filters.

Figure 1.8 Photo Filter Trick in Photoshop

---

Tutorial

Vital Tools & Project 1 (DEMO)

           1. Match lighting. Adjustment layers, Filters.
           2. Photoshop Pen Tool.

Figure 2.1 How to Remove BG

Figure 2.2 How to Add an Adjustment to a Single Layer

Figure 2.3 Fix Skin Tones

---

Practical

           Mr. Fauzi chose composition #1 as my best work to use for this exercise: Adjustment 

           Layer and Filter. In this exercise, we were just tasked to play around with the           

           adjustment layer and filter until we were satisfied with our results.  

Figure 3.1 Composition #1 after Adjustment Layer & Filter 

Figure 3.2 Curves

Figure 3.3 Brightness/Contrast

Figure 3.4 Color Balance