Digital Photography and Imaging — Project 1 & Exerices

1.9.2022 — 22.09.2022 (Week 1 - Week 4)
Rachel Madeline Purwanto / 0356994
Illustration and Visual Narrative / Bachelor of Design in Creative Media
Project 1 & Exercises

❥LECTURES 

Introduction to Photoshop 1

- Lasso tool, pen tool, layering

- Selection, Layering

- Tool box 

Photoshop provides several tool sets in the Toolbox, and you can expand the tool sets to reveal additional tools.

Fig 1 Tool box photoshop

- Marquee selection tools

Introduction to Photoshop 2

- How to use the lasso tool

- Allows you to draw and pinpoint specific areas of a document

- Different tool options: 

• Lasso
• Polygonal Lasso
• Magnetic Lasso

- when it comes to creating a path from scratch, pen tool is the most common option

- the pen tool is the way that you add these points and the way you drag the tool as you create the points determine how they will look

Pen tool : versatile tool in photoshop can be used to create extremely precise shapes and paths, using manually placed anchor points. Was not natively made as a selection tool.

- Layering : different images stacked on top of each other. Can use each layer without affecting another one to make adjustments. Can use layers for non-destructive editing. 

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❥INSTRUCTIONS 

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❥EXERCISES & PROJECT 

Week 3 — Hearst Mansion 

In our third week, we experimented with various aspects and tools of photoshop such as quick selection tool, layer mask, filters, and colour correction. We were instructed to combine 2 images together, an image of Shazam and Hearst Mansion. 

Exercise Part 1 — Shazam

Fig 1.1 Images used for Exercise Part 1

Fig 1.1 Process of Editing Shazam into Hearst Mansion

Fig 1.2 Process of Editing Shazam into Hearst Mansion

For the finishing touches, I lowered the opacity of shazam' s reflection to make it look realistic.

Fig 1.3 Final Work for Shazam in Hearst Mansion Exercise Part 1, Week 4 (23/09/2022)

Project 1 Part 2 — My Reflection

For part 2, we were instructed to make something similar with exercise part 1, but using our image instead of Shazam. We had to take a full-body self portrait from eye level and edit our image into the Hearst Mansion image. 

Fig 2.1 Full-body self portrait of myself taken at eye level

Fig 2.2 Cropping image using selection tool

Fig 2.3 Process of adding image adjustments and filters

Fig 2.4 Final Design of My Reflection Part 2

Week 4 — Recolouring 

Exercise part 1 — Recolouring a Monochrome Image

On week 4, we had to recolour a black and white image using the brush and experimented with various blending modes to find the right one for the image.

Fig 3.1 Recolouring black and white image photo tutorial by Mr. Martin

Fig 3.2 Black and white image

Fig 3.3 Progress of recolouring

We used the brush pen to colour areas of the image then add suitable blending modes for each of them.

Fig 3.4 Final Recoloured Image

For the blending mode, I used soft light on the layers since hard light and overlay were too strong.

Project 1 Part 1 — Recolouring

Fig 5.1 Tutorial Video of Recolouring by Mr Martin

Fig 4.1 Black and White Image 

Fig 4.2 Process of Colouring

After selecting and masking the areas of the image above, we had to add a solid layer adjustment to each of them respectively and pick a colour then choose a blending mode that suits the best.

Fig 4.2 Final Recoloured image

Project 1 Part 2 — Recolouring

Fig 5.1 Process of Selecting and masking and solid colour layers

The same process from the recolouring exercise was used in this project.

Fig 5.2  Final Recoloured Image

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❥REFLECTION 

This project is a good way to exercise and explore the basic aspects and tools in photoshop. The process of doing these projects and learning along the way was rather enjoyable, especially the recolouring process even though it did take awhile to do the masking of parts of the image to be precise and clean.