Digital Photography and Imaging | Week 4 (Digital Collage)

16/10/2023 - 22/10/2023
Yong Zhen Xing - 0359473
Digital Photography and Imaging - Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Creative Media / Taylor's University
Weekly Updates / Week 4

Instructions :




Week 4:

W4 Lecture :
 
 

This lecture is about adjustment layers and filters.

Notes : 
  • The Adjustment Layers in Photoshop are a group of useful, non-destructive image editing tools that add color and tonal adjustments to your image without permanently changing its pixels.
  • The brightness slider is for adjusting the highlights in your image and the Contrast slider is for adjusting the shadows in your image.
  • Levels modify the tonal values in an image by adjusting the levels of the shadows, midtones, and highlights.
  • Curves let you adjust as many points as you want throughout the entire tonal range of your image.
  • Exposure lets you adjust exposure levels with three sliders: Exposure, Offset and Gamma. Exposure will adjust only the highlights of the image, Offset adjusts the mid tones and Gamma will adjust the dark tones only.
  • The Selective Color adjustment layer selectively modifies the amount of a primary color without modifying the other primary colors in your image.  
  • Using filters to edit photos is an essential element of Adobe’s graphics editor as there are filters to change colour, add blur or create completely new image effects.
Tutorial : 

Video 1 : How to Remove Background in Photoshop CC - Using Pen Tool


Video 2 : How To Add an Adjustment to a Single Layer in Photoshop
 

Video 3 : QUICKLY Fix Skin Tones in Photoshop! POWERFUL Photoshop Curves Adjustment Layer Photoshop Tutorial
 

In the video, I learned on how to to remove a background using a pen tool. I also learned on an easier way to apply adjustment to just a singular layer. Lastly, I learned on how to adjust a skin tone using curve adjustments which could benefit me in some cases.

Exercise (Practical) :
In this week's exercise, we were to use the best selected composition (selected by our tutor) and adjust the image so it looks better. It was a good practice to learn Photoshop more in-depth and also a good way to practice on my video editing skills. Mr.Fauzi chose my 2nd composition for my last week's exercise so I begin experimenting. Below is my first exploration attempt.

fig 1.1, First Exploration (19/10/2023)


After comparing this with the original, I definitely made some parts oversaturated so I tried readjusting again. Image below is my second attempt on readjusting.


fig 1.2, Second Exploration (19/10/2023)


This looked definitely better and I'm pretty happy with it. However, the leaves on the left still looked a bit unnatural. So I used the selective colour tool to readjust to a more natural tone. The image below is my final composition as well as a comparison from the initial composition.

Final Outcome :


fig 1.3, Final Edited Composition (19/10/2023)

fig 1.4, Side By Side Comparison (19/10/2023)


Reflection :
Refining the composition that I made previously was another fascinating task. I played around with the colour, lighting and saturation to give my composition a more colourful look without adding or decreasing the sliders for an excessive amount. This task definitely taught me more about editing through layers in Photoshop which would be beneficial in my future works. It also taught me to be more observant in making sure I don't add too much of something.

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