Digital Photography and Imaging

Digital Photography and Imaging - Week 4

24/4/2023

Ng Jia Ern (0344462)

Bachelor of Design (Honors) in Creative Media

Group 1

LECTURE
INTRO TO PHOTOSHOP 3

In this lecture, Mr Fauzi introduced us to adjustment layer and filters

Adjustment Layer

A super useful, non-destructive image editing tool that adds colour and tonal adjustments to your image without permanently changing its pixels.
With the adjustment layers, we can edit and discard our adjustments or restore your original image at any time.
This will make our workflow in Photoshop more flexible and efficient.

When we add an adjustment layer to our image, a new layer will appear over our image and a Properties panel specific to the type of adjustment we have selected will pop up. The Properties panel will allow us to modify your adjustment layer, which in turn will modify our image.

1. BRIGHTNESS / CONTRAST

Brightness / Contrast makes adjustments to the tonal range of our image.
The brightness slider is for adjusting the highlights in our image and the Contrast slider is for adjusting the shadows in our image.

2. LEVEL

Levels modify the tonal values in an image by adjusting the levels of the shadows, mid-tones, and highlights.
It’s one of the most used tools in the adjustment layer panel, and using just a touch of levels will go a long way in correcting your images.

3. CURVES

Curves let us adjust as many points as we want throughout the entire tonal range of your image and is the most powerful and precise tool for editing the tones in an image.

4. EXPOSURE

Exposure lets us 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.

5. SELECTIVE COLOUR

The Selective Color adjustment layer selectively modifies the amount of a primary colour without modifying the other primary colours in our image.

Filters

There are filters to change colour, add blur or create completely new image effects.
Photoshop offers a virtually unlimited variety of filters for this purpose.

Photo filter trick in Photoshop

LECTURE

VITAL TOOLS & PROJECT 1 (DEMO)

Mr Fauzi shows us a video to demo how to remove background with pen tool and refine edge. Then, another two videos show how to make adjustments to layers and add Filters, and how to fix skin tone with curves.

How to Remove Background in Photoshop CC - Using Pen Tool by CreativeSalek

How To Add an Adjustment to a Single Layer in Photoshop

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

PRACTICAL

DIGITAL COLLAGE

INSTRUCTION:

Attach your best composition from WEEK 3 digital collage exercise below.
Using the same Photoshop file, improvise your WEEK 3 digital collage into WEEK 4 by using Adjustment Layers & Filters on Photoshop.
Explain what you’ve learned in the description section.

I choose Digital Collage #2 from Week 3 exercise.