Labels

Digital Photography & Imaging - WEEK 3

WEEK 3 (19.10.2023)

Tracy Angeline Tio / 0362222 / Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Creative Media

Digital Photography & Imaging / Taylor's University

1. LECTURES

1. Lasso Tool (Shift + L)
- The lasso tool allow you to draw and pinpoint spesific areas of a document. When you click on the lasso tool from toolbar, you will see three different tool options : Lasso, Polygonal Lasso and Magnetic Lasso.
- Lasso tool is great to use with a graphic tablet because it is similar to a pencil and it can give better flow when drawing and making selection.
- Use lasso by click the tool or you can just click Shift + L then drag the object you want to remove or copy. 
Fig 1.1 The Lasso Tool Week 3 19/10/2023

2. Pen Tool (P)
- 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. (The fewer points, the smoother a path will be).
- There are 4 variation of pen tools. Here are the variations :
  • Straight line paths
  • U shaped curves
  • Simple S curves
  • Complex S curves
Fig 1.7 Variation of pen tool Week 3 19/10/2023

- For your information, you can learn the pen tool by the game named "the bezier game". In that game, you are allowed to repeat any various shapes by following the tutorial to practice the movement of pen tools.
- Several ways to use pen tool in photoshop :
  • Create a Path :
  1. With the pen tool : Draw lines with anchor points at the ends to make a path
  2. With the shapes tool : Use paths option to turn any shape into a path
  3. Create as a path : Purposefully create a path using either the pen tool or the shapes tool
  4. Convert to a path : Convert an existing image, graphic, or even text into a path
  • Masking (A technique to merge two or more image in one image, cutting, remove background, others) Three type of masking and how to do it :
  1. Layer mask : Select or group the layer then click the add layer mask button in the bottom of layers panel.
  2. Clipping mask : Make a right click and choose clipping mask or press Ctrl + Alt + G
  3. Channel mask : Windows - Channel - Choose color range or you can paint it using brush tool (B)
  • Blending modes : 
  1. Select the images as a sample blend
  2. Select the images that need to blended
  3. Choose the layer that you want to blend and open the blend modes ( on top of the layer panels) list and choose what you think is fit well
LASSO TOOL VS PEN TOOL :
Pen tool is the most things in photoshop used to create extremely precise shapes and paths. The pen ttool was not natively made as a "selection tool". The lasso tool will wrap around pixels and the pen tool will do the next thing like cut.

3. Layering (Shift + Ctrl + N)
- Layers are different images stacked on top of each other. You can use each layer without affecting another one to make adjustments. Together they form one final image. It could look something like this in real life.
- The advantage of using layers is you can save a photoshop file with all the layers included. On the other names, you can use layers for non-destructive editing.
- Your adjusments in Photoshop never destroy the original image. 
- Layers contain all the extra information and/or images you want to add to the original file. 

- How to open images as layers in Photoshop :
  • Using Drag and Drop : Create new layer and drag the images into the canvas area of photoshop
  • To open multiple images : File - Script - Load files into stack - Browse - Choose file - Layer - File - Place Embedded
  • To merge layers on a new layer : Shift + Ctrl + Alt + E (Win)
2. INSTRUCTIONS

3. TUTORIAL
Mr Fauzi posted this video in classroom and suggested us to watch it before started making digital collage. This video contains tutorial to learn composition using photoshop like blending, layering, masking, etc. 
Video 3.1 Composition studies Week 3 26/10/2023

After that, Mr Fauzi brief us a little tutorials too in class. He showed us how to use pen tool to select the object we want and magic wand to clear the white background before we began the digital collage. I had recorded when Mr Fauzi explain to us.

Fig 3.2 Some vid that i recorded Week 3 26/10/2023

4. PRACTICAL
Download the images that were given first then following the tutorial. Create 3 different composition digital collages from that images using adobe photoshop and A4 size.

1. COMPOSITION #1

Fig 4.1 Progress of Composition 1 (23 Layers) Week 03 26/10/2023

Fig 4.2 Composition 1 Week 03 26/10/2023

2. COMPOSITION #2
Fig 4.3 Progress of Composition 2 (28 Layers) Week 03 26/10/2023

Fig 4.4 Composition 2 Week 03 26/10/2023


3. COMPOSITION #3
Fig 4.5 Progress of Composition 3 (13 Layers) Week 03 26/10/2023
Fig 4.6 Composition 3 Week 03 26/10/2023

After got the feedback from Mr Fauzi, I go on Composition #3 as my final result.

Fig 4.7 Final Outcome Composition #3

5. FEEDBACK
Week 3
General Feedback : When making the collage, make sure that there is a different size of image, which is bigger, medium and smaller so it will create a balance.
Spesific Feedback : Mr Fauzi said that all the composition was good. He suggest me to take the composition 3 as my final because it is simple and amazing idea.
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular Posts