DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY & IMAGING - WEEK3&4

 DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY & IMAGING

NAME:  FENG SHIWEN

I.D:  0374595

COURSE: Digital Photography and Imaging

GROUP:  4

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LECTURES

1. Lasso Tool

The Lasso Tool allow you to draw and pinpoint specific areas of a document.

2. Pen tool

There are four ways to use the Pen Tool：Straight line paths，U shaped curves，Simple S curves and Complex S curves.

3.Magic wand tool

The pen tool is also used to introduce the Magic Wand tool, which can be clicked and automatically selected for the object area.

4.Layering

Layers are different images stacked on top of each other. You can use each layer without affecting another one to make adjustments. 

The advantage of using Layers is that you can save a Photoshop file with all the layers included. This means you can use layers for non-destructive editing. 

Your adjustments in Photoshop will never destroy the original image.

WEEK3 : PRACTICAL COMPOSITING COLLAGE

We keep the original color of the picture for collage 

 COMPOSITION #1

 COMPOSITION #2

 COMPOSITION #3

WEEK 4

Lecture

1. Adjustment layers

The Adjustment Layers in Photoshop are a group of a super useful, non-destructive image editing tools that add color and tonal adjustments to your image without permanently changing its pixels. 

2.  BRIGHTNESS / CONTRAST

The brightness slider is for adjusting the highlights in your image and the Contrast slider is for adjusting the shadows in your image.

3. LEVEL

Levels modify the tonal values in an image by adjusting the levels of the shadows, midtones, and highlights. 

4. CURVES

Curves let you adjust as many points as you want throughout the entire tonal range of your image to achieve better results.

5. EXPOSURE

Exposure consists of three parts--Exposure（only the highlights）, Offset（he mid tones ） and Gamma（the dark tones only）

Note：Match lighting. Adjustment layers, Filters

Match lighting

Take curves adjustment layer and take it upwards from the center.

Click select - subject

Press CTRL+Backspace

Press CTRL+I（Note: You can also click image - Adjustments - Invert）

You can find it in the toolbar at the bottom of the layer interface.

（Note：You can add adjustments on individual layers by clipping masks）

Note：Photoshop Pen Tool

Using the Pen tool, select a path in the upper toolbar.

When you're done making your selection with pentool, right-click - Make Selection.

Click Select （in the toolbar above）- Refine Edge.

Smooth-20,Contrast-30

Use [] key to increase or decrease Brush Size.

Brush to get back details and other stuff.

Exercise Week4  PRACTICAL DIGITAL COLLAGE

After talking with teacher, my final is COMPOSITION 2 

 COMPOSITION #1

 COMPOSITION #2

 COMPOSITION #3

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FEEDBACK

Composition 2 can be submitted

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REFLECTION

For this week's lesson, we will start to learn how to use Photoshop, such as the pen tool and filter adjustment. Although I am still a little unfamiliar with Photoshop for the first time, I have mastered the basics after practicing with week3 and week4