Digital Photography & Imaging - Week 4

  DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY AND IMAGING

💡Week 4💡

Lecture

• I learnt how to add adjustment layers and filters to the layers
• Adjustment layer
• group of useful, non-destructive image editing tools
• allow user to edit and discard adjustments and restore original setting anytime
• this is to make the layers blend better
• types of adjustment layers available
• brightness
  ✍🏼adjusting highlights and shadows
• level
  ✍🏼adjusting levels of shadows, midtones & highlights 
• curve
  ✍🏼precise and powerful tool for editing tones
• exposure
  ✍🏼exposure for highlights
  ✍🏼offset for midtones
  ✍🏼gamma for dark tones
• selective color
  ✍🏼selectively modifies amount of primary color

Task Assigned

• pick a design and apply appropriate adjustment layers and filters
• I learnt how to remove background of images, which helps a lot in upcoming progress

Progress

• I played around with the “curve” as I think it would look better to make the background wallpaper and fish dimmer to better contrast the center focal point. I also learnt how to adjust opacity to a certain level

Final Work

Reflection

• In this exercise I learnt how to utilize magic pen tools and even more precisely using curvature pen tool to crop out elements better. Also I think it is important to study more on what is a good collage structure, I gather a lot of inspiration by browsing through pinterest. Lastly, to better compose the right structure and visual pleasing design, I followed the big-medium-small elements and the rule of third which is taught in class.