Digital Photography & Imaging - Week 7

  DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY AND IMAGING

💡Week 7💡

Lecture

• Double Exposure
• merging multiple images
• making the final piece surreal, emotional, humorous
• using tilt shift effect
• blur one of your photos instead of the entire image
• To add this feature, go to Filter > Blur Gallery > Tilt-Shift.

• Double Exposure can allow you to
• create fake reflection
• simple portraits & details textured
• black and white results
• work with silhouette
• pick 2 random photo
• make simple objects look fascinating
• use shadow
• Blend Modes

Tutorial + Progress

Given image below

apply double exposure techniques and transform into art piece

• Selecting object, masking and refining hair

Firstly, I used quick selection tool to roughly outline the portrait, and proceed further on refining the selection by "refine edge brush tool" to select hair outline

• Adjust the selection with curve to enhance the highlights and shadow

• Forest layer

To create the growing forest effect there are few steps to create:

firstly, insert forest picture and duplicate it

reposition the images where one is flipped under, create a mask layer, apply brush to create diminishing effect, also to add flexibility on what area you want to reveal

• Clipping mask

 apply clipping mask to fit the adjusted forest into the protrait

• Layer blending mode

adding the bird and cloud element was easier, as I only have to position the image and choose respective blending mode, personally I prefer "darken" as it allows the layer to blend better to the background

• Final adjustment
• Exposure

• Gradient map

🎨Double Exposure🎨

 

Reflection

To be honest this assignment itself was rushing process as the particular week having more deadlines, but overall I am satisfied with the outcome. Most importantly I start to realize the power layer masks hold. With layer mask and brushes, they are the key to make double exposure and even surrealism happen.