Digital Photography & Imaging | Week 3: Introduction to Photoshop 2

December 10, 2023

Digital Photography & Imaging | Week 3: Introduction to Photoshop 2

10.10.2023 / Week 3
Khu Ying Ying / 0357306
Digital Photography & Imaging / GCD61204 / Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Creative Media
Week 3: Introduction to Photoshop 2

TABLE OF CONTENTS

LECTURES

Week 3 (10/10/2023) Introduction to Photoshop 2

TUTORIALS

Week 3 (10/10/2023) Paths, Masking, Layers

EXERCISE - DIGITAL COLLAGE

Week 3 (10/10/2023) Extra Exercise: The Bézier Game

Week 3 (10/10/2023) Compositing Digital Collage

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LECTURES

Week 3 (10/10/2023)

Introduction to Photoshop 2

Lasso Tool

allows you to manually select specific areas of an image by drawing and pinpoint

can give a better flow when drawing and making selections

3 different tool options from the toolbar

Lasso

Polygonal Lasso

Magnetic Lasso

Figure L3.1: Lasso Tool

Pen Tool

the most common option to create a path from scratch

the fewer points, the smoother a path will be

Figure L3.2: Pen Tool

variation of pen tool

Figure L3.3: Straight Line Paths

Figure L3.4: U Shaped Curves

Figure L3.5: Simple S Curves

Figure L3.6: Complex S Curves

Layering

different images stacked on top of each other

can use layers for non-destructive editing by saving a Photoshop file with all the layers included

your adjustments in Photoshop will never destroy the original image

Figure L3.7: Layering

TUTORIALS

Week 3 (10/10/2023)

Paths, Masking, Layering

Demo of blending mode, paths, masking, and layering.

Figure T3.1: Video - ENTER LIFE.

Figure T3.2: Video - EXIT HOME.

EXERCISE - DIGITAL COLLAGE

Week 3 (10/10/2023)

Extra Exercise - The Bézier Game

Mr Fauzi encouraged us to play The Bézier Game, this game helps us to understand how the pen tool works in Adobe Illustrator. I finished the introduction parts and 2 more stages from the game.

Figure E3.1: The Bézier Game, Week 3 (10/10/2023)

Figure E3.2: The Bézier Game, Week 3 (10/10/2023)

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Compositing Digital Collage

Instructions:

Create 3 different composition digital collages from the images that you’ve downloaded.
Create A4 canvas size (vertical) in Photoshop and start to do the compositions.

Pinterest Board (DPI)

Process:

Before I started to sketch out the ideas, I found some inspiration from Pinterest.

E3.3: Inspirations from Pinterest, Week 3 (10/10/2023)

Then, I sketched out some rough ideas by using the app, Ibis Paint X in my tablet and hand sketches in my notebook.

Figure E3.4: Digital Sketches, Week 3 (10/10/2023)

Figure E3.5: Hand Sketches, Week 3 (10/10/2023)

After that, I decided to choose the three hand sketches as my digital compositions.

COMPOSITION #1

Figure E3.6: Composition 1, Week 3 (10/10/2023)

Description: I decided to give a ‘clear’ look to the viewers with this composition. I’ve learned how to use the pen tool, remove the background to extract the object, shape out the image with a rectangular marquee tool, and more. The concept of this composition is ‘glitch’, which is inspired by ‘WandaVision’ (TV Mini-Series 2021). I changed the texture (circle, below left) into hue, the rubber plant into luminosity, and the texture (circle, top left) into darker colour while exploring the tools.

COMPOSITION #2

Figure E3.7: Composition 2, Week 3 (10/10/2023)

Description: The concept of this composition is ‘another dimension', which is inspired by 'Hyakki Yagyō' (Night Parade of One Hundred Demons, which refers to a parade of thousands of supernatural creatures that march through the streets of Japan at night). The fish is the main subject of this composition because I want the fish to be referred to as the mysterious creature in this dimension, which is surrounded by buildings and a red moon on the top right. As you can see, I have applied two frames to this composition because the fish is breaking the fourth wall. I cut out the rectangular shape in the middle of the texture image (frame), and then I duplicated it to make it smaller. Besides that, I used a pen tool to trace the building (below right). In addition, I shaped out the red moon (circle texture, top right) with a rectangular marquee tool.

COMPOSITION #3

Figure E3.8: Composition 3, Week 3 (10/10/2023)

Description: The concept of this composition is 'journey'. I just applied the simple collage to this composition, which I wanted to make it look more 'messy' yet 'memorable'. I used a pen tool to trace out the image (below right) to 'teared paper'. Then, I used the liquid images and made them smaller to use as stickers. After that, I shaped out the red moon (circle texture, below left) with a rectangular marquee tool to make a 'stamp'. The images I used for this composition were the rubber plant (left), texture image (right), fish (behind the rubber plant), and the people in subway (bottom right).

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