Digital Photography and Imaging - Week 4

13/09/2021 (Week 4)
Reagan Val Adelbert Mahadi / 0349177
Digital Photography and Imaging / Bachelor of Design in Creative Media

LECTURES

On week 4, Mr. Fauzi presents to us about Adjustment Layer & Filters.  

Adjustment Layer

The adjustment layers in Photoshop are a group of useful, non-destructive image editing tools that adds color and tonal adjustments to an image without permanently changing its pixels. With the use of adjustment layers, we can edit and discard any adjustments or restore any original images at any time. This will make the workflow in Photoshop more flexible and efficient.

When you add an adjustment layer to your image, a new layer will appear over your image and a properties panel specific to the type of adjustment you have selected will appear too. The properties panel can allow users to modify the adjustment layer, which will modify the image. 

Brightness/Contrast

Brightness or Contrast makes adjustments to the tonal range of an image. The brightness slider is for adjusting the highlights in an image and meanwhile, the contrast slider is for adjusting the shadows in an image.

Level

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

Curves

Curves is used to adjust as many points as we want throughout the entire tonal range of an image. It is the most powerful and precise tool for editing the tones in an image. 

Exposure

Exposure lets users adjust exposure levels with three sliders: Exposure, Offset, and Gamma. Exposure will adjust only the highlights of the image, while Offset adjusts the mid-tones and Gamma can only adjust the dark tones. 

Selective Color

The selective color adjustment layer selectively modifies the amount of a primary color without modifying the other primary colors in an image. 

Filters

Filters are used to edit photos by changing the image's color, add blur, or create a completely new image effects. 

Photo filter trick in Photoshop:


INSTRUCTIONS



Week 4 Task

During the tutorial, Mr. Fauzi gave us 3 videos that can be used to help us make this task. 




https://youtu.be/D2brHNadF8Y

For the fourth week's task, we were told to make some edits to the digital collage we made on the third week by using the adjustment layer & filters. I made 3 compositions in this task and was told to submit only 1 composition that I think that's best.

COMPOSITION #1

Fig. 1 COMPOSITION #1

COMPOSITION #2


Fig. 2 COMPOSITION #2

COMPOSITION #3

    Fig. 3 COMPOSITION #3

I personally think that COMPOSITION #1 is the best among the three of them, so I will be choosing that for my final result.

For my first composition, I changed the level, hue/saturation, and brightness/contrast. For level, I changed it from 0 to 0,76 and changed its opacity to 71%. After its effect, the image becomes a little darker so that the shadows on the fins look more visible. Then I added 23 hues, reduced 21 saturation, and reduced its opacity to 77%. This makes the fish’s color darker and turns the background yellow. Then I decided to add more brightness to it, so I added 4 brightness and reduce 20 contrast.

FEEDBACK

Mr. Fauzi commented, "This is a good series of experiment. Good job Reagan! That's a good practice. You may choose the WEEK 4 exercise for your PROJECT 1: Digital Collage later in Week 5. Thanks!". 

REFLECTIONS

For this week's lecture, I get to learn something I have never known before. It was quite confusing the first time when I heard about adjustment layers and filters, so I had to do some experiments inside the Photoshop software. I tried to create several compositions so I get to understand more about the adjustment layer and filters. I feel like this task is quite challenging as this is the first time for me to do things like this. 

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