Photography/Week 4

Lim Jun Teng (0362890)
Digital Photography and Imaging
Group 1 SEC 1/Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media
Week 4 / Exercise

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LECTURE

ADJUSTMENT LAYER & FILTER

• 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. With the adjustment layers, you can edit and discard your adjustments or restore your original image at any time. This will make your workflow in Photoshop more flexible and efficient, and is an absolute must-know.

• Basic understanding of Adjustment Layer :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’ve selected will pop up. The Properties panel will allow you to modify your adjustment layer, which in turn will modify your image.

• Brightness / Contrast: Makes adjustments to the tonal range of your image. The brightness slider is for adjusting the highlights in your image and the Contrast slider is for adjusting the shadows in your image.

• Level:Modify the tonal values in an image by adjusting the levels of the shadows, midtones, and highlights. It’s one of the most used tools in the adjustment layer panel, and using just a touch of levels will go a long way in correcting your images.

• Curves: Let you adjust as many points as you want throughout the entire tonal range of your image, and is the most powerful and precise tool for editing the tones in an image. 

• Exposure; Lets you adjust exposure levels with three sliders: Exposure, Offset adjustment  Gamma. Exposure will adjust only the highlights of the image, Offset adjusts the mid tones and Gamma will adjust the dark tones only.

• Selective Color: Adjustment layer selectively modifies the amount of a primary color without modifying the other primary colors in your image.

FILTER

• Using filters to edit photos is an essential element of Adobe’s graphics editor. There are filters to change colour, add blur or create completely new image effects. Photoshop offers a virtually unlimited variety of filters for this purpose.

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INSTUCTUION

WEEK 4: PRACTICAL

Pen Tool Exercise (best composition)

The reason why I chose this college is because I think this typesetting is very special. In this work, I think the arrangement of fish from big to small and top to bottom is quite classic. The second thing I am satisfied with is phones and people. In fact, what I want to express is that people who travel alone outside can only analyze their lives with their families through mobile phones. This is also my current state of studying abroad. 

 (adjustment layers & filters)

I changed the color of the phone from cyan to purple. The second thing I changed was the fish in the middle and brightened the original tone, and finally applied a layer of filter to the overall aspect. After the adjustment I think it looks more suitable for the style. After the adjustment I think it looks more retro and I like the feel so much

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