Digital Photography and Imaging Week 4

24 April 2023  / Week 4
Leem Sejin / 0362419
Digital Photography and Imaging  / Bachelor of Design (Honour) in Creative Media
Task - Project 1A

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LECTURE

Introduction to photoshop 3 Adjustment layer & Filters

Adjustment layer

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

Adjustment tools

1. Brightness and Contrast : make adjustments to the tonal range of the images.
2. Levels : modify the tonal values in an image by adjusting the levels of the shadows, midtones, and highlights.
3. Curves : adjust as many points as we want throughout the entire tonal range of the images , and is the most powerful and precise tool for editing the tones in an image.
4. Exposure : adjust exposure levels with three sliders: Exposure, Offset and Gamma.
5. Selective Colour : modifies the amount of a primary colour without modifying the other primary colours in the image.

Filters : change colour, add blur or create completely new image effect

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TASK

Based on the composition made on last week, we used the image to change the colours. This time, I change the colour of the blue fish and its back ground, so that the type writer will be focused the most.

I used hue & saturation, to decrease the colour intensity of the fish, and use ' colour balance' to adjust the colour of the fish slightly.

Fig 1.1

I explore 'level' to adjust the brightness of the typewriter also.

Fig 1.2

This is the comparison between colour correction.

Fig 1.3

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REFLECTION

It was fun to change the colour of the photos, I can make totally different colour, however, I need to keep compare and watch out if the colour of the photos become too dark, or burnt, and make the photo unrealistic.