Digital Photography and Imaging - Week 3

6/5/2024 - 10/5/2024 / Week 3

Tay Yue Chern / 0373215

Digital Photography and Imaging / Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Creative Media

Lecture: Introduction to Photoshop 2

Lasso Tool

- allow you to draw and pinpoint specific areas of a document
- great to use with a graphic tablet as it is similar to a pencil
- tutorial on how to use Lasso Tool: https://youtu.be/DKtHsFaclKo

Pen Tool

- most common option to create a oath from scratch
- how you add the points and drag the tool to create the points determines how they will look
- the fewer points, the smoother a path will be
- for practice: https://bezier.method.ac
- tutorial on how to use Pen Tool

Layering
- different images stacked on top of each other
- can use each layer without affecting another one to make adjustments
- together they form one final image
- how to open images as layers: https://youtu.be/0dOvqYO5nfg


Tutorial & Practical

Instructions

PROJECT 1B: DIGITAL COLLAGE

1. Download all of the images here to your computer: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1cGcbENrjSksAaMQK9np2jb6ZaM7Y-81l?usp=sharing

2. Follow this tutorial demo as reference to create your digital collage: https://youtu.be/BlW7F-fTsbE

3. Create 3 different composition digital collages from the images that you’ve downloaded.

4. Create A4 canvas size (vertical) on Photoshop and start to do the compositions.

5. Take 3 photo of your digital collage compositions.


Fig 2.1 Composition #1

Fig 2.2 Composition #2

Fig 2.3 Composition #3

FEEDBACK

Composition #2 was chosen by Mr Fauzi to proceed to the next step.

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