Digital Photography and Imaging - Week 1

22/4/2024 - 26/4/2024 / Week 1

Tay Yue Chern / 0373215

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

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Lecture: Introduction to Digital Photography and Imaging

Photoshop

- user-friendly software program

- supplies great deals of one-of-a-kind tools that assist you to release your imagination

Importance of Photoshop for the Graphic Designer

- express your creativity

- create graphic design

- restoration of old images

- integrate graphics with text artistically

- make use of brushes

- change photo colour

- rectify mistakes in photographs

Top 10 tips of successful graphic designer

1. Follow the tutorials

2. Experiment

3. Memorise all keyboard shortcuts

4. Try to replicate others work

5. Do participate in design competitions

6. Subscribe to online galleries

7. Smart objects for smart designers

8. Scaling artworks and proportions

9. Use actions to personalise work

10. Organise the files properly

Photoshop has become a center of creativity for all domains where it is graphic designing, web designing, animation, photography or digital magazine designing. It’s being considered as one of the widely used photo editing software.

Adobe Photoshop is an incredible tool to use for graphic design but there is a lot to learn for the beginners and always more for those who are the experienced ones.

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Tutorial & Practical

Instructions

1. Introduction to Google Classroom.

2. Introduction to Google Drive folder system.

3. Introduction to Collage.

4. Prepare collage's design elements for Week 2 Exercise.

5. Create your E-Portfolio blog: https://youtu.be/Q9H-8-MQKpc?t=41

6. Register Pinterest

    Pinterest Board (DPI): https://pin.it/NLgiDIvMr

7. List down your 3 favourite graphic design work from Pinterest and explain why you like the designs.

Fig 2.1 Design #1

At first, I was attracted by its 90s Hong Kong movie vibe. I like the lighting and the way it uses light and shadow which creates a great atmosphere. Other than that, I think it’s quite a creative and interesting idea to use water droplets (it should be water if I’m not mistaken) to segment the frame, giving the impression that the main light source is blurred as if it’s being cast into the water, combined with the typography, it’s truly a very engaging piece of work.

Fig 2.2 Design #2

I really like how the creator combined different elements in this collage. The choices of elements were unexpected but they fit together surprisingly well. The overall colour tone of the image is really nice and calming too. The splashing water element stands out the most to me and I think it’s what makes this picture special. It’s a smart choice to add this element as it breaks up the simple composition and adds more detail to this image, making the overall composition feel more liberated.

Fig 2.3 Design #3

This is a simple yet impactful photo. I personally like this kind of blurred focus style, especially the soft glow effect in night shots. The blurry night scene combined with the warm, sepia-toned hue, totally brings back those old-school film camera vibes.