Digital Photography and Imaging / Exercises
Cheryl Voo Yie Qi / 0349878
Digital Photography and Imaging / Bachelor of Design in Creative Media
Exercises
LECTURES
INSTRUCTION
- Bezier game - practice pen tool
- Create your E-Portfolio blog
- Register Pinterest & Behance
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List down your 3 favourite graphic design work from Pinterest. Explain
it on your E-portfolio blog, why do you like the designs?
We were taught how to do photo adjustment in Photoshop.
EXERCISES
Week 1
At first, I felt quite interesting to play this game as a practice to help us master the pen tool. After I tried it, it slowly gets more difficult and I need to try few more times to complete the level and get to the next level for another shape. Hope I can master it in a short time :)
My 3 favourite graphic design works from Pinterest
- Design #1
This design is designed by Venngage. I like the colour of this design. The colours work fine together, even though there are only 4 colours in this poster. It gives me a desert vibe because of the orange side of the mountain. This design is clean and simple, easy to see that there is a man walking up to the mountain towards the sun. And overall I can see is balance, no matter from the space or colour.
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Design #2
This poster is from a page called "gladline", there are a lot of interesting and amazing posters in the page. This poster is about Vans and skateboarding. I chose this poster because I really like how they use only black and different shades of blue to create this poster and it turned out really impressive. They used stripes for the background and it looks really good, I saw some designs look messy because of the stripes background but this does not look messy but clean.
- Design #3
This design is designed by Lauren Martin. Her posters mostly are about
food. I can feel the retro vibe in this poster from the colours she used. I
loved how she add faces to the foods and utensils, it turned out really cute
and funny, it seems like they are alive too. Every single faces are unique,
there are sad faces, tired faces and annoying faces.
Week 2 (Selection tools)
We were given some pictures to practice the selection tools after Mr.
Martin gave us lectures about selection tools :
Fig 30, process of using selection tools
Fig 31, placing table into the background
Fig 32, Final
Mr. Martin taught us about the adjustment layer today, and he told us to play around with it so here is some of my process :
Fig 33, colour balance
Fig 34, gradient fill
Fig 35, invert
Fig 36, brightness and contrast
Week 5 ( Photo manipulation)
We are given Shazam and Hearst mansion pictures to combine them using photoshop. After I watched Mr. Martin's video, I followed his steps for the shazam exercise in Photoshop.
These are the photos that we need to work with :
Fig 37, hearst mansion
Fig 38, Shazam
Fig 39, process of this exercise
Fig 40, Final
Week 6 (Photo Recoloring)
Fig 41, Black and white picture
Fig 42, coloring the face
Fig 43, trying different layer
Fig 44, process of coloring lip and hair
Fig 45, colored background
Fig 46, Final
Fig 47, Original photo
Fig 48, Photo reference
Fig 49, Photo Reference
Fig 50, process of taking the skin tone color from reference
Fig 51, process of taking the hair color from reference
Fig 52, process of using reference colors to color the hair
Fig 53, process of using reference colors to color the skin
Fig 54, Final outcome
Fig 55, Final result of recoloring
For the typewriter, I adjusted the opacity of it and let it appear slowly in its place. And for the fencer, I just let it appear like the typewriter but did not adjust its opacity.
For the shark, I adjusted its position and scale from 50% and slowly swam into 100%.
I let the projector appear by using rotation and the circle behind, I get the colour from the typewriter and let it rotate too.
Fig 57, Process of adding effects
Fig 58, Process of adding effects
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Bezier
In this exercise, I learned to use the pen tool for the first time. In the process, I learned how to manage the limited nodes to finish the pattern.
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Selection tools
In this exercise, I learned how to use the lasso tool to select the objects and the magic wand tool that can select objects really fast when the background is clear. I also learned how to use the quick selection tool through this exercise. It is all new to me because I'm learning all this for the first time and it is fun.
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Photo adjustment
After Mr. Martin taught us about photo adjustment, I learned a lot because at first, I thought it will be difficult but overall is still ok for me. Im having fun trying different types of filters and adjustments.
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Photo manipulation
In this exercise, the thing that I struggled with was the shadow. Because I wanted it to be more natural, but when I'm doing it, the shape didn't turn out well but after a few tries, I figured out what shape of the shadow should be. I think that I need more practice with this exercise.
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Photo Recoloring
I like this exercise because we can play around with the colors and it does not seem so difficult as I thought. At first, I didn't think that photo recoloring will be like this, but after this exercise, I really learned a lot. - After Effects
It is fun to learn After Effects because we can animate things the way we want. And it is fun to see things went still to moving. Overall it is quite fine for me, but still need more practice to make the moves smoother.
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