Digital Photography and Imaging (WEEK 4)

 

Digital Photography and Imaging (WEEK 4)

25 October 2023/ Week 4

Rafa Maritza Hertrian/ 0364958

Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Creative Media/ Design Photography and Imaging / Taylor's University 

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LECTURE

Adjustment Layer and Filters

Definition: A group of editing tools that is very efficient for creating non-destructive images. It adds color and tonal adjustments to any image without permanently changing its pixels. Adjustment layers allow us to edit and discard adjustments or restore the original image. This tool can boost confidence by relieving concern that we might ruin the actual image. 

Basic understanding of adjustment layers 

When an adjustment layer is added, a layer specifically for the adjustment will appear on top of the original image. This adjustment layer will provide a properties panel that will allow us to edit the adjustment layer based on our likings. 

Figure 4.1 Adjustment layer outline

• Brightness/ contrast: makes adjustments to the tonal range of an image. In the brightness/ contrast section, there is a slider for both adjustments. The brightness slider is used to modify the highlights in an image while the contrast slider is used to modify the shadow in an image. 

Figure 4.1.2 Brightness/ contrast slider 

• Level: Used for changing tonal values by adjusting the levels of the shadow, mid-tones, and highlight. It is the most used tool as one touch automatically gives a lot of adjustment. 

Figure 4.1.3 Level adjustment panel 

• Curves: allows editing a tonal range of an image with as many points as possible which makes precise editing.
• Exposure: There are three sliders provided in the exposure levels section: Exposure, Offset, and Gamma. Exposure will adjust the highlights, offset adjusts the mid-tones, and gamma will adjust the dark tones only. 
• Selective Color: Used to adjust the primary color selectively without affecting another part of it. 

Filter 

One crucial feature of Adobe's graphics editor is the ability to modify photographs using filters. 

There are filters to add blur, alter color, or provide entirely other image effects. For this use, Photoshop provides an almost infinite range of filters.

Figure 4.1.4 Filter adjustment

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PRACTICAL

PEN TOOL EXERCISE (BEST COMPOSITION)

Figure 4.2.1 Pen Tool Exercise (Best Composition)

I achieved this by first collecting the images I want to use. I first picked a background, which is the black and white textured image. Then I used the ‘people walking’ image and removed the upper part of it using quick selection tool. I proceed by adding other singular images, flip them vertically or horizontally, put it above the people walking.

ADJUSTMENT LAYERS & FILTERS

Figure 4.2.2 Adjustment Layers & Filter

This collage represents reality vs what the media is showing. Nowadays, we are flooded by contents in social media, but most of the time it does not show how people actually live every day. People tend to make contents that seems appealing to everyone eyes, hence, a lot of people tend to be unsatisfied with their own life and always wanting to be anyone but themselves. I showed this by making making the real life vs media under and above each other. I made the real life version black and white to show how sad it is. Meanwhile, the media has some sort of color to it. After making the composition, I adjusted the color. I make the bottom part black and white my turning down the saturation to the lowest. I also adjusted the colors in the upper part into a monochromatic combination of blue by adjusting the hues and opacity.