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Digital Photography and Imaging - Project 1
October ,04 2023
25/9/2023 - 31/10/2023 (Week 1 - Week 6)
GU QIANKUAN / 0369385
Digital Photography and Imaging / Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media / Taylor's University
Project 1
GU QIANKUAN / 0369385
Digital Photography and Imaging / Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media / Taylor's University
Project 1
1. LECTURES
WEEK 1 (26/9/2023): INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY AND IMAGING
Reasons to learn Photoshop
- Operate in a visual style, website design, or individual experience function.
- Especially learning the hands-on advertising and marketing functions.
- Especially learning the hands-on advertising and marketing functions.
The 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 the photo colour.
- Rectify mistakes in photographs.
Photograph Manipulation
- Involves the transformation or alteration of a photograph.
- Uses various methods and techniques to achieve desired results.
Photograph manipulation with negative
Fig. 1.1 Australian photographer Frank Hurley formed this composite
photograph
from three original negatives of World War I Belgium.
Fig. 1.2 Goebbels family portrait photo in which the visage of the
uniformed Harald,
who was actually away on military duties, was inserted and
retouched.
Digital Imaging
- Converts the printed text, artwork, and photographs into digital
images.
- By using a digital scanner or another imaging device.
Fig. 1.3 What Is Digital Imaging?
Tips for Successful Graphic Designers
- Follow The Tutorials
- Experiment
- Memorize All Keyboard Shortcuts
- Try to Replicate Others Work
- Do Participate in Design Competitions
- Subscribe to Online Galleries
- Smart Objects for Smart Designers
- Scaling Artworks and Proportions
- Use Actions to Personalize Work
- Organize the Files Properly
WEEK 2 (3/10/2023): INTRODUCTION TO COMPOSITION
Basic Composition
1. Focal point: Helps your viewers’ eyes naturally settle on
the important pieces of your design first.
2. Scale & Hierarchy: Scale helps
communicate hierarchy by drawing attention toward and
away from certain elements.
3. Balance the elements: Smaller objects might ‘weigh’ less than larger objects, and heavily
textured elements might ‘weigh’ more than flatly coloured elements.
4. White Space: Empty space to balance up the main focus of a composition.
Rule of Thirds
- Dividing an image into thirds, using two horizontal and two vertical
lines.
- This imaginary grid yields nine parts with four intersection
points.
- Composition techniques that are in line with what’s
naturally pleasing to the eye.
- Creatively use negative space.
- Create a conversation between the subject and
background.
Golden Ratio
- A mathematical ratio.
- Commonly found in nature, and when used in a design.
- Fosters organic and natural-looking compositions that are
aesthetically pleasing to the eye.
Fig. 1.4 Rule of Thirds & Golden Ratio.
WEEK 3 (10/10/2023): INTRODUCTION TO PHOTOSHOP 2
Tool Box
- In the Tool Box, you can extend to see other tools.
Marquee Selection Tools
- Used to select and mask.
Lasso Tool
- Daw and pinpoint specific areas of a document.
- Three different tool options: Lasso, Polygonal Lasso and Magnetic Lasso
Pen Tool
- Creating a
path from scratch.
- Remember, the fewer points, the smoother a path will be.
Lasso Tool VS Pen Tool
The pen tool is a versatile tool in Photoshop that can be used to
create extremely precise shapes and paths, using manually placed
anchor points. Although commonly used to make selections, the pen
tool was not natively made as a “selection tool”
Layering
- Layers are different images stacked on top of each
other.
- Can use each layer without affecting another one to make
adjustments for non-destructive editing.
- Can save a Photoshop file with all the layers included.
- The layers contain all the extra information and/ or images you
want to add to the original file.
Fig. 1.5 Tools in Photoshop.
WEEK 4 (17/10/2023): INTRODUCTION TO ADJUSTMENT LAYER & FILTERS
Adjustment Layer
- Non-destructive image editing tools
- Add colour and tonal adjustments to your image without
permanently changing its pixels.
- Can edit and discard your adjustments or restore your
original image anytime.
- Make the workflow in Photoshop more flexible and efficient.
Basic Understanding of Adjustment Layer
The properties panel is used to modify the adjustment layer.
1. Brightness/ Contrast: Adjust the tonal range of
the image. The brightness slider is for adjusting the
highlights in your image and the Contrast slider is for
adjusting the shadows in your image.
2. Level: Modify the tonal values in an image by
adjusting the levels of the shadows, mid-tones, and
highlights.
3. Curves: Adjust many points throughout the
entire tonal range of the image, and edit the tones in an
image.
4. Exposure: Adjust exposure levels with
three sliders: Exposure, Offset and Gamma. Exposure will
adjust only the highlights of the image, Offset adjusts the
mid tones and Gamma will adjust the dark tones only.
5. Selective Colour: Selectively modifies the
amount of a primary colour without modifying the other primary
colours in the image.
Fig. 1.6 Adjustment Layer and Properties
Panel in Photoshop.
Filters
- Change colour
- Add blur
- Create completely new image effects.
Fig. 1.7 13 Creative
Photoshop Filters Collections To Get
Stunning Photos.
Fig. 1.8 Trick the Photo
Filter to Add Drama & Color in
Photoshop!
Youtube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDSbfx67MLg
WEEK 5 (24/10/2023): DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Exposure
Fig. 1.9 Exposure: the amount of light which reaches the camera sensor or
film.
Main Parts of the Camera
1. Camera Body: Shutter, Image sensor, LCD
screen (The camera body is a lightproof box.)
2. Camera Lens: Aperture/ Iris
Fig. 1.10 Parts of the
Camera.
Exposure Setting
- Only two camera settings that affect the actual
“luminous exposure” of an image: shutter speed and
aperture.
- The third setting, camera ISO, also affects the
brightness of the photos.
1. Iris/Aperture:
- Controls the flow of light entering the
lens.
- Is measured by f-stop: f/1, f/1.4,
f/2, f/ 2.8, f/ 4, f/ 5.6, f/ 8, f/ 11, f/ 16, f/22,
f/32..
2. Shutter:
- A small plastic sheet that opens and
closes.
- To allow light onto the film or prevent
light from reaching the film.
- Is measured in seconds: 1/1000
s,1/500 s,1/250 s,1/125 s,1/60 s,1/30 s,1/15 s,1/8 s,1/4
s,1/2 s,1 s, 2 s, 3 s…
3. ISO:
- Originally referred to
the film sensitivity: its "light
gathering" ability.
- For digital
photography, refers to the sensitivity
of the camera's sensor.
- Common ISO camera
settings: 100, 200, 400, 640, 800, 1600,
3200, 6400….
Fig. 1.11 Exposure Setting.
Lens Perspective
- They are wide-angle lens, standard lens and tele
lens.
- Appropriate lens provided the desired framing, lens
choice affects the angle of view.
- Different lenses are designed for different for
different purposes. - Categorized by Focal Length.
1. Focal Length:
- The shorter the focal length, the wider the angle
of view and vice-versa.
- the measurement (in millimetres) from the optical
centre of a camera lens to the camera’s
sensor.
2. Depth of Field:
- The proportion of the image that is reasonably
sharp and in focus.
- The smaller the aperture you use, the greater the
depth of field.
Types of Camera Lenses
1. Wide Angle Lenses:
- Ideal for fitting a large area into the
frame.
- Especially useful for landscape
photography or street photography.
- Almost everything is in focus unless the
subject is very close to the lens.
2. Standard Lenses:
- Offer a fairly accurate representation
of what the human eye sees, both in
terms of visual angle and
perspective.
- Images are perceived as more natural
than other types of camera lenses.
3. Tele Lenses:
- Great for isolating a subject that is
far away.
- Can photograph subjects from a distance
thanks to their
magnification.
Fig. 1.13 Wide Angle Lenses, Standard Lenses & Tele Lenses.
DSLR Camera VS Smartphone
- Quality VS Convenience
- DSLR cameras: Capture images.
Have much larger lenses and sensors.
- Phones: Carry out a multitude of functions.
Cameras are very limited by size.
PROJECT 1A (PART 2): DIGITAL COLLAGE (WEEK 3 - 10/10/2023)
PROJECT 1B (PART 2A): RECOLOURING BLACK AND WHITE (WEEK 6 - 31/10/2023)
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