Digital Photography and Imaging | Week 4 Project 1A Part 2

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14.10.24 - 20.10.24 / week 4
Subhana Salim  / 0375936 
Digital Photography and Imaging / Bachelor's of Design (Honours) in Creative Media / Taylor's University
Week 4 Project 1A Part 2 

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LECTURES

In week 4, We learnt about adjustment layers and filters. Adjustments layers in photoshop allows us to edit images by editing its color and tone without permanently changing its pixels. There are 5 different adjustments you can make under adjustment layer :- Brightness/Contrast, Level, Curves, Exposure, Selective Color. Brightness slider is for adjusting the highlights in the image while contrast slider is for shadows. Levels modify the tonal values by adjusting the shadows, mid tones, highlights. Curves lets you adjust as many points as you want throughout the entire tonal range of your image. Exposure lets you adjust exposure levels with three sliders : Exposure, Offset, Gamma. Selective color modify the amount of a primary color without the other primary colors in an image. There are Filters to change colors, add blur or create completely new image effects. 

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CLASS SUMMARY

Week 4 :

In week 4, We were introduced to part b of project 1. For this assignment we were required to make a digital collage in Adobe Photoshop using the knowledge we gathered from making the physical collage. We were limited to only using the images provided. We had till the end of this week to submit the final composition.

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WEEK 4 PROJECT 1A PART 2 

Digital Collage

For this week our Mr. Fauzi reviewed our 3 collages and chose the best one. Then we got to make adjustments on the chosen collage using adjustment layers. 

Chosen Composition

Edited Composition

After the composition was chosen, we are required to make minor adjustments to the layers using adjustment layers. I mainly used the color balance, hue/saturation, brightness/contrast adjustment layers to edit my composition. 

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REFLECTIONS

This week we were supposed to edit the approved image using adjustment layers. This exercise helped me become more familiar with using adjustment layers. It was also a challenge as we were not allowed to make too many adjustments to our elements. It was also difficult in deciding which elements to edit. Overall it was a good step towards improving my photoshop knowledge.

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