DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY AND IMAGING - Week 4

Amelia Intan Cahyani/ 0355211

Digital Photography and Imaging - Week 4/ Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media 

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DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY AND IMAGING

 AMELIA INTAN CAHYANI 0355211 - Bachelor of Design in creative media

Lecture

The adjustment layers and filters in Adobe Photoshop were discussed in this week's session. 

1. Adjustment Layers

With the use of non-destructive adjustments layers, you can make colour and tonal modifications to an image without affecting its pixels permanently. 

1. Brightness and Contrast: These sliders change the tonal range. Brightness sliders are used to adjust highlights, and Contrast sliders are used to control shadows.

2. Level: Change the tonal values and adjust the shadow, mid tone, and highlight levels.

3. Curves, which alter an image's whole tone range.

4. Exposure: Three sliders are used to modify exposure levels: Luminance, Offset, and Gamma 

5. Selective Color: Modifies only the amount of one primary color, leaving the other primary colors unchanged.

2. Filters

Filters can adjust the color and tone, add blur, vignette, etc.

Instructions

1. Please attach your top piece from the digital collage exercise from Week 3.

2. Using the same Photoshop file, adapt your digital collage from Week 3 into Week 4 by employing Photoshop's Adjustment Layers & Filters.

Practical

My intention was to bring emphasis to the fish, which the concept describes as a monster in that city. To do this, I contrasted the fish element and went with blue and pink for the colour balance simply because I prefer it that way. I then adjusted the hue and saturation to make it look nicer. 

fig 1 Final Outcome