29.9.2023-20.10.2023 (Week1-Week6)

liuziyu/0367533/Bachelor of Design (Honors) in Creative Media
Digital Photography and Imaging
Task:Exercises

Week1: practical

INSTRUCTION:

1. Bezier Game

Practice and play on this game:

https://bezier.method.ac

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Attach your score below:

2. Create your E-Portfolio blog.

E-Portfolio Link:

https://0367533.blogspot.com/

3. Register Pinterest

Pinterest Link:

https://www.pinterest.com/ziyuliu297/

4. List down your 3 favourite graphic design works done by Photoshop from Pinterest.

Explain why you like the designs?

Design #1:

Description:

I chose this picture because the same as our human sauna. Some people enjoy the sauna very

much ,and maybe the food enjoys the sauna as much as we do.

Design #2:

Description :

This picture reminds me that the increasing temperature of the earth today has caused

many glaciers to melt, and the reason for the increasing temperature is that human beings do not care about the environment, so I think this picture tells me to care about the environment.

Design #3:

  Description:

Personally, I think the last picture is very interesting. The vegetable in the picture just look like 

a tied umbrella. If they are opened, the light can still reflect beautiful turquoise through the vegetables .

Week2:LECTURES：
Introduction to Photoshop
Toolbox

Photoshop provides several toolsets in the toolbox, and we can expand the toolset to show other tools. And can make full use of its tools to help us design.


This week we learned about the lasso tool and pen tool in the toolbarThe use and introduction of lasso tools:Lasso tools can draw and pinpoint specific areas of a document.
A tablet is more suitable for a lasso tool because it is similar to a pencil.
Unlike a mouse or trackpad, a graphics tablet can provide a better sense of flow when drawing and selecting.
The lasso tool in the toolbar has three different lasso tools, they are:
noose
Polygonal lasso
Magnetic lasso

















The use and introduction of pen tools：When it comes to creating a path from scratch, the pen tool is the most common choice.
The pen tool is how you add these points, and the way you drag the tool while creating the points determines how they look.
Remember, the fewer points, the smoother the path.
Variation of Pen Tool


Home work
Week2


Week3:LECTURES：
This week we've looked at quick selection tools, layer masks, filters, and color correction.

Next is my class practice：
Copy and paste the smoke photo onto the girl's photo (new layer)
Apply screen blend mode
Create a new adjustment layer and adjust the color level to increase contrast


Create a new radial gradient,Set the opacity to 20%



It ends up looking like this

Use the Quick Selection Tool to subtract the background.Shortcut keys: Zoom in/out, increase/decrease brush size, subtract from/add to selection.
Add layer mask
Apply layer mask
Drag the SHAZAM onto the HEARST MANSION, resize and reposition the SHAZAM.
Shortcut keys: Free transform mode, maintain aspect ratio
Press and hold the SHIFT button on the keyboard to rescale the layer and ensure that the image is not deformed.

Adjust Color Correction: Match Color (Image → Adjustments) as shown below

Create Shadows for ShazamCreate a new layer (and rename it Shadow)
Use the brush tool
Draw a black shadow on the background of the SHAZAM layer
Then lower the transparency to create natural shadows


Create NEW LAYER to make SHAZAM’s reflection. 
SHORTCUT KEYS: POLYGONAL LASSO Tool, 
Duplicate the SHAZAM’s layer
Rename the layer as reflection
Adjust the colour correct for reflection layer: 
HUE/SATURATION (Image → Adjustments)
Apply RIPPLE filter to SHAZAM’s reflection layer.

The above is what I learned in this class

Home work
Week3:
This week’s homework is to take a full-body photo of yourself and then put it into the background according to the method taught in class.


Week4:

LECTURES：

Digital Imaging exercise
This week the teacher teaches us how to fill in color in black and white photos. First, use the marquee tool to select the skin color and copy the selected area. 
Shortcut keys: Marquee Tool: M, Copy: CMD+C
Paste the selection in the black and white portrait and rename the newly created layer Skin Tone
Select the eyedropper tool (shortcut key: I)
Change sample size to: 5 x 5 AVERAGE
Pick up the HIGHLIGHT using the EYEDROPPER and paint on it with the BRUSH TOOL (size: 30, hardness: 100%). repeat
Processing of MIDTONE and SHADOW.
Repeat the previous step of selecting highlights, midtones, and shadows from the hair reference image.


Roughly select hair with QUICK SELECTION TOOL, REFINE selection in SELECT & MASK.
Select the Overlay, Refine Edge Brush Tool. Brushing the edges makes the filled image more detailed.
After refining, select OUTPUT TO: LAYER MASK


Create a new solid layer and use the color picker to select the hair color.
DRAG & DROP hair layer mask to new solid layer to replace layer mask,
select SOFTLIGHT (BLENDING MODE)
Repeat the process for FACE, LAYER MASKS: QUICK SELECTION TOOL to roughly make selection, REFINE MASK with
SELECT & MASK MODE. Use BRUSH TOOL mask out EYES, LIPS, EAR RING.
Repeat the previous steps and export to: Layer Mask.
Create new solid layer, use color
Selector for choosing skin tone.
Drag and drop the hair layer mask onto the new entity
Layer replacement layer mask,
Select Soft Light (Blending Mode).
Repeat this for the clothes of the person in the photo.
Create solid layers using layer masks named Eyes, Lips, Teeth, Earrings
The final product is shown below:

Week4：
Home work
The picture below is an assignment I completed based on what the teacher taught me:

Week5：

LECTURES：
Double exposure practise
First click W for object selection/quick selection/magic wand tool series
Then click "Choose a theme" on the options bar
Click Select and Mask on the options bar
Viewing model: select and adjust opacity
Select “Refine Edge Brush Tool”.
Adjust brush size and hardness.
Select “Brush Tool” or “Lasso Tool”
Clean the background.Check edges.
Output: Select Layer with Layer Mask.
Click OK to leave “Select & Mask” mode.
Afterwards, it was built as a "new layer", added "pure color", and the general name was added as "bg" under the general portrait layer.
Adhesive addition tune-up layer, S-curve line, right-hand side tune line selection pruning version.
Added forest image with new orientation, selected pruning version, double bg'pure color, droplets, selected "gray sky face color", added menu version.
Choose a drawing pen tool, foreground color black, adjust the drawing pen size, hardness and flow rate, and increase the size of the pen. 
Duplicate the layer, flip it vertically and reposition it, select the clipping mask, the adjustment mask, and the mask for the portrait.
Add a gradient map fill layer, select the gradient map you want to experiment with, and lower the opacity.
The picture below is the result of my practice



Week5:
Home work 
Week6 
LECTURES：
This week’s exercise is to place the picture on another object more reasonably and fittingly, as shown in the picture below.
First select a picture, then select a picture to be placed on top of this picture, and then drag the subsequent picture onto the first picture.
Then make a copy of the first image, and then click on the adjustment in the image. There is a black and white option, click black and white.
Then save the black and white image as a PNG.
Then click on the image you want to place on another item, click Filter, then click Distort and then Displace, and put the black and white image you just saved into it.
Then click on the second picture you put in, click on the layer mask, and then click on the brush tool to remove the extra part of the picture with a brush.
Then click on the layer's blending mode and click on Darken.
Finally we completed today’s exercise
The picture below is the result of my practice:



The teacher asked us to create a poster with photorealistic graphic elements






Feed backWeek1:

Week2: For this week's homework, I used ps to splicing my image with the pictures sent by the teacher. I showed my splicing works to the teacher, and the teacher said that he liked the picture of the car with long grass designed by me, but the three pictures I designed all had a common problem, that is, they were too simple and there were too few items. I hope I can add more items to enrich the picture.

Week3：Our homework this week was to add photos of ourselves to the background image given by the teacher. The teacher checked that my homework results were unqualified because my character composition was too large and the proportions were uncoordinated. I did not carefully observe the sample image given by the teacher. , causing the assignment to fail. After that, I immediately made changes, carefully observed the sample drawings, and made the correct modifications.

Week4: The teacher commented on my homework this week. He said that I did a very good job and processed the photos in great detail. The only flaw is that the necklace on the girl in the photo is too dark and could be brightened.

Week5: This week I showed my homework to the teacher. The other designs were pretty good, but the colors were too bright and needed to be a little darker. With the help of the teacher, I completed the final product.