Digital Photography and Imaging | Week 4

 

WEEK 4/14/05/2024

Lectures - Introduction to Photoshop 3

1. Adjustment Layer

• non-destructive image editing tools that add color and tonal adjustments to your image without permanently changing its pixels
• With the adjustment layers, you can edit and discard your adjustments or restore your original image at any time

1.1 Brightness / Contrast: adjusting the highlights / adjusting the shadows

1.2 Level: modify the tonal values in an image by adjusting the levels of the shadows, midtones, and highlights

1.3 Curves: adjust as many points as you want throughout the entire tonal range, and is the most powerful and precise tool for editing the tones in an image

1.4 Exposure: Adjust exposure levels with three sliders (Exposure, Offset, Gamma)

1.5 Selective Color: Selectively modifies the amount of a primary color without modifying the other primary colors

2. Filters

• To edit photos is an essential element of Adobe's graphics editor
• Change colour, add blur or create completly new image effects

YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/gDSbfx67MLg

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Tutorial - Demo

Mr. Fauzi explains: 

1. Match Lighting. Adjustment layers. Filters

• At the bottom of the layer part is a row of icons, a half-shaded circle for Creating a  new adjustment layer
• Press "levels" to adjust the layers

• We can freely adjust this Brightness/Contrast adjustment layer without saving alternative versions of the file

2. Photoshop Pen Tool

• Trace and crop the images using the Pen tool

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Practical - Project 1B: Digital Collage Review

1. Exercise

• Working with layers
• Adjustment Layers & Filters