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Digital Photography and Imaging: Week 1

|Tang Chin Ting [ 0366473 ]
|Digital Photography and Imaging/
|Bachelor of Design in Creative Media
|Briefing Exercise


INSTRUCTIONS


LECTURES

Why do you need to learn Photoshop?


Adobe Photoshop is the reason why numerous professionals like graphic designers to web designers prefer using this application. Graphic style and digital photography is one of the most typical. There are numerous reasons that you must find out about Photoshop.


Understanding Photoshop is necessary if you operate in a visual style, website design, or individual experience function. Yet it is additionally similarly vital to find Photoshop for those operating in hands-on advertising and marketing functions.
Express your creativity
  • Create graphic design
  • Restoration of old images
  • Integrate graphics with text artistically
  • Make use of brushes
  • Change photo color
  • Rectify mistakes in photographs
Photograph manipulation with negative

Photographers combined multiple images on one negative captivating the curiosity and creativity of photographers dating back to the 1850s. Photograph manipulation involves the transformation or alteration of a photograph using various methods and techniques to achieve desired results. 
What Is Digital Imaging? 

Digital imaging converts printed text, artwork, and photographs into digital images using a digital scanner or another imaging device.

Figure 1.1 What is Digital Imaging

Top 10 Tips for Successful Graphic Designers

  • Follow the tutorials
  • Experiment
  • Memorize All Keyboard Shortcut
  • Try to Replicate Others Work
  • Participate in Design Competitions
  • Subscribe to Online Galleries

  • Smart Objects for Smart Designers

  • Scaling Artwork and Proportions

  • Use Actions to Personalize Work

  • Organize the Files Properly

Photoshop has become a center of creativity for all domains whether it is graphic designing, web designing, animation, photography, or digital magazine designing. It’s being considered as one of the widely used photo editing software.
TUTORIALS
W1: TUTORIAL – Students responsibilities, assignments & assessment methods

1. Introduction to Google Classroom.
2. Introduction to Google Drive folder system.
3. Introduction to Collage
4. Prepare the collage's design elements for the Week 2 exercise.
5. Past student's collage works: https://fauziyusoff.com/dpicollage


SUBMISSION

WEEK 1: PRACTICAL 

- Introduction to Google Drive and Online Portfolio 
- Creating E-Portfolio

1. Create your E-Portfolio blog.

2. Register Pinterest, and create a board name as DPI. Save/ Pin your references there

3. List down your 3 favorite graphic design composition works from Pinterest. Explain it on your E-portfolio blog, why do you like the designs?


- In this exercise, we needed to list down 3 graphic designs that we were interested in. The graphics can be collected by Pinterest or other design web, and write down the description and what the graphic presented in the document that our lecturer provided.

#1 DESIGN Hinterland Music Festival Poster | by Craft and Curate

Figure 1.2 Favourite Graphic Design

Description: I appreciate aesthetic and retro style, which is why this poster appeals to me. The poster conveyed the messages and created an illusion of the music festival using only very simple fonts and nice typography. 


This Poster is expressed:

This poster design features clean San serif typography with modern photography and hand-drawn touches. This poster can be found at: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/720857484130661272/


#2 DESIGN Every Thing In Black And White | by Saatchi & Saatchi

Figure 1.3 Favourite Graphic Design

Description: Although the font placement is a little chaotic, I can still understand the words out of this type of typography. Actually, I'm a fan of Leica, and my favorite color is black and white, which is used in their photographs and typography. 


This Poster expressed: It was created for the brand: Leica, by the ad agency: Saatchi & Saatchi. This Print medium campaign is related to the Electronics and technology industry and contains 3 media assets. It was submitted about 7 years ago.

#3 DESIGN CLARENDON TYPE POSTERS

Figure 1.4 Favourite Graphic Design


Description: This picture explains the background of the font known as "Clarendon." Black and white and the left and right scales are vividly compared.



This Poster expressed: This short series of posters proudly displays the wonderful history of a versatile typeface. Clarendon is iconic in its form which is why this series aims to showcase how it can be used both for display and body copy. The posters are of A1 size and can be seen individually or all together.

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