Digital Photography and Imaging: Week 4

|Tang Chin Ting [ 0366473 ]

|Digital Photography and Imaging/
|Bachelor of Design in Creative Media
|Project 1A (Part 2): Digital Collage with Filter

INSTRUCTIONS

LECTURES

Introduction To Photoshop 3

Adjustment Layer & Filters

What is the Adjustment Layer?

The Adjustment Layers in Photoshop are a group of super useful, 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.

Basic understanding of Adjustment Layer

When you add an adjustment layer to your image, a new layer will appear over your image and a Properties panel specific to the type of adjustment you’ve selected will pop up.

Figure 1.1 Adjustment Layer

Brightness & Contrast: Brightness / Contrast makes adjustments to the tonal range of your image.
Level: Levels modify the tonal values in an image by adjusting the levels of the shadows, midtones, and highlights.
Curves: Curves let you adjust as many points as you want throughout the entire tonal range of your image, and are the most powerful and precise tool for editing the tones in an image.
Exposure: Exposure lets you adjust exposure levels with three sliders: Exposure, Offset, and Gamma.
Selective Color: The Selective Color adjustment layer selectively modifies the amount of a primary color without modifying the other primary colors in your image.

What is a Filter? Using filters to edit photos is an essential element of Adobe’s graphics editor. There are filters to change color, add blur, or create completely new image effects. Photoshop offers a virtually unlimited variety of filters for this purpose.

Figure 1.2 Filter

Reference video:

TUTORIALS

Vital Tools & Project 1 (Demo)

1. Match lighting. Adjustment layers, Filters.
2. Photoshop Pen Tool.

3. Reference Video:

SUBMISSION

PROJECT 1B: Digital Collage review

EXERCISE:

Working with layers.
Adjustment Layers & Filters.

- In part 2 of this exercise, we needed a basic understanding of the adjustment layer and the skills of photo filter tricks in Photoshop. I only adjusted the brightness and the saturation of the texture, I had turned the saturation into a warm tone so that it would be more vintage. For the brightness part, I adjusted it to be more dark.