Digital Photography & Imaging - W3

17/4/23 // Week 3
Mercy Chong HuiZiun // 0360929

Digital Photography & Imaging // BDCM

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 W3: Lecture 

Intro to Photoshop 2

- Lasso tool
> It allows you to draw and pinpoint specific areas of a document.

• Lasso
• Polygonal Lasso
• Magnetic Lasso

- Pen tool 
> To create paths by adding points and curves from scratch. 

• "The Bezier Game" - A game on website where you can practice using the pen tool.

- Layering
> Layers contains extra adjustments and add-ons without destroying the original file since it was stacked on.
> Advantage of using layers: Save a Photoshop file with all the layers included.

Link to this week's lecture notes:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1X8iLLCp0xMTqQOpiurzR8QE-ktGphYDmwAR2UcGUD80/edit#slide=id.p1

 Tutorials 

Demo

• Blending mode: Paths, Masking, Layering

Fig Video tutorial #1

Fig Video tutorial #2

 Practical 

Project 1A: Physical Collage final review
Project 1B: Digital Collage

Instructions

1.  Download all of the images here to your computer:
   https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1cGcbENrjSksAaMQK9np2jb6ZaM7Y-81l?usp=sharing
   
2.  Follow this tutorial as reference to create your digital collage:
   https://youtu.be/BlW7F-fTsbE 
   
3. Create 3 different composition digital collages from the images you have downloaded.
4. Create A4 Canvas size (vertical) on Photoshop and start to do the compositions.
5. Take 3 photo of your digital collage compositions and insert it on the section below.
6. Submit (Turn in) this file on GClassroom.

> Sir has been given us a google drive folder with images for us to use as our digital collage in Photoshop. I started to play around and practice on some functions to get used to it. 

Here are the three digital collage compositions done in Adobe Photoshop.

Digital collage compositions

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