Digital Photography and Imaging / WEEK 3 - Practical

06/09/2021
Esther Vanessa [0350751]
Digital Photography and Imaging
WEEK 3 - Practical

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LECTURE

Introduction to Photoshop

• Marquee Selection Tools to select and mask
• Pen Tool – for tracing
• Creating paths, more precise
• The fewer points, the smoother the result will be

Figure 1.1 Guide on Pen Tool

• Variation
• Straight line paths
• U shaped curves
• Simple S curves
• Complex S curves

Figure 1.2 Complex S curves

• Difference between Lasso tool and Pen tool
• Pen tool for extremely precise shapes and paths. Not natively made as a selection tool
• Lasso is not that sharp. It is quicker than pen tool though
• Lasso Tool – for specific area
• Allow you to draw and pinpoint specific areas of a document
• If you like drawing with pencil and cutting out paper and/or plastic objects from a photo, then you will love the lasso tool
• To use:
• Great with drawing tablet
• Gives off a sense of drawing with a pencil
• Close loops by connecting the point
• Magnetic lasso will probably be more precise, helps anchor points
• Press Shift to add, Option to remove

Figure 1.3 Lasso tool

• Quick Selection Tool – quick select but not too precise (depends on pixel)
• Layers
• Different images stacked on top of each other
• Use each layer without affecting the other one
• Together they form one final image
• You can use layers for non-destructive editing by never destroying the original image
• File – scripts – loads layers (to load multiple pictures into single layers)

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INSTRUCTION

We were asked to download a set of images and create our own digital collage. We will need to make 3 different composition from the set of images on an A4 canvas size in Photoshop.

TASK

Here are 3 of my compositions

Figure 1.4 Composition #1

Figure 1.5 Composition #2

Figure 1.6 Composition #3

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FEEDBACK

Mr Fauhzi noted that I did a great job with the composition and suggested I should use Composition #3 for the final submission.