Digital Photography and Imaging - Week 3

 Lecture 3

Introduction to Photoshop

Selection - layering

Fig 1,1

Tool Box

Fig 1.2

Marquee Selection Tools

Fig 1.3

How to use a Lasso Tool

The Lasso Tool allows you to draw and pinpoint specific areas of a document. When you click on it from the Toolbar, there's three options: Lasso, Polgonal Lasso, Magnetic Lasso.

Fig 1.4

Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKtHsFaclKo

How to use the Pen Tool

When it comes to actually creating a path from scratch, this tool is the most common. By adding points and dragging the tool, it determines how they would look. The fewer the points, the smoother the path will be. 

Fig 1.5

Variation of Pen Tool

1. Straight line paths

                               Fig 1.6

2. U-shaped curves

                                      Fig 1.7

3. Simple S-curves

                                          Fig 1.8

4. Complex S-curves

                                         Fig 1.9

The Bezier Game helps people to master the pen tool: https://bezier.method.ac

Reference: https://youtu.be/BlW7F-fTsbE

Lasso Tool Vs Pen Tool

The pen tool is a versatile tool in Photoshop that can be used to create extremely precise shapes and paths, using manually placed anchor points. Although commonly used to make selections, the pen tool was not natively made as a "selection tool".

How to use Layering in Photoshop

Layers are different images stacked on top of each other. The advantage of using Layers is that you can save a Photoshop file with all the layers included. This means you can use layers for non-destructive editing. Your adjustments in Photoshop will never destroy the original image. The layers contain all the extra information and/ or images you want to add to the original file.

How to open images as layers: https://youtu.be/0dOvqYO5nfg

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Practical 3

PROJECT 1B: DIGITAL COLLAGE

1. Download all of the images here to your computer:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1cGcbENrjSksAaMQK9np2jb6ZaM7Y-81l?usp=sharing

2. Follow this tutorial demo as reference to create your digital collage:
https://youtu.be/BlW7F-fTsbE

VIDEO DEMO:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1COHQ3mjTiogWmSg8KqOMEmoYK0BJ2M8v/view?usp=sharing

3. Create 3 different composition digital collages from the images that you’ve 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 Google Classroom

My Compositions:

Composition 1#:

Fig 2.1 PSD 1

Composition #2:

Fig 2.2 PSD 2

Composition #3:

Fig 2.3 PSD 3