DPI Week 3

7/10/2024 - 11/10/2024 (Week 3)

Lim Yeng San (0366316)

Digital Photography and Imaging / Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media / Taylors University

LECTURE

Week 3: Introduction to Photoshop 2

The lecturer explained on the tool box, selection tools and layers in Adobe Photoshop.

Tool Box

Fig 1.1: The tool bar in Adobe Photoshop

Marquee Selection Tools

Fig 1.2: Tools for selection and masking

Lasso Tool

- To draw and pinpoint specific areas of a document

Types of Lasso Tools

• Lasso 
• Polygonal Lasso 
• Magnetic Lasso
  

Fig 1.3: The different lasso tools

Pen Tool

- Creates extremely precise shapes and paths, using manually placed anchor points

- The fewer the points, the smoother the path will be

Fig 1.4: All of the things that can be created with the pen tool

Variations of The Pen Tool

Fig 1.5: Straight line path

Fig 1.6: U-shaped curves

Fig 1.7: Simple S-curves

Fig 1.8: Complex S-curves

Layers

- Different images stacked on top of each other

- Contains all the extra information and/or images that would be added to the original file

- Each layer can be used without affecting another one to make adjustments

- All layers form one final image together

- Can use layers for non-destructive editing. 

- Adjustments in Photoshop will never destroy the original image

EXERCISES

We were instructed to choose one design out of the three previous collage designs to be developed further into the final physical collage design

Fig 1.9: The third design from the previous three collage designs

After consulting Mr. Fauzi, he felt that the third design out of the previous three collage designs would be the best fit to develop further. He advised on the arrangement and size of the elements. Following this, the elements were rearranged and new elements were added (some from the previous collage designs).

FINAL OUTCOME

Fig 1.10: The final physical collage design

Once I got the approval from Mr. Fauzi for my design, I glued every element to the paper, took a picture of it and submitted it to Google Classroom.

REFLECTION

The lecture was informative on Adobe Photoshop tools. I still have a lot to learn about collaging. I realized that I'm not used to different colour combinations and prefer to work with colours of a similar hue.