Digital Photography and Imaging - Week 6
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Teh Ming En/0364908
Digital Photography and Imaging-Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Creative Media--Taylors University
LECTURES
The 7 Principles of Poster Design:
1. Emphasis: A designer must follow to create an effective and attractive
composition. The fundamental principles of design are: Emphasis, Balance and
Alignment, Contrast, Repetition, Proportion, Movement and White Space.
2. Balance and Alignment
3. Contrast: Contrast creates space and difference between elements in your
design. Your background needs to be significantly different from the color of
your elements so they work harmoniously together and are readable.
4. Repetition: If you limit yourself to two strong typefaces or three strong
colors, you’ll soon find you’ll have to repeat some things. That’s ok! It’s
often said that repetition unifies and strengthens a design. If only one thing
on your band poster is in blue italic sans-serif, it can read like an error.
If three things are in blue italic sans-serif, you’ve created a motif and are
back in control of your design.
5. Proportion: Proportion is the visual size and weight of elements in a
composition and how they relate to each other. It often helps to approach your
design in sections, instead of as a whole.
6. Movement: Movement is controlling the elements in a composition so that the
eye is led to move from one to the next and the information is properly
communicated to your audience. Movement creates the story or the narrative of
your work.
7. White Space: White space (or negative space) is the only one that
specifically deals with what you don’t add. White space is exactly that—the
empty page around the elements in your composition.
TUTORIAL
Photography Basic
Fig 1.1 Tutorial Video 1
Fig 1.2 Tutorial Video 2
Fig 1.3 Tutorial Video 3
EXERCISE 01
According to instructions, I used the Eyedropper Tool to pick the skin's and
hair's color from the two model photos above. Before starting, I have changed
the sample size to: 5 by 5 average, then picked up highlight, midtone, and
shadow color and brushed it on the top.
Continue the same steps as hair layer, and I get this.
REFLECTION
In this exercise, we need to edit black & white photo into color photo.
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| Fig 2.1 B&W Photo |
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| Fig 2.2 Process |
I followed the instructions to use the Brush tool to color the photo. After
coloring, I apply the blending modes, overlay, or soft lightening, to make
the colors match the photo.
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| Fig 2.3 Final Composition |
After that, the exercise was complete.
EXERCISE 02
In this exercise, we also need to edit black and white photos into color
photos but it is advanced level.
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| Fig 2.6 B & W Photo |
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| Fig 2.7 Process |
In this part, I used Quick Selection Tool selected the hair roughly and
refine selection in Select & Mask. After that, I brushed over
the edges with Refine Edge Brush Tool.
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| Fig 2.8 Process of using Refine Edege Brush Tool |
The skin color was too pale, so I adjust the color using Hue/ Saturation and
click CTRL + ALT + G to make sure the clipping mask is just apply in skin
color layer.
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| Fig 2.9 Hue / Saturation |
Continue the same steps as hair layer, and I get this.
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| Fig 2.10 Process |
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| Fig 2.11 Exerceise 2 Final Composition 01 |
Then, I started edit the second photo.
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| Fig 2.12 B & W Photo |
Same steps with composition 01, I completed edit the second photo.
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| Fig 2.13 Exercise 2 Final Composition 02 |
REFLECTION
From these exercises, I have learned various tools in Photoshop and become
familiar with these tools. It is interesting for me when editing the photo,
make them colorful. Because it was like putting makeup on the models. That
process is quite interesting and funny. I learned to use shortcut keys to
quickly switch between the tools while practise the exercises.This helps me
a lot because it reduce the time that I spend using my mouse back and forth
to switch tools when editing photos.
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