Digital Photography & Imaging | Week 3

October 7, 2024

Nicco Chew Jin Xun (0366563)

Digital Photography & Imaging | Bachelor of Design (Hons) In Creative Media | Taylor's University

Group 4

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W3 | Lectures

[ Introduction to Photoshop 2 ]

Lasso Tool, Pen Tool & Layering.

*Pen Tool

Photoshop provides several tool sets in Toolbox, you can expand the tool sets to reveal additional tools

figure 1.1 - Tool box

Selection and Mask

figure 1.2 - Marquee selections tool

Selection, Layering

figure 1.3 - later interface

*The Lasso Tool

- allows to draw and pinpoint specific areas of a document, it is great to use with a graphic tablet because it is similar to a pencil and allows for smoother drawing and selection compared to a mouse or trackpad

- three different tool options: 

• Lasso 

• Polygonal Lasso 

• Magnetic Lasso

*Pen Tool

- the most common option for creating paths from scratch, allowing you to add points and shape the path. Fewer points result in a smoother path

- the pen tool is the way that you add these points and the way you drag the tool as you create the points determines how they will look.

- creating precise shapes and paths through manually placed anchor points

figure 1.4 - pen tool

figure 1.5 - variation of pen tool

Lasso Tool VS Pen Tool

- 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 Layer in Photoshop

- Layers are different images stacked on top of each other. 

- you can use each layer without affecting another one to make adjustments. 

- Together they form one final image. 

The advantage of using Layers 

- 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.

Instruction of week 3

1. Download all of the images here to computer:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1cGcbENrjSksAaMQK9np2jb6ZaM7Y-81l?usp=sharing

 

2. Follow this tutorial demo as reference to create digital collage:

https://youtu.be/BlW7F-fTsbE

3. Create 3 different composition digital collages from the images that have been downloaded.

4. Create A4 canvas size (vertical) on Photoshop and start to do the compositions.

5. Take 3 photo of digital collage compositions and insert it on the section below

6. Submit (turn in) the file in Google Classroom

W3 | Practical

[ Composition of Collage ]

Composition #1

Composition #2

Composition #3

Lastly, my Composition #3

Receiving approval by Mr Fauzi