DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY AND IMAGING - EXERCISES

JENNIFER HUANG

Bachelor of Design in Creative Media

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INSTRUCTIONS

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EXERSICE

Week 1
On the first week of DPI, Mr. Martin introduced us to photoshop and also how to use pen tool, he gave us the bezier game to practice out our pen tool. 

Figure. 0 (Bezier Game result)

Week 2
Did some class practice how to crop out objects and place it into 1 background. Sadly I saved it into the Campus's Mac and I didn't save it in the cloud documents.. 

Week 3
Public holiday..

Week 4
(Recoloring Black and White)
a) In Class Exercise
On the fourth week, we learnt how to recolor black and white with 2 methods, the first one was using basic brush tool while the second one (lady pic) uses blending mode.

Figure.0 (Black n White Norman Lindsay)

Figure. 0 (Experiment Result hehe)

So, this is the second method of recoloring, using the select tool, we masks out the skin, hair, and outfit one by one then match it with the base color that we chose. 

Figure. 0 (BnW Picture, Hair reference, Skin reference)

Figure.0 (Result after watching tutorial)

Figure.0 (Second Result that I Recolor)

b) Self Exploration Exercises

Basically this one bellow is the same as the one above, but I try it on another persons fact and I try out some other hair colors and skin tones..

Figure. 0 (Black and White from Google)

Figure. 0 (Final Outcome)

Figure.0 (More Realistic Hair Color Result)

Week 5 

(Double exposure class exercise)

Week 6
(In class exercise)

This week, we learn how to use displacement map for these pictures that Mr. Martin provided for us during class, we also learnt how to use the curves so that the shadows and highlights can be customized. 

Figure. 0 (Liverpool Lady)

Figure. 0 (Tiger Cat)

Figure. 0 (Malaysian Flag)

Week 7 

b) Spot Healing Brush Tool

Today, Mr. martin teaches us how to smoothen up faces hehe. There are two methods as well, first one is simpler which is using spot healing brush tool, all we need to do is to click on the red spots and photoshop automatically adjusts with the surrounding color. 

Figure.. 0 (Grumpy pimple kid)

c) Healing brush tool

The second method is not as easy as the first one since using healing brush tool, we're going to use the dodge tool and eyedrop it to adjust the color we want.

Figure. 0 (Lady in towel)

Task 2 

a) Long exposure (night traffic)

Figure. 0 (Long Exposure Captured in SunGeo)

Figure. 0 (Long Exposure #2)

Figure. 0 (Long Exposure #3)

After Effects on class tutorials :

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GIF and Parallax photo with After Effects

Figure. 0 (Gif)

This is how i make the GIF, first open the picture with scripts > load file to stacks then open timeline to animate and this is how it turned out hihi.

Figure. 0 (Panci GIF)