Digital Photography & Imaging: Week 04
Adena Tan Sue Lynn (0345769)
Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Creative Media
Digital Photography & Imaging
Lecture
Adjustment Layer
Groups of super useful, non-destructive image editing tools. They add colour and tonal adjustments to images without permanently changing its' pixels. With these adjustment layers, adjustments can be edited or discarded at any time. It allows more flexible and efficient workflow in Photoshop.
Figure 1.1 Adjustment Layers
When adding an adjustment layer, a new layer and a Properties panel specific to the type of adjustment will pop up. The Properties panel allows for modification of the adjustment layer which will modify your image.
Figure 1.2 Adjustment Layers
1. Brightness / Contrast
- Makes adjustments to the tonal range of your image
- Brightness slider - Adjusting highlights in image
Contrast slider - Adjusting shadows in image
2. Level
- Modifies tonal values in an image by adjusting the levels of the shadows, midtones & highlights
- Most used tools in the adjustment layer panel
3. Curves
- Lets adjust as many points as you want throughout the entire tonal range of image
- Most powerful & precise tool for editing the tones in an image
4. Exposure
- Lets adjust exposure levels
- Exposure - Highlights
Offset - Mid tones
Gamma - Shadows
5. Selective Colour
- Selectively modifies the amount of a primary colour without modifying the other primary colours
Filters
Using filters to edit photos is essential of Adobe's graphics editor. They can change colours, add blur or create completely new image effects. Photoshop offers a virtually unlimited variety of filters for this purpose.
Practical
This was chosen as the best composition from my three compositions last week. When choosing the pictures I wanted to use, I wanted to use images with people, allowing me to choose the photo of the fencer as well as the photo of people at the train station. Then I chose the factory as it intrigued me. Finally, I chose the mountain as I found it ironic to include a nature element among the three man-made elements.
Figure 2.1 Chosen composition
Firstly, I adjusted the levels.
Then, I decided to play with the hue and saturation.
Figure 2.2 Added level
Figure 2.3 Level
Figure 2.4 Added Hue/Saturation
Figure 2.5 Master
Figure 2.6 Reds
Figure 2.7 Yellow
Figure 2.8 Added colour balance
Figure 2.9 Colour balance
Figure 2.10 Added curve
Figure 2.11 Curve Graph
Below is the final product.
Figure 2.12 Final Product
Feedback
17/09/2021 (Friday): Mr Fauzi left a comment on my submission, "That's a good practice. You may choose the WEEK 4 exercise for your PROJECT 1: Digital Collage later in Week 5. Thanks!"
