02/04/19 - 21/05/19 (Week 1-Week 8)
Piyaphon Inthavong (0337589)
Digital Photography and Imaging
Week 1: Hearst Mansion
April 2nd, 2019Lecture Notes
Lesson 1 skill set:Open image file in Photoshop
Selecting image using Quick Selection
Zoom in, out and panning images
Copy and Paste
Deselect Images
Undo and Redo
History
Layers
Deleting Layer
Duplicating Layer
Rearrange Layer
Opacity Layer
Transform Layer
Hue and Saturation
Match Color
Move Tool
Shadow Painting
Filter > Noise
Exercise
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| Figure 1.1. Original image for exercise 1 |
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| Figure 1.2. Exercise 1. Selection was firstly made to crop the Shazam figure, we then compose the two images together and applied the following effects: Match color, Noise filter, Hue and saturation to match both the images quality; Blending mode and paint brush are used for the shadow. |
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| Figure 1.3. The final outcome of myself standing in Hearst Mansion. |
Week 2: Ghost House
April 9th, 2019Lecture Notes
Lesson 2 skill set:Adding Layer Mask
selective masking
brush masking
Creating Smart Object
Rasterizing Image
Blending Mode
Cycling through blending mode with keyboard
Invert mask
Gradient Tool
Exercise
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| Figure 2.1a. Original background image for exercise 2 |
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| Figure 2.1b. Photo composite exercise 1; Final edit of the "Ghost House" exercise. The haunted house was firstly cropped out using mask |
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| Figure 2.2a |
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| Figure 2.2b. Photo composite exercise 2; Filter used: Add noise, Gaussian blur, Color match, Photo filter (warming filter 85); Image adjustments: Hue and saturation, Shadows/Highlights. Selection of the sky was made with pen tool and rendered with 1.0 px feather radius. Manual brushing was done for some parts of selections and for additional shadows. |
Week 3: Recoloring
April 16th, 2019Lecture Notes
In today's session, we practiced the skillsets of previous classes. Selection, masking, blending mode, image adjustments are the main tools for this exercise.Exercise
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| Figure 3.1a. A black and white photo for practicing purpose |
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| Figure 3.1b. Practicing recoloring |
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| Figure 3.2a. The chosen black and white photo for this exercise |
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| Figure 3.2b. Final outcome of exercise 3, recoloring artwork |
Week 4: Changing One's Stripes
April 23rd, 2019Lecture Notes
Displacement map is the theme of this lesson. We learned steps to create displacement maps from the beginning by turning the first image into black and white and save it as a PSD file for later use. Next import/place another image into the same document, adjust it to the right position then apply Filter > Distort > Displace with the first PSD file that was saved in the beginning.Exercise
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| Figure 4.1a. Snake texture |
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| Figure 4.1b. Practice session of displacement map |
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| Figure 4.2a |
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| Figure 4.2b. Applying displacement map on the flag basing its texture on the fabric |
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| Figure 4.3a. The image chosen for exercise 4 |
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| Figure 4.3b. Final outcome of exercise 4 |
Week 5: Castle of Pyrenees
April 30th, 2019Exercise
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| Figure 5.1. Original art piece for Castle of Pyrenees |
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| Figure 5.2. My first attempt. It was rejected with the note of not being realistic enough. |
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| Figure 5.3. Image before being edited |
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| Figure 5.4. Final outcome of the artwork Castle of Pyrenees |
Today, we recreated an artwork called the Castle of Pyrenees into our own version with free access to stock photos from the Internet. During this exercise, I made use of 5 stock photos in total and combined them into an artboard of HD size (1920 x 1080). Most of the photos were manually cropped except the background and the PNG clouds.
At first the photo looked dull on my first attempt because the composition was flat. The problem was solved by adding clouds and reducing the size of the floating rock.
Week 6: Photo Manipulation
May 7th, 2019Task 2A
Create a surrealist photo with our idea by using one photo with a main subject with no more than three image layers to achieve the outcome. The Image's resolution should be 1200 x 1800 pixels, aspect ratio 3:2 (landscape or portrait). |
| Figure 6.1. Mekong river (self taken) |
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| Figure 6.2. Clinking with a friend (self taken) |
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| Figure 6.3. Cropping and composing the image together in Adobe Photoshop with sunset filter and several edits |
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| Figure 6.4. Centering the sunset inside the heart shape |
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| Figure 6.5. Added few adjustments and color matching |
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| Figure 6.6. Final touch of layer adjustments and camera raw filter |
The most difficult part of this exercise is the manual retouching of lighting and shadow. Several tools was used including brush tool, burn, color dodge, sponge... The camera raw filter greatly enhanced the final look of this surrealism photo.
Week 7: Photo Manipulation
May 14th, 2019
Task 2A
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| Figure 7.1. The new background for task 2A |
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| Figure 7.2. Final artwork of task 2A, photo manipulation. |
The previous background was too dark and the small land that intersects the heart shaped water ruined the entire surrealism. The best solution was to give up on the last photo and find a better background which suits the photo. After trying out few backgrounds, I found out that the whole composition looks better in a brighter and uncomplicated background, this eliminates all the distractions and creates a better hierarchy for the viewers to focus on the main subject which is the clinking and the heart. The new background photo creates a distinctive look and positive energy, satisfying for people to look at.
Week 8: After Effect Basics
May 21st, 2019Lecture Notes
After Effect is sometimes known as Photoshop with steroids because of the similar functions they both have as an individual software.Composition settings for the project:
• Preset: HD/hdtv 720 25
• Frames: 29.97
• Duration (hours:minutes:seconds:frames)
• Background color: black
Importing photoshop layers into After Effects:
Import PSD - Enable all acceptable files - Import as composition - create composition (If photoshop sequence is turned on, it treats images in psd as frames)
Export settings:
Export as H.264 (MP4)
Media Encoder CC - enables video to be rendered while being able to work with After Effect simultaneously
A keyframe is a state of an object at a specific time
Puppet tool allows you to add pins to a selected image, giving the ability to move/warp certain parts of an object based on where the pins are added and moved.
To select specific puppet pins for individual edits, the settings are as follows:
<layer> - Deform - select specific pin