Digital Photography and Imaging

Week 03 (08/10/2025)

PHANG QI YU / 0385732

GROUP 2

Digital Photography and Imaging / Bachelor of Design in Creative Media / Taylors University

Table of Content

1. Lecture

LECTURE

INTRO TO PHOTOSHOP 2

Introduction to photoshop, such as Lasso Tool, Pen tool and Layering.

Selection, Layering
Toolbox: provides several tool sets, and you can expand the tool sets to reveal additional tools.
Marquee Selection Tools: select and mask

1. Lasso Tool

The Lasso Tool allow you to draw and pinpoint specific areas of a document.
When you click on the Lasso Tool from the toolbar, it will show three different tool options: Lasso, Polygonal Lasso, and Magnetic Lasso.
Is great to use with a graphic tablets as it is similar to a pencil. Unlike a mouse or trackpad, a graphic tablet can give a better flow when drawing and making selections.

2. Pen Tool

The pen tool is the most common option when creating a path from scratch.
The pen tool is the way that you add these point and the way you drag the tool as you create the points determines how they will look.
The fewer points, the smoother a path will be.
Practice how to use Pen Tool: https://bezier.method.ac

Figure 1 Variation of Pen Tool

3. Lasso Tool vs Pen Tool

The 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.'

Figure 2 Lasso Tool (left) vs Pen Tool (right)

4. Layering

Layers are different images stacked on top of each other.
Use each layer without affecting another one to make adjustments.
Together they form one final image.
Advantage of using layers: can save a Photoshop file with all the layers included. (This mean you can use layers for nondestructive editing) Adjustments in Photoshop will never destroy the original image.

Figure 3 Layers in Photoshop

TUTORIAL

Mr. Fauzi demonstrated how to use Photoshop to create digital collage, introducing techniques such as blending mode, paths, masking, and layering.

Digital Collage Briefing Link: https://youtu.be/BlW7F-fTsbE?si=YNWfmcyyaA5XUMVt

INSTRUCTIONS

PRACTICAL

PROJECT 1A: DIGITAL COLLAGE

Step 1: Download all the images Mr. Fauzi provided to your computer.

Step 2: Create 3 different composition digital collages from the images you've downloaded.

Step 3: Create an A4 canvas size (vertical) on Photoshop and start to do the compositions.

Step 4: Take 3 photos of your digital collage composition, save for web, and turn them in to Google Classroom.

Three of my digital collage composition:

Figure 4 My digital collage composition

Phang Qi Yu (0385732)