Digital Photography and Imaging - Week 04

 Week 04 (15/10/2025) 

PHANG QI YU / 0385732 

GROUP 2

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

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Table of Content

1. Lecture

2. Tutorial

3. Instructions

4. Practical 

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LECTURE

INTRO TO PHOTOSHOP 3

In week 4, Mr. Fauzi introduced adjustment layer and filters in photoshop. 

 ADJUSTMENT LAYER

• Adjustment Layers in Photoshop are a group of super useful, non-destructive image editing tools. (Add color and tonal adjustments to your image without permanently changing its pixels.)
• With adjustment layers, you can edit and discard your adjustments or restore your original image at any time. (This will make your workflow in Photoshop more flexible and efficient.)

1. Brightness/Contrast 

• Brightness/Contrast makes adjustments to the tonal range of your image.
• Brightness: adjusting the highlights in your image 
• Contrast: adjusting the shadows in your image

2. Level

• Levels modify the tone values in an image by adjusting the levels of shadows, midtones, and highlights.
• One of the most used tools in the adjustment layer panel, using just a touch of levels will go a long way in correcting your images.

3. Curves

• Curves: adjust as many points as you want throughout the entire tonal range of your image.
• Most powerful and precise tool for editing tones in an image.
• To increase the overall quality and contrast of your image, click to add points on the line of your graph. Once you've added a point, drag the point up and down with your mouse.
• Pulling point down: darkens image 
• Pulling point up: brightens image

4. Exposure

• Adjust exposure levels with three sliders: Exposure, Offset, and Gamma.
• Exposure: adjust only the highlights of the image.
• Offset: adjust the midtones.
• Gamma: adjust the dark tones only.

5. Selective Color

• Adjustment layer selectively modifies the amount of a primary color without modifying the other primary colors in your image.

FILTERS

• Using filters to edit photos is an essential element of Adobe's graphics editor.
• There are filters to change color, add blur, or create completely new image effects. Photoshop offers a virtually unlimited variety of filters for this purpose. 

Figure 1 Filter

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TUTORIAL

This week's the tutorial will be conducted online. Mr. Fauzi briefed us on the assignments which are the Hearst Mansion: Shazam project and the Recoloring Black and White project. We are required to follow the instructional video provided by Mr. Fauzi and submit our work by next Friday.

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INSTRUCTIONS

MIB_GCD61204_DIGITAL_PHOTOGRAPHY_AND_IMAGING_0925.pdf

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PRACTICAL

PROJECT 1B: DIGITAL IMAGING

PROJECT 1B (PART 1): Hearst Mansion: Shazam 

Hearst Mansion: Shazam exercise following the tutorial video. Adjust the size, color, brightness, and sharpness (Gaussian Blur) of the subject and reflection by comparing them to their surroundings. 

As an additional extended exercise, we are required to follow the same steps and insert our own photo to replace the SHAZAM'S by taking a good lighting and eye-level photography.  

A) Hearst Mansion (Exercise Demo):

Figure 2 Final Outcome (Exercise Demo)

B) Hearst Mansion (My Photo):

Figure 3 Photo of me

Figure 4 Final Outcome (My Photo)

PROJECT 1B (PART 2): Recoloring Black and White 

We were given a black and white image to recolor, following the steps shown in the tutorial video. 

Figure 5 Progress (Adobe Photoshop)

Figure 6 Final Outcome 

After this exercise, we were assigned to select a black and white portrait from the provided Google Drive folder and search for one online photo for skin/hair references to recolor it. I decided to choose the Japanese beauty portrait (Fig 18) to color because I loved the flower in the women's hair, and the image had a strong artistic feel.

Figure 7 Chosen B&W portrait

 

Figure 8 Reference photo for skin/hair

While working on the recoloring exercise, I found the most challenging part was recoloring the hair stick. It was very thin and difficult to select accurately, and I had to be careful not to accidentally affect the surrounding hair area.

Figure 9 Progress (Adobe Photoshop)

Final Colored Photo: 

Figure 10 Final Outcome