Digital Photography and Imaging - Week 4
PHOTOGRAPHY/WEEK 4
Low Li Vern (0362678)
Digital Photography and Imaging
Bachelor
of Design (Hons) in Creative Media
Week 4 / Exercise
LECTURE
ADJUSTMENT LAYER & FILTER
The Adjustment Layers in Photoshop are a group of a super useful,
non-destructive image editing tools that add color and tonal adjustments
to your image without permanently changing its pixels. With the
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, and is an absolute must-know.
Basic understanding of Adjustment Layer :When you add an adjustment
layer to your image, a new layer will appear over your image and a
Properties panel specific to the type of adjustment you’ve selected will
pop up. The Properties panel will allow you to modify your adjustment
layer, which in turn will modify your image.
Brightness / Contrast: Makes adjustments to the tonal range of your
image. The brightness slider is for adjusting the highlights in your
image and the Contrast slider is for adjusting the shadows in your
image.
Level: Modify the tonal values in an image by adjusting the levels of
the shadows, midtones, and highlights. It’s one of the most used tools
in the adjustment layer panel, and using just a touch of levels will go
a long way in correcting your images.
Curves: Let you adjust as many points as you want throughout the entire
tonal range of your image, and is the most powerful and precise tool for
editing the tones in an image.
Exposure; Lets you adjust exposure levels with three sliders: Exposure,
Offset adjustment Gamma. Exposure will adjust only the highlights of the
image, Offset adjusts the mid tones and Gamma will adjust the dark tones
only.
Selective Color: Adjustment layer selectively modifies the amount of a
primary color without modifying the other primary colors in your image.
Using filters to edit photos is an essential element of Adobe’s graphics
editor. There are filters to change colour, add blur or create
completely new image effects. Photoshop offers a virtually unlimited
variety of filters for this purpose.
WEEK 4 Practical
• Blending mode
Fig. 5.1 Sea side
Fig. 5.2 A flock of birds
Fig. 5.3 Combination of the sea side and birds
Paste the flock of birds on above the sea side layer after
cropping it out. Next, apply multiply blending mode. Next apply
gradient mode for the side shadows. The birds will look real
after blending mode.
Fig. 5.4 Girl
Fig. 5.5 Girl photo after applying gradient
Fig. 5.1 Girl with coffee
Fig. 5.1 Steam
Fig. 5.1 Combination of the coffee and the steam
After copy paste the steam photo above the coffee, apply screen blending mode and the black background of the steam will disappear and fit the photo. After that create new radial gradient and cut opacity to 20 percent, and it will be edited just like the morning light in the photo.
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