Digital Photography & Imaging: Exercises

 25-08-21
Darren Liga // 0351480 // Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Creative Media
Digital Photography & Imaging GCD 61204
Exercises

EXERCISES

Bezier Games (Exercise 1)

I learned how to properly use the pen tool from bezier.method.ac which is quite challenging at first due to the interface not being as flexible and smooth as photoshop or illustrator. This game made me practice and improve my skill on using the pen tool which will prepare me for the following assessments.

Fig 1.1: bezier exercise (25/8/21)

3 Favourite Graphic Design Work from Pinterest

I have some experience on using pinterest which made me familiar on the types of artwork that is portrayed in that platform

Artwork 1

Fig 1.2: artwork 1 (25/8/21)

The play with typography hierarchy and composition of space to create a silhouette successfully attracted my attention. Beautiful work by Jiří Kolář, a literally and visual artist from Czech.

Artwork 2

Fig 1.3: artwork 3 (25/8/21)

A play of design, breaking the limits of “rules” that creates a very pleasing abstract work of art.

Artwork 3

Fig 1.4: artwork 3 (25/8/21)

A mix of minimalistic artwork with a hint of urban design. The imagery of abstract art and its color appeals more to their intended audience.

Project 1: Photoshop (Exercise 2)

Fig 2.1: photoshop exercise 1 (3/9/21)

Photoshop (Exercise 3)

Fig 3.1: adjustment layer practice (13/9/21)

I actually used the adjustment layer and filters to create this nondestructive invert effect for the “eight winning” text on the top portion of the collage, then used a clipping mask to not apply to my other layers. This is followed by the square in the middle, same exact steps but with added blend mode in overlay, and lastly the fish is also obtained using adjustment layer clipped onto that layer to get the invert effect just on the fish.

Fig 3.2: pen tool practice (13/9/21)

I learned how to use the pen tool properly to either create mask, selection or shape. I made a selection using the pen tool to obtain the text from the typewriter. 

Project 2: Photoshop (Exercise 4)

Shazam exercise

Fig 4.1: masking shazam (20/9/21)

I followed the brief using quick selection tool to mask out shazam to drag to the background image.

Fig 4.2: color correcting shazam to new bg (20/9/21)

After dragging, i resized shazam to fit the background like the tutorial. Then i color corrected shazam to match the background's warm tone. Then his shadow was also added using the brush tool then using gaussian blur to smoothen its path to get a more realistic outcome, which then i lowered its opacity due ti being too intense.

Fig 4.3: reflection done (20/9/21)

Final step is to add the reflection. I copied shazam then rotate it while masking its legs to show a realistic reflection just from the reflective tile. After adjusting the color, i distorted shazam slightly to get the reflection look using the ripple effect, then its done.

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Photoshop: Recoloring (Exercise 5) Part 1

 For recoloring a b/w picture, i followed the guide given by mr martin in google classroom and this is the progress after finalizing all the color layers and adjustments.

Fig 5.1: layers on final color

Fig 5.2: Final recoloring photoshop

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After effects

Fig 6.1: AE

Fig 6.2: AE keyframe

Vid 1.1: Animation Exercise