Digital Photography and Imaging - Week 3

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20/04/2023 - Week 3 Joey Lok Wai San / 0350857 Digital Photography and Imaging / Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media Week 3 Blog


LECTURE

In Week 3, we started a new project, Digital Collage Design. This was our first online class :) We were introduced to Adobe Photoshop along with some tools we will be using such as the lasso tool, pen tool, magic wand, marquee selection tool, layers, etc.


Fig 1.1 Week 3 Lecture Slides


Lasso Tool: Allows you to draw and pinpoint specific areas of a document. Pen Tool: Usually pictures with a background. It creates a path from scratch. Magic Wand: Usually pictures with no background.


TUTORIAL

Mr. Fauzi gave us a demonstration on how to use the main tools we will need for this project in Photoshop. He also showed us videos to introduce the project and help us gain a better understanding of what we will be doing.



Fig 1.2 Tutorial Video

PRACTICAL

For this practical, we need to create 3 different digital collage compositions using the images we downloaded from Google Drive. It was suggested not to use too many images and remember to create a focal point.


Composition #1


Fig 1.3 Digital Collage Composition #1


I wanted to create a walkway in space. I inverted the background to make it darker and cut out the planet's circles with the textured images provided. I went for a more muted/natural color scheme.

Composition #2

Fig 1.4 Digital Collage Composition #2


I experimented with the colours and saturation in this composition. The buildings are towering over the man. This composition looks unrealistic and cartoonish, which I quite liked.


Composition #3


Fig 1.5 Digital Collage Composition #3


I liked the bright colors against the muted background. I decided to combine the first composition of dull colors with pops of color in this composition.

REFLECTION
Our lecture this week taught us about using Photoshop, and its basic tools such as the lasso tool, pen tool, layers, etc. I learned a lot about how to make a composition in Photoshop and apply the knowledge I gained last week about composition. Digital collage seems a lot more fun than physical collage as we get to transform any element of the image, from the perspective, color, size, etc.

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