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Digital Photography and Imaging/week 6

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  18/22/24 28/10/24-2/11/24 (week 6) Cai Zihan 0378043 Digital Photography and Imaging/week 6 Task 6/Exercise Exercise Here's the finished product following the video This is one of the many photographs we were given by our teacher to choose from to change from black and white to color. Reflection This week we are using ps software to turn a black and white photo into a colored photo. This is brand new knowledge and very useful. Let's turn two black and white photos into colored photos. Lectures 1.EMPHASIS The principles of design are the rules a designer must follow to create an effective and attractive composition. The fundamental principles of design are: Emphasis, Balance and Alignment, Contrast, Repetition, Proportion, Movement and White Space 2. Balance and alignment The principles of design are the rules a designer must follow to create an effective and attractive composition. The fundamental principles of design are: Emphasis, Balance and Alignment, Contrast, Repetition...

Digital Photography and Imaging/week 5

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 10/22/24 21/10/24-28/10/24 (week 5) Cai Zihan 0378043 Digital Photography and Imaging/week 5 Task 5/Exercise Practical PROJECT 1B-PART 1:Hearst Mansion This is the shazam key on the background. Final product This is a picture taken with a cell phone It's keying me to this background. Reflection First time using ps to snap myself. It was a very new process and the assignment was very interesting and useful learning.We put ourselves on the chart given by the teacher and were making shadows and water reflections. LUCTERS 1.Using the Tilt-Shift Effect Photoshop has a great tilt-shift tool that will transform your photos into soft works of art. If you want to be extra creative, blur one of your photos instead of the entire image . Or blur everything except for one important detail. To add this feature, go to Filter > Blur Gallery > Tilt-Shift . 2. Create fake reflection There are many ways you can create reflections. One of them is creating a double-exposure with the help of a se...

Typography Task 2: Typographic Exploration & Communication

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 28.10.2024-28.12.2024/week6-week7 Cai Zihan/0378043 Typography/Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Creative Media Task2:Exercise1  TABLE OF CONTENTS 1.LECTURES 2 . INSTRUCTIONS 3.FEEDBACK 4.REFLECTIONS 5.FURTHER READING LECTURES week 6 Typo6-screen and print Typographg/Different Medium The typographic style of this one has good line lengths and is very readable at actual size Fig.6.1. Print type vs screen type System Fonts for Screen/Web Safe Fonts Typefaces intended for use on the web are optimized and often modified toenhance readability and performance onscreen in a variety of digitalenvironments.This can include a taller x-height (or reduced ascenders anddescenders),wider letterforms,more open counters,heavier thin strokesand serifs,reduced stroke contrast,as well as modified curves and anglesfor some designs. web safe fonts Open Sans,Lato,Arial,Helvetica,Times New Roman,Times,CourierNew,Courier,Verdana,Georgia,Palatino,Garamond Pixel Differential Between DevicesThe screen...

The show-Graduate showcase

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 5/10/2024- 6/10/2024 Cai Zihan 0378043 Bachelor of Design (Honours)in Creative Media/Taylors University

Digital Photography and Imaging/week 2

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  23/9/24-21/10/24(week 2)  Cai Zihan/0378043 Digital Photography and Imaging/Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Creative Media Task2 / Exercise Task 2 This is one of the three paintings the teacher had us collage at home in the last lesson the teacher picked the best one for us to re-collage in class. This is the final look of the collage that I re-collaged after the teacher posed the question in class. Reflection After collaging three collages at home, our teacher helped us choose one to re-collage on the spot. Lectures week 2: Introduction to Photoshop: Lasso Tool,  Pen Tool & Layering Layering Tool Box Photoshop provides several tool sets in the Toolbox, and you can expand the tool sets to reveal additional tools. How to Use the Lasso Tool The Lasso Tool allow you to draw and pinpoint specific areas of a document. If you like drawing with pencil and paper or cutting and pasting objects from a photo, then you will love the Lasso Tool. How to Use the Pen Tool When it ...

Digital Photography and Imaging/week 3

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 23/9/24-21/10/24(week 3)  Cai Zihan/0378043 Digital Photography and Imaging/Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Creative Media Task3 / Exercise Task 3 feedback: This is our homework for this week, our teacher gave us a few photos to key and then collage. This is a completely new thing for me, at first I was still very unfamiliar with it, and I couldn't remember some of the steps, but after the first collage I gradually became familiar with keying. Lectures week 3 Adjustment Layer & Filters 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. 1. BRIGHTNESS / CONTRAST Brightness / Contrast makes adjustments to the tonal ...

Digital Photography and Imaging/week 4

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 23/9/24-21/10/24(week4)  Cai Zihan/0378043 Digital Photography and Imaging/Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Creative Media Task4 / Exercise Task 4 Here's one of the best ones our teacher picked for us to color change and add filters to from the homework we were assigned last week. It's this week's homework. The teacher made us mix colors.I used hue saturation in ps software to adjust the color of this image from the previous green fish to red and the green printer to blue Lecture When you add an adjustment layer to your image,anew layer will appear over your image and aProperties panel specific to the type of adjustmentyou've selected will pop up.The Properties panel willallow you to modify your adjustment layer,which inturn will modify your image. Brightness Contrast makes adjustments to the tonalrange of your image.The brightness slider is for adjusting the highlights inyour image and the Contrast slider is for adjusting theshadows in your image. Levels modify the ton...

Illustration and Visual Narrative Exercise-Task 1

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24.9.2024-28.9.2024/week1-week6 Cai Zihan/0378043 Illustration and Visual Narrative/Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Creative Media Task1 Exersice Lectures week1 face to cace: The teacher taught us how to use the basic operations of Ai in class, and assigned homework for us to make.Let's use these graphice to make a monster. I made this little monster by myself, using the graphics given by my teacher, but I'm still not very good at using them. Here's the gargoyle with shadows, I've looked up a lot of information and asked other people to add the shadows, because I'm not skilled enough to use them.                                 online week 1 The teacher introduced us to 100 camera angles,lenses,and actions in the movie. The professor categorizes them into three main groups: camera angles, lenses, and movements. Each camera angle has a different expression and meaning. For example, a top-down viewpoint gives ...