DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY & IMAGING - WEEK 3

 May 5,2025

DIGIT.PHOTO & IMAG. | WEEK 3: photoshop

||  05/05/25 – 11/05/25 (Week 3) 
||  Low Xin Er, 0374596
||  Digital Photography & Imaging
||  Lecture 3: Introduction to Photoshop. 

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1.Lectures

Introduction to photoshop 2: Selection & layering

1.1 Layer interface

1.2 Tool box: Can expand the tools sets to reveal additional tools.

Fig. Don't have to learn every function.

1.3 Marquee selection tools: select and mask (lasso tool & pen tool)

1.3.1 Lasso tool: draw and pinpoint specific areas

 

Fig. Especially drawing with pencil and paper or cutting on photo.

Type of lasso tools

• Lasso 
• Polygonal Lasso 
• Magnetic Lasso

How to use the lasso tool: https://youtu.be/DKtHsFaclKo

TIPS: Make sure the img is high quality so the lasso tools can trace image

1.3.2 Pen tool: draw and select,creating a path from scratch pic

Fig. “The Fewer points the smoother a path will be.”

Type:

• Straight line paths
• U shaped curves
• Simple s curves
• Complex s curves

Pentools: create extremely precise shapes and paths,not natively made as a “selection tool”

The bezier game: help understand and master the pen tool

https://bezier.method.ac

References: how to use pen tool

https://youtu.be/BlW7F-fTsbE 

https://youtu.be/A6ua6Fd3OWA

1.4 Layering

Different images stacked on top of background

Advantage of using Layers

• Can use layers for non-destructive editing. 
• Adjustments in Photoshop will never destroy the original image. 
• Contain all the extra information and/ or images you want to add to the original file.
• Save a Photoshop file with all the layers included. 

How to open img as layers in photoshop: https://youtu.be/0dOvqYO5nfg

REFERENCE:

1. Mastering selections in Photoshop: The Lasso Tool
   https://bit.ly/3uIrIUN

2. Drawing paths with the Pen Tool
   https://bit.ly/3e0uspY

3. How to start using Photoshop Layers

https://expertphotography.com/photoshop-layers

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2.Tutorials

Using Photoshop to create Digital Collage

DEMO: Blending Mode
. Paths. Masking. Layering.
Briefing : https://youtu.be/BlW7F-fTsbE

PROJECT 1B: DIGITAL COLLAGE

1. Download all of the images here to your computer:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1cGcbENrjSksAaMQK9np2jb6ZaM7Y-81l?usp=sharing
 
2. Follow this tutorial demo as reference to create your digital collage:

3. Create 3 different composition digital collages from the images that you’ve downloaded.

4. Create A4 canvas size  (vertical) on Photoshop and start to do the compositions.

5. Take 3 photo of your digital collage compositions and insert it on the section below.

6. Submit (Turn In) this file on Google Classroom.

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3. Pratical

Using Photoshop to create 3 Digital Collage Design：

Blending Mode
. Paths. Masking. Layering.

Reference

 

 

Fig.Digital Collage References

Final Design

#Design 1

 

#Design 2

 

#Design 3

 

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4.Reflection

By freely combining the various materials provided, and then using some arrangement rules such as the Golden Week to arrange them, many unexpected combination works can be created. While making collages, I became more and more proficient in using Photoshop, and began to understand the effects of various functions, allowing the works to continue to exert their own creativity on the basis of their own creativity, and realize their own creativity 100%.