Digital Photography & Imaging | Week 4

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14.5.25  |  Week 4

Haley Alexandra Gray  |  0369029  |  Bachelors of Design in Creative Media

Digital Photography & Imaging GCD61204


Lecture & Practical Material

Digital Photography & Imaging GCD61204

| W4 Lecture - 
Adjustment Layers & Filters

What are adjustment layers?
    - A group of super useful, non-destructive image editing tool that adds colour and tonal adjustment to your image 
      without altering original pixels.
    - Can edit and discard your adjustments, or restore original image at any time.

    1. Brightness / Contrast
        - Makes adjustments to the tonal range of your image.

    2. Level
        - modify the tonal values in an image by adjusting the levels of the shadows, midtones, and highlights.

    3. Curves
        - Allows you to adjust as many points as you want throughout the entire tonal range of your image.

    4. Exposure
        - Lets you adjust exposure levels with three slider options : Exposure, Offset, and Gamma

    5. Selective Colour
        - Selectively modifies the amount of a primary color without modifying the other primary colors in your image.

Filters -

What is a Filter?

- 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.

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| Practical -

In the class, we finished up our 3 digital collages, and were briefed on our assignment for week 4, which consists of a few tasks, all relating to photoshop - one being a practice on removing backgrounds and editing seamlessly; Hearst Mansion exercise, and another one being an edit of our own portrait.

Project 1B - Part 1 A :

Hearst Mansion -


- A process picture where I followed the video tutorial posted to replicate the design

Final Outcome :



Project 1B - Part 1 B :

My Reflection -
This is the picture I used to do this task -

My picture used for the edit

Process work :

- Started off doing the composition, however the first attempt was too bright and my reflection was off.

Hearst Mansion first attempt

- The second try was okay but now became abit to dark and less pronounced.

Hearst Mansion second attempt

Final Outcome :



Project 1B - Part 2 A :

Recolouring B & W photo -
- Followed the youtube tutorial and came up with this first try.


Final Outcome :
- Felt I could do better so I tweaked the colours and made the masks more accurate and natural.




Project 1B - Part 2 B :
Extra Editing


Extra Edit 1


Extra Edit 2



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