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DPI Week 4: Digital Collage

14/10/24 - 21/10/24 (Week 4)
Anggia Tsani Rachmadiyanti, (0368487)
Digital Photography & Imaging / Bachelor in Design (Hons) in Creative Media 
Section 4
Project 1a part 2: Digital collage + Intro to Photoshop


 CONTENT LIST: 



WEEK 4 - Project 1a part 2: Digital Imaging Collage 


Lecture 4 - Introduction to Photoshop 3 Adjustment Layer & Filter
  • In the 4th lecture, Mr. Fauzi introduced us to Adobe Photoshop software and adjustment layer & filters. He also demonstrated us how to crop images in Photoshop.
Filter : Using filter to edit photos is essential element of Adobe's graphics editor. Filters can help change colour, add blur or make new image effects. 


Video - filter tricks in photoshop:



 ADJUSTMENT LAYER :

  • WHAT? - Group of super useful, non-destructive image editing tool that add colour & tonal adjustments to image without permanently changing its pixels.

  • Can edit & discard adjustments or restore your original image at any time.

  • Makes work more flexible & efficient.



  • When you add adjustment layer to image, a new layer will appear over your image & Properties panel specific to the type of adjustment you've selected will pop up.
  • Properties panel will allow you to modify adjustment layer, which will modify image.

NOTES:
    1. Brightness/contrast - Adjusts the highlights in image and contrast is for adjusting the shadows.
    2. Level - Modify tonal values in image by adjusting levels of shadows, midtones and highlights.
    3. Curves - Adjust as many points throughout entire tonal range of image (most powerful & precise tool)
    4. Selective Colour - Selectively modifies amount of a primary colour without modifying the other primary colours in image.
    5. Exposure - Adjust exposure levels with 3 sliders: Exposure, Offset, Gamma.
    • Exposure: only adjust highlights
    • Offset: adjusts the mid tones 
    • Gamma: Adjust dark tones only.


 Practical Exercise 

To start off, sir did a tutorial video for us on Paths, Masking, layering, and blending modes on Photoshop:



Mr. Fauzi gave us several photos he told us to download to our desktop first for us to make the collage later on Photoshop. We then had to create 3 different composition digital collages from the images downloaded. The canvas size was A4 (VERTICAL) on Photoshop and start the compositions 

MY PROGRESS:



Here I tried cutting the images using the Pen Tool and pasted it to the main canvas



 PRE-COMPOSITION #1 


Here I have learnt how to use the pen tool, quick selection tool, magic wand tool and more. I used these tools to cut out images from the photos Mr. Fauzi gave us and pasted it on my canvas. Here I made the composition look balance. I made the building coming out from the typewriter as the focal point with the fishes and leaves surrounding it.


 PRE-COMPOSITION #2 


I liked this 2nd composition. I tried following the golden ratio rule for this, making the blue fish the main attraction and the biggest object and most vibrant one in the collage. 


 PRE-COMPOSITION #3 


This 3rd one is more chaotic. I tried making the people walking in the station look like they are entering the building. 


Feedbacks

Mr. Fauzi said that he liked my first composition as it looks nice and balanced, so he told me to use my first composition and enhance it further using adjustment layers and filters in Adobe Photoshop for final submission...


- MY FINAL DIGITAL COLLAGE -

21/10/2024

For this final collage, I added several adjustment layers & filters to further enhance my collage. Here, I've learnt how to add an adjustment layer to one single layer too. I played around with different types of adjustments such as: brightness, curves, hue and saturation, brightness, exposure and more. For the typewriter, I added a paper texture using the filters tool. For each of the objects I edited the hue and saturation to make them more vibrant compared to the one before. I made the buildings and fishes more blue, to show harmony in colours so that they look like they are together. For the circle shape behind, I made the hue more orange and more contrast to give a more pop-out effect.




 WEEK 4 REFLECTION 

To sum up, this digital collage exercise has improved and widen my skills and knowledge in using adobe Photoshop. I had fun too making it. Through the videos and lectures sir gave us, it was very helpful and informative. I have learnt to use new tools in photoshop to create the collage such as: adjustment layers, pen tool, shortcut keys, filters, layering, lasso and more. Here I also tried utilizing the composition rules such as rule of thirds and golden ratio for the compositions.
 FURTHER READING: 

1) Collage Techniques: A Guide for Artists and Illustrators - by: Gerald Brommer



I read many pages of this book. The book is actually a very interesting book as it gave many examples on good collages and its techniques. It talked about the history of collages too. One of many exhilarating artistic developments that took place during the early twentieth century, the fine art medium of collage emerged from the cubist gluing and pasting explorations of Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso. As a result of its experimental genesis, collage has continued to serve not only as a primary form of expression for many prominent artists, but as a principal means of evaluating and developing new creative strategies.

Collage Techniques first presents the medium within the context of a wide variety of materials, including washi (oriental and rice papers) and water media; stained, prepared, and found papers; photographs; and fabrics and fibers. Each category of material is examined through a step-by-step demonstration and works by artists who approach collage in original and refreshing ways. The latest trends in technologically enhanced collage, including such high-tech applications as multiple photocopying and digital scanning, are also discussed. The author then explores how the elements and principles of design are used in collage, and how they in turn are employed in all the major genre, including still life, landscape, the human figure, abstraction, and nonobjective imagery.
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