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DPI Week 6: Recolouring Black & White

28/10/24 - 01/11/24 (Week 6)
Anggia Tsani Rachmadiyanti, (0368487)
Digital Photography & Imaging / Bachelor in Design (Hons) in Creative Media 
Section 4
Project 1b part 2: Recolouring Black & White


 CONTENT LIST: 
    • Part 1 (Man) & Part 2 (Lady)
    • Processes and steps
    • Final edited image
    • Extra Exercises



Lecture 6 - Poster Design 
  • In the 6th layer, Mr. Hafiz introduced us to the basic principles and techniques when creating a poster. Since, on week 7 we will start our poster design assignment, this lecture 6 is a good introduction for us..

NOTES
  • The principles of design are rules designer must follow to create an effective and attractive composition. 
  • The fundamental principles of design: 
    • Emphasis
    • Balance and Alignment
    • Contrast
    • Repetition
    • Proportion
    • Movement
    • White Space.

(from: Vistaprint.com)
1) Emphasis
  • a focal point, which grabs an audience's attention. It's where you want the viewer to look first, but doesn't overpower the rest of the design.

2) Balance & Alignment
  • every element on a page has a weight: color, size, or texture. 
  • Symmetrical design creates balance through equally weighted elements aligned on either side of a center line. 
  • Asymmetrical design uses opposite weights (like contrasting one large element with several smaller elements) to create a composition that is not even, but still has equilibrium.
  • Symmetrical designs are always pleasing, if not occasionally boring. 
  • Asymmetrical designs are bolder and can bring real visual interest and movement.

3) Contrast
  • Makes a design “pops" out. It sticks in your memory.
  • Contrast creates space and difference between elements in your design. Your background needs to be significantly different from the color of your elements so they work harmoniously together and are readable.



4) Repetition
  • If you limit yourself to two strong typefaces or three strong colors, you’ll soon find you’ll have to repeat some things. Repetition unifies and strengthens a design.


5) Proportion
  • Proportion is the visual size and weight of elements in a composition and how they relate to each other. It often helps to approach your design in sections, instead of as a whole.

6) Movement
  • controlling the elements in a composition so that the eye is led to move from one to the next and the information is properly communicated to your audience. 
  • Movement creates the story or the narrative of your work.

7) White Space
  • White space (or negative space) is the only one that specifically deals with what you don’t add. It's the empty page around the elements in your composition.
  • Often gives a composition more room to breathe can upgrade it from mediocre to successful.



 extra video: 

(Youtube: 99designs)




WEEK 6 - Project 1b part 2: Recolouring Black & White 

- PART 1 -

OBJECTIVE: Turn B&W photo into COLOUR photo


Add new layer:


Use brush tool and select a skin colour


Brush it over the face


Apply blending mode to the layer: Overlay / Soft Light and erased some extras parts using eraser tool:


I repeated the same process and added other layers to recolour:




I added a new layer for the background, made a selection > invert background and layer mask > Overlay blending mode for the wall colour.




MY FINAL PART 1:


- PART 2 -

OBJECTIVE: Recolouring BnW photo - Advanced level


First, we needed to download 3 of these photos from sir..


1) Select skin colour with MARQUEE TOOL, COPY selected area
SHORTCUT KEY: MARQUEE TOOL: M, COPY: CMD/CTRL C

2) PASTE selection at the B&W PORTRAIT, RENAME new created layer to skin colour
Select EYEDROPPER TOOL (SHORTCUT KEY:I)


3) Change SAMPLE SIZE to: 5 by 5 AVERAGE
Use EYEDROPPER pick up HIGHLIGHT, paint on top with BRUSH TOOL.
Repeat the process for MIDTONE, SHADOW.

And then repeat the same for the other hair colour reference picture:



4) select hair with QUICK SELECTION TOOL, REFINE selection in SELECT & MASK:
5) Select OVERLAY, REFINE EDGE BRUSH TOOL. Brush over the edges.
After refining, select OUTPUT TO: LAYER MASK



6) Create NEW SOLID LAYER, Use COLOUR PICKER to choose hair colour.


7) DRAG & DROP hair layer mask to new solid layer to replace layer mask,
select SOFTLIGHT (BLENDING MODE)


8) Then Repeat the process for FACE, LAYER MASKS: QUICK SELECTION TOOL to roughly make selection, REFINE MASK with SELECT & MASK MODE. 
Use BRUSH TOOL mask out EYES, LIPS, EAR RING.





 Final Result: 





 Extra exercises i did: 

I used the same steps to do another version of lisa. I recoloured her hair, skin colour, lips and eye colour:

BEFORE:

AFTER:




I did another extra one too for this guy:




 WEEK 6 REFLECTION 

To conclude, this is a really fun exercise to photoshop. I was so happy that I was able to recolour things from Black and white. At first, it was quite tough and confusing for me, but as I continued doing more layers and extra exercises, I started getting more used to the steps on what to click and press. I just need to get more used to it. The demo slides and the demo video really helped me so much and the instructions given were very clear. 

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