Digital Photography and Imaging / Week 3

Week 3

Lecture 3 : Introduction to Photoshop 2 : Tool Box, Lasso Tool, and Pen Tool

Tool Box

Photoshop provides several tool sets in the Toolbox, and you can expand the tool sets to reveal additional tools.

Below we will be looking at 3 key tools

Lasso Tool

The Lasso Tool allow you to draw and pinpoint specific areas of a document. 

When you click on the Lasso Tool from the Toolbar, you will see three different tool options: 

- Lasso 

- Polygonal Lasso 

- Magnetic Lasso

How to use : 

The Lasso Tool is great to use with a graphic tablet because it is similar to a pencil. 

Unlike a mouse or trackpad, a graphic tablet can give a better flow when drawing and making selections.

Pen Tool

How to use : 

When it comes to actually creating a path from scratch, the pen tool is the most common option.

The pen tool is the way that you add these points and the way you drag the tool as you create the points determines how they will look.

The fewer points, the smoother a path will be.

Variation of Pen Tool :

- Straight line paths

- U shaped curves

- Simple S curves

- Complex S curves

Layering

How to use : 

Layers are different images stacked on top of each other. 

You can use each layer without affecting another one to make adjustments. 

Together they form one final image. 

It could look something like this in real life.

The advantage of using Layers is that you can save a Photoshop file with all the layers included. This means you can use layers for non-destructive editing. 

Adjustments in Photoshop will never destroy the original image. 

The layers contain all the extra information and/ or images you want to add to the original file.

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Week 3 / Tutorial & Practical :

Week 3 / PEN TOOL EXERCISE (Digital collage Project 1A)

INSTRUCTION:

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:

https://youtu.be/BlW7F-fTsbE

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 in Google Classroom

Video:

1. COMPOSITION #1

2. COMPOSITION #2

3. COMPOSITION #3

Final chosen composition:

Reflection : I have learned about how to use photoshop and its tools, such as the crop tool.