Digital Photography and Imaging

27/9/2021 / Week 6
Shofwa Alyadiena / 0350019

Digital Photography and Imaging / Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media

Lecture

For our week six's briefing Mr. Fauzi reviewed our work regarding the poster for mental health during the pandemic poster. We were re-informed of what makes a sentence a slogan, title, or call for action in a poster. He also explained that we can take the idea of an image in a poster if it's an illustration and turn it to a photography to further explore our photo manipulation skills.

Project 2A: Photo Recoloring

The next part of project 2A after Hearst Mansion photo manipulation is to practice photo recoloring. We were all given a certain image that was in black and white and asked to recreate it by adding colors to give the image some life.

Fig. 1.1 Image Before Recoloring (27/92021)

Following Mr. Fauzi's instructions during class, I started to work on adding the colors. I preferred using a harder brush so I adjusted it. After adding the color of the skin, I used 'overlay' as the layer filter.

Fig. 1.2 Skin Color (27/9/2021)

Fig. 1.3 Skin Color Adjustments (27/9/2021)

Once that's done, I moved on to the eyes. At first I colored in the scleras with a lighter tone from the skin color, because in reality our eyes are never fully white. I continued with adding a brighter brown color for the irises, and used multiply for the scleras and overlay for the irises.

Fig. 1.4 Sclera Color (27/9/2021)

Fig. 1.5 Iris Coloring (27/9/2021)

Fig. 1.6 Iris Color Adjustments (27/9/2021)

Moving on, I outlined the hair and lips and colored them in after turning off the background layer visibility. I couldn't decide if it was better with or without the hair's effects and adjustments.

Fig. 1.7 Overall Colors and Adding Lips (27/9/2021)

Fig. 1.8 Overall Colors With layer Filters Except Hair (27/9/2021)

Fig. 1.9 With Hair Filters (27/9/2021)

By the end of practical class, I ended up with these layers and filters added.

Fig. 1.10 Layers After Practical Class (27/9/2021)

Fig. 1.11 Image After Practical Class

However, after revisiting the image in the evening I realized that it didn't look so natural, And I realized there was no blush added, so I messed around with the brush and smudge tool and adding a little bit of reddish hues, while also darkening the eye color. In the end, the layer without effects looked like this (fig. 1.12).

Fig. 1.12 No effects Brush Strokes (27/9/2021)

I realize as well that I didn't use the layer mask technique for the background after watching the tutorial video, so i

Fig. 1.13 Background Color Picking (28/9/2021)

Following the video tutorial, I picked a color similar to the first try I did and used a light pink.

Fig. 1.14 Background Masking (28/9/2021)

I applied the layer mask to the entire layers underneath the background layer. I didn't understand how to do this at first, and had some struggles with applying the masking. I opened a tutorial. I then inverted the mask using (CMD + I).