Digital Photography and Imaging - Week 1

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Digital Photography and Imaging
3.4.2023
Johnny Lam Wee Zhe (0363436)
Bachelor of Design in Creative Media

LECTURES

For our first lecture of the semester, we are given a brief introduction to our course. We learn about what Adobe Photoshop is and why we should learn to do Photoshop. 
Reasons to use Photoshop:
- Express your creativity.
- Create Graphic Design
- Restoration of Old Photos
- Integrate Graphics with Text Artistically
- Make Use of Brushes
- Change Photo Color
- Rectify Mistakes in Photographs

We have also learn brief information on how photo can be manipulated even before the existence of photoshop dated back in the 1850s using negative photos to create creative combinations. Other methods are also used. Then we learn brief information on what digital photo manipulation is.

We also get to learn ten tips to be a successful graphic designer:
- Follow the Tutorial
- Experiment and Get Comfortable with the Software
- Memorize all Shortcut Keys
- Try to Replicate Work
- Participate in Design Competition
- Subscribed to Online Galleries
- Smart Objects for Smart Designer
- Scaling Artworks and Proportion
- Use Action to Personalize Work
- Organize your File Properly

 

PRACTICAL

During our practical part of our lecture. We are given the task to create our first blog post about Digital Photography and Imaging. We start out with looking for our favorite illustration on pinterest. Here are some pinterest illustration that stands out to me personally: 
 
This illustration has a bold color that really draws attention to the word and the shading of the word makes this illustration look simple yet interesting. However, what I most like about this illustration is that it captures the meaning of the word ‘RISK’ with a metaphor of a rope about to snap.


 
 Fig 1.3. Illustration Design by Christoph Niemann

 
This is a promotional poster for a Spanish based restaurant named De Morfi. I really like the idea of taking the burger apart and showing individual ingredients clearly. The texture of each of those ingredients gives it a more rustic look and looks appetizing. I also really like the way the words fill in the gaps between ingredients with organic fonts.

 
Fig 1.2. Promotional Poster by De Morfi


This is one of the cover art featured in a collection of other cover art. What I really find appealing about this poster is that it uses elements from the other covers; umbrella, rain, city and moon and combined well. I also like its use of negative spaces to create shape. I also admire the nice transition of the building windows that spreads out into raindrops.
 
Fig 1.1. Book Design Cover by Cakestore_Team
 
 

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