DPI - WEEK 4
Nicole Ng Ying Yan 0382412
GCD61204 Digital Photography & Imaging
1.0 LECTURE
WEEK 4: Adjustment Layer & Filters
- Adjustment Layers
Adjustment layers. A group of a super useful, non-destructive image editing tools that add color and tonal adjustments to your image without permanently changing its pixels.
With the adjustment layers, you can edit and discard your adjustments or restore your original image at any time. This will make your workflow in Photoshop more flexible and efficient, and is an absolute must-know.
When you add an adjustment layer to your image, a new layer will appear over your image and a Properties panel specific to the type of adjustment you’ve selected will pop up. The Properties panel will allow you to modify your adjustment layer, which in turn will modify your image.
Figure 1.3 Basic understanding of Adjustment Layer (Week 4, 12/5/25)
Types of Adjustment Layers
- Brightness/ Contrast
- Makes adjustments to the tonal range of your image.
- Adjusts highlights (brightness) and shadows (contrast).
- Level
- Modifies the tonal values in an image by adjusting the levels of the shadows, midtones, and highlights.
- Commonly used for quick tonal correction.
- Curves
- Allows to adjust as many points as you want throughout the entire tonal range of your image.
- Most powerful and precise tool for editing the tones in an image.
- Exposure
- Adjust exposure levels with three sliders:
- Exposure: Highlights.
- Offset: Midtones.
- Gamma: Dark tones.
- Selective Colour
- Selectively modifies the amount of a primary colour without modifying the other primary colours.
- Filters
Filters are features that enhances images or add visual effects, including colour modifications, adding blur, or or create completely new image effects.
Figure 1.3.1 Image before vs after applying filter (Week 4, 12/5/25)
2.0 TUTORIAL
WEEK 4: Vital Tools & Project 1 Demo
In Week 4's tutorial class, we were given a demo through tutorial videos for Project 1 focusing on how to remove background using Pen Tool, add adjustment layers, filters, and fix skin tones in Adobe Photoshop.
Vital tools tutorial videos provided: Remove background, Add adjustment layers, Fix skin tones
3.0 PRACTICAL
WEEK 4: Digital Imaging Exercises
1. PROJECT 1B - PART 1: Hearst Mansion
- Shazam in Hearst Mansion
Figure 6.0 Shazam in Hearst Mansion (Week 4, 17/5/25)
- Nicole in Hearst Mansion
Figure 6.1 Nicole in Hearst Mansion (Week 4, 17/5/25)
2. PROJECT 1B - PART 2: Recoloring Black and White
- Recolouring B&W #1
Figure 6.2 Colour reference (Week 5, 20/5/25)
Figure 6.3 Recolouring B&W #1 Progress (Week 5, 20/5/25)
Figure 6.4 Recolouring B&W #1 Before & After (Week 5, 20/5/25)
- Recolouring B&W #2
Figure 6.5 Colour reference (Week 5, 20/5/25)
Figure 6.6 Recolouring B&W #2 Progress (Week 5, 20/5/25)
Figure 6.7 Recolouring B&W #2 Before & After (Week 5, 20/5/25)
4.0 REFLECTION
The video tutorials were really helpful to use as references in completing these tasks. Through this task, I got to learn how to blend 2 images into 1 image seamlessly by removing the background of the subject and adjusting the filters to make it more realistic. I also learnt how to apply colours to B&W images by through the select and mask as well as layer mask features. Although it took quite some time to complete this task as there were many tiny details, it was still a fulfilling experience.
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