Digital Photography & Imaging - Week 3

7.10.2025 - 10.10.2025 (Week 3)
Cheyenne Liew Khye Yean / 0378330
Digital Photography & Imaging / Bachelor of Design (Hons) Creative Media
Project 1

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LECTURE

Introduction to Photoshop

 

Tool Box

Figure 1.1 Tool Box Functions, Week 3 (10/10/2025)

Lasso Tool

• Allows you to draw and pinpoint specific areas of a document.
• Has 3 different options: Lasso, Polygonal Lasso, and Magnetic Lasso.

 

Pen Tool

Figure 1.2 Pen Tool, Week 3 (10/10/2025)

• Can be used to create extremely precise shapes and paths.
• The fewer points, the smoother a path will be.

 

Layers

• Layers are different images stacked on top of each other.
• Each layer can be used to make adjustments without affecting another layer.

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TUTORIAL

Figure 2.1 Composition Studies: Paths. Masking. Layering. Blending Modes.

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PRACTICAL

For this digital collage, we were given 14 visuals to work with. The collage should be made in Adobe Photoshop. Similar to the previous week's physical collage, we had to come up with 3 compositions before deciding on the final collage.

Figure 3.1 Composition #1, Week 3 (8/10/2025)

Figure 3.2 Composition #2, Week 3 (8/10/2025)

Figure 3.3 Composition #3, Week 3 (10/10/2025)

Following some feedback, I was told I could pick between composition #2 and #3. I decided to go with composition #3 as my final digital collage, as I felt it was the most interesting one.

Figure 3.4 Final Digital Collage, Week 3 (10/10/2025)

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REFLECTION

Though I’m happy with how my collages turned out, I feel that they’re a bit too simple. The 14 given images had little to no correlation to one another, so it was entirely up to me to create a sense of cohesion and meaning. I didn’t want to just throw random visuals together and have it look messy, so I tried to keep the composition clean. Still, I think with more exploration and stronger visual connections, the outcome could’ve been better and more interesting.