DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY AND IMAGING

October 28, 2024

DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY AND IMAGING - WEEK 6

Week 6 (28/10/2024 - 3/11/2024)

AVELINE KRISTIE / 0372310

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

PROJECT 1B - PART 2: RECOLORING BLACK AND WHITE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Lectures

2. Tutorial

3. Practical

1. LECTURES

Week 6 - POSTER DESIGN

The 7 principles of poster design

1. EMPHASIS is one of fundamental principles of design.

Fig 1.1 Emphasis Example

2. Balance and alignment is another fundamental principle of design.

Fig 1.2 Balance and Alignment Example

3. CONTRAST is what people mean when they say a design “pops.” It comes away from the page and sticks in your memory.

Fig 1.3 Contrast Example

4. REPETITION unifies and strengthens a design. If you limit yourself to two strong typefaces or three strong colours, you’ll soon find you’ll have to repeat some things.

If only one thing on your band poster is in blue italic sans-serif, it can read like an error. If three things are in blue italic sans-serif, you’ve created a motif and are back in control of your design.

Fig 1.4 Repetition Example

5. PROPORTION is the visual size and weight of elements in a composition and how they relate to each other. It often helps to approach your design in sections, instead of as a whole.

Fig 1.5 Proportion Example

6. MOVEMENT is controlling the elements in a composition so that the eye is led to move from one to the next and the information is properly communicated to your audience. Movement creates the story or the narrative of your work.

Fig 1.6 Movement Example

7. WHITE SPACE (or negative space) is the only one that specifically deals with what you don’t add. White space is exactly that—the empty page around the elements in your composition. For beginning designers it can be a perilous zone. Often simply giving a composition more room to breathe can upgrade it from mediocre to successful.

Fig 1.7 White Space Example

2. TUTORIAL

Exercise 1 Instructions:

1. Download the image and set up layers for different areas (face, hair, etc.).

2. Use the Brush Tool to colour areas like the face, adjusting settings as needed. Refine edges with the Eraser Tool.

3. Apply blending modes (Soft Light or Overlay) for each layer and create a background layer.

4. Combine selections from all layers and finalize with a layer mask and Brush Tool.

Exercise 2 Instructions:

1. Download images and select skin tones with the Marquee and Eyedropper tools.

2. Paint highlights, mid tones, and shadows, then repeat for hair.

3. Refine selections with the Quick Selection Tool and Select & Mask, creating layer masks.

4. Add layer masks and blending modes for different areas (face, fur, eyes), then create a final background.

5. Do the same things all over again with different images.

3. PRACTICAL

Recolouring Black & White Exercise 1

For the first exercise, we were instructed to add colour to a black-and-white image using brush tool, trying out various blending modes to find the most suitable one.

Fig 3.1 Original Image

Fig 3.2 Recolouring Process

Fig 3.3 Coloured Image Final Outcome

Recolouring Black & White Exercise 2

For the second part of this exercise, as with the first, we need to convert a black and white images to colour, but this time we have to choose the colour palette from another images.

Part 1