DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY & IMAGING GCD 61204
NAME: HUSSAIN WAHEEDH
I.D: 0344802
COURSE: Bachelor of Design (hons) in creative media
GROUP: A
LECTURE:
This week is the beginning week for our Project 2. We were briefed in more detail about the project by Mr.Fauzi in class during the Lecture; Poster Design Execution. The lecture details the break-down process of making any a PSA Poster (Public Service Announcement).
1. Research about the topic
- Study and gather all information related to the topic
- Write a summary based on the information
- Highlight key points from the summary
- Define the title of the poster
- Define the slogan
- Define the details
- Define the Call-for-action
2. Design the concept
Figure 1.7 Background
Figure 1.8 Background blended
After some small adjustments and erasing bits of colours from places like hairline and background edges, here is my final re-colouring of the black and white old man portrait:
- Create separate sections for content
- Sketch a mock-up poster
- Fill in with details
3. Start to develop your design
Figure 1.6 Eyes
When I got a good looking result in the eye, I moved to re colouring the shirt and the background. For the background, I felt like inverting the selection of the layers that were previously done, gives a much sharper cut which isn't very realistic when it comes to digital photography due to the varying levels of optical blur. So I did the background manually using brush and eraser tools.
- Draft the digital poster based on sketch
- Develop composition using digital photography and graphic design
- Apply colour, typography, texture and effects
- Finalise your design with colour corrections
PRACTICAL: EXERCISE 1
Figure 1.0 BnW Portrait
For this task, I opened the image in Adobe Photoshop and immediately created a duplicate of the background and deleted the locked background image. I named the layer as BnW.
Figure 1.1 Outlining face area
Figure 1.2 Painting face
I went back and forth from eraser tool and paint brush tool to create a decent selection of the skin surface. I painted using a light cream colour but as soon as I changed the blend mode to overlay, it seemed too bleached so I changed the colour to a darker brown.
Figure 1.3 Creating Face
Figure 1.4 reference
After I was happy with the skin colour, I continued to the other parts of the face
Figure 1.5 Doing lips
For the lips, I used a more reddish-brown because it doesn't look the same colour when over-layed with blending mode so there is always the experimenting required to getting a realistic looking colour.
Painting the eyes was a bit trickier, especially on the white area of the eye because the contrast in white differs from actual white when it comes to the eye as there are more details in human eye-whites than a flat colour.
1. PROJECT 2A - PART 1: Recolouring Black and White (SUBMISSION ON WEEK 7)
- Turn B&W photo into COLOUR photo
- DOWNLOAD THE IMAGE HERE: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iYbFpDqdTjdHzkBpLWLkFwPJut6N8ItA/view?usp=sharing
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For the first exercise, we were given this black and white portrait to re-colour:
Figure 1.0 BnW Portrait
Then I created a new layer for each of the colouring parts; the first part being skin colour.
Figure 1.1 Outlining face area
Figure 1.2 Painting face
Figure 1.3 Creating Face
I also downloaded a similar looking portrait from the internet for referencing skin colour to make it more accurate
Figure 1.4 reference
Figure 1.5 Doing lips
Painting the eyes was a bit trickier, especially on the white area of the eye because the contrast in white differs from actual white when it comes to the eye as there are more details in human eye-whites than a flat colour.
Figure 1.6 Eyes
Figure 1.7 Background
Figure 1.8 Background blended
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