DPI Week 6 - RECOLORING BLACK & WHITE

October 30, 2024

DPI Week 6 - RECOLORING BLACK & WHITE

28 October, 2024 - 3 November, 2024 (Week 6)

TANG LILIN (0376668)
Digital Photography & Imaging
W6: RECOLORING BLACH & WHITE

LIST

TUTORIAL

Photography Basics in 10 Minutes

Exposure Triangle
The three key elements that control exposure:

Shutter Speed: Fast for freezing motion, slow for capturing movement.
Aperture: Controls light entry. Large aperture (small f-number) for background blur, small aperture (large f-number) for sharp focus.
ISO: Sensitivity to light. Low ISO for clear images in bright light, high ISO for low light but may introduce noise.

Composition Basics

Rule of Thirds: Position subjects on gridlines for better balance.
Symmetry and Balance: For stable compositions.
Foreground and Background: Use them to create depth.
Leading Lines: Guide the viewer’s eye.

Lighting

Natural Light: Best during golden hour (morning/evening).
Artificial Light: Flash or continuous lighting to control direction.
Lighting Directions: Front light is flat, side light adds texture, backlight creates silhouettes.

Creative Product Photography at Home – Beginner to Pro!
The video shows how to use simple tools (like paper and light) for professional-looking product photography, explaining scene setup, light control, creative design, and post-editing for better appeal.

Shooting a Bottle with ONE Continuous Light and a Smartphone
This video demonstrates using one continuous light and a smartphone for product photography, focusing on light control, angles, and phone settings to create professional-quality images with minimal equipment. Ideal for beginners.

LECTURE

In this lecture, we talked about some rules that a designer must to follow when we want to create an effective and attractive composition.

When we design, we don’t need to be too rigid. Sometimes, in order to create something eye-catching, we will ignore one or more principles.

The 7 Principles of Poster Design

Emphasis

The key of EMPHASIS is what element the designer wants to highlight in the picture and what information that designer wants to convey. Designers need to organize the design and emphasize different elements to different degrees according to their importance.

Balance and Alignment

Designers need to make the elements and objects in the picture look orderly and balanced by arranging the different parts of the design.

Contrast

it means the visual difference between two objects makes them stand out. Contrast helps make a design easier to understand which is important for signage.

Repetition

It helps people remember the design and makes the picture look unified. Applying the same characteristics to the same objects creates a visually appealing and consistent design.

Proportion

It means the size and weight of the elements in the design relative to each other.

Movement

It does not refer to motion, but how people's eyes move through the design. We need to make sure that the audience appreciates the entire design from beginning to end in the correct order. These manipulations can be colors, flowing lines, or curved shapes that draw the eye to move through the design.

White Space

white space and negative space is the blank or unused area in the design.It prevents the picture from looking too cluttered

INSTRUCTION

1. PROJECT 1B - PART 2: Recoloring Black and White

Follow instructions from the W6_RECOLORING BREAKDOWN:
EXERCISE 1: https://bit.ly/3dXGYu8
EXERCISE 2: https://bit.ly/3rpZvCp

SUBMISSION ON E-PORTFOLIO
Attach your Week 6 E-Portfolio link on this submission.

PRATICAL

Step 1: Face

Create a new layer named as Face and use the brush tool to select the skin colour to colouring the face area.

Then change to the overlay filter and reduce the transparency appropriately.

After that, adjust the hue and saturation to make the colors look more natural.

Step 2: Hair

Create a new layer named as Hair. Choose a hair colour and use the brush tool to cover it. I chose the same purple as in the video.

Then adjust the hue and saturation. Then change to the overlay filter and reduce the transparency appropriately.

Step 3: Eyes

Create a new layer named as Eyes . Select the eye colour, blue, and use the brush tool to cover it.

Adjust the hue and saturation and change to a soft light filter.

Step 4: Coat

Create a new layer named as Coat.Choose a colour for the coat and use the brush tool to cover it.

Change to soft light filter and reduce the transparency appropriately.

Step 5: Wall

Method 1: Using Quick Selection Tool

Create a new layer named as Wall. Use the Quick Selection Tool to select the wall part of the image.

Create a silhouette on the wall layer.

Change the transparency to make it look more natural

Method 2: A faster way - Create a selection by clicking the layer

Command + shift and click the layer to create a selection.

Then use the lasso tool to select the exact range and create a silhouette to the wall layer.

Then command i establishes the correct silhouette range and reduces the transparency to an appropriate value.

Final

After that, I made some adjustments to make the image look more natural.

Above is my final work.

Exercise 2

Preparation

Step 1: Hair

Some efforts in selecting the precisely range of hair.

After selecting the range of face.

Establishing silhouette for the face range.

Change to soft light filter.

Step 2: Face

Some efforts in selecting the precisely range of face.

After selecting the range of face.

Establishing silhouette for the face range.

Change to soft light filter and reduce the transparency appropriately.

Step 3: Wall

First, using the quick selection tool to select the range of wall, and establishing a silhouette for it. Then, Making the range precisely.

Select a colour for the Wall.

Step 4: Cloth

Select the range of cloth, and then establishing a silhouette for it.

Step 5: Lip

Add a solid colour background and create the correct silhouette.

Then change to a soft light filter and adjust the transparency. Keep only the lip shape.

And then add Teeth layer and Earing layer like above image.

Final

After following those steps, I complete some details for this image. And Above image is my final work

Exercise 3

I selected this photo of Lisa from the library as the black and white photo for my practice.

I searched for some pictures of Lisa on Google Chrome for color guidance and selected the following pictures as references

I followed the steps in the previous video to do this exercise

Step 1: Hair

Select the range, establish the silhouette, choose the brown colour for the hair.

Step 2: Face and Neck

Some efforts for the selection

After selection

When it came to the step of selecting colors, I encountered some difficulties. I filled the selection with the color I had previously referenced and used the Overlay filter. At this time, the color displayed on the screen was very strange, the color of the picture was very flat, and there was almost no light and dark contrast.

Efforts to add shadows

So later, I added details of the shadows and highlights locally to make the picture look more natural.

Step 3: Arm

Select the selected areas and adjust the colors.

There are some difficulties here. There is some hair on the arm in the upper left corner of the picture. The clarity is not high, which makes it difficult to select and create a silhouette. Finally, after several adjustments, it is possible to accurately create a selection area.