DPI Week 1 - INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY & IMAGING

23 September, 2024 - 29 September2024 (Week 1)
TANG LILIN (0376668)
Digital Photography & Imaging
W1: INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY & IMAGING



TUTORIAL

There is no tutorial this week.


LECTURE


Week 1:INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY & IMAGING


At the start of the lecture, Mr. Fauzi briefs us about the outline of this course and the main tasks of this semester.

In the lecture, Mr. Fauzi introduced us why we need to learn Photoshop, 10 tips for learning DPI better and what digital imaging is.

For us , students in the design school, Photoshop is necessary because we will operate in a visual style, website design, and individual express function. It will express our creativity and feeling and understanding about graphics. One day, we will enter the workplace. No matter the work we do at that time is about design or not, having capacity of using PS will have a competitive advantage over others in the workplace.

The importance of the PS for the graphic designer

  • Express our Creativity: By learning more, we will have a more better layout, and also a better combination our thoughts with new methods.
  • Create Graphic Design: We can create web site formats utilizing this software program.
  • Restoration of old images: With this flexible software, we can back to the old photos time and experience it.
  • Integrate graphics with text artistically: Combining images with messages.
  • Make use of brushes: With it, we can finish the job within a couple of mins.
  • Change photo color: Add effects to the pictures to provide a distinct appearance.
  • Rectify mistakes in photographs: We can conceal the weak points as well as boost the aesthetic allure of the photos.


Digital imaging is to retouch photos and add details. Use images to convey a special meaning that we gave and create creative composite images.

In order to learn DPI better, we are some following tips:

  • Follow the tutorial given by Mr. Fauzi and prepare in advance. 
  • Use PS to create images and copy other people's excellent works. 
  • Remember PS shortcuts to working on our design more efficiently. 
  • Browse design websites to stimulate creativity and find inspiration. 
  • Break the conventional inertial thinking. 
  • Organize documents and layers in an orderly manner.


Summary:
Photoshop has become a center of creativity. And it is a widely used photo editing software.






INSTRUCTION


1. Create your E-Portfolio blog.

https://youtu.be/Q9H-8-MQKpc?t=41


Example: https://averyongxuanting.blogspot.com/search/label/Digital%20Photography%20and%20Imaging  


E-Portfolio Link: https://lilin613.blogspot.com/



2. Register and create Pinterest board name as DPI

Example: https://www.pinterest.com/fauziyusoff/dpi/ 


Your Pinterest DPI board link:

    https://www.pinterest.com/tanglilin009/dpi/




3. List down your 3 favourite graphic design + photography work from Pinterest. 

Explain why you like the designs?




PRATICAL


Design #1:


1.Graphic Design




Description: When I first saw this illustration , I was enthralled deeply by the broken mood it gave me , which also expressed those following messages.


This graphic design expressed:

First of all ,this graphic is in the form of a picture in picture. In the picture below, the decaying flowers and part of the arm are both in the blue water. In the picture above, there is a part of the woman's face with some messy hair . The most interesting thing in this graphic is her eyes. Her original pupils are replaced by the waves, shed regular wave-tears which are made by using the cut-mask version. 

What’s more, the part of the face above works in concert with the part of the arm below, it seems like the woman in the graphic is lying in the blue water. It expresses awfully intensely negative emotions, but with the messy hair which seems like blown up by the wind, the graphic becomes alive.





Design #2:


2.Art Gallery Poster



https://www.pinterest.com/pin/1116189088894376298/



Description: When I first saw this poster, I was enthralled deeply by the rich atmosphere of love and shock by the beauty of medieval oil painting, which also expressed those following messages.


This poster expressed:

First of all, all of the elements displayed in the poster service for the theme “Love” and “Louvre”. All elements are the symbols of love , so the poster looks very unified. I think it’s the most important thing in design. 

For the picture elements, the author chose Cupid as the character which is the best symbol of love. The four Cupids in the poster doing their own things, holding garlands, sorting out flowers…… And the pigeons released by cupid express freedom and love . Maybe the picture elements represent all the aspects of love. What’s more, the medieval oil painting style is significantly suited for the “Louvre”. 

For the straight matter, the author chose Pink as the text theme color . Also, the most interesting thing is it highlights the letters L, O, V, E, in the title “LOUVRE” to protrude the “Love” theme. I think it is excellent that the Louvre’s love-themed paintings are all reflected in the poster title.






Description:When I first saw this graphic , I was enthralled deeply by its painting style ,which also expresses these following messages.


This graphic design expressed:

First of all, this graphic design is especially the style of Ukiyo E. Significantly, it is a combination of Eastern visual elements and representations of Western forms. 

In the graphic ,we can see a lot of elements of Ukiyo E style. For instance, the spoondrift elements which is famous for the work of The Great Wave off Kanagawa made by Katsushika Hokusai is the most typical feature. The red part gushing out of the bottle in the middle of the graphic wrapping around the Vodka bottle, it seems like liquor or the aroma of the liquor gushed out doing Ukiyo E processing at the edge. In this classical Oriental color scheme, Vodka bottle is held up by the smog within the butterflies, whales, birds, corals, mist dotted, it looks even more majestic and magical. 








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