Project 1 | Exercises

16.04.2020 | 04.05.2020
Mohamed Hammam Chebel (0342483) / B'des. Creative media (Hons)
Digital photography and imaging

Project 1 | Exercises 

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LECTURE 1  

Week 1: 

 In this week we had the chance to meet and introduce ourselves to our module lecturers Mr Fauzi and Mr Martin. They covered everything we need in order to insure a good workflow, their explanation was clear. Also the lecturers provided links and videos for further research.
  Despite the current situation and the e-learning system I was able to understand and practice the exercise given by the lecturers.

Task: post your 3 favorite Photoshop artworks 

 Fig 1.1  

         I like how this picture feels so realistic, unique and           

 Fig 1.2

This artwork attracted me because it has a little bit of motion to it.

It looks alive.

Fig 1.3

This work is clean and minimal which I like

  Bezier game: 

The lecturer introduced us to the Bezier game which I found pretty challenging at the beginning, but after a while I got familiar with all the keyboard shortcuts and the pen tool.

  It was fun and really helpful, thanks to the game now I can use the pen tool correctly.

 Here is a screenshot when I reached the last level of this game.

Fig 1.4 The bezier game

Exercise: 

Hearst mansion Photoshop

In this exercise we must make Shazam look like he is standing inside the mansion using Photoshop. That was my first time using the software, The lecturer has uploaded  a very useful video on you tube explaining the task in detail, so I had no issues completing the exercise. 

 Fig 1.5 Shazam

Fig 1.6 Hearst mansion

Fig 1.7 Final work

Before consultation

Feedback
After Mr Martin saw my work immediately he noticed that the character's color ( Shazam) is not matching the background (the mansion ). So his advice was to match the colors. Besides that everything is correct.

After this feedback I went back and corrected my work by matching the color of shazam with the background.

Fig 1.8 Hearst mansion color matched 

Fig 1.9

Me inside the mansion

After I practiced hearst mansion exercise, I put my self into the mansion. I did the same steps as Shazam exercise so it wasn't hard to do.

Week 2
 

Exercises 2

In this exercise we were asked to mask Shazam's body using only the pen-tool, in the previous exercise we used the quick selection tool to mask the figure, it was fairly easy masking with the pen-tool and preciced. 

Fig 2.1 masking with pen tool

week 3

Exercise 3 

Ghost house

    

In this exercise the goal is to put the ghost inside the house, we were given three pictures to do this exercise.

first, I selected and masked the house using the lasso tool and the quick selection tool, then I added the masked house to the main background, I matched the color of the house with the background.

After that, i added the masked ghost picture to the house and used the gradient tool to make it glow.

I did this work after watching the tutorial video that Mr. Martin has posted on you tube. Everything was clear and easy to do thanks to the detailed demo.

Below is my work.

Fig 3.1 ghost house

Fig 3.2 cowboy

After the cowboy exercise submission Mr. Martin did live demo in order to do the images below, in this tutorials we learned how to edit pictures using the blending modes in Photoshop, also we learned how to work with layer masks.

 

Fig 3.3

birds

this image a result of blending two pictures, one contains the birds, the other contains the scenery you see.

Fig 3.4

Coffee girl

in this image I added the smoke effect on the coffee cup.

the demo was pretty straight forward and clear, also easy to execute.

Week 4

Exercise 4

Recoloring exercise and tutorial

In this exercise, we had to work on a black and white portrait and color it using brush tool in Photoshop, Mr. Martin posted a demo on how to do this exercise  on you tube.

Here is my work after following the demo of the lecturer.

Fig 4.1

Recoloring 

After I did the demo exercise, I went ahead and downloaded a picture of Barack Obama , I did the same steps in order to color this portrait.

Fig 4.2

Obama black and white

To color the portrait, I had to make it black and white, then color it using the brush tool after picking the right color for the skin, hair and eyes. After coloring, I applied some blending modes and played the opacity to make it look as real as possible.

I zoomed in so I can have a clean and neat artwork, also I played with the brush settings to make it softer.

Fig 4.3

Obama colored 

final work

Week 5

Exercise 5

Displacement map

Mr. Martin posted a demo on you tube, In that demo he explained the displacement map exercise well. So after watching it, I downloaded the pictures and started to work on it following the instructions given in the demo.

Fig 5.1

Flag

Fig 5.2

flag girl

Fig 5.3

Liverpool girl

Hybrid animal 

In this exercise  we were asked to use the same methods for displacement map, and pick an animal and change its skin or fur.

It was really hard matching the new skin to the animal skin. I tried several animals and textures.

Finally, I decided to go with the horse and the giraffe skin.

here is my final work 

Fig 5.4

Horse | Giraffe (final work)

I also tried a leopard texture on another horse picture

this figure 5.4 was approved by Mr. Martin, so I went ahead and submitted it.        

Fig 5.5

Horse | Leopard

Week 6 Project briefing and demo

during this period (week 6 - week 10) our lecturer did live demos on how to make a human robot, in those practical sessions I had the chance to ask questions and to practice with the lecturer at the same time, here are some of my practices 

 

Fig 6.1 

Bora

In this exercise we learned how to mask a part of the body using pen-tool in Photoshop, also we learned how to select an object or a part of an object properly using the selection tools, 

• Quick selection tool
• Object selection tool
• magic wand tool

it was an easy process for me because it was a live demo, so I could ask questions and the lecturer was there to answer.

this practical exercise helped me to gain time working on my final project 2b.

week 7 Practical session

In today's practical live session we were introduced to the basics on how to edit the skin and how to make holes and openings in the skin. It was a long process, but at the end of the session I was able to apply the knowledge I gained on my project.

Fig 7.1

week 8 to week 10 

We did some photo editing exercises in these two weeks, the main goal was to edit raw pictures on Photoshop.

we used raw camera filter for this matter, the demos were clear and I had the same result as the lecturer.

Fig 8.1

Fig 8.2

I used the camera raw filter to change the brightness and the colors. also i edited the sharpness of the pictures and the exposure because the images were taken in dark places.

Fig 8.3

this is an animation done in Photoshop after watching the live tutorial with Mr. Martin.

I learned how to mask the person and separate it from the background. then i learned how to create a video timeline in Photoshop where I could do simple animations, I simply changed the size of the person, created a key frame at the beginning pf the clip and another key frame at the end of that clip.

then I rendered the video and chose the frame rate, then exported it.

this exercise helped me with animating other projects for other modules.

 

Fig 8.4

In today's tutorial we learned how to create a GIF in Photoshop.

the process is similar to the video animation, but in this case I used frame timeline, then applied puppet warp which allowed me to manipulate the body of that girl, I did the same thing over and over, then at the end I exported it as a web GIF. 

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