Digital Photography and Imaging | Week 6

 Digital Photography and Imaging Week 6

07/10/2024 - 18/10/2024 / Week 6

Begimbaeva Aidina / 0380489

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

Week 6 : RECOLORING BLACK & WHITE

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TABLE OF CONTENT

1. LECTURES

2. INSTRUCTION

3. WEEK

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LECTURES

Week 6 

Mr. Fauzi lectured on the fundamental principles of poster design, specifically 7 principles. This will prepare us for the second assignment (typography skills are involved).

• Emphasis
• What sticks out (typeface)
• Hierarchy
• Focal point
• Balance and Alignment
• Hierarchy
• Foreground, midground, background
• Contrast
• What makes a design 'pops'
• Creates differences between elements in your design
• The background needs to be significantly different from the color of the elements
• Repetition
• 2 strong typefaces or 3 strong colors are fine
• Repetition unifies and strengthens a design
• Proportion
• Visual side and weight of a composition
• Approach your design in sections instead of a whole
• Movement
• Controls elements in a composition
• Proper communication for the eye (how our eye travels across the design)
• White Space (negative space)
• Gives the composition more room to breath
• Empty space can 'upgrade' the composition

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INSTRUCTION

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1. RECOLORING BLACK AND WHITE INSTRUCTIONS

   The goal of this exercise is to learn how to color over a black-and-white photo & essentially 'bring the photo to life.'

   
   

   

   Fig 1.1 Original B&W Photo 

   
   

   2. PART 1 RECOLOURING PROCESS

   I started by adding a layer to edit the face. For every new part I have to work on, I will separate the editing into different layers. Since the face is the first part I'll edit, I named this layer 'FACE.'

   

   Fig 1.2 Layers

After adjusting the brush, I picked a color that matched the person's skin tone and brushed over the skin. Then, I hovered over the blending mode and selected Color Burn, with adjustments to the saturation.

Fig 1.3 Color Burn blending mode with saturation adjustment 

finished version 

Fig 1.3 Final version

Part 2 Recolouring Process

Part 2A and Part 2B require students to recolour two additional B&W pictures. A tutorial presentation was given for Part 2A.

Fig 1.9 Recolouring Progress

I separated the layers by creating masking layers and used the Fill tool to paint over certain areas. Matching the colours to the image was tricky, but I used a colour dropper to make the colours closer to the reference.

These are the colour layers I made throughout the process:

1. Hair
2. Skin
3. Fur
4. Lip
5. Teeth
6. Earring
7. Background
8. Eye

Below are the results.

Fig 1.11 Final Recoloring Exercise 2 P1

Part 2B

For Part 2B, I had to select one of the photos and recolour it.

I decided to recolour the photo of Barack Obama, and below are the colour layers used:

1. Skin
2. Hair
3. Eyes
4. Lips
5. Eyes
6. Teeth
7. Background

Fig 3.9 Part 2B Finished recolouring