Kamal's Design Diary

3/4/17 - Week 2 MMD60104, Jeffrey Patrick Digital Imaging and Visualisation Surrealism composition Practical 2 In today's class, we were tasked with creating a surreal composition on Photoshop using a background and a subject. There wasn't much instruction and any tutorials, so we were pretty much left to ourselves to create whatever we wanted. I decided to do something wacky, a dog in a biplane trying to escape from a giant cat over a sunny lagoon. The entire composition consisted of 4 images; the biplane, the dog, the cat and the background. Figure 1. The doggo looks so happy. I initially used a layer mask to remove parts of the images, applied them, then did some edge-tightening using Select --> Refine Edge. A bit of color touch-up using Match Color and the Dodge/Burn tool got the images to look like the belonged together. I then used Radial Blur to give the whole image a sense of motion, added a vignette using the Brush tool and used a postcard as a cli...

30/3/17 - Week 1 MMD60104, Jeffrey Patrick Digital Imaging and Visualisation Introduction to photoshop Practical 1 In our first class Mr. Jeffrey taught us the basics of photoshop manipulation. Cropping, resizing, copying images from a web browser and other basics were taught. I also found out how to use layer masking to hide parts of a layer through simplistic brush-work. It was more of a tutorial lesson, so there wasn't really anything new I got, but the masking thing is definitely gonna come in useful. Exercise 1: Create a composition on photoshop Our first task was to create a composition on photoshop using a base image and a subject. I used Hacksaw Ridge's  theatrical poster as a base and just slotted Thomas the Train right on top. Figure 1. Yeahh boi. I used layer masking to cut out the unwanted parts of the image, and duplicated the base image to create a cut-out of the soldier. I then used Match Color to correct the overall colour of Thomas the Truck,...