Digital Imaging and Photography - Week 6

Week 6 : Practical: RECOLORING BLACK & WHITE

NAME: SOFIA CHEW

I.D: 0377902

COURSE: Digital Photography and Image / Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media

GROUP: 4

Lecture

Poster Design

7 principles of poster design:

Emphasis: This principle focuses on making certain elements stand out to draw the viewer's attention. Techniques include using size, color, or placement.

Balance and alignment: This principle involves distributing elements evenly in a design to create a sense of stability. Balance can be symmetrical or asymmetrical.

Contrast: Contrast helps to highlight important elements by placing them against differing backgrounds or using varying colors, sizes, or shapes.

Repetition: Repetition reinforces a visual theme by using similar elements throughout a design. This can create consistency and cohesion.

Proportion: Proportion refers to the visual size and weight of elements in a composition and their relationship to one another. It's often helpful to break your design into sections rather than viewing it as a whole.

Movement: Movement guides the viewer's eye through a design. This can be achieved through directional lines, shapes, or the arrangement of elements.

White Space: Also known as negative space, this principle involves using empty space intentionally to enhance readability and focus on the main elements.

Instruction

Exercise 1

1.Create NEW LAYER in PANEL LAYER: RENAME it.

2.Select BRUSH TOOL, adjust SIZE & HARDNESS.

3.TOOLS: Select FOREGROUND COLOUR, select SKIN COLOUR.

4.Colour the FACE. Adjust the SIZE and HARDNESS while colouring the edge.

5.Apply BLENDING MODE: SOFT LIGHT or OVERLAY.

6. Repeat steps above.

7. Create LAYER for hair, eyes, shirt, lips; and colour it.

8.Create NEW LAYER for background,

9. RENAME it to background.

10. FILL IN COLOUR:

11. EDIT → FILL → CONTENTS (COLOUR). Select colour and shut off visibility.

12. Add all selection from ALL LAYERS: face, hair, eyes, shirt, lips.

13. Apply the selection to BACKGROUND LAYER MASK.

14.Use BRUSH TOOL to finalize the LAYER MASK.

15. INVERT BACKGROUND LAYER MASK. Apply BLENDING MODE.

Exercise 2

1.Select skin colour with MARQUEE TOOL, COPY selected area

2. PASTE selection at the B&W PORTRAIT, RENAME new created layer to skin colour

Select EYEDROPPER TOOL

3. Change SAMPLE SIZE to: 5 by 5 AVERAGE

4. Use EYEDROPPER pick up HIGHLIGHT, paint on top with BRUSH TOOL. Repeat the

process for MIDTONE, SHADOW.

5. Repeat the process for choosing HIGHLIGHT, MIDTONE, SHADOW from HAIR reference image.

6. Roughly select hair with QUICK SELECTION TOOL, REFINE selection in SELECT & MASK

7. Select OVERLAY, REFINE EDGE BRUSH TOOL. Brush over the edges.

8. After refining, select OUTPUT TO: LAYER MASK

9. Create NEW SOLID LAYER, Use COLOUR PICKER to choose hair colour.

10. DRAG & DROP hair layer mask to new solid layer to replace layer mask,

select SOFTLIGHT (BLENDING MODE)

11. Repeat the process for FACE,EYES, LIPS, EAR RING, etc.

Fig 1.1 Module Information Booklet of Digital Photography and Imaging

PROJECT 1B - PART 2: Recoloring Black and White

Exercise 1

For this exercise we will have to recolor a B&W picture. First I created a new layer and rename it as face

I used the brush tool to apply skin color on the face layer.

After brushing skin color onto the face, I blended it using Soft Light

Then, I continue the above steps for eyes, lips, hair and other B&W parts.

For the background, I used the quick selection tool to select and mask out the portrait. After finishing masking, I added a new layer that was filled with solid color as the background. The mask out part was then inverted. After applying the blending option. The exercise is complete

Final outcome of Exercise 1:

Before

After

Exercise 2

For this exercise we too have to recolor a B&W picture but we have to use a specific hair color and skin color. First, I used the marquee tool to copy the picture of the skin tone and hair color to my workspace.

For the color selection, I used the eyedropper tool to pick the color out

After getting out the color, I started masking the hair out with quick selection tool. To make the selection more near to perfect. I used the refined edge brush tool to achieve it. The next step will be creating a new solid color layer which is the color of the required hair color. After blending the hair and the mask layer together ( I used Soft Light). The coloring of hair is completed