DPI Project 1 (week1-week7)

 24.9.2024-31.10.2024/week1-week6

Nov 4 2024

YANG YANG/0363575

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

W1&2

https://yangdesignblog.blogspot.com/2024/09/dpi.html

Reflection：

I had a great deal of enjoyment in making this assignment, and I have seen a lot of work produced by many wonderful seniors through the website Pintreset, each with their own style. Even if they use the same typographic techniques, they are still able to produce different results. Because of this, I had a hard time choosing my three favourite designs because they were all too good. But after a long time of thinking I chose these three, their styles seem relatively uniform to me, and I like the way the black and white images are set off by a higher purity of colour. I think this kind of layout makes the picture look more simple and clean, and also makes the theme more clear, and at the same time, at the first sight, the high purity of the colour can quickly help readers to find the focus of the picture.

W3

https://yangdesignblog.blogspot.com/2024/10/dpi-w3-oct-07-2024.html

Reflection:

I had a lot of fun working on this assignment, and given the groundwork I did in the first week, I had a basic understanding of typography, as well as a vague idea of what style of typography I preferred. Therefore, in the production of these three collage designs, in fact, did not consume too much of my energy, I was in the production of the contrary seems to be very clear about what I want to achieve the effect, so the first draft was presented very quickly, only in the later add colour when there are some repeated entanglements. But it was undoubtedly a very enjoyable practical assignment for me, I enjoyed the process of collage, connecting objects that may be unrelated, and I like the idea of a typography that focuses on a single subject, which makes me feel that the image will be cleaner.

W4

https://yangdesignblog.blogspot.com/2024/10/dpi-w4.html

Reflection:

When making this assignment it was not new to me as I had had initial contact with photoshop before this and had used it to draw and make posters, so after confirming the requirements and the effect we needed to achieve for the assignment I began to make it, which was a little bit the same and a little bit different to physically making a bottle sticker. When using the software you can change the size of the elements as much as you like, and there are many opportunities to back out of a cut, which you can't do if it's physically made. I have also increased my proficiency in some of the functions of Photoshop through this practice, which has benefited me greatly.

W5

https://yangdesignblog.blogspot.com/2024/10/dpi-w5.html

Reflection:

I felt a lot of benefit in making this assignment, before this I only knew how to change the colour of the picture, but I didn't know that it can be directly adapted to the environment colour, this discovery surprised me, and at the same time it is very practical, of course, even if the use of adapting to the environment colour still need to do the subtle adjustments to make the picture blending into the background of more natural, but even so it also save a lot of time to adjust the colour. At the same time, this practice also allows me to learn the use of templates in Photoshop, even though the process of completing this assignment is not complicated, but it contains a lot of technology and knowledge, so I benefit greatly.

W6

https://yangdesignblog.blogspot.com/2024/10/dpi-w6-oct-30-2024.html

Reflection:

I felt both familiar and unfamiliar while working on this assignment because the tools I actually used for this assignment were ones that I was familiar with and had used before, but I had never thought of using them in this way, which made me feel new and strange. In practice I liked this feature and I think it will help me a lot when I use Photoshop to draw and edit pictures.

T2:

Process:

Reflection:

In the production process of this practical work, I use photoshop to create a lot of ‘secondary production’ part, double exposure composition I have always liked, but once I thought it was just a simple layer superimposition and adjust the blend mode, after this actual operation I think things are not as I thought! To achieve a natural effect and a simple and convenient process, the way I used to do it would not work, but it is obvious that after learning a new way, my production time has been significantly reduced, and this quick way of production has improved my efficiency. At the same time, I also learnt how to use the same functions as procreate's gradient mapping in Photoshop, which will help me a lot in my future work with images and posters.