Week 1

Week 1

Lecture

Module Information Booklet:

 

Lecture Slides:

I look back on the lecture notes to understand what have been taught in week 1.

In this module, we are learning Adobe Photoshop, to create graphic design, manipulate photography, express creativity and many more. Why do we need to learn these? To restore an old photograph, to express an idea, to deliver a message, to create propaganda and more. We can use it to achieve many results and goals. Digital imaging is a very creative way to do that, We basically use different images from different sources, edit it and combine it into a complete graphic design with meaning. It's like a mix and match. 

Past Students' Works:

Tutorial & Practical

I register into this module late; I missed 2 weeks of classes. So, this week 1 class exercise is done in week 3. I already have a blogger account, so I just add a new label for this module, named as Digital Photography and Imaging. This post is for class notes and exercises only. Information about assignments will be written in other blog posts. 

Pinterest board link: https://pin.it/miZ3pRmHM

I also have several accounts in Pinterest, so I use one of them to create a Pinterest board only for this module, named as DPI. I saved some pins, and I chose 3 of them to express my point of view.

Pinterest board

1. 

This is actually a moving picture, it looks so incredible and magical. I think this collage gives a kind of fairy, time, dimension vibes, like a beautiful fairy from a different dimension, moving across time, travelling to different places. 

This is a graphic design of someone on Pinterest, I’m unsure of the author, but it should be LunaCr3ativa as shown on the graphic design. This poster is expressing an old soul (which indicates a younger person with an old soul), has an interest in beautiful vintage thingy and ideas.

2. 

I think that this is a fan edit poster for Melanie Martinez's song, Tunnel Vision. The concepts are really dreamy, fully represent the visuals from her music style, her story for the song. It gives off a secret fantasy garden overall. The old keyboard is covered with plants, makes us think that is this world existed after a downfall of modern world now, the human is no longer existed, the earth is now a world lived by aliens or new species. Or this is purely a different dimension. 

The world ' Enter the game?' suggests that this might be a game world, and it is now an entering portal, player need to choose whether they want to take this adventure or not. I really like the outer world vibe.

3.

This is a fan edited poster for Haerin. Haerin, a member from the K-pop girl group named as NJZ or formerly known as New Jean. I was immediately attracted by this poster because of its colour. The bright orange stands out among all the other graphic designs. The design is very clean, straightforward. The concepts should be expressing the characteristics of Haerin.

I like the way the artist uses bubbles, goldfish and fishbowl to create this visual. It’s like Haerin herself is a goldfish inside a fishbowl. It has a very refreshing live energy. The only thing that is not perfect is that the way the artist arranges the letter for her name is a little bit misleading. People who don’t know Haerin might read it as Haenir, the placement of the letter can be better.