Digital Photography & Imaging: Practical-Recoloring Black & White (WEEK 6)

31/10/2023 - (Week 6) 

Aisya Diva Anwagodsa (0365505)

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

Digital Exercise 02: Practical-Recoloring Black & White

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JUMPLINK

1. Lectures

2. Instruction

3. Recoloring

4. Final Result

5. Reflection

6. Quick Links

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LECTURES

On week 5 the lecture is about Recoloring Black & White photos, Mr. Fauzi provided the materials and the lecture for us on google classroom.  In these lectures, there are 2 ways to coloring black & white pictures, using brush or clipping mask.  There are 2 photos for this exercise.

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INSTRUCTION

PRACTICAL RECOLORING BLACK AND WHITE

Fig. 1.1 Turn B&W photo into COLOUR photo

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Fig. 1.2 Turn B&W photo into COLOUR photo process

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Fig. 1.3 Contour 
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In here, I followed the Instruction, but I feel like the skin is too pale, so I tried to do some contour with darker color
.  Here are the main tools I used:
- Brush: For coloring the object.

- Overlay: To make the skin blend with the picture.

First Attempt:

Fig. 1.4 Recoloring B&W photo

Advanced level 

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Fig. 1.5 Recoloring B&W photo

Advanced level Process

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For the second image, I also followed the tutorial provided.  The tutorial for this exercise using a different way to recoloring a picture, it is used a lot of masking rather than brush:

- Eyedropper: To choosing color based on a picture/color palette.

- Brush: to create the color sample and coloring detailed parts.

- Quick Selection Tool: To refine the image.

- Solid Layer: To coloring the object.

In here, I feel like I did not like the result.  So I decided to redo the second image, and combining both way of recoloring.

Fig. 1.6 Second attempt
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Fig. 1.7 Second attempt
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Fig. 1.8 Second attempt
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From fig to fig I used the same way as the first attempt to coloring the image.  But I decided to add a little bit of a make up touch.  Here I put contour, brush, eyeliner and freckless  on her face with brush.

Fig. 1.9 Second attempt
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Fig. 1.10 Second attempt
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While from fig 1.9 to fig 1.10, I also use the same method with brush to create the leopard pattern on the clothes.  I used two different shades of brown and black to create the pattern.

FINAL RESULT

Fig. 2.1 Final Result
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Fig. 2.2 Final Result
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REFLECTION

Experience:

I was enjoying doing this task, this reminds me of coloring when I was a kid, but this is way more advance.  This taught me how to use layer mask, even though I'm a bit confuse with how it worked, but happy with my result.

Observation:

This particular task need a patient and detail, because we have to pay attention to some small part that we want to recolor.  However, task does not as hard as it seems.

Findings:

In this task, we can express ourself and exploring color also fashion.  We can do some modification to the object and make it looks stunning.

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QUICK LINKS

DPI: WEEK 1 - WEEK 4

DPI: WEEK 5

DPI: WEEK 7

DPI: WEEK 9

DPI: SELF TITLED

DPI: FINAL COMPILATION & REFLECTION

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