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

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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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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
(5/11/2023)

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 
(5/11/2023)


Fig. 1.5 Recoloring B&W photo
Advanced level Process
(5/11/2023)

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
(13/11/2023)

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
(13/11/2023)

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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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