aiena's design diary

28/05/19 - 15/06/19 (Week 10 - Week 13) Aiena Mustaffa (0330103) Digital Photography and Imaging Final Project - Surrealistic Artwork For our final project, we had to recreate a surrealistic artwork from Instagram. We were provided with an article ( https://surrealismtoday.com/17-mind-blowing-surreal-artists/ ) containing various artists and their work for us to choose from. I chose this artwork by Thom Easton. Fig 1.1 Artwork by Thom Easton (@thomeaston) These are the photos I chose in order to recreate this artwork. Fig 1.2 Beach Fig 1.3 Galaxy 1 Fig 1.4 Galaxy 2 Fig 1.5 Snow alps Fig 1.6 Woman on beach Fig 1.7 Moon-like planet I edited the brightness and saturation of all the elements to give it a more faded, vintage-like feel. Fig 1.8 Process on Photoshop Fig 1.9 Process in GIF form This was the final outcome.  Fig 1.10 Final outcome The animation part of this project was what I had struggled...

30.4.19 - 30.5.19 (Week 5 - Week 9) Aiena Mustaffa (0330103) Digital Photography and Imaging Project 1: Photo Manipulation For this project, we had to choose images that were either taken by ourselves or stock photos to produce a surrealistic photo.   I had chosen a photo of myself looking out of a balcony towards a city view, and images of a blue galaxy and planets to accompany it. I combined them to create an image with a story that proposes that on another planet, people are able to observe the city and the rest of the universe all from their own balcony. A key point would be planet Earth in the distance, meaning that the person in the image, is obviously on another planet.   Fig 1.1 The project on Photoshop Fig 1.2 Final outcome We then had to animate our final image in After Effects. I decided to add stars onto the galaxy background, and opted for one shooting star and a bunch of twinkling stars across it. Fig 1.3 The project ...

02/04/19 - 30/4/19 (Week 1 - Week 5) Aiena Mustaffa (0330103) Digital Photography and Imaging Exercises EXERCISE 1 (Intro to Photoshop) 02/04/19 (Week 1) Skillset obtained: Open image file in Photoshop Selecting an image using Quick Selection Zoom in, out and panning images Copy and Paste Deselect Images Undo and Redo History Layers Deleting Layer Duplicating Layer Rearrange Layer Opacity Layer Transform Layer Hue and Saturation Match Color Move Tool Shadow Painting Filter > Noise For our first Photoshop exercise, we were to edit ourselves into the Hearst Mansion. Fig 1.1 Hearst Mansion Fig 1.2 Final outcome EXERCISE 2 (Match Colour) 09/04/19 (Week 2) Skillset obtained: Adding Layer Mask Selective masking Brush masking Creating Smart Object Rasterizing Image (To revert to layer) Blending Modes (Shift +) Cycling through blending mode with the keyboard Invert mask (image > adjustments) Gradient To...