Week 1- Week 2 Exercise Digital Imaging and Visualization : Back To The Future

28/8/17 Week 1-Week 2
Wynne Pankusya [0333258]
Digital Imaging and Visualitation
Colour Restoration in Photoshop

Tutorial

Basic tools and tutorials of Adobe Photoshop was taught in this week such as brush tool, layering, clone stamp, and blending. We are supposed to restore and color a sample of old and damaged photograph using all the skills that we've learned. We can recolor it realistically or hyper-realistically.

My first attempt of color restoration

Adobe Photoshop CS5 .1

Moodboard

I started it with a white background  (RGB 1920x1080 pixels)

I gave each picture of the moodboard a one layer so it will be more organized

The moodboard is mainly red colour with a touch of vintage 1950's mood. 

After giving each layer a photo (and also renamed all of them), I'm using Edit->Transform->Scale to resize and collage the pictures

Lastly, I saved it as a "moodboard.png" because I won't edit it anymore

Result

The colour red is as bright, as loud, as fierce as it means. The symbol of love, passion, anger, strength. A flaming colour that would be perfect to be drawn within lovers.

Colour Palette

I took the colour palette references from my moodboard

Colour  Restoration

This is how the old photos look like and I'll use my moodboard as a reference of how I would recolour it.

The first layer is for the skin. I took skin references for RGB so the skin would look more hyperrealistic together with using overlay so the skin won't look odd and adding a layer mask to erase unwanted parts

In this layer I coloured the lips, eyebrows, eyes, and makeup

Coloured the hair

I mainly use red colour for the clothes just like my references

Finishing it by colouring the details of the photo

Result

I adjust the brightness, contrast and saturation to make it more vintage

Reflection

I started to feel that I need to grow more creativity and gain a lot of research for my artwork. Especially when I'm facing a monochromatic picture and I need to colour it. Moodboard really does take a big part of how the result will look.

The colour might look messy at first but I'm starting to know how the photoshop works.