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Typography - Project 1: Text Formatting & Expression

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25/09/19 - 09/10/19 (Week 5 - Week 7) Ahmed Yaman Ibrahim (0341119) Typography Project 1 LECTURE NOTES Lecture 4: Project 1 Briefing (cont. from Typography - Exercises post) 18/09/19 (Week 4) Our task is to typographically express text given to us in a two-page editorial spread, without the use of images and only minor graphical elements. The page size given to us was 200x200mm. Lecture 5: Project 1 cont. 25/09/19 (Week 5) No lecture this week as most of the class time went into the feedback session for Project 1. Mr Vinod and Mr Shamsul had a look at our progress and instructed us on how we can improve our work over the week. Lecture 6: Project 1 final week 02/10/19 (Week 6) As with the previous week, there was no lecture as Mr Vinod and Mr Shamsul provided their feedback as we finalized our work for Project 1. We were given a break over the week and we were to commence our work for Project 2 from next class onwards. INSTRUCTIONS PROJECT 1: Tex...

Digital Photography & Imaging - Project 1: Exercises

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30/08/19 - 01/11/19 (Week 1 - Week 10) Ahmed Yaman Ibrahim (0341119) Digital Photography & Imaging Project 1: Exercises LECTURE NOTES Lecture 1: Introduction & basics of Photoshop 30/08/19 (Week 1) Our first class began with an introduction by our lecturers, Mr. Chong and Mr. Jeffrey, of the general module and lesson breakdown. We then got to know our classmates by doing our own introductions. Afterwards, we began a lesson on the basics of Photoshop, starting with how to place an object on a background and editing it so it blends in properly. For this lesson, we were given a background and a character to Photoshop onto it: Fig. 1.1: Background - Hearst Mansion Fig. 1.2: Figure to Photoshop - Shazam We learned how to use selection tools pick out Shazam from the rest of the poster and then isolate him using a layer mask. Fig. 1.3: Layer mask around Shazam We then learned to import him into the background image, place him and then edit the image ...