Class Exercise 4 - On Photoshop

1) Undestructive Editing

- an editing technique which prevent the source to be "destroyed", allowing the user to go back and forth along the process. Achieved through layering, masking, and smart object.

2) Layer Mask

- perform pseudo-editing on a separated by linked masked layer instead of the source itself.

3) Smart Object

- instead of duplicating the entire image as a single layer, we package it into an object, and dupliacte it to the other layer or file. Similar to OOP in programming, the object maintain it's state and characteristic, thus allowing further modification on the object in the future without destroying it.

Thank you for reading. =)

Class Exercise 3 - Digital Collage

"Venus of Hollywood" by Daniel W. Cobum

Assignment 3 - Urban Fantasy

The theme for this piece is "Avatar". If we could have our own avatars, we can perform a lot of activities simultaneously. How convenient.

Here are the original photos:

Thank you for reading. =)

Assignment 2 - Keitai Phenomena

The main idea is "connection with friends". Mobile camera phones helps to maintain social relationships, apart from serves as a convenient tool for us to preserve those precious moment better(to some extent) than DSLR as it is the tool that you always being carry around, as well as it's non-intrusive characteristic. Which means, the smile on the people and the reaction of the subject are the most natural.

Where it could be hard for a DSLR to perform in such a crowded situation, keitai plays its role well. Friends would always crowd together and discuss on the photos taken, or make laugh of their friends for being "unglam" on the photo that you took on keitai.

And lastly, people always like to take a group photos during outing or gathering, and keitai is the tool for us to preserve that moment.

Thank you for reading. =)