In this section you will learn how to enhance photos using Photoshop. You will rotate, crop, edit levels, curves, adjust color and change a color photo into black and white.
Enhancing a photograph after you take it is called “Post-Processing.” When you are post processing you do not want the image to become “Over Processed.” This happens when you process the photo too much and it doesn’t look natural anymore. Your goal here is to make the image look better (more interesting, better lights, darks and colors) to make it look more like what your eye saw when you took the picture. You want the picture to “pop” but not so much that you can tell it has been processed.
For this, we will be conducting NON-DESTRUCTIVE EDITING.
Destructive Editing is when you perform edits on the original image data. This cannot be changed or undone easily.
Non-Destructive editing is when you perform changes to a file by creating new layers and editing on those layers. This type of editing does not alter the original image data and can be easily changed later or removed.
TO BEGIN:
Choose a photo of yours to edit. It should be a photo that can benefit from editing!...one that could be rotated, cropped; as well as an image that the colors could benefit from adjusting.
Please create a folder called “photoshop editing” and save image in the folder (title it original.jpg.)
We will do the following together:
1. Open the file with Photoshop
2. Rotate File (Image on top menu bar > Image Rotation then select a rotate option) (practice this, even if your image does not need to be rotated).
3. Crop File (using the crop tool in the toolbox on the left of the screen)
4. Levels (Layer on top menu bar > New Adjustment Layer > Levels) Click OK. Slide the input level triangles to make the darks a little darker and the lights a little lighter. Adjust the mid-tones and lights as needed.
5. Curves (Layer on top menu bar > New Adjustment Layer > Curves) Click OK. Adjust the curves as needed by clicking a point on the curve line and dragging up slightly to make lighter, or down slightly to make darker. (You can add more than one point to adjust the lights, darks or mid-tones.)
6.Color Adjustment – in the curves window above the adjustment box there is a drop down box that says RGB. Click on the arrows and select a color channel. Now you can increase or decrease the amount of that color in the lights, darks or shadows of the image by dragging points on the line. This you may or may not need to do for your photo. It is good for images that have the white balance off.
After this step, you should have a better looking image. Save this in your “photoshop editing” folder as 2edited.jpg
7. For Black & White: a. Use History to go back to after it was cropped. b. Layer on top menu bar > New Adjustment Layer > Hue/saturation (adjust the saturation slider to the left to de-saturate the image.) Then click OK c. Now adjust levels and curves the same way you did in step 4 & 5
After this step, you should have a black and white image. Save this in your “photoshop editing” folder as 3blackandwhite.jpg
UPLOAD 3 PHOTOS ON GOOGLE DRIVE TO TURN IN! Upload your original image (file name original), Edited image (file name edited) and black and white image (file name black & white) 1. original 2. edited (with watermark) 3. edited and changed to black & white(with watermark)
Photo Enhancing Rubric 25 Submission (turned in on time in proper format – photos labeled with image name) 25 Watermark placed on the two edited images 50 Craftsmanship (photo was enhanced properly within photoshop) 100 TOTAL