Post-Production with Photoshop CS5

For Photography 20

Plan Shoot Sort

◦ Apple iPhoto – advantages & disadvantages◦ Apple Aperture – professional version◦ Adobe Photoshop Elements◦ Adobe Lightroom (Adobe Bridge)◦ Adobe Photoshop

Workflow

Crop Adjustments

◦ Brightness◦ Contrast◦ Saturation◦ Burn & Dodge

Editing◦ blemishes, red-eye◦ Objects

Effects Text

Retouching Tasks

Photoshop main screen (in Windows) with components

Once opening an image in Photoshop, save the file with a new name! This will make sure you always have the original

If you make a mistake while working, there is a command similar to Undo. It is called Undo and Step Backward (may not be available for everything)

History Command in Windows Menu Revert is a command that replaces the

current state of your image with your last saved image

Key Items To Remember!

With this tool you simply sample a part of your photograph and cover another part of your photograph with the sampled area

The pixels from one area basically replaces the pixels to another part of the image

Think of this tool as if you are painting a wall and covering it with another “coat of paint”

The pixels from one area basically replaces the pixels to another part of the image

The Clone Stamp Tool

Choose the Clone Stamp Tool from the Tools Panel on the left

Select a brush from the Options bar – you can choose from a variety of types and adjust the hardness (amount of feathering), size and opacity (level of transparency/intensity)

Deselect Aligned Sample (optional). This will keep the sample from the initial point the same, rather than moving and changing the sample point while cloning

Steps to “Cloning”

Choose a sample of color from your image by placing cursor over desired location and choose option on keyboard and click with mouse

Choose location you wish to cover and click with mouse

To adjust the size of your brush you can simply use the [ and ] on your keyboard to make the brusher smaller/larger

Cloning Continued

With this tool you simply remove blemishes and other minor flaws from images

Does not require you to take a sample area as it automatically matches pixels – form of blending

Choose this tool from the Tools Panel on the left and make necessary modifications to size and hardness

Locate desired area and click on mouse

Spot Healing Tool

Select either a Quick Selection Tool or a Magnetic Lasso Tool from the Tools Panel

Draw around your object you wish to “cut out” Press delete on your keyboard and OK to the

Fill dialogue box that appears on your screen that indicates Content-Aware is used (or click Edit, Fill and use “content aware”)

Magically, your object disappears (you may need to touch up). Command D deselects

This may not work with absolutely every object you wish to make disappear!

Making Object Disappear

Choose the Spot Healing Tool from Tools Panel

Modify size, brush, etc. in Options bar Make sure Content-Aware button is selected With mouse, click and drag over (colour

over) object Release mouse button and Photoshop

should replace content/pixels This may not work for everything!

Making Object Disappear with Spot Healing Tool

Burn allows you to darken the exposure over specific areas of a picture (make darker or more dark)

Dodge allows you to lighten the exposure over specific areas of a picture (make brighter or more white)

Burn & Dodge Tools

http://tv.adobe.com/watch/photoshop-cs5-feature-tour/contentaware-fill

Sites/Videos

Practice◦ Edit the blemishes from the picture of the girl◦ Edit the volleyball picture to remove the man in

the background and the water bottle◦ Edit the lady with flowers and remove the lady

Assignment◦ Choose two of your own pictures that would

benefit from editing◦ Touch up the pictures using Photoshop tools◦ Be prepared to show “before” and “after” pictures

Assignment