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Slice Class: Week 5: Photoshop Basics: Color Correc5on, Cropping Jeff Young
Slice Class: Week 5: Photoshop Basics: Color Correc5on, Cropping Jeff Young
Photoshop Basics: Color Correc5on,
Cropping
Jeff Young
jryoung@gmail.com
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Event Photos Cri5que
Tami Le
Tami Le
Tami Le
Tami Le
More on Composi5on
• What makes a good photograph?
Luck
Luck
• But you need to know what to look for so you
can put yourself in a posi5on to get the shot!
More on Composi5on
• Find a clear center of interest
Doug Schreiber examines
wreckage of the Ward
Baldridge home in the
Pearson community near
Heber Springs, Ark.,
Thursday, March 11, 2010. A
tornado struck the area late
Wednesday. (AP Photo/
Danny Johnston)
More on Composi5on
• Another way to look at it: have a point of
entry
More on Composi5on
• Find a clear center of interest
• Fill the frame
Chinese paramilitary policemen take their breakfast with snow before
shovelling snow from a road aWer a heavy snowfall in Yumen, Gansu
province March 9, 2010. (REUTERS/China Daily)
More on Composi5on
• Find a clear center of interest
• Fill the frame
• Watch out for distrac5ng elements (or cut off
limbs)
More on Composi5on
• Find a clear center of interest
• Fill the frame
• Watch out for distrac5ng elements (or cut off
limbs)
• Diagonals=good (for some reason, diagonals
are more visually interes5ng)
Kuwait City airport employees wipe the sand from the red
carpet during a sand storm before the arrival of France's
President Nicolas Sarkozy in Kuwait February 11, 2009.
(REUTERS/Remy de la Mauviniere/Pool)
More on Composi5on
• Find a clear center of interest
• Fill the frame
• Watch out for distrac5ng elements (or cut off
limbs)
• Diagonals=good (for some reason, diagonals
are more visually interes5ng)
• If someone is facing off frame, try to posi5on
them toward the larger open space
Isaiah Phelps‐Roper, a member of Kansas‐based Westboro Bap5st Church,
protests outside the Holy Ghost Church during the funeral service of a
Marine killed in Iraq. The US Supreme Court has agreed to consider
whether the vitriolic, religious an5‐gay protesters who picket the funerals
of US soldiers are protected by free speech laws. (AFP/Ge3y Images/File/
Sco3 Olson)
Layering
Foreground‐Background
Color
Repe55on
Surprise
Framing
Decisive Moment
AP Visual Checklist
AP Visual Checklist
• Is the photo ac5ve or passive?
AP Visual Checklist
• Is the photo ac5ve or passive?
AP Visual Checklist
• Is the photo ac5ve or passive?
• Is the photograph of something no one has
ever seen before or is it a unique or
interes5ng photo of something everyone has
seen?
AP Visual Checklist
• Is the photo ac5ve or passive?
• Is the photograph of something no one has
ever seen before or is it a unique or
interes5ng photo of something everyone has
seen?
• Are the photo style and the wri5ng style
consistent?
AP Visual Checklist
• Is the photo ac5ve or passive?
• Is the photograph of something no one has ever
seen before or is it a unique or interes5ng photo
of something everyone has seen?
• Are the photo style and the wri5ng style
consistent?
• Does the photo communicate quicker, stronger,
befer or more eloquently than a simple sentence
could describe?
AP Visual Checklist
• Does the photo have visual content or stop
short at story eleva5on?
AP Visual Checklist
• Does the photo have visual content or stop
short at story eleva5on?
• Does the photo go beyond the trite and the
obvious?
AP Visual Checklist
• Does the photo have visual content or stop
short at story eleva5on?
• Does the photo go beyond the trite and the
obvious?
• Does the photo contain essen5al informa5on
to help the reader understand the story?
AP Visual Checklist
• Does the photo have visual content or stop
short at story eleva5on?
• Does the photo go beyond the trite and the
obvious?
• Does the photo contain essen5al informa5on
to help the reader understand the story?
• Does the photo have enough impact to move
the reader?
AP Visual Checklist
• Does the photo have visual content or stop
short at story eleva5on?
• Does the photo go beyond the trite and the
obvious?
• Does the photo contain essen5al informa5on
to help the reader understand the story?
• Does the photo have enough impact to move
the reader?
• Is the photo clean, interes5ng, and well‐
composed enough to stand on its own?
AP Visual Checklist
• Does the cap5on informa5on answer who,
what, when, where and why, along
AP Visual Checklist
• Does the cap5on informa5on answer who,
what, when, where and why, along
AP Visual Checklist
• Does the cap5on informa5on answer who,
what, when, where and why, along
• Does the photo communicate effec5vely?
Photos should move, excite, entertain, inform
or help the readers understand a story
More Event Photo Cri5ques
Portraits
Photoshop Basics
Cropping
Cropping
“Crop ruthlessly. Cut out anything that’s not
essen5al to the picture, so that the reader’s
afen5on won’t be distracted or wasted.” –
Edmond Arnold, newspaper design pioneer
Cropping
… but preserve the mood.
Mindless cropping can ruin a picture’s intent by
elimina5ng parts that gave it its mood.
Cropping Demo
Color Correc5on
Several ways in Photoshop
Color Correc5on
Auto Color Correct:
Image Adjustments Auto Color
Color Correc5on
Brightness/Contrast:
Image Adjustments Brightness/Contrast
Color Correc5on
Varia5ons:
Image Adjustments Varia5ons
Color Correc5on
Levels:
Image Adjustments Levels
In‐Class Assignment
• Crop and/or color correct three of the six
photos you have turned in so far.
Homework: Portraits
• Find a stranger, faculty member, athlete,
coach, journalist, etc and take three dis5nctly
different portraits that say something about
the subject’s life, profession, major,
personality, background, etc.
Final Project Proposal
Final Project Proposal
Must include:
• Format you plan to use. (video or audio
slideshow)
• Story arc and hook
• Types of people who will appear
• Proposed headline for the piece
• Expected run 5me