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Understanding how it all works can be daunting, but we're here to guide you on the way to knowing just how powerful Photoshop can be. ant part ofthe dally ife of hers everywhere, As digital tall and More and more people are learning how to inc production techniques into their ahotooI Tutorial Images FREE MEDIA A ) CONTENTS PHOTO EDITING FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS Getting Started Main interface Healing Tools Menus Clone Stamp Tool The Toolbar Brushes and Eraser Keyboard Shortcuts Bucket and Gradient Fill Selection Tools ) Basic Editing Techniques Making Selections Cropping and Resizing Modifying Selections BB Quick Masks Using Layers Using Layer Masks Adjustment Layers Content-Aware Fill and Scale 4 Curves and LevelsPhoto ) Editing Photographers DMs Create Seis Photo Eating tor Photographers ISSN: 20503970 On Mada nie 2H) Photo Editing Skills Adjusting Exposure Correcting Lens Distortion Colour Correction Panaroma Stitching Contrast and Saturation Colour Replacement Monochrome Techniques Soft Focus Technique Graduated Filters 72 What is Raw Mode? EZ] Processing Raw Files Photo Editing Projects Glass Text Effect Shattered Text Effect Tilt-Shift Effect EB Light Graffiti Pencil Sketch Effect Polaroid Montage Compositing Skin/Beauty Retouching Tattoo Effect FEE) Little Planet Effect Sky Replacement 160 Photo Editing Glossary| Ca UL Se BOOM Rec B Vel a ces cen aOR W- elm T0401) Uo uae Fe uae ee een ren rir en ee ae Parra n — oAiE e aah SeMain Interface Photoshop has a great looking = = a as interface, with a dark slate-grey Coed y ee work area, slightly lighter menu fe ee and palette bars and sharp white text. It looks great and really makes photos stand out from the background. Let’s take a look at what it has to offer. Menu Bar ‘options menus here Tool Palette Hate you'l nd your main editing Tool Option Bar For each too on the alte her ooouetia Tabbed Document Window Each window you open wl have (own tab to deny Document Details Active Image Here youl ind tne comrssed anc he ra erie proves argo rea 80 of your document area to workon your nes, wh a ae bactgreund cour 8 sOMsCeamesor BenMAIN INTERFACE Palettes ete are a numb Workspace Option iterchargedie pales Jo, whi you can chase ne Window menu incudng u for options Fly-out Palettes Layer Palette ce aferereemeta istotteqenty ns sof pal the image you! them by clicking on working ‘those butteet wel rage, neucng Modo eee tery ered eee ta eee Se ee et ere res (ean er Poser mer tsar iM tt al Coren arene Cee eee toe See eee Se eet eerste et ee ce ra eer! ee ee er ier ae ee ers ee teaser ene rem rete oa ee eee arse foam Sry nr evry emer tusee Tr fe ern ee ee ee ee ee ee eo ae el eee err eerie ee ee ert pees eres poner tne Clea esac ht} i= a u LS Peete RO een Ml encore od complexity and versatility The main interface of Photoshop has no fewer than eleven menus, each with a dozen or more options, and with many Pere ea ee ae te ee ces Pe eee eee een er eeeee ees ey ee es Seatac) ee ener! Photeshop C58 sew amar ee ied eee eae een Peper ee iets pce eter peer eer Seer eee peerearer itt) aon Saeed oer Ce eect Eetererne ee "THE TOOLBAR The Toolbar Let's take a look at Photoshop's main editing tools he main sloments of the Photoshop Toolbar haven't changed all that much since the introduction of Layers anc the Move too! with version 3.0, back in 1994, ‘The shape hes changed @ bit, elongeting Into a single column to take acvantage of today's larger monitors, and a few more tools have been added over the years, but anyone who's familar with any previous version of Photeshop will son feel right at MONE Move Uses to move as ntearatin onthe ‘wapouEs activ yar or elacton, Can also be ured MARQUEE LASSO to dec sebota aye Autos asic WAND toate no alert, . crap EVEDROPPER factangule Marquee Tel ee ‘SPOT HEALING seus eee Far rial Seemann aston aus Marquee ERASER ‘The Marquee is used to select an area of wen Hepes ape oa secied secession sans caxmectotoe sar a re Se Fre ys Learn Lasso wo cee zoom ‘ine the shape can be regular, marked see 2th aon sos ser co.oin ‘tek wrk mou SCREEN MONE 12 boatecrasees | oe home withthe latest version, In common with previous versions, most of te tools have alternate options, denoted by a small arrow in the bottom right corner of the tool icon. Glick and hold on any tool bearing this mark to ‘599 2 pop-up menu showing the ether ‘options that are avaliable. Mast of the tools can algo be selected by using a hotkey shortcut. These shortcuts can be customised via a tink in the Edit menu, but of the default keys, among the most Useful are “CO for the Crop tool, “Mt for Marquee selection tool, and “E' for the Er Over the folowing pages we'lliook in ‘more datal at wha these tools can do ‘anc how they should be used, but for now here's a quick run-down of what you have available on the Toolbar. 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O Fiesta aie eae] eee) Line “ho Ura toc ares coat ro usa o ‘cea srepes artpsins on our mages nis veryusen or apnes werk, suchas sng arous recast shapes, Cr Prete Hand flags mage Ie mest ofan used i colnstheyooart nor, he spe Be Zoom Image. gan ie mot cen used via. shea nis case CTRL» CTRL Switch Colour ieee ia aret leenandcat. Set Colour ‘erg fo trngs i tw colo cossar foregeunder cig cous, Quick Mask mode Ireeucedh Photoshop C81, tho uke Nas mhis 2 eat ay ot maha compl sections uso th crawna snd pahtng tol. ES TTT] Tip Screen Mode SaKEYBOARD SHORTCUTS Keyboard Shortcuts There's always a quicker way of doing almost everything... i tele rec oe espe eer ace rt. Ant ol of ra torn on be accessed quickly by pressing various combinations of keys, and once you l2em those shortcuts your workflow will spged up immensely. You can even make up your own for your most frequently-used operations. Customising Shortcuts You's the keyboard so operations ateady have har own cela short. 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For imegular shapes there are several Lasso Photoshop editing, and to help with this there are tools, which Ist you draw the areata be selected. For ‘many different ways of making that selection. The most quicker selections there are the Magic Wand and Quick frequently used are the Marquee too's, which allow you Selection tools. % Photoshop file Edit Image Layer Type Select Filter 3D_\ Cars cee “There avec te frst mon tool option: 3. The 1 of four buttons are: New ofthe selactio Seloction, which fe the default setting, Add Te Selection, which can also be activated temoocaiy by hiding down the Shift key, Subtract From Selection, also activated by tho Altkoy, and Intersoct Wit Solaction, which solace nly trom areas already colocto, “The next option is Feather, which sottans tho edge of tho seloction, useful for gradual effects. The edga of the selection can be further Retina Edgo 2 sophisticated odge-detection techniques to adjusted by using ren, which us automaticaly select around things ike fe fr blurred edges. 16 woAtscroSo | io enSELECTION TOOLS Rectangular Marquee ou eke aston os Single Column crouwacactaysmcoe | Marquee hs ane ag tote ght oan na Shit key 22 row kay 0 Magnetic Lasso 2906 of he abet nth mage, “ease rie nae leno shoul alerratealy snap te he ee Unione to alge bane ‘aya, so ogan his too best used eanappe or xt on voy hap iho Lasso ‘The Lael oo used to make ae Magic Wand Jocton tol that Polygonal Lasso Posaby he mest uel action eres othe srr 60k tool, the Felyganal Lage ne you britney ads the ea, poss to approxmate a curved Tor cuted rea you ree se Pon tet tweaking can be 8 vr usa 9 Elliptical Marquee ‘Thistle ou ret slors afer alga! shops ot any operon. 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Whatover s Peer Pear Pn the reason, sometimes you need to remove some small features trom your mages, and the best tools for this are the Healing tools, There ae tua healing tools ere a J in Photoshop, which you can see if you click and hold on the Spot Healing Brush tool icon in the tool palette, pL ee wT Seer ee eee eat eee erent. ear rather less sophist ene ie rc! asap pe eee eee etn Peete ete Tt ee ne) oer eee 1B boAtsCrarosiRed Eye Tool Gere ed Cee ie eee ee el eropeene ty iis od Sede peer Rete ees ee ee ae try es Spot Healing Brush Tool ee ane ee ees ete eta teeter ert disposal In some cases, you can even remove larger eee ert ee samles the area around it and replaces the blemish ith @ eee ree ed ee ee sampling, The brush paramaters can be eeePs CLONE STAMP TOOL The Clone Stamp Tool Remove unwanted elements from your photos he Clone Stamp tool (alse known as the Clone _to remove unwanted olements such as dust spol, Brush in some programs) is one of the most useful skin blemishes, lens flare and other intrusive objects items in your mage editing tool kt. Despite recent —_frorn your pletures, Because the process is entirely davelopments such as Photoshop's Spot Healing tool manual it can be very time-consuming, but the results ‘and Content-aware fil, itis stil the mest precise ard are often superior to the output ofthe more modern reliable way to retouch phetographs, allowing you automatic tools. amp The Clone rks by copying 'loning) pixais ‘rom a selected target area and placing thern over the unwanted objects. Using the Clone Star it is rlatively _svaightioewaed to remove even quite lrge unwanted 0 Take this photo for exemple Thig ctherwieo ploasant landscape shots spall b the obtuse telephone wires inthe foreground, With twenty mines ushg the Clone Slame the wis have been completely removed, leaving & much Pap] cee tecone tn namie oom 1 usd im Photton CSE for ne ‘Stare. Atte op of ie sren|ust pisthe +L Glove sump Toot sc tm Manu er ol the Too om he tec paki. 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The moat useful drawing Implement i the Brush tkeyboerd shorteut Bj, which is a mult purpose too! that can emulate most any type of drawing tool imaginablo, be it fine pencil, a falttin marker pen, soft-bris brush, an aitoush, or anything in botwean. The Brash rool has receives a major uo for version C58, and now has eer eer eerie ange of versatile tools for painting and drawing, allowing you to create orginal artwork as well as mare options and mora pre-seta than ever before, giving you Lnparalloted vereatity for creating your own masterpiaoes You select the Brush too! by Clicking on its ican inthe toot Palette, but to get the most out ti you need to open the naw Brush palette by oicking onthe Ite folder-shaped icon in theBRUSHES & ERASER, 1 take lock tthe ‘There ate pre-set brushes to any pacake wi simulate aorusnes, pa use Ph b ape ofthe brush ti tho density, longth,thickre b Vicky drew gre lntuos 4 shown sitiness and angle of the rush and hore. The Brush brates, ent adjust or dala acute pied to pre ing. As woll as hs, 1 eustomis ont pen them for your rablat users, such As well as allowing pen appacranen and texture of th proscu'e 19 cont ‘9 orush, there are also options ther ors build-up, anc for how ititeracts with the colour dynam fr that you paint an, These are called Bans ‘can choose which one t smal sample of which you can 68 in the picture to the right eee) eee eet ne Eraser ors ee ets the stance brush n that tan rand dele _shapnd eraser of fad sz0 an full opaciy oa eee eed De aes ee ees ee erecta Soe ee) Se ee Ser ey Se ee et ee ee Ce ae eee enc) ree ee eee fe eet eedPS PAINT BUCKET AND GRADIENT The Paint Bucket and Gradient Fill Fill layers and selections with colours, textures and gradients ne very useful facilty that Photoshop provides is the Gradient tool. It can fil an area of a layer with a gradual blend between ‘multiple colours. You can choose {rom a selection of pro-set gradiant fis or ereate your own. I's a 24 eoUrecrasore | Yr Eben great way to add gradient fiers fer enhancing photographs, or to create effects such as vignettes and centre-spot soft-focus. Let's take a closer look at how it works You'l fin the Gradient tool about halfway down the Toot Platte. t has ts own unique set of options in the Tool Options bar, the main one being the Gradient Picker, whieh lets you choose from alist of pre-eet gradientsNostto isis arew of euttone that erste floront setng va eaight treat ‘radiant, fut other options nce Rada, Ang, ‘radent shapes. The deta fed and Denon shapes, Photoshap comes witha section. faut preset cradonts oaded, but ‘hate are other necks of graces ‘alae You cen adn hase ater pci wa the Gradant mer Ifyou open the Gradient Picker youll see {2 smal icon ikea cog whee. you ‘ec on tis you'T sas tha mena thelst of standard recent packs ‘alae o load atthe bat ther radon tol options Include te ove layer opacty, reversing tha deco ofthe ‘gracont cokaurmx, chankira the thar" ofthe colour ming, an toggling te transparency. —— IF you click and hold on the Gradient teal you'l fn that eng ofits options isthe Faint Bucket too, which is used te flan area, a lyer ora gsection witha solid cour. In combination wih yer transparency and biend mades i's a grat way to add 2 jour tet or iter 9.2 whole mage. PAINT BUCKET AND GRADIENT Ure the Brus ocs the Gradent has blend modes that bet youd the fnvarous ways, This & a great way o aahanee suneat landseape chats, by us An overay mod, in s- aa z er colour Tih ye baton it 1 aback to-raneparont gracent I you use the Paint Bucket on the background layer of your mage it wil ‘lin an area of contiguous colow in ‘much the game way as the Mag ‘Wand! to) Tod tnt toa while image, create a new layor, ther it with the colour. It wil the whole layer. and you can then use layer traneparoncy and bland modes t achieve the effect you'e looking for. To got this entique photo eect, we used a gana bur 708 opacity, and @ Color blend ‘mode, which combines the fi colour with the background colours ofthe image Probedtrate mucveatis 25Using Photoshop's tools to edit and improve uel 3 UN tet ge xahneaet.. cieecoleced Ee ee cn eC ee ee ee eT Se tee ene want to create an original artwork by combining several elements together. Cee eae ees ee ee ity Ue ee ics Ce een a(qe BB Making Selections {so Mita Ete EB using Layers fs Pee as BB Curves and Levels EB Crop andResize | MOTTE [<2 URNA Cce [secu Fill and Scale ecg Seed ees paneer poner antes pone) ee edMAKING SELECTIONS Making Selections The ability to select and modify only part of an image is fundamental to how Photoshop works Omsizerenneseteaaee ‘of Photoshop isthe ability to mocify only part ofan image, leaving the rest unchanged. The way that wo do this is by using Selections, and there are several tools and menu operations that we Coan use to achieve ths. ‘itor the Move to), th three icons on the Tool Palette are al selec anid ving yo range of mathads for isolating area ct your nage. Som manual while others uso varying a fo draw an elipse around! your ection, imagine tha it's actly shaogo. ‘rectangle, ata trom ona cornar anc «ag to the ciagonaly opposite comer. This oan be tricky to get right, so ‘aterativey hold down the Al key ancl start from the centre of where you want The Biptica Marquee tool works in much the seme vay as the nguer Marquee, but draws a ‘As with the Rectangular Marquee, rallo, A rato of 1x1 draws a i ratios draw eliises of various siz. e, other your alipae to be. 2B poMtecre sore |r Rectangular and Elcicl Marquee tools tomanualy select a sinpie shane of 8 bath alow you re see or vee er separately ar joined logether. and wilh a hard axge or 2 soft feathared adge, Tho various Lasso to's lt yo ireguler shape, again withthe ofa feathered dg select en a the eraa freehand, oF use a's go take a look atthe proces ‘of making & selecton, and examine the various options thatSimple Area Selection Lets start off with the simplest, ection to, the Rectang) Marque, Ts 6 us for sobcting simple ctr ‘asthe name moles, sioken a point vere you want one ofthe comers to be, then hold and crog to te clagon ‘appeete camer. You! ea the "marching ais” 0 the specton bor appes folowing the cursor. To make a sott edged eolction, type numba into the Feather box. The higher the number, the more blured the age val be, Polygonal Lasso Tool rs nn For salecting mare complex shapas, the best option fs the FPotygonal Lasso too MAKING SELECTIONS Pe You can draw a fechand rectangle, orth the se or aspact ratio by using the tool options. draw 8 perect squere sel you 99 the Pant toch to r he aa you've salcted you! see thatthe egos ra very shar. This times ' i your seotrat the egos are very bun rmexquee"rexching ‘nis ihein the micela ofthe lured area yath the Polygonal Las click around the edge of the are {you want to galect. When you complete A Poygonal Lasso selection fe ‘the loop, or douible-click, the selection is ideal if you want to cut or copy a Ccomplotoc and you'l sep tha “marching | complex shape out ofa background, for ants” border ‘example to meke it part of enother picture 29MODIFYING SELECTIONS Modifying Selections Photoshop has sophisticated tools to refine and improve selections hotoshop’s standard selection tool, the . . Marquee, Lasso and Magic setting, wth good letting Wand, are fie for making and agaist a plan ight roy basic solactions of regular, backround. Photos lk this are well-defined shapes, but Used all the time for catalogues thay/t@ not 89 good at advertising posters anc the ike Picking out soft-edgad o ver, order to ft these very ine shapes. One thing reeds the mode! will have to be in particular that has always rom the backer boon a problem is the edge ground tke of fine or untidy hat. Take tht would be tempting to use this photo for example: (oo such as t the Magle Wand. However we tryit, what wo end up wth is ssomathing tke ths Modify selection mode has been ographed in typical stucio Photoshop has other too to madly & selection which youl find, aperpritely enough. inthe Select ment, under Mociy, “Te options include Border, Smooth, Expand, Contract and Feather. They're al reali simple, but useful nonatholse, 30 eoImecese sires | Border order converts the single-tine salection Into a border of he spectied width. You ‘can use this selection to create a border ‘around your selection by using the Paint uke too Smooth ‘Smooth removes the kinks and wrinkles from the ine of your selection. t's uset ‘when you'e selecting smooth-ecgec objects, butt wil round off the comers of any inegular shapes.MODIFYING SELECTIONS & 2 feature called Refine Ege, When you've been which is capable of making around al the edge much finer lstintions, area that you went t rane, cick OK thon watt a tow second wil the program recalculates the edge. As you ban soe here, the sts a massve Improvement ever the frst attempt. one Ege is Starting with a Magic Wand or Polygonal Lasso selection as ‘doce as possie to the exge of the ha ox ay other sof edge, ikon the Refine Edge button 1 the 00! ations arn the lalog window thal opens, in age Definition, check the ox easy to use, ‘Aa you ean 90a, the edge around the maces hair torsble, The automatic Magi ‘Wand selection has produced! a very jagged edge, because it can't distinguish between the fine edge ofthe hair and the bac rmeried Smart Radius, ane use the square brackets keys 10 sot the brush ee co that's large enough ta cover tha hazy edge area around the hai. Then ‘simpy paint around the edge. ‘overlapping both the modal and the backorl 2. Fortunately the latest version of Photoshop has ‘We've looked at Feather before It eoftens ‘the edge ofthe selection by the actus set the aiog box. I's perhaps the Expand, as the name suagests, expands | Gontrectis the ooposte of Expand. It most useful epten here, partiouer'y the sizeof the selection by the specified | inks the size ofthe selacton by the i you'e trying to copy and paste the number of pees, specified number of pial selection into a background, Proeatrate Pocasotie 31Using Layers Understanding layers is fundamental to Photoshop editing he concept of Layers was frst inoduced with Photoshop 3.0 in 1994, ane has become the very core et Photashep image exiting, as well as being imitated by every ther image editing program on the market. Layers aro exactly what they sound ike; the elements of the image ae stacked up and displayed in USING LAYERS ddesconding order. Since layers can Include transparency, lower layers can be visible through higher ayers Etfeots, adjustments and operations can be applied to individual layers, orto llthe layers at once. You can ‘move layors around relate to ono another, change the order of layers In the stack turn layers on or of, and delete layers without affecting the others. Some people seem to have a hard ime getting thar head around the concept of ayers, 50 the best way to think of thers asa pile of glass panels withthe elements that make up tha image painted onto ‘them, with you looking down an them fromabove. Mr Layer havo. rumber of cheno fone thing, the aby to change one element on ne taver witht alfectng the other lays mane that you can eat your image ron-destnthey. For exarree you perform an operation ona layer but you'e nat sure how t's gong o tum out, rantta sstmake a uplcate layer, se the orignal to be msi, then do your eating onthe copy. ia the rea, you oan simply delet #t an > ‘al “Thate are four man hypes o yer. There are Pe ayer, which conan the grephical ‘loments cf the mage, There are Text ayers, uric contain text inermation which can be ‘back tothe ‘itd and resized. Thore ere Vector kyo, nich certain vocte Information such as shapes and work paths, and then there are ‘Aajustment layers, whieh contan embecides ‘corrmancs that affect the layer imectoy below. Wel ookat Adjustment layers m1 more ‘otal on the next page. Tree sa downsice to using yer, and that the fle size. Acksng layers aes tha information that goes along with them creeces the alo othe to, so when you've fished edting ana you want to save the picture you've created, is usualy @ ‘900d oa to Flaten the rage, which merges Alth layers together nto a single mage,USING LAYERS & The Layer Palette Kiording your vay around the Layer pete is ita if you want 10 make the 19 of his fatixo Blend Mode Opacity Layer Filters Determines how the ker interacts with the lager bao & "be changed for every layer layer below wil show through. ‘ype of ayer, o al of ther, and by one, afr 8 rou. ‘by selectna ror the top-down Contos how transparent the By clicking ont layer f, and how mach ofthe can doo lo display only ne show themin, Fill Simiar to Opacity, but ony ‘orks on pa nfonreton, ignoring blending options ard layer effects. Layer Locks con these buttons tha aye rom any Uther act. Tansearency maga tes anc postin can be locks independent Text Layer There ae ceva eeent pos of ver Tot ayers, not suprsnoy, idechorsties Background The Background layers the faut rt and alvays stars of locked Link Layers ed Hignignt a fow layers and then clk the uston to ink the layers. Tanstorrn and ‘Move commend wit aft all Visibility Layer Styles Layer Mask Cicking onthe eyetat simpy Add effects such as drop ‘el esk to a pte sed ar fonds the yer andallts_aadow, beveled ges, ner © rosa riormaton fects inved gow ard re using @ black or white brush || Adjustment Bi new Group New Layer Bi belete Layer Layer Creates a now aye goup, ls anew bank ayer Dons ety what you's expe Jn clemaive to temeininer ID Which youcan dag ae cop ily ewe the cutenty todo, Cick to data ho curently salyhnpciein-r layers, which helps you toerganise soe layer. acti layer, dag layer onto Baa ey aoe ee es layering complicate composition. the button to dale #ADJUSTMENT LAYERS Adjustment Layers A great way to edit your images without damaging them 34 trough there ave many fedling options in the image > Adjustment menu, they a heve one thing in commen. When yeu apply them to an image the effect they have Is destructive, because they discard information for the original image. For example, it you apply Curves, the 1's Imposelbio to avaid ths image degradation altogether, but by using Adjustment Layers we can reduce it as much ba, Adjustment Layers above tha te! yor inthe stack, and their fects appled inal time as the layers are splayed. That way’ you change your mind about an efecto wish to change tater thas been appled. your alteration doesn have any ‘ut (on the layer below it, and the Image decradation ist applied wit the ayers fe Hue‘Seturation, then add a Photo Fite atlact, that’s trae operations that have ciscarced information, ‘each one degrading your image quality. I'you apply an operation repeatedly, such as mute Curves corrections, you'l actually be able to 988 the degradtion. The only way to.undo the damage done by these ‘modiications is to revert to an earlier version by using undo or the History palette, but tht also undoes al your subsequent editing as wll This degradation is much worse with 8-bit than with 16-bit images, since there's less information to start wth ‘re mergea when fattening the ape You can apply Ashustnent Layers in several ways, Fst, youl ind ist of avaiable leyers inthe Layer > Naw Adjustment Layer rmeru, Second, if you Reve the Adustments palette open (t's open in the default interface ‘workspace you can click onthe button forthe layer you went to apply. Thi, you ean lek on the mice bution atthe bottom of the Layer Palate lof ese ctr exactly the same ls of eplions and produce the same resultsADJUSTMENT LAYERS: The Adjustment Layer Palette ‘on any of hose buttons to instantly create a now adjustment ayer Bil Bightness/Contrast Photo Filter Channel Mixer Colourtookup invert FE Posterize FE] Threshold ZY Selective Colour Gradient map Levels Peyreneey Eh coves Pere ened Exposure 5 S Ei Vibrance El Heessaturation Ed colour otance Black and White Before and After nor. dagaction ote Catea Curves CURVES AND LEVELS and Levels The most versatile way to adjust tone and colour balance in your digital images ‘ul find the Curves function in the Image > Adjustmonts menu, o” use the keyboard shortcut Cma+M. The Curves dialogue looks 2 bit daunting at fst: a graph with a diagonal line running up the midale oft ike a cificult piece of maths homework. I's nothing to be scared of though, andis in fact the most usstul ‘and versatile tool for making adjustments to the exposure and tonal balance of your images. AS a starting image we'll use this picture of a country ‘church, What wo want to do fst is cop it down 180 we just have the main part of the church in the pleture with some sky and grass. The Curvos graph ic a histogram shown the relative strengths of dHferent tones within the Image. it snows the input dstrbution along the bottom of te grant, and the output up the veto ‘axis, The straght dlagonal ne fem cornet comer indicetes that there isa 1:1 ratio between 36 eoMTscaata sore | Amo Eben = Ere — =| use than Curves, aris you quick aust he black mighnecs of 1. Thecther Wo porte actPS CROPPING AND RESIZING Cropping and Resizing Changing the size of a digital photograph cometimes a digital photograph can be the wrong size. Maye ‘Got 100 much ofthe surroundings in the Picture, wtien you wanted to concentrate ‘on just the main subject, or maybe the ‘whole image is too big, and you need ‘to-make it smaller to sand via email ‘or publish on a website. Doing both of ‘these things is very auick and simple in Photoshop. As asterting im picture of Sarah-Jane, What we want to 4 firsts or il down so we just have the ‘main part ofthe model inthe picture ‘The best to! forthe jod is, not surprisingly, the Crop too. You't nie fnd tin sho tool palette, foun down trom sayin the top Ieoks abil ke to sot-squares, ea The cop tools very easy to Use fewcaor Sat Id simply cick near one then rag a box around the area you want to.crop, Don't ory you don't get the se exact right frst te, because you ean adyst the sian ofthe bax y ug the chag-hardlbs on each sido anc cornee. Press Enter o perform the crop. Setar cmer as \ Image menu and select Image Size, Image, and open the drop-down option 3B povMeCrame sore | tm Eienail ithe Pieel mensions pare center tha width that you want your Image to appear. we ware preparing tis Dictire for awebst, a width ot 800 pixels (would be ideal. The neght wal change automaticaly to keep the aspect rat sama, Press OK to rosa th plete CROPPING AND RESIZING sams soci Next, go back to the Image manu, but this ime choose Canvas Size (or use the Keyboard shortcut Crd + AR +C: You! soe the cunt si in peeks O7 ee ‘wilh a8 800 pies, the lower window putin a height of 480 pixels. your min suibec is notin the ante othe ame ‘you can alter the anchor pointy choking ‘on the arrows surouncing the box bebow Glick OK to perfor the resize, You'l got ‘a werring thet you's about 10 chop oft pat of the image, but ust ignore i Now we've resize the image to 800 x 480, @ common size for ceplay on many mobie cevices, and lea for uploading to website or sending va emailPS QUICK MASK MODE Quick Mask Mode There's a quicker way of editing selections and masks ‘ten when editing in Photoshop its useful to be able to block off, certain areas that we don’t want to be affected. For that we use masks, and there are several ways of creating them, but by far the easiest is Quick Mask, a fantastically useful feature that was frst introduced in Photoshop 7. Quick Mask lets you create and edt masks and selections Quickly and easily using any of Photoshop's pixel painting tools, I's cextramely simple te use, butt can produce a wide and varied range of results, Youll find the Quick Mask mode button near the bottom of the Too! Palette. Clicking it wil toggle Quick Mask mode on or off black and white Selecta normal you went to mast: paint bush and stat paintng in It you make a mistake and ‘When you ait en Quick Mask, ‘lo. You" a that instead of overlap yaur eta, simply suiteh inetice that te foreground black, the colours trans to the white background colour T araackground colours change to red. Paint this colour over the area_—Painting white nil erase the mask 40. soutscamosore | aie teQUICK MASK MODE & By using @ combination of auite complex shapes. Ifyou then toggle out of ick Maske the aren you've masked wil bo ee {youl fnd tna all ut 1d, You can rwvert the selection and usa it 19 cut the subject out ofits background. There are other ways to apply (Quick Mask. For exemple be used with the Gracient Too! to produce gradual mask ettects ‘Simply enter Quick Mask move, then salect the: Too. Drag @ gracont fl ver the area you wish 0 effect, and vinen you rales the mouse button you't 690 thatthe gradient effect ain trenalucent Fed, ke the painted Quick Mask: You can now usa this cracient mask to produce jects on ho imaga. For instance, on hia picture we can darken the sky 8 and laave the foreground asi is by using a graduated Levels function The gradient mask: graduate ram the tl fect at the upper 20810 2er0 effect atthe lower F cdge of mo picture, 41PS | USING LAYER MASKS Using Layer Masks Add effects to your images selectively and non-destructively with Layer Masks hile the Quick Mask function is an easy To start with, ight-cick on the humoral way to selectively edit your pictures, the of the photo inthe layer palette and seloct ‘more traditional method isto use Layer Masks. Duplcste Layer rom the manu, Attemativly cick ‘The advantage to this method Is that It's non- ‘ard crag the layer thumbral inthe palette onto the dastructive, 60 if you don’t ike the results you can New Layer button atthe bottom ofthe plete, whit Just go back and start again. It is also repeatable, Twit aso cuptcate mo tayor, ‘because you can use the same mask for multiple ‘effects, saving you time and effort. For this quick tutorial ve'll use a Layer Mask to apply a selective monochrome or colour extraction effect, We'll start with this photo ofa rather colourul classic Mini. The car will remain in colour while the ret ofthe pcture will be changed to black and white Nox, actwete the new layer by oloking on it in the palette, and then cick on tre Add Laver Mask button at the Lacereanay a bottom ofthe net my A ite square wl appear inthe layer palate representing the new mask Double-click on ths and te Layer plete wl ty ou “This pattie les you contigo the r in avery of ways 42. eoInecosta sons | tr EenUSING LAYER MASKS & lorRenge ston and you'l 9ce a ‘new window appear with fot 2 colo rango pick, and Loaieeocey the cursor wil change to an ‘eyedrooper too) Gick onthe purple colour ofthe car boy, lust the les so tot ‘as much ofthe caris selected «3 possibe, but none of tho background, Gick OK when Now we've got a mask nat covers the shape ot ‘tho car, but what we need is a rack tat ea covers everyting else, 0 click ‘tho Invert button which swaps ‘the mask and the backoround. Ths eftectvly creates a hole inthe layer through wich the bbackoround ayer willbe Wisk he oa, bu Next we ean apoly the effect to the top layer. For eee this one we'll use. ss the Black and White —, I's quick and eas cra effect. You' ind Sse it in the image > ‘Agjustinonts mou You can aust the parameters Black and white ect ith the fn the window that appears The results aro.a etter of personal taste, so adjust the parameters until youre happy: The Layer Mask can be used to produce ary kind of se his, and the graat part ofits that the onginal mage is sill ntact in the background layer, 8 if you're unhapoy wth the finished result you can just delete the effect layer and start again. Howover as you can sae, the effect is pretty much perfect Proweatrate Poasotie ASContent-Aware Fill and Scale Photoshop contains image processing technology so advanced it looks like magic 44 CONTENT-AWARE Content-Aware Scaling Photoshop G84 introducod the world to.an amazing naw technology called Content-Avare Scaling, which can resize fan image while preserving the proportions of important image elements, Ht works by analysing the image and removing lings of pixels that contain relatively tle information, so that a plain background wi be atfacted before the main subject The best way to lustate the etfect is with examples such as this picture of a mountain scene. It s4o rosie tho image varicaly by 7S.percent using the stands Photoshop Image Size menu option, the poopie wil end up looking fattaned and out of proportion, since shai neg has also been reduced by 7 percent Howeverifwouse Conten-Anara 02 ee ‘hate ore that re usta corn rately te ntrmaton, and eo ts tne «hen wo re-scao the rage t dots those pcs fst, presening he more intrmation-ich px that ld the details rg the peace, As osu a 75 percant hei ection eves the scene lockrg flatly unchangee, atnough the aoa of lv sy has been reduced Youve Conant wars 2 Just the seme way es tr nage Ses opin. Ether ag the hand neh ee fre denon ou want octane reset io thetex bore on tot opto br Cnet var Soig werk fr ath hes rdw, an can as bo vecto entago ania Youll in Contant Aware Soaing in the Eat nen, but el be greyed ‘ut unless you've converted the image into aayCONTENT-AWARE Content-Aware Fill and Move Photoshop CSS took the content-aware technology further with the introduction of Content-Aware Fil. This extremely useful function can {illin blank areas of an image with an approximation of the surrounding area, which makes it particularly handy for filing those triangular Black. ‘edges that ae lft after rotating an image, for example when leveling the horizon line, Again its relatively easy to use Staring with an image tnt has just boen rotated, leeving those empty trangles, tae the Magic Wand tool and select the lain areas. ‘ptions window appear. Content-Aware shoul be selected by but ifnat choose it fom the drop-down menu, | You'l fing Flin the Eait manu, Clk on Mand yout ee the Fil etal Erato mae tte aon noon na tree but then it wil fila the blank areas with a texture derived trom the content of the immediately sutrouncing area, Next, go tothe Select menu ant Moaty > Exeand. Incraase the selecton area. Content-Aware Mowe ie a neve fealue introduced wilh Photashop CSB, and uses the same technology ae CContont-Aare Fil. The dea i that you can select an object on a background and move t to a new area Cf the Image. The Content-Avvarealgortien should ‘automaticaly inthe area that you meved trom ane ‘also bland in the moved object In practice i's not actualy much use unless the ‘object to be moved is on a vitally plain background, n which case it's often simpler to use tho Clone anyway, but sorre people may fnd it usu 45COST Ras Eee Reo al ecu an eee oho Pesd eric amen een) Ceo eee ee od eee eee ee eee acc Re ee ee eae ee eee teed ere ee eee et ered Cee ene eee een eee eee ee ee eeeBEFORE (eye) CU Ses) Ira Techniques EiGraduated Filters eet laces [<= emer peat | so Fee etatioa) Ei contrast and Saturation EiPanorama Stitching Ell colour Replacement Do Renee Cee a7PS | ADJUSTING EXPOSURE | Adjusting Exposure ‘ven wih tho sophistizatod tachnology found in the ight motering systems of modem digital cameras, they are not inflibl. Some lighting conditions can confuse thom, resulting in pictures tha are over or undor-oxpoced. ‘Allcameras have ainted dynamic range, levels of lumination at which thoy record featureless pure white of featureless pure black. The tonal vasiaton avaliable between hase wo extremes depands on the quality ofthe les, sensor and image processor that captured il, andthe bit depth ofthe fle type used to record it. For ‘maximum bt-deptn I's always best 1o use Raw mode, since tis wil usually store images in 42-bit or oven 48-bit form, capturing greater dynamic range. Photoshop (C86 can hancle images of these bi-depths, and we'lliook at Rese pracessing in ‘mere deta on page 72, but for now we'llock at improving the excosure ofthe ‘more common JPEG images from a compact camera LIPEG images ere ueually oly 24-b, 99 hava less etude for exposure recovery. COver-exposue ters to be more ofa problem than under exposure, sinae bummed out highlights contain Po deta, but the JPEG formats suring good a captuing dotaln areas that mightily look tke —_ feat Asa est its oft possible to rescue shots that ave qute badly under-axposed, sthough tis wills arly ary nosain the image, 9 thao a trade-off image quay Take a lok at this shot. was taken ushg centre wwighled motsing aginst quit strong backlighting, fd a8 aresuit the subjct in dark shadow and very Lnder-exposed would have besn a beter idea io use spot meterng, ba we can stl reac the photo ing an image edt Brightness/Contrast a qulokest and easiast way to brighten the phate ie to simply tum up the brightness. You'l find Brightness Contrast as an acustment layer inthe pata on the right, or inthe Image > Adjustment menu. The Brigntness/Contrast‘unction in Photoshp CS6 has been changed to improve contrast end tonal Belanee when achusting brightnass By moving the Beshiness Sider othe tight. the overall bghtness ofthe entre photo is ncreased, but the new alortrm reais a reasonable balance in shaciow tres. ‘You can tweak the effect withthe Contrast ser, the result 'Sreasonabiy accaptable, 4B soMteCramasones | vai fleADJUSTING EXPOSURE Levels Photoshop ofors anther wey of atering brightness and contrast ut timo wth mero sully and conto by agusing tne Levels ristogram, Youll tnd Levels in ne sere image > Adustrent su>eneri 0 Bight axis ayer option, ‘The Level histogram is basicaly a gach showing the proportion of jain te image al each colour inant. The fa lat-Nand eel the repi raprsents black, are tho right /Contas, and 28 han ens white, th every in bahween represented by aspike ina graph. Onthe bottom axs oF the graph ao thee points, the lt represerting the black ct-of pit tha it the white co point, and thane in the mia repraseiing the rmicetone por ‘Asyou can see tom the oraah ur Image al ght and sat th vr td in the done ange, 50 wa nesd io brighten core of those shadows into mi-enes. The way se do tis ie by meg the ric tone point towards the aexiows ‘This has he fect bxingng cut ‘ato the deta tem the shadew ‘areas wtheut burning cut ary more Pighfonts, laa aves the deeper shadow crea intact. ti ar beter ay of acsting the exposure of a ‘photograph than simpy aterng the Brghtness/Contas, however st ‘ute the best nay. Ads he Lele mid-point is ary Hance 9 ite adustren' Curves he Curves adjustment eptin, again found inthe Image > Adlustmart menu and as ‘an adjustment layer option, is @ method of ‘changing the reat brighness of spect ‘ones end ranges of tones within an image, ve, Leaming to useit propaty is 2 core skill mn image eciing, ‘and will enable you to make precise and subtle changes to brightness ari relative contrast not jst ofthe image es a whale, but also of Inada! tour cham "You can crag tho Cures output ne around by clang a any port, then moxtng the handle thet apoesrs. To improv this picture ne nae to bighten te sheiows and ridtonee, while simutnecusly derkering the rightghs, 80 ve hou cag tho lve si ofthe curve upaaras, and tho upper part of te curve downwars, creating asim S-shaped curve. As wth mary Photoshop techniues, the kay hae suit sh the curve too far and yout mn tho pit, but got st rant and you cen eacue evan quite badly underenpoeed cto ing precise conta over expor Proveatrate Proasotie 49COLOUR CORRECTION Colour Correction Correcting colour casts and white balance problems most all igtal cameras have come sort of utile balance ‘selection, but i's a feature that most people seem to ignore. in ‘most cases this ft a problem, because the default automatic ‘white balance feature handles most ‘everyday lighting tuations perfectly wel Howaver sometimas, ususlly when shooting without the flash in atifica light, your pictures may show astrong colourtirt, caused by inconect white balance setting, Using the pre-set white balance options n your camera's menu wil normaly prevent this problem, but tis also possible to corract colour tints lator sing photo editing software, There 20 several ways to do tis. This photograh is furinatec by cambio of soctum vapour steal Iahtng, fuorescent ight anc coloured en ightng, using automat vite alanoe, ard ea yeu ean see the camerahas got abt confused, resuling nah However by adjusting the colour bn Photoshop | rave been abie gely comect tis faut, resting mucho bal ter pleura Thoro ae saveral ways to correct ‘a colour balance problem using Photoshop. One of te quickest anc most effective Iso use the Levels function, You'l nd this fn the imege menu unde Adjustments, or by using the 50. existe oie | vr ‘cle aos pon. cee ne right. The colour balance othe image wil Immediately change to make ths point the new grey, which wil help correct the colour eastCOLOUR CORRECTION & Another way the Varations unc the Image manu, undor Adjust ts you with a series of colour ‘bos suit your image. Please note: Variations 's no longer available for Photoshop 36. ‘Youcen ater the colour you are ‘A. quick atemativeityou are using ‘Adaing the Photo Fiter layer ‘zeplyng tothe image as wel as the (688s to select the Pholo Fter above your Image now gi ‘opeciy. You can keep clicking untl you've cption from the Acustments manu, This the billy to apply «colour fit tha 10 that locks acceptable, ‘behaves asf you had actualy apolied an can counteract the colour cast in fl lighting cld-stye warrn/coo fer tthe front of shot. In this watm orar conditions may not bs possibe to your cemera to balan the tones hhues ofthis street are offset by the cool | obtain apertect result. Sometimes "yoo blue tnt of the Photo Fier enough i all you can do. Proweatrats Prooacotie STCONTRAST AND SATURATION Contrast and Saturation Using curves and blend modes to improve colour saturation and contrast in your digital photos digital camera that was used to take the S peo lat parent sot cena ere ieren eee saturation is by adking a Hua! has been improved in Photon ‘approach and doesnt offer much fhe ‘conta. It can also norease noe n shadow areas in JPEG image. 52. woMeCramoSee ‘Tho simplest way to improve the ration agustment layer. Uke many ther paris ofthe program, Hue/Saturation producing a amocther raul then previous vvarsions. Boosting the saturation sidor by about +20 helos to restore seme ot ‘the missing colour, but t's a scattorgun hhen you take a digital photo of @ scene, you are ralying on your camera to be able +o capture all he colours and tones that you see. Unfortunately most ciotal cameras simply aren't ‘eapable of rocording tho full range of colours ‘and shades thatthe human eye ean see, ¢0 yout photo of what was a bright and colourful scene may prove to be a bit ofa disappointment when you See it on your monitor. Fortunately there are many diferent ways to improve both contrast ‘and colour saturation, which might help to restore some of the sparkle to your photos. Let's take a look at some of the altematives ‘Amuch more contolable way to adust both saturation anc contrasts to use a Curves adjustment lever. Welva srsady looked! at Curves in the section on correction exposure, but by using Blend Modes we can also use (Curves to enhance satuaton In Normal blend mode the curve wil change bath cconvast and saturation, Wa're Using the Yyou'l ind Desaturata in justments menu,MONOCHROME TECHNIQUES = & Another mathod tor removing Information rom each pixel, leaving better, with greater tonal range, the colour fram an image is to only the brighiness infermation. It but i stl looks a bit at, enc Ccomert ftom a normal RGS (Red will preserva the full range of tones furthermore greyscale lis some Green Blue} colour image into a rom the original picture, but ike further editing options. You'l ind monochrome greyscale image Desatwate i ofers no creative -Greyscale in the image ‘his simply discards the colour contol. The results do look slightly under Mode. Vy58 eoIneCratoSee MONOCHROME TECHNIQUES Most colour pictures that youll coe across are make up of a mixture of three primary colour channts, ‘ono each for red, graan and bluo, Wty these threo primaries it's possible to make ary other nor-primaty Colour, Mast macern forms of colour imaging use this method. Digital cameras have an RGB colour Iter maak infront 2! tre aensor te provide ealour information, TVs and moriters display colour in as an array of tiny ed, green and Dhe dots, anc even your eye dotects ue pigments, which Is why some people tour bind ‘one er more of thase colours. Photoshop also uses colour channola, ans you can see how the works by activating the Channels paket. You can see what each chanel coks Independently by clicking on it, which wil tum off the he thrae channels, nating how of diferent areas such asthe: be ot the background or the red of the mode's the other channels. This does offer a bit of era conta, but i's bit cde.(One of the best ways to convert a colour image to monachrome isto use the CChannal Mxer. Ths takes the FGB colour channels that we just ciscussed, and offers @ way of mbing thar output into a black and white image. You'l ind the Channel Moar in the Image > Adjustments Unt the inracuction of the Black ane White menu and agustment layer apson In Photoshop ©S2, the Channel Mixer was the preferred method of cowering 19 manaehyome far mary photographers, (Open the channel mixer and check the box for Monochrome atthe bottom of the panel, The image wil mex '9 monoehyome, bul row you cen adjust ‘he channel ders to alter the relate brightnaes of the tones in the image. MONOCHROME TECHNIQUES PS |60 sEUsCoamosores | vie MONOCHROME TECHNIQUES Unit Photoshop CSS care along rearing complete control over tonal that conta and offers even mows in 2008 you would ind dezens bbalerca. The Channel Mier offered What's more i's avalible as an of oni tutorials offing noma: ‘re approach, gving some cantial Adjustment Layer, 80 t can be used brewed methods fer cowering Cover the relative levels of fone, but ran-destructvay colour images to monochrome while Black and White balanoe of your rage, wth channel srs fer the primary red, groen and blue, as well a non pemary yell, cyan and magenta $0 you can fine-tune lone and contrast, emphasising any other colour range. Each sider adjusts the relative righiness of 2 particular channel For our sample picture hare, the best resus tained by decreasing the level of red ard yatou, while boosting eyan and magenta, cyeatas a good tonal balance, binging out the tot ha and kin and otaining detain the background and strengthening overal contrastAddir “The Blac and White function also provides an easy anes cffeove method of app}yng tnt to monoatrome images, sing teotnique such as sepis or eyanotype toning, both of which can add a of atmosphere to the right soto picts, Staring vath the gg as fore, with the Black ‘ana Wate sides vance heim Tini box. Tra default sting is someting that ook alot Vea cep, but fac t's not aus ight, according to most Popul ootnon if you'e using the Black ard Whe function ‘tom tne menu eption youll soe Hue ana Satwation seers ‘athe bottom ofthe contal wi wate replicating of but popiar proces ys eheck nthe Fora.ice approximaton tothe pale bie tone typical of cyanotyge toring, sot te hue ser to about 210-220, and ‘move thn saturation slr to te et so thatthe blue tis ‘auta pate you're using tho Black anc White aclustrent layer technique fa much beter metho} chack the tn box and then cick nthe smal coouted square ret toi. This vl btng up ¢ Photoshop colour picker window, offing 2 muh biller way of conolng the cour and testy ofthe tin. Foran acourate ooreetin of sepa toning, sae te Nae 102? andthe saturation to 21 MONOCHROME TECHNIQUES & Sepia tong works well wath ‘awide range of subjects, but i's ‘est with certain images. Te war lime fel ofthis bomiver decal has an etique ook to tt works ‘exramaty wo wih sepa toning, {ing ita 40s vibe that would look abit odd tit ware using lots ot saturated colours, Proweatrots Procasotie 61ADDING A GRADUATED FILTER Adding a Graduated Filter Graduated filters can improve photos by bringing out the detail in the sky hotographers use graduated fiters placed infront of the camera ls to selectively change the exposure fend sometimes the colour of part of pictur, usually 10 darken the sky to bring out detalls in the clouds and balance the exposure with the landscape inthe foreground, They come in many diferent shapes, sizes and colours to ‘tall types of camera system. photograr [Photograph of cloudy evening sky, taken on the South Devon coast 62 PovreCramasors | Ym EenADDING A GRADUATED FILTER & Graduated Filter in Camera Raw ‘Since this photo was taken using Raw mode, we cen use the Graduated Fiter tool in Abobe Camera Raw to ad the effect ‘during processing, This ls by far the best way todo it, since it preserves the maximum amount of etal inthe photograph [7 Pee ere NS] OIC. af \When you opan the image To anply the er, dag a ine Jobe Camera Rave, KE coun ter tno top of tha oer while draggin ee 6 ee The red dotted Ine marks the ween the but tha one We wan to usa ie a no Ines. you drag this green Ina reduction in exposure. setting oven, more ofthe maga wl be at cf mnus to should presuce a raeium efect anc he graiert Suteble effect fortis pletue. wel be shorter Graduated Filter in Photoshop It your photo wasn't taken in Raw Ne nthe tool options bar clk To appiy the gradient to the picture, made you can apaly a gractated ‘onthe gradient editor and select S} start at the tp ofthe tame, clk iter using the Gradient Too. To setup the | Foreground to Tansparent, cick on the ‘and dreg dowm tothe horizon Ine. H you graduated fier, frst select the Gracient bution for Linear Gradient, sot the blending | hold down the shit key it wil constrain the Tool, then set the foreground colour to mode to Mutiny. and the Gpacty 0 78 fine tothe vertical. Tha result should ook ‘lack, by clcking on the foreground percent. Make sure the bows for Dther ‘something ike the image opposite ‘square and then using the colour picker. fend Trenscerency are checked, Prowedtrata Pooaeoters 65CORRECTING LENS DISTORTION Correcting Lens Distortion Correct the optical distortion of ultra-wide lenses with Photoshop's Adaptive Wide Angle o Adaptive Wide Ange attempts te correct atleast some ofthese problems, and can warp the picture te undo most of the optical ditortion. Romarkably ican do allthis while st preserving most ofthe deta nthe picture. You'l tind Adaptive Wide Angle in the Fiters menu. 64 eonrscrstosor |v ne of the new features introduced with Photoshop CS6 is called Adaotive Wide Angle, which can warp and bend an image to undo the optica distortion comwnan to al very wide angle lenses. Wve all seen photographs taken with “ish-eye" lenses, These lenses are called uitra- wide-angle, because the angle of view that they ean capture can be as much as 180 degrees, Naturally the abilty to equeaza half a room into the same shot comes at a price, and that is extreme optical distortion. Straight and parale lines eppear to be bent, perspective is massively shortened and familar objects take on almost unrecognisable proportions. In the Photo opposite, the straight uprights of the stone columns seem to curve inwards, the root seems to bulge upwards and people on the edge of shot are squashed very thin, fe captive Wide Angle interlace, frst select the Constraint too om the panel on the upper lft ofthe ‘main sereon, and select Fishaye fom the Correction drop-down menus Pick one of ‘he vertical nas, n tis case one of the Light columne ofthe stone support, Clik near the top of ane drag atin {down the length oft Sha ‘he na wil automaticaly cues to‘olow ‘he Ine, but you can crag the conto handle in the mc-point of he lne to match upto the curvature,CORRECTING LENS DISTORTION & J Rg Ac2i, crag tno ance on the 9) ruta ine to mave the upright into 2B verical postion. youve dona itignt the verical curvature dsto-ton ofthe image should now be pretty much comected You may notice thatthe correction isn't cate pete; thera may sti some sight curvature of the various uprights, but i's certainty a great imeroverent, ana the vercal structures re much straighter apa Te process wt hve sore Co erie speces et tre comer ofthe feel eeneeaye aie Pick ane on the opposite side You can cay cr anit to cored the vie pase andrea re Pe Ss we ‘mage eovethes. Tis dos mean process, dragging a line down tha probably cscover that this wilery cause J 08a 90m ofthe original photogranh, Upright of the eoturn. This too wi futher distortions, Glick OK when you'e but the results mach ss distorted han automatically straighten, done to raise the conection. twas atthe stat Proweatrate Poona 65PANORAMA STITCHING Panorama Stitching Get the whole of the landscape into one ultra-wide picture any digital cameras have @ feature known as “Panorama Stitching" or “Panorama Assist” mode. I's thereto help with a particular type of photograph, or rather seas of Photographs, in which successive shots are taken as the cameras panned across @ seen, ‘After you take the fst shot, the camera shows the edge ofthat shot superimposed on the ‘moritor 60 you can match up the postion of features in successive shots, producing a long ‘continuous photo showing an entre panoramic scene, When I's done well the results can be breathtaking, but geting a satisfactory resut isn't as easy as it looks. = For the purposes ofthis tural we'l so this specially shot example ot the ‘Blockhouse, but back in 1648, that overlooks Old Grimsby harbour on Tresco in the les of ScWy Having downloaded our panorama pictur from the carnera into ‘onthe PO, k's time to re uo hop and stich tham togetner nto Phot The Photomerge window of ‘@ penorame, Locate the files an your hard KEE) a number of options tor how to die and open al theo n Photoshop. arrange your panoramic soi, but ora 01 G5 to he Wir > Ararge en! Aiea tenes eeerera eb you ean vw tem a at once n up In Photoshop you're ‘to option shade won, Clo onthe ore! oan Nat eter gs Poloreye te Ferry As Open es ato are tee You # cnenoe tome a ast ino unde Automat, along wih soir ehor the Photomerge ist and chock xpos check auomati processes. at ien en boxe 66 PovreCresone | tr EenPANORAMA STITCHING = When it’s done well oe the results can be breathtaking, but getting a satisfactory result isn’t as easy as it looks. Pa You can also use the evep tl to raighten ot any sight it in your youl ee that hare are Racine ra where he program The finished result shoud look something has had to warp the pictures to carest he ths, complete, passbty quite along wale for this type of ahot Hook a fot attri smauter andlor very you ust crop these offi COLOUR REPLACEMENT Colour Replacement Swapping one colour for another an irtceeten wormtcn on ctart Yin tr ag Wane, FB iececioecs atest fre, Cckon ena as titer tl ea Nero eset an oon et Theale ol Speen tretosrance str, By hang own te Erty anc ene ones bru ys wien yoscan Selecting are ares of he tel ios ia a war alcl pad Ral serecoburisnecttiseter | pact ie CZ tou at coed . : age vendo’ ‘step, and try again more carefully, possibly. actualy usc, so wousetasastetng | S60. sn sy sggnmore corey es oi are, With erence seg of pesca 20 t should be abla to pick out the car Dbodhwork without too much rouble. ‘hen youve races he it FBR Aaah hot down the Shit ayo of what you con wells [EEE scctmor areas to you selection ting tho Magic Wend oo, youcan fish | you need to remove any are from yoir seeccn usng the Poygora Lasso | tno colton cut as door nanos tool By sting te Father 9 er you or tre rumber soa, you can subtract can preuce& sarees selection, by hotdng down th At Keyan gong ‘ternal, uso te Selection Bust too, around them wth the Less 6B PoIreCrsme sons | Arm EienCOLOUR REPLACEMENT apy though there are sovera ters (ELS) we could we at his port, the ‘most versatle way to change the colour ofthe selected area is the Hus/Saturator’ Lightness option. This is comren to most ° the Enhance man [Rp When youve eaocted altha bits £5} youven to repaint, you can save {he selection for later use, to save you dong al that work agar f you change yourrin, RRS To ronlace tho colour but leave LE24 re shade ntact, check the Colorze box Your se that he Hue ‘nd Saturetion sliders mave to new postions automaticaly, Leave the Lightness ser in the middie position to preserve the reflections ofthe gloss paintwork, and experiment moving the Seturatin and Hue sliders around. You ‘can produce sublle colour changes with low saturation satings, or say to hell with subtiely and go for broke with ful saturation, ‘xing programs. ln Elements you'r itn JR] When you're hapny wath tho (EEE) rest, or when your eyes start ‘Bleeding, you can clear the selection by sing the keyboard shortcut GmasD, {and then save the rest. When you save tho na image as a PSD fa in Photoshop or Bens, the selections I are saved as wal, embedded in te fe Proedtrate Pocasotirs 69PS SOFT FOCUS Soft Focus Technique Adding a soft focus effect gives your portraits a romantic feel otis an et sd pancvia cloclos hy comorid end edvtune propane peta trey eri ek eo Phcogerhrnetea Phot te fat cre carer ay dtl cere vow rede wie ae ‘fect econ pce ‘Srermnten Poca w car wyGasan rod 70. eovreCrtrasone | te EenThe trot tep ie totum ne picture KEL, into so identical layers, To do. this, 90 tothe Layer men, and salact Duplicate Layer Don't wemy atout nasring Ins layer ie the only one were golng to make. JE he Levers pate, set tne Kelad transparency of ne ured layer to aroun 65 peroant. Thi iets the ai-sharp lewor yr fo show through, mitigating the orfecs of ho Gaussian bu | ey Stier tor ie See: neo ten re 0 that everyting outside the ol ps is selected MEZA setctin SOFT FOCUS Jip We con't ned very much By Next. got the Fiter men, [EE iring 10 protice the sot-focus [23 move coun o Bur, ane sal Gatssien Bir Ths sa special type of blaring that can be ecustes to prosuae cartain atts. fect, so fr a typical-sized portrait shot sat aragius of 2 pixels, You may need sighty move for very large images, but Koop it subte FRG) We can further erhanca tha IEE romantc icok ofthe picture by adding an aiptical vgnota of futher blaring aroun tho aubject. Tie & a tctnique that port photographers PRPS Crag an elipical marquee selection NSAE) arcuna the porratt subjact. This may ‘ake 8 fow tiesto gat righ, so use GmaiD to de-select Ifyou get It wrong. WT youre happy with t, go to the Solact menu land dick on Feather. Sat a radius ofa 15-20 poets have been using almost since te Invention of photograchy. Fist, select the Eliptioal Marquee too ? ssi bl ter to he selection, ging # a much Bid bigger rats tren before: around 25 pecs shoud do the jo. Now you can cop and fatten yournenly marized porta nfer adsl au re eet aol yout digital camera Ayana Cee) Te ead photography was developing your own Cotto ey Cee Ce eee Cee a CeCe ae es et ee eee ae called Raw mode, and you'll be glad you did. Raw mode offers several advantages, including better colour De at ee ee Cee ec eae) er ee ee ee ee eae ect ee ey pe = Tae ete pete earsOO unas) | De ee?RAW PROCESSING Processing Raw Files To get the best possible image quality, always shoot in Raw mode 74 wortecrose I digital SLRS and Compact System Cameras, and most ofthe bettor compact camoras, have a shooting option called Raw ‘mode. You'll usually find it in the menu as an option under imago ualty. Raw mode offers greatly improved image quality over the uaual JPEG image fie format, and is recommended for all serious What is Raw Mode? aw mode's @ specie image recording option hats evaable on digital SLRS, Coreact Sytem Camas, and other hig ality ital carers. I your camera nas this option, you have acoess fo much highes mage quality then the standard JPEG to erat Fra the reme. Forsome reason Rew is often wrtten a8 RAW, although ncbioy see to now wry. tiger an acrory, se i dest eed to be writon capitals ko that. Woluse the tons jo. photographers. Lets take a claser ook at Raw mode, find out how it ‘works and see how it ean help you produce better photographs. RaW Output ‘more sonsile “Pa” or this eri, ential, Raw med is just what it sound iss she ra data prety much staight rom the cameras sensor. Ina dg camera the photographic imeae i, a3 ' sure ‘you're aware, captures by an dectenic ‘mage sensor. This sanaer has milons of ty photocails that prociuce a charge ‘when they ae exposed to ight the bgt the tah, the higher the charae, Digi comer sensors don record the colour of he Ht ting hem, jst tho brightness, so agpocia mosaic of ure ters laced in ent tho sane, called 2 Bayer ito. Natu, the mage generat by the sensor arc ter woul ake ‘much sense to the unakied eve, 50 ‘he signal fom the sensor f the cameras image pt ‘combination of computer a ard software wtih tums the lerchtness data tom the sensor ‘ackusted forthe colours in the Baver fier, nto afl colour cigtl nage hat yous can yea and pit Part ofthat procassineludosRAW PROCESSING reducing the bi-decth i villbe round 25M8, ver tree mes (the arountof is ands used by 8 computer the shot has been taken, end fy the sve to describe each pe, usualy ftom 38-bit (12 change tha you can do 90 as long as you Many of te mere bis por channel or even 48-bit |B bis per Fane the orginal Raw abity chanel to 24-68 @ bts por chan which 0 dowrsie to Ra nas smut q ackartage oft maxes a smal and ro fle, but oses some colour dk they take a tongs the arler palette nal course thatthe saved thes are much lrg, $0 versatity and ave to the memory ually of la, but takes up even mare space can be represented ar ed you cant ewer of them on here. en your mernory rd, Fortunately the rie of by hat mary bits, Other adjustments tothe Fora hyical 1@MP DSLR, very large memory cards aling almost ur ealanee, suchas unusual white balance hgh qually JPEG daly, so his nocd bo much ofa settings, 208 qualy 2 wil fle wil be around problem. heavy naisa reduction. MB, white lncxder to seve space on the memory rd, produce taster transfers anes make t cease to display and print he photograph on ‘a computer, tho mage fs usualy converted to ‘a compressed JPEG fle, Unfortunately JPEG ‘compression also recuces the mage quality, ‘andl cen invaduoa antetaets nto some areas 0 thoimege The main acvantage ‘pert fom the impcovement n overt rage {uty is thet tbypassea the in-camera image acessing auch as wee balance, satraion, sharpness io, Tis sounds lagia, butts ne roaly. Tho processing tat takas poco in te Faw shooting, trvetiocns he rages tet oomered See to 2 JPEG file. By shooting in Raw mode, yo. oo 7~ RAW PROCESSING Adobe Camera Raw Interface Adobe Camera Raw isn't as difficult as it looks hotoshop comes with Adobe Camera Raw. widely regarded Camera Raw isa very complex piace of software, but thanks as the best Raw flle processing software currently avalable. to a well-designed interface that breaks cown the processing Itoffers a wie range of processing options that enable you ‘workllow into easily managed sections i's not al that dificult to get the best out of your photographs, including exposure 10 use. Like the eat of Photoshop, i's eaay to get started, but, adjustment, sharpening, noise reduction, colour correction and mastering the subtleties ofits more advanced options takes time ‘automatic correction for lens distortion. Its regulary updated and practice. Le’s take a look at the interface and see what it to maintain compatiblity with all the latest cameras and lenses. has to oer. f Toolbar ——————0 /¥ ORAL SO 76 woIrecrmose Ths hala al the main selectable eo, most of which are similar to toelsin tho main Photoshop interlace, nud Zoom, Hand, Cro, Sraighten, Spot Removal. Rad Eye Removal, ancia eny-acden feature hal can asd ‘graduate 9 your plu, Control Palette “Tiss the mein dog pt, which contans ne corols foreach ot section Mest oft conto oe sce, rid you oan 30 the esuts ofeach ajusment ner on ‘hahstegram adn the main nage vindon Image Window “Tis i ha main wince dealing thofmage youre cent working en. fl changes thal you rake ding Faw ading wll de vebiohere. You ‘can 220m int the ago using the imagniton coir atte ote fet or us the usual CTL + and CTRL shorcus. You can s9e what fe! ur ing Pas had by checking nd unchecking the prev opton at the topriht Output Options ‘Ano betta of tha sree you rd the controls for when you've ished ‘your ext. yeu cick onthe ble Ink youlisee a angect cutout options, since Adsbe Camera Rew can process your pice na ange of sizes, You ‘can so save your eats back no the == Faw tle to kop ther for ater.RAW PROCESSING PS | Histogram The Hisiogram shows you the nub of pls ofeach tone m your maga inreel tre, anc oranges as you end coeur catence fagustments, The graph represents the ‘odour in cigtl torn, with ves fram 0 10-255, wih the darkest on the lft ana The white ‘area presents the combed oaks tut you can also lock at each colour Cheninal india Control Tabs Information ‘Camera Raw breaks the workflow Palette coum ino dcr sactons, e201 ‘ith ts own tabbed pete. and {eu can avtch between hem by cerg her, The abs ee, fom lt ori bats, Tone Oe, Data, HSLreyscae, Spl Torna, Lens Corecton tots, Camera Calbatn, Presets an Soeesots Tholet side of is pane! shows the AGE cosion. Tho larger gl edo of the area csolays te exposure information forthe image, intuaing the apertre, shutter speed, SO altng and focal rath of 42en eee ao eth Sat 2 Boars) (Lene) (ene Propedtratemacacetirs 77RAW PROCESSING Adobe Camera Raw Workflow Getting the most out of your Raw files { you ask any five professional photographers about tho process thoy uso to create their pictures, you'll cet ten diferent answars. The amount of processing and adjustment used wil very, depending on the job at hand and the type of final image required, as well as the type of camera used to take the photo and the Hy ok te nstoram at ho top rant the right ight ond of tho graph rol compared tthe pea onthe ely ho raph shoud ihe sa between the lgtest an darkest 0 of he range, 80 wo noe sight Boost Wit hoki down tha Aka (Option on Ma, EA rota xposra scr toh ih With kay tld, ayou' ee lb the over-oniooed areas Youn do ths wih any of the frst sk siders, and i's {906d way 1 meke estmarts ws going to fa ‘ao bat — [ex — f a Ef kz: clipping warn ; 78 woMteCrsmSee | oe Use to which the photo will be put. However there are certain operations that willbe commen to most photos that youTl want to process, so we'll take a look at a ‘common general purpose workflow that will be aultable for most types of photo. We'll be using a landscape photo of Dartmoor shot with a Canon SDMI2. lighter end of the graph without causing overexposure n't fos too much deta to hight ciaping, cick onthe arrow inthe top ight corner ofthe stogram window. Ths tums on the highight clpping warming. Any ever‘exposed ereas wl tum bright red in the imaige widow. Cicking on the lft button tus on the shadow oliping wearing, To ensine that wo Sooo OF Haaecan spend. tile atl afusting the vyerous siders by hand to ty and equslea the hatogam, but th quickest way to get close to the cptinur sult to let Carnara Ravi do tha hard work, I you ‘lk on Auto te eofvare wl jus the mage to produce a geod apprenimation to 8 periocl exposure, I's prcbatty nat gorg to be ideal, butt ‘ve us a good staring port ‘You'intic that the sun on th horiaen ane the louse around it ‘are overexposed, bt that’s OK ‘wee locking for ago tones, and that includes white, read ot RAW PROCESSING & ee “Tho Auto adjusimant has mace a good job ofthis partlcular picture, but for landscape shot a ite bt of tata saturation usualy looks ge 50 well boost the saturation sider by +16 to gat the colour the ‘Adobe Camera Rae ] aco previios a second mathe of adustng contas by aterng the tone cure. Although t's ro more accurate than using the slidera many poopie wil proto itbecauso it's ice and simple and gives 8 good visual representation cf what we@ doing, I's also harder to bum out the highights using curves. By boosting tha hghights a and then boosting te other scars In decreasing amounts we can quick equalse the Fistogram without leing 100 ‘much quaityoTS = RAW PROCESSING One of te best thinge about Adabe Camera Faw i ts lens corection fgatue. The Canon EF 16-35mm 2.8L series lens Used! to take this. picture isan awesame bit of aless, but is not perfec. Although i's hard to see ata glance, this ‘wide-angle shat does suite ram seme pincushion distortion and slight chromatic aberration. Fortunataly ‘Camera Ravi comes preloaded with comtection profes fora huge Ist of pocular lenses, including this ‘one, All you need to do to automatically correct the ‘oplica dstorton caused by the lens is fo check the box Enabla Lens Profle Corrections. You sea the ‘change happen immodiatey. B_The next step i argaly amatter of personel i t2si0, but you can also choose to use a ‘camera role for the colow calbration oo. In the ‘Camara Calraton tab, ole on tha Camera Protie button, and from the drop-down ment sdct Carnera Standard, This sos the colow rendering profi to the embedded profie recorded by the camera, The Pentax K-7 does produce some realy nice bright ‘coi0us, 80 for this shot we'l use the camera prc BO. eoMeCamSore | vai en FRR] The chromatic aboration i just as easy tof BAA ick on the Color tab in the Lens Correction paltte and simply check the box Remove Chromatic ‘Aberration. Yeu need 10 209m in jt near the edge lhe are to see the diferance, but you'l notice the etlacts at once, Proce: (2812 ures)Fally we have the outout options. Comer Faw, gives you the option to output the processed image in a number of ciferent ways, but which ene you uso will depond on what you want (0 do withthe fnishod image. For most purposes the etait settings wil be ideal, but you may read to selact a diferent colour space, an for rmavimum colour ily you can out arma, You Gan alco choose an image size diferent rom tha native resohiton of your camera, but bo aware that choosing a larger sizo doesn't magicaty create naw pina: the image vl be enlarged using Photashop's bicubic resampling algo. # you'r planning to print the ‘ook atthe sharpening options, When you's happy with your choice, cick OK, and the Oo Irvage. The plcture wil now oan in Phtosher ‘ror where you can either carry cut more editing ‘or ave ha plotura in JPEG or TE tornat tre you might also want RAW PROCESSING For this particular image, the sky is a bi lighter than it needs to be, but we can easly darten it down a bt y acing a high quality Iter in Camera Ra. Click on the Graduated Flr bution at tha 19p ofthe screen, and youl ee the fitar contol palette appr. Set the ‘exposure slicer to about -1.5 er -2, then in te image window drag down from the top ofthe plete to st alow the horizon tne to apply the iter. I you Nala down the sit key wile cragging il stay paral wth tho top ofthe fame. rato Proacome BiCI Dau % ela oe 7, Photo Editing Project Are you ready to tackle some more complex projects? CRC ea eee en) Scent racy larger and more complox projects. The tutorials on tho folowing pages use De eee ac Ce eee crc Ce ae ee eee) Pte Ne eee ee ee ee ec Ce een ee keeContents Perea saictad PM isi tad Pea icag PR Cntr) OR ccnictas Caer Ty Pa acu SCOR m cnr) OME ecc itt pong nests Pearcy Cees| eu aay “il ch — Cre The Glass Text Effect Prat adTEXT EFFE PS | ad up a sutable make i quite a sing hava an 1. 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