Photoshop Workshop 3

Levels and Brightness and Contrast.

One way to change the contrast of an image is to go onto 'Image - Adjustments - Levels'

When you click that this box will pop up, on here you can either go onto 'presets' and pick from there or you can move the 3 arrows under the graph, for the best results it is better to keep the the 2 outer arrows at the edge of the where the black on the graph starts and have the middle arrow in the middle.

Layering.

To layer two images start by opening two images in separate windows 

From here click the 'move tool' then click one of the images and move it over to the other window

you will need to resize the image to however you want it to look.
Once you have sized it you can change the Opacity in the layers box in the bottom corner

 the blends the two images.

Liquifying.
Liquify is a tool used by fashion photographers to improve the models, maybe it's shallow but the world is shallow, models need to look better than possible.
Josh is not a model so I have a big task on my hands!

To start I click 'filter - Liquify'

On here I can change the image, when done quickly it looks very bad, like mine, when done professionally it can look great and unnoticeable.

Clone Tool.

The clone tool is used to clean up blemishes such as spots, it can also be used to clean up the background of a photo.

All better.

artist comparison

I will be comparing my Image to the photographer Chris Hill-Scott
Here is one of his photos

Here is my image

Both me and Chris used a sequence of photos to capture an action, obviously Chris's image has more photos within it so the action is clearer and if I were to do a photo like this again I would make sure I had at least five photos as a minimum.
Another type of sports sequential photo I would like to try is this

This photo was also taken by Chris Hill-Scott. I would love to be able to do an image like this but before I could do something of this scale I will need to research the technique. I expect it would require a lot of patient and time.

Photoshop workshop 2

Today we have looked at organizing and presenting images sequentially, we used the photos we took last week. Firstly we opened up a new file in photoshop

I then changed the page to landscape

Once I was happy with the page size I opened up the images I wanted to use on the page

They opened on a separate tab, from there I just dragged and dropped the images onto my empty page

When they were on the empty page they were bigger than I wanted, to fix this I clicked the move tool

I then clicked the corner whilst holding the shift key, that way it wouldn't move into a shape I wouldn't want. Once the three images were close to being the same size I opened up the grid so I could line up and check to see if the images were exactly the same size

After some time getting the sizes right

Once I was happy with how it looked on the page I looked at adding a border, to do this I clicked on edit on the top bar and went down to stroke

clicking on stroke brings up this menu

on here I could change the width and color of the border, I didn't like the border though so to delete it I went to the history bar at the side

 and deleted the border from here.
I then wanted to change the color of the background, to do this I click on the background layer, so that I didn't paint any of my pictures, then I clicked paint bucket tool

from there I could select the color I wanted for the background.
Here is the finished image

Contact sheet

This is the contact sheet from last week

Photoshop workshop 1

To change the name of the file click 'Save As' and on file name type a new name.

To format the image (file type) whilst in 'Save As' click on format and change the file type.

There are three main types of file types:
JPEG, this file is smallest file type, it takes up little memory, this makes it ideal for test prints and experimental images.
TIFF, this is the biggest file type, it doesn't compress the image at all, this is the ideal file type for big prints and image quality .
PHOTOSHOP, this is a large file type, it's ideal for photoshop.










To change the image size go to the top bar and click 'Image' then click 'Image size'.

On 'Image size' you can change the many aspects of image size such as pixel dimensions and document size.
You can change the resolution to improve printing.
72-150= Good printing
300= Best printing

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