Creating memorable moments with your digital photos - Part two of Three.
Now that you’ve taken your photos, its time to edit your photos in your digital darkroom. First view your photos and decide which ones you will be using. One thing to consider when choosing your photos is what you want to portray in your final scrapbook project.
First do an auto adjustment, if it’s still not quite right these are some of the things that you will want to manually adjust. Not all the adjustments will be necessary and once you like the adjustments you’ve made the photo is ready. Save it under a different file name so that you have the original photo for further editing.
• Color Balance – this is where you want to bring out the highlights, shadows, and midtones. Select you image adjustments and color balance filter, start with the highlights and make sure that preview is selected.
• Hue and Saturation – This is where you will adjust the hue, saturation, and lightness of the image. With the Hue you can actually change the base color in your image. Increasing the saturation of the colors will make them pop more. Be careful not to over saturate your colors, you will want your subjects natural. The lightness will help you correct any over or under exposure.
• Exposure – if the photo is over or under exposed you will want to adjust to correct this.
• Shadow and Highlights – This will also help if you think the photo is under or over exposed.
Tomorrow I will talk about how to turn these photos into a printable scrapbook or digital album.
References:
HP.com
webphotoschool.com
Day at the Beach
Camera Olympus E-500, lens 14-45mm, UV and Polarizer filter
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