Photoshop Basics, Part 2

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Photoshop Basics, Part 2

• Topics to be covered
• Photo enhancement retouching
• Creating font images

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Practice Images

• Go to http//www.washburn.edu/cas/history/stucke
  r/pspworkshopimages.html
• For each of the following images, select it,
  right click, then click Save Picture As / Save
  Image As
• Coyotes
• Faded Color Photo
• Red Eyes
• Baby Jordan
• BW Stained Photo
• Tucker photo

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Photo Enhancement 1 Brightening Dark Photo
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Brightening Coyotes 1st thing to try

• Open Coyotedemo1.jpg file
• Click Image Mode RGB Color
• Click Image Adjustments Auto Contrasts
  sometimes result is good, sometimes not. If good,
  keep it if not, click Edit Undo
• In this case, result should be some improvement,
  but still pretty dark

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Brightening Coyotes 2nd thing to try

• Click Image Adjustments Curves
• Make sure Channel is set on RGB
• Click on Curve line towards bottom if too dark,
  towards top if too dark
• Move line up to lighten, down to darken

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Brightening Coyotes Fine Tuning

• Click on Image Adjustments Brightness/Contrast
  
• Move Contrast slider right, to increase contrast
  until images sharpens

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Strengthening a Light Color Photo
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Color Photo Enhancement 1

• Open photo
• Click Image Mode RGB color to check photo is
  not on index
• Click Image Adjustments Auto Color dont
  keep changes, so click Edit Undo
• Click Image Adjustments Auto Contrast do
  keep changes

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Color Photo Enhancements 2

• Click Image Adjustments Curves
• Try moving Curves lines as shown at left
• Click OK if result looks good

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Color Photo Crop

• Click Marquee Tool
• Select all of photo except white right edge
  curved bottom corners
• Click Image Crop

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Removing Red Eye

• Open redeyesexample.jpb
• Choose Magic Wand tool, then select red portions
  of pupils, leaving highlight unselected
• Use Eyedropper tool to sample outside gray color
  of pupils that color should become foreground
  color
• Choose Brush tool, then on Option Toolbar, set
  opacity at about 70, and brush size somewhat
  smaller than selected pupil
• Paint over red until it is almost all gone, but
  not too uniform
• Click Select Deselect
• With Brush tool set to 1 to 3 pixels, color any
  remaining red fragments

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Red Eye Further Enhancements

• Select the Burn tool, which is hidden under the
  Dodge tool (7 down on right side of tool box)
• On Tool Option Bar, set brush at about 2 pixels,
  range at midtones, and opacity low (c. 10)
• Try running burn tool over eyelid where new pupil
  edge meets, perhaps around eye ring where edge of
  red eye was
• Select Dodge tool, try using it to slightly
  whiten white of eye