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Photo Edit 101 Basic techniques for enhancing your scanned and digital camera images. By Dallas_TX Paginated View These are the basic steps in image enhancement. Almost every image you’ll see in print will have had these basic steps performed. Granted, some images have had many, many more modifications done, yet these steps will be paramount in the mix. And these steps are early in the batting-order. This is the ways the pros do it.
Page 1 : Inrtroduction First, lets take this picture as an example. Not bad, huh? Looks all right I guess? Well, let’s see what we can do with this image with a few basic steps, OK? Then we’ll see how much we like this unedited image.
Oh, yeah. These screen prints have been taken from Photoshop CS and CS2. There’s almost an identical tool in every photo-editing package. They all work the same way; so don’t be rattled if your photo editor is not from Adobe. The tools will still look almost the same too (I bet Adobe loves that). If you don’t yet have a photo editor, there are several free ones on the web, and I highly recommend you consider Adobe Photoshop Elements 3, as it is a fine, fine non-professional photo editor. All the Adobe photo editors are free for a 30-day trial at www.adobe.com Gee, that was boring, let's get started. Whadda say?
Page 2: Step one, set the Black and the White points… Here, we are going to explain to our computer what area of this image is BLACK and what area of this image is WHITE. You’ll notice your color improve greatly as we define these points. The color shift will lessen, the brightness of the image will be unveiled and friends will like you better. NOTE: All the stuff on this page only needs to be done ONCE. No, it's really true, we'll change a couple of settings and save them as our defaults. Open your levels dialog box by Image > Adjustments> Levels
Fig L1 (This might be very slightly different for non-Adobe editors) The dialog box should look like this, that is, without all my tacky arrows on it.
Fig L2 WE ARE NOT GOING TO MOVE THESE SLIDERS, as it’s not usually needed. Here’s how the big-boys do it: First, click the OPTIONS button (See Fig L2) and let’s tell the computer what we mean when we utter the word BLACK or the word WHITE. We’ll only need to do this step once. So, click the OPTIONS button as in Fig L3.:
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