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Editing pictures
As much fun as you had taking pictures, editing adds the little extra something that makes digital so cool.
To unleash your inner artist, use Adobe® Photoshop® Elements software. Anything’s possible. You can make a color photo look black and white. Remove red eye. Create greeting cards. Run a slide show. Stitch together a panorama photo. Or twist, twirl and liquify photos. You can even make a background for web pages and create web photo galleries.
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Here are some tips to get you started editing photos:
- Make a CD of the original photos. Yeah, this is an organizing task, but it is so important that we wanted to say it again.
- Only edit a copy of the photo. Never edit the digital negative or you’ll never be able to get the original photo back.
- Editing basics. No matter what you want the picture to look like, there are some basic steps you should take:
- Open a copy of the original.
- Crop the photo — find the best part of the picture and delete the extra parts that you don’t want by cropping.
- Adjust the tone — if it’s too dark, lighten it up. If it’s too light, you can make the photo darker.
- Balance color — are your reds really red? Are the greens the way you remember? Color balancing can make a photo really pop.
- Remove red eye.
- Resize the picture. If you’ve taken a photo in a high-res format, the picture is probably bigger than you want to print. Resize the photo and you can have the print size you want.
- Edit on the computer, not the camera. Unless it’s an emergency, never edit or delete photos in the camera.
- Edit in full view. It’s much easier to edit when you’re looking at a photo in its actual size (or 100% view). That way you’re sure to know the full effect the change makes on the picture.
- Adjust the picture’s contrast. Have you ever wondered why a photo you took of a sunset doesn’t have the same intense color you saw as you took the picture? It’s because even the best digital or film cameras can have trouble showing the full effect. In photography, contrast is the balance between dark and light. Adjust the contrast and tweak its brightness, and the picture comes to life.
- Remove color to enhance the photo. Color photos are great. There are times when a picture simply looks better in black and white. Adjust the photo’s brightness and contrast while it’s still in color and you’ll get an even better black and white picture.
- Remove red-eye. When you use a camera’s flash, especially in darkened rooms, red-eye can be hard to avoid. Use the red eye removal tool to make everyone’s eyes the color they were meant to be.
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