Everyone wants to look good, but sometimes the camera doesn’t capture you the way you really are (right? *wink*).
Don’t you want your photos to look good, too? It doesn’t take very long!
Before Photoshop CS, the only option for retouching a photograph was to use the Clone Stamp tool. This is a difficult tool to learn to use because it duplicates pixels exactly, which can create a nasty pattern look if you’re not careful.
Hurrah for the Healing Brush! This is a huge leap in retouching for Photoshop. It works by copying an area of the canvas and blending it with the surrounding pixels’ color and texture, which eliminates the pattern effect that the clone stamp can have.
Levels is the way to start out color correcting your photographs in Photoshop, but sometimes it isn’t enough.
What do you do if your darks aren’t rich enough but the overall color is a little too bleak? What if the white balance is off?
There are many, many more options beyond levels to color correct photos.
You’ve take the perfect shot. You’re so excited to see what it looks like on a 21” monitor instead of your camera’s little 2” display.
You download the photo and pull it up. Ugh! It’s so dull! It’s nothing like the beautiful flower you took a picture of! What happened? How can you fix it?
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Hi, my name is LaurenMarie and welcome to Creative Curio, a place to learn, discuss and explore the realm of graphic design. You can learn more about me and Creative Curio on the About page.
