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And here's my photo after editing...much brighter and more colorful, huh?
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The first step is to open the photo you want to edit and then create a background layer. You do this by simply clicking on the photo in the layers palette and dragging it to the layer square just above it. You can see the square highlighted in the screenshot below...
Next, we want to brighten up our photo...this one is a tad underexposed, so we'll use the screen layer to bring some light to the photo. Simply choose 'Screen' in the drop down menu of the layers palette.
You will see when you first click screen, your photo will look freaky bright and unnatural, so you'll want to adjust that a bit before we move onto the next step. To do that, just go to the opacity slider in the layers palette and slide it to the left...adjust this to suit your taste.
A small window will pop up and you'll see 3 sliders and a graph. These adjustments are made to my personal preference...I don't have a special formula or anything. Mostly, I just play with moving the sliders until I get the look I'm after. The majority of the time though, I move the middle and right sliders to the left a bit and the left slider to the right just a touch. Doing this will add some contrast to your photo, which will create that "pop" we're after. When you're finished, just hit 'OK' and we're ready to move onto the next step.
When the 'Unsharp Mask' window pops up, we'll make a few changes to the numbers and then we'll be all done. A good benchmark for sharpening photos of people is Amount: 75, Radius: 2 and Threshold: 3.
After you've entered those numbers, just click 'OK' and that's it! It seems like a lot at first, but I promise once you get used to it, you'll be doing it lickety split. :) Here's the before and after again...
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I hope you enjoyed the photo editing tip...if you try it out for yourself, be sure to share a link of your before and after here. Have a great rest of the weekend! :)
4 comments:
ENJOY YOUR WEEKEND TOO!
Thanks
I have PSE 3.0 too and have only used it a couple of times. Thanks for the tips! :)
Thank you so much! Your tutorial has taken my good photos to great!
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