Chapter 2: Basic Photo Corrections
Chapter two is a cover of basic photo corrections. The chapter starts out with how to straighten a photo when it is crooked. To do this, draw a crop marquee vaguelly around the image then turn it until it lines up perfectly with the edges then click enter to select the chosen crop.
Our first assignment is to edit the photograph of the tulips in front of the statue. The Shadow/Highlights bar is one of the beginning edits.. this tool is fairly self explanatory. However, you can go into Levels to adjust shadows, middle gray and highlights. This is good for pinpointing one tone and adjusting it specifically.
The book suggests that you use Auto Color to get a more natural color, but from personal experience, I tend to dissagree with this and would rather adjust through other options over any auto adjustor.
The next edit was actually pretty helpful though: Replacing Colors in an Image. To do this you would draw a selection using the marquee tool around the color you want to change. For this photo we changed all the ywllow tulips. So, first you would select a yellow tulip then choose Image > Adjustments > Replace Color. Using the Eyedropper tool then use the Add to to sample other areas in addition to the first edit. It is good to drag the fuzziness slider up to 45 to increase the tolerance level slightly. As you move the saturation and hue bar you will eventually come to the red just like the other tulips in the background.
For the statue, a good suggestion would be to run over the figure with quick strokes using the dodge tool under the selection of highlights. To bring out colors, however, it is good to use the sponge tool under the saturate selection.
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