1. Photoshop Basics, Part 2 Topics to be covered Photo enhancement & retouching Creating font images

2. Practice Images  Go to http://www.washburn.edu/cas/history/stucker/pspworkshopimages.html http://www.washburn.edu/cas/history/stucker/pspworkshopimages.html  For each of the following images, select it, right click, then click Save Picture As / Save Image As Coyotes Faded Color Photo Red Eyes Baby Jordan B&W Stained Photo Tucker photo

3. Photo Enhancement # 1 Brightening Dark Photo

4. Brightening Coyotes: 1 st thing to try  Open Coyotedemo1.jpg file  Click Image > Mode > RGB Color  Click Image > Adjustments > Auto Contrasts – sometimes result is good, sometimes not. If good, keep it; if not, click Edit > Undo  In this case, result should be some improvement, but still pretty dark

5. Brightening Coyotes: 2 nd thing to try  Click Image > Adjustments > Curves  Make sure Channel is set on RGB  Click on Curve line towards bottom if too dark, towards top if too dark  Move line up to lighten, down to darken

6. Brightening Coyotes – Fine Tuning  Click on Image > Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast  Move Contrast slider right, to increase contrast until images sharpens

7. Strengthening a Light Color Photo

8. Color Photo Enhancement #1  Open photo  Click Image > Mode > RGB color to check photo is not on index  Click Image > Adjustments > Auto Color; don’t keep changes, so click Edit > Undo  Click Image > Adjustments > Auto Contrast; do keep changes

9. Color Photo Enhancements #2  Click Image > Adjustments > Curves  Try moving Curves lines as shown at left  Click OK if result looks good

10. Color Photo Crop  Click Marquee Tool  Select all of photo except white right edge & curved bottom corners  Click Image > Crop

11. Removing Red Eye  Open redeyesexample.jpb  Choose Magic Wand tool, then select red portions of pupils, leaving highlight unselected  Use Eyedropper tool to sample outside gray color of pupils – that color should become foreground color  Choose Brush tool, then on Option Toolbar, set opacity at about 70%, and brush size somewhat smaller than selected pupil  Paint over red until it is almost all gone, but not too uniform  Click Select > Deselect  With Brush tool set to 1 to 3 pixels, color any remaining red fragments

12. Red Eye Further Enhancements  Select the Burn tool, which is hidden under the Dodge tool (7 down on right side of tool box)  On Tool Option Bar, set brush at about 2 pixels, range at midtones, and opacity low (c. 10%)  Try running burn tool over eyelid where new pupil edge meets, perhaps around eye ring where edge of red eye was  Select Dodge tool, try using it to slightly whiten white of eye