I love editing my photographs. I sometimes I over- edit my photographs, I
like to use editing to make photographs more dramatic than real life. My favorite adjustment to make is to increase
the contrast. I tend to change the colors in pictures and sometimes I go
overboard which makes parts of the picture grainy. Then I have to reset the picture which is not
possible in Photoshop.
I remember using some
of the tools mentioned, like the lasso tool, in high school but I haven’t used
them since. I also used Photoshop and
can remember getting confused when I ended up with too many layers. I sometimes
forget to label all the layers and I end up with multiple copies of the same
layer. Then When I edit one it doesn’t appear because there is a layer on top
with the same information. Other times
there are layers underneath that can’t be seen in the finished picture, they
don’t affect how the picture looks but they make it more confusing when I am
trying to find the one layer I want to change. I appreciate that Photoshop has some tools
that Lightroom does not but I think that lightroom is easier to use. I would probably only use Photoshop when I
have a specific effect in mind that I knew was only in Photoshop. I would use Photoshop for compositing; I
think this can make some beautiful surreal photographs that can’t be taken in
real life. The Filters that can be added
in editing are interesting, some of them make a photograph look like a painting
(watercolor filter) or a carving (chrome filter). I used some of the filters before to make a
picture look like a colored pencil sketch.
The downside to the filters is that a lot of them lose background
information and others emphasize background information and distract from the
focus of the picture. Using Editing to
retouch old pictures is an interesting idea.
I have some old pictures with creases in the middle that could use some
editing and other pictures that faded from the sunlight. I don’t have digital copies so scanning them
into the computer and editing them would be a really good idea.
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