Lesson 3: Basic Photo Corrections
Original Image
Edited Image
Steps taken to correct image:
-Adjusted Temperature: Because of the yellow light in the kitchen the first thing I did was adjust the temperature towards blue. I also adjusted the tint ever so slightly towards purple.
-Set white balance: I started out adjusting the white balance by clicking on the grey scale in the picture, I then further tweaked it since there were certain areas that were still too bright.
-I then adjusted the black by dragging it until the white pyramid appeared and working back from there until the shadows looked okay to me. There were some shadows on my shirt and side of face that I kept true black as the book suggested.
-Adjusted exposure: Fixing the black and white balance took care of most of the exposure issues, but the image still needed to be slightly less exposed I adjusted it just a bit.
-Contrast: I increased the contrast of the whole image ever so slightly.
-Yellows and Blues: I used the targeted readjustment tool to fix the blue and yellow in the photo. In the original the walls looked much more yellow than they are in real life, so I lowered that, the blues were also too saturated so that was lowered slightly as well.
-Softening skin/sharpening: I wanted to soften my skin so I used the adjustment brush and lowered the clarity and increased the sharpness a bit. I used that to smooth out areas of my skin.
-Whitening eyes: I selected new brush and increased the exposure of the whites of my eyes
-Contrast on iris: I then selected my iris and increased the contrast a lot and slightly increased the exposure.
Selective Color Image
Selective Color Image:
-I used the adjustment brush with the saturation turned to -100 to cover everything but the cup.
-As I got to the close edges I turned on auto mask with the saturation brush still turned to -100 and shrunk the brush size so I would not accidentally hit the mug
