Retouching Photos
Touching up your photos
Before you begin touching up your photo, you should decide what size you want to print it and what programs you are going to use to do the job.
There are several tutorial sites out there that will help you learn how to do basic touch ups but the true techniques must be learned first hand using lots of practice.
There are the basic tools you will use:
l Clone tool: This is my favorite tool in any image editing program, basically it lets you copy an undamaged area of the photo over a damaged area - thus "healing the photo.
l Dodge and Burn tools: Dodge tool lighten up a specific part of an image. The Burn tool darkens a given part of an image.
l Backlight tool: Allows you to adjust the light in the foreground of a photo. This usually helps with photos where the subject is silhouetted because of bright background.
l Fill flash tool: Allows you to do just the opposite of the backlight tool. Brighten up the background of a photo with little impact to the foreground.
l Variations Filter: Allows you to do a quick check at the impact of several tools at once such as brightness, contrast and color correction. Very easy click to activate process.
l Levels: allows you to adjust the lightest point and darkest point of a photo thus changing the midtones and brightening or dulling the photo. Brining out the highlights and shadows often adds more dimension to the photo.
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