Photoshop Edits

The below screenshots show the processes of me using some of the tools available to use on Adobe Photoshop. These will help me when designing my music magazine as it allows me to get to grip with the basic tools so that i am familiar with the software.

Above are the before and after screen-shot of a very basic tool on Adobe Photoshop CS5. The tool is the crop tool and allows me to cut out and get rid of a part of an image that i do not want. 

 

These two screenshots show how I have adjusted a picture of a rugby team warming up by changing the 'curves' of the photo. This has allowed me to make the photo look more clear and of a higher quality due to the brightness increasing.

 These three screenshots above show how i have used the 'black and white' tool in order to make part of the photo black and white whilst keeping some of it in colour. To do so, i had to use the quick select tool and highlight the part of the picture that i wanted to keep in colour which was the mirror. I then selected the remaining parts of the image and changed that to black and white, whilst keeping the mirror which i had selected in colour.

 The above screenshots show how i have used the 'clone stamp' tool in order to get rid of part of an image which i do not want. As you can see, i wanted to get rid of all of the bottles except the 'Chilli beer'. To do this, i had to grab a part of the background (trees) to be blended in and simply go over the bottles that i do not want. This process requires a lot of time and patience in order to make the photo look as professional as possible.

These two screenshots show the before and after photos of me carrying out the 'spot heal' process. The spot healing tool is used to get rid of things such as spots on peoples' faces, or the spots on dalmatian dogs which i have done. In order to make the photo look as if it it has not been edited and that the spots weren't there, the spot healer needs to be the same size of the spot and then the user simply clicks over it to get rid of it. If this is not done correctly, it can be easy to tell that the photo has been altered with as there are rough patches to it.