Photo editing

 Hi all! In this article we will learn how to adjust the brightness and contrast of images in Photoshop. Let's look at how to edit an image directly, as well as using adjustment layers. Directly decreasing/increasing the brightness and contrast Pros of this method. Quick editing of an image or layer. Great for amateur photo editing. Cons. If you have a complex, multi-layered project, this method is not recommended because once you apply the settings, you won't be able to change them. And in large and long projects, very often in the middle of the whole work it turns out that this or that photo is too bright or dull. We end up deleting it and uploading it again. Change contrast online We load into photoshop the image that needs to be edited. Next, we need to select "Brightness/Contrast": Brightness and Contrast settings window should open: Now we only have to edit the values by moving the sliders: Example of a ready-made banner Edit the brightness and contrast with the...

 Too dark or, conversely, too bright photos are quite common. When a photo is not that important, you can leave it unchanged. But in order to get exactly the result you want, it is often necessary to lighten or, on the contrary, to darken the photo. Let's see how this process is done in Photoshop. Darken Photos online We will work with the image below as an example. Photoshop has special tools of the same name that can be used to brighten or darken an image. Here's how to work with them: Select the desired tool on the sidebar (for example, "Lighten").Tools Lighten and Darken in Photoshop Expand on the top line of settings, where you choose the size, shape, and hardness (like for a normal brush). The other settings are rarely adjusted.Parameters of the Lighten tool in Photoshop Hold down the left mouse button and drag the mouse over the areas you want to lighten or darken. Then release the button and, if you want to get a more pronounced effect, repeat the action (as m...

 How to lighten a photo in Photoshop In this tutorial I will show you how to quickly lighten a shaded photo. I'll be working in Photoshop CC, but this tutorial is fully compatible with the CS6 version. Lighten photos online Today's digital cameras, smartphones, and other devices make taking pictures of family, friends, and anything else that pleases our eyes easy and effortless. As long as there is space on the memory card or internal memory of the device, nothing limits us, we will take as many photos as we need. But what to do if some photo doesn't turn out as well as we'd like. It might be darkened (underexposed) or too bright light (overexposed). If you're a professional Photoshop user, you know that you can fix this with Levels and Curves, which will allow you to make tonal corrections at the highest level. But if it's a photo taken just for fun, and you don't care how it should look through the eyes of a pro photographer. You just want it to look a lit...

 Sometimes the pictures you take don't turn out the way you thought they would. They may be too bright or too dark. To make photos more pleasing to the eye, sometimes, you need to use a graphics editing program, such as Adobe Photoshop, to change the brightness settings of the image. Using this kind of program, you can balance out lit photos and add brightness to dark photos. Change brightness online Open the Adobe Photoshop CS3 program. Go to the menu on the left side of the screen and click on "File." Click on "Open" and select the image file you want to work on. Click on the "Image" option at the top of the menu bar. Select "Image" - "Adjustments" and "Brightness and Contrast." Click on this option. A dialog box opens. Change the brightness of the image by moving the sliders in different directions. Moving the slider to the left will make the image darker, and moving it to the right will make it brighter. Set the desire...

 In the Photoshop Sharpness menu, you'll find four filters that I ignore: Image Stabilizer, Sharpness, Sharpness+ and Edge Sharpness. Let's see why. Sharpen images online Image Stabilization is a powerful filter with a very specific purpose: removing blur from camera shake. This topic can be dealt with in a separate lesson, but it has nothing to do with sharpening. In my opinion, however, to avoid camera shake, it is better to use a suitable shutter speed rather than relying on Photoshop. The Sharpness filter is the base filter for Sharpness+ and Edge Sharpness. All three of these outdated filters are not recommended by Adobe. They apply an amount of sharpness to the image that is set automatically. You have no control whatsoever. Sharpness applies a small amount, Sharpness+ is a little stronger, and Edge Sharpness focuses only on the edges, ignoring the rest of the image. These filters have no place in a good post-processing process. Now let's take a look at the filters th...

 Reading articles about Photoshop, I'm often surprised at how many writers complicate essentially simple processing tasks. Many "monumental" writers, like Dan Margulies, suffer from this as well. But he can forgive that - his task is to write about all the subtleties and nuances of the processing process, to consider it from all angles and sides. Although it is this peculiarity of the presentation of material in his books that repulses many readers. In fact, the roots of such methods of "sharpening in 40 actions" grow out of a very simple thing - the people who write these lessons have never worked with a large volume of photographs. That is, they usually have a couple of photos and are willing to kill an evening or two in processing them. But when you have regular orders and you have to process dozens of frames at each photo shoot, you start thinking about simpler and more convenient ways of processing. About them we will talk today. I will tell you about five ...

 It's best to replace unfortunate images rather than thinking about how to improve the quality of the photo in Photoshop. However, the designer doesn't always have that option. There are several tools in Photoshop that allow you to improve the quality. Enhance photos online Tools for sharpening in Photoshop In the Filter/Filter window, you can find a whole block called Sharpening. Of all the filters, the most popular is Smart Sharpen, which allows you to adjust several parameters: Effect/Amount is responsible for the strength of the effect. Radius/Radius increases the number of pixels affected. Reduce Noise helps to smooth the picture and get rid of some imperfections. When sharpening a photo in Photoshop, there is always the risk of overdoing it. To make your work more comfortable, we advise you to create a copy of the working layer and do all the manipulations with the duplicate. In the case of "over-sharpening", you can simply change the transparency of the whole l...