Week 6: Digital Photography and Adobe Elements

Joel Kinison

“It can be a trap of the photographer to think that his or her best pictures were the ones that were hardest to get. – Timothy Allen - On editing photos

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Modifying Digital Images

Digital Darkroom – enhancing images for print

Contrast, brightness, sharpness & color balance

Cropping, cloning & compositing Filters for creative effects Touch ups and coloring

Cropping &ScalingFix Scratches

w/Cloning

Add Contrast

ExpandTonal Range

ImproveSharpness

Photo Editing Software Commercial Standards Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photo

Elements, Corel Paint Shop Pro, Ulead PhotoImpact

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Photoshop Elements and Photoshop CS4 Comparison PS Elements and PS CS4 Comparison

Adobe LightroomIt is not a file browser like Adobe Bridge, but rather an

image management application database which helps in viewing, editing, and managing digital photos

Ver. 2$299

$99Academic

Adobe Photoshop Elements Easy to organize, edit, create and share

photos with others Editing power of Photoshop software Option to sign-up for one year of

membership on Photoshop.com(membership provides 20GB of storage - enough for 15,000 photos)

New Scene Cleaner: (brush away unwanted subjects, such as tourists in a vacation shot).

$99 0r $149

Commercial$649Upgrade from $199

Educational Price$298.95 Retail Price: $999.00 Educational Savings: 70%

http://www.educational-software.com

Purchasing

Photoshop Elements 6.0 $64

The 8 Basic Steps of Image EditingStep 1: RotateStep 2: CropStep 3: Fix Scratches & Dust using the Clone ToolStep 4: Expand the Tonal Range using LevelsStep 5: Add Contrast using CurvesStep 6: Adjust Color using LevelsStep 7: Improve Sharpness using Unsharp MaskStep 8: Compare