Five Tips to Liven up your Digital Photographs
You already know how to resize, remove redeye and correct color, but those techniques barely scratch the surface of what a good photo or graphics editing software application can do.
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Adobe Photoshop Elements is highly recommended for the type of photo editing that scrapbookers want to do. It's an affordable variation of its big brother, Adobe Photoshop CS3, an industry standard program used by graphic designers. You can do all of the techniques on this page with Adobe Photoshop Elements -- and many more.
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Tip 1: The Instant Weight Loss Solution
How to take off pounds digitally
Refer to the Duck Photo shown below. In the Before photo, the duck has a significant pot belly. It is considerably smaller in the After picture.
Here's how to do it.
1. Open the photograph in your photo editing software
2. Make a duplicate layer and work on this new layer.
3.Using the Polygonal Selection Tool, select the part of the photo that you want to shrink.
4. With this area selected, go to Edit>Transform>Distort. Click Okay. A draggable box with handles appears around your selection.
5. Grab one of the handles and resize the selection. Click the Enter key when ready.
6. Using the Clone Tool, fill in the missing background areas.
And Bingo! There you are. Instant weight loss.
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Tip 2: Add Instant Spot Color
Create the dramatic look of a colorized black and white photo in minutes using your Adobe software. In the orca art exhibit photo, the "busy" background is converted to black and white, while the colorful statue appears in all its splendor.Here's how to do it;
1. Open your image in your photo editing software
2. Create a new layer using Layer>New Adjustment Layer>Hue/Saturation
3. When a window appears, slide the Saturation level down to 0. This removes the color from the entire photo.
4. Using the Eraser tool, erase the areas where you want the color to appear.
And that's all there is too it.
Tip 3: Digital Dentistry
Teeth looking a little yellow in the photograph? Whiten them instantly. Here's how:1. Open your photograph in your photo editing software.
2. Using the Polygonal Lasso Tool, select the teeth.
3. Image>Adjustments>Hue/Saturation. Select Yellow in the edit box. Desaturate the yellow slightly by dragging the marker to the left. Next, brighten the teeth by dragging the Lightness Marker to the right.
And there you have, whiter, brighter teeth without the use of chemical whiteners!
Tip: You can use this same technique to modify any area you want a color change.
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Tip 4: The Extreme Makeover
Embarrassed by a blemish or wrinkle on your skin, hair blowing in the breeze or a piece of spinach caught in your teeth?Use the Clone Tool to graft over it with a piece of "skin" that pleases you. First, select the Clone tool. Then Windows users, Alt-Click and Mac users Option-Click on the area of "good skin" you want to graft. Next, click on the blemish or other trouble spot. As you move your mouse, the area will fill with the color from the area you selected by Alt Clicking.
In the picture shown, the boy had painted teeth for Halloween. I Alt clicked on the bottom teeth, then grafted that color to the top teeth.
Often you can use this technique to remove any unwanted element in a picture.
Tip 5: Add Text Captions to the Photograph
As you can see from the photographs on the other tips, you can add textual information to a photo. Naturally, you can add as much or as little as you want. You can use the Eyedropper Tool to pick up a color from the photograph, and use that color for the text, or you can use Black or white or any color you choose. You can add an effect such as a drop shadow to the text, or you can stroke the layer to give a different color outline. Reader Feedback
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- colhill colhill Jan 31, 2009 @ 3:29 am
- Very nice. LOVE the instant weight-loss (pity it doesnt work when I look in the mirror).
I dont know whether you have encounted Picasa? It is a free offering from Google, and has some neat features (such as the red-eye removal and so on. I put the newest download link into my lens http://www.squidoo.com/GooglePicasa3 to make it easy to find. Picasa has excellent stirage / filing / indexing features, so could be useful for big collections such as thise used in scrapbooking.
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