Adobe Photoshop is a graphic and picture editing tool. It enables the user to alter, manipulate and create images either from existing photos or found images. Different tools create different actions.
The basic tools : The Crop tool enables you to decrease the image down, only leaving the desired information and size. The text tool alows you to type. You can create a gradient, warp, drop shadow to the text, as well as placing an image in the text itself or changing the color. The zoom tool alows you to tempoarily get closer to the image to get more of an attention to detail. The clone tool alows you to gather imformation from around the similar area,suchas different colors and tones, and lets you move it.
By fixing and inhancing photos, you can do a many number different ellements , such as; contrasting, sharpening, touches up spot, wrinkles and scatches. You can darken or lighten pictures with the dodge and burn tool. You can remove a color cast with Auto Color. You can also fix any red eye and create a photo frame.
Wednesday 29 September 2010
Wednesday 22 September 2010
basic skills camera work and composition
Composition:
Photography brings a visual language that is universal in understanding. We must then understand its vocabulary which consists of shapes, textures, patterns, lines, colours, shade of light to dark and sharp to blurry images. Just as we must learn to arrange words in a coherent order in order to make sense when we write or speak, so too must we put visual elements together in an organized manner if our photographs are to convey their meaning clearly and vividly.
Composition means arrangement: the orderly putting together of parts to make a unified whole; composition through a personal, intuitive act. However, there are basic principles that govern the way visual elements behave and interact when you combine them inside the four borders of a photograph. Once we have sharpened our vision and grasped these basic ideas of principles, then we will have the potential for making our photographs more exciting and effective than ever before.
Rule of thirds
if you have a relitively still image, you should visulize a diagram of the horizontal and vertical lines used to create the game'knots and crosses' . The important ellement of the image should be centerly places. By aligning the subject in this equal way, you are making the image more intense and not sloppy, which makes the composition better.
Photography brings a visual language that is universal in understanding. We must then understand its vocabulary which consists of shapes, textures, patterns, lines, colours, shade of light to dark and sharp to blurry images. Just as we must learn to arrange words in a coherent order in order to make sense when we write or speak, so too must we put visual elements together in an organized manner if our photographs are to convey their meaning clearly and vividly.
Composition means arrangement: the orderly putting together of parts to make a unified whole; composition through a personal, intuitive act. However, there are basic principles that govern the way visual elements behave and interact when you combine them inside the four borders of a photograph. Once we have sharpened our vision and grasped these basic ideas of principles, then we will have the potential for making our photographs more exciting and effective than ever before.
Rule of thirds
if you have a relitively still image, you should visulize a diagram of the horizontal and vertical lines used to create the game'knots and crosses' . The important ellement of the image should be centerly places. By aligning the subject in this equal way, you are making the image more intense and not sloppy, which makes the composition better.
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