My friend, Christina, has a blog called Momology (http://momology.blogspot.com/). She recently had a post on how she typically processes her photographs. (http://momology.blogspot.com/2008/05/my-standard-processing.html)
Since I’m trying to learn as much as I can about PhotoShop Elements, I’m going to follow her steps with the following photograph of my dog Molly.
That picture is SOOC. Isn’t she cute with her little underbite?
So.. step one is get the picture in PSE. Check. (I’m using PSE 6 if anyone cares)
Then, create a duplicate layer and run the auto adjustments to see if I like what PSE gives me. Check.
Well… I’ll be! I did it with Levels, Contrast and Color Correction. I liked what Levels and Contrast gave me but the color correction was all wrong. So, I hit the handy undo button for that last step and this is what we got!
Hmmm. I think I could stop there. But she had more suggestions to give so I’m going to keep going.
Next step… unsharpen. She gave me a new way to try… so here we go. This is what I got next.
After this, she says she rotates and crops. Don’t want to do that to this picture so then we are off to do the P Dub trick I learned the other day … make it pop with soft light mode and screen mode.
Here you have it.
Now, last but not least… vignette. I’ve never tried this before and I don’t know if I’ll like it on this particular photo – but hey, I’m all for practice!
Interesting… who knew that you had to right click on the sponge tool to get the dodge and burn tools to show up?! I didn’t. Can you see how very much I needed this tutorial?!
Here is the final product after following Christina’s steps.
Before
After.
Good to know!
