Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Converting Color Photo to Greyscale [Method 2]

  1. Open photo.
  2. On the Layers palette, click the create new Adjustment Layer> Channel Mixer.Click [OK]
  3. Tick the Monochrome check box.
  4. Adjust the Source Channel slider RGB to create the grey scale image.

Saturday, May 10, 2008

Converting Color Photo to Greyscale [Method 1]

  1. Open photo.
  2. Go to >Image>Mode>Lab Color.
  3. Go to Channels palette. Select Lightness channel.
  4. Go to Image>Mode>Greyscale.
  5. Click [OK] to discard the other channels.

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Drag and Drop Color Correction

  1. Open several photos at once with the same lighting characteristics.
  2. On the Layers Palette add an adjustment Layer by clicking on the Adjustment Layer icon.
  3. Choose Curves.
  4. Make the necessary adjustment on the shadows, midtones and highlights.
  5. Click [OK] to confirm the adjustments.
  6. Drag the Adjustment Layer to the other image to apply the same corrections.

Monday, May 5, 2008

Adjusting Flesh Tone

  1. Open photo.
  2. Press [L] to select the Lasso Tool.
  3. Select all the flesh tone area of the image.
  4. Go to Image>Adjustment>Hue/Saturation
  5. Select Red from the drop down menu of the dialog.
  6. Adjust Saturation slider.
  7. Click [OK] to confirm adjustment.

Sunday, May 4, 2008

Configuring Photoshop to AdobeRGB Color Space

  1. Go to Edit>Color Settings.
  2. From the Color Settings dialog. Choose North America Prepress 2 from the Settings drop down box. This will automatically select the color space to AdobeRGB.
  3. Click [OK].

Automatic Resizing and Saving

  1. Go to File> Scripts> Image Processor.
  2. Choose image folder for resizing.
  3. Enter values on the Image Processor dialog.

Adding a White Border Using the Crop Tool

  1. Open photo.
  2. Press [D] to set background default color of white.
  3. Press CTL [-] to zoom out.
  4. Press [F] to see the desktop gray area that surrounds the image.
  5. Press [C] to switch to the Cropping tool and drag out a cropping marquee border on the image.
  6. Drag out a side handle or corner point of the marquee border outside the image. The gray area that the cropping marquee selected outside the image will become the white canvas space.
  7. Press [ENTER] to crop.

Saturday, May 3, 2008

Straightening Skewed Photos

  1. Open photo.
  2. Choose the Measure tool on the Photoshop toolbox. Measure the crooked line to be straightened. Go to Image menu then select Rotate Canvas. Choose arbitrary.Rotate Canvas dialog will appear with the value already inputted with the necessary angle correction.
  3. Click [OK].
  4. Press [C] to select Crop tool and crop to remove the white space on the photo.

Automatic Straightening and Cropping of Scanned Photos

  1. Open scanned photo.
  2. Go to File>Automate>Crop and Straighten Photos.
  3. Photoshop will find straight edges on your photos and automatically crop and straighten the photos and copy each into its own separate window.

Rule of Third Cropping

  1. Edit>Preference>Guides, Grid & Slices >Grid enter 33.3 in Gridline Every Field
  2. Then choose percent on from the pop up menu on the right, change the default setting from 4 to 1.
  3. Click [OK].
  4. View>Show> Grid.
  5. Return to your Image.
  6. Press V to switch to MOVE tool then position the image on your desired location.
  7. Crop image.