First, open Bridge. If you have Photoshop, you have Bridge. Open the picture. Press command (if you have a mac) then R to open in Raw.
I'll start with one of my daughter, Lylah.
Here she is, on Easter. This was taken in RAW. She is about to fall asleep on her Great-grandma's lap at the Easter Egg hunt. She is great grand kid #20!
So this is a great picture, Right? Right? Well, we can make it so much better. Here's how.
1. Command and then R. Click the dropper at the top. Find a nice grey, neutral spot on the picture and click it. Then, I always up the exposure. I like that look. Not everyone does, but I love it.
2. Up the contrast. A little. I like +33.
3. Lower clarity. I like -7. Up Vibrance. (just a little)
4. If you have skin color issues (not you personally, the subject) then you can up the orange or red on the tab that has the tiny lines. Play with it until you feel comfortable with the image. Here is our image now.
Already looking better, right?
Now it's time for our vignette. Not everyone is a fan. I like a little vignette.
Go to the tab that says fx. Click where it says Amount and LOWER the number.
A slight vignette can be pretty great.
now add your photoshop magic...
That's a whole other post!
Don't forget....Open the image in Photoshop and save as a jpg.
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ReplyDeleteI first thought you were taking pictures in the raw! I do get it now but got a little lost in the explanation. I am not sure my little red camera would do all of that!!
ReplyDeleteLove, Mom
You should try editing raw in Adobe Light Room. It rocks! You can still transfer in photoshop if necessary for cloning or healing, but really you can do that all in Lightroom. Way more stream line, much more efficient (in my opinion).
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