Photoshop, The Before And After
Photoshop is one of the most important things I need to have on my computer. Now, of course, I always aim to get my images perfect, right out of the camera. It is good to know that if I make a mistake, then I have help to fix things. To many, Photoshop is “cheating”, it is not. Photoshop is a complex editing software program. You can not install this software and have it do all the work for you. You must know what you are doing and how to do it. I wanted to give a simple example of what I use it for. Here in the first image, you can see that my son is dark and cool looking. As in he looks a little blue, the image looks cold. I am a huge fan of warmer images. This picture was taken at night, right after sunset so it was a little darker than I would usually be shooting. All I wanted to do was make the picture a little warmer.
The next image is the final product of Photoshop. I bet you go back and forth a few times to see the very minor difference, some may not even see the difference. I warmed it up a touch and added in a few red tones. Red is not my favorite color in real life but, I love a red tone in my pictures. It is very subtle, even posting this I had to make sure which image was the original unedited one. This is my taste though. And this is what I had envisioned for this shoot. I did get some of him smiling and laughing but this is the one I was going for.. not much difference at all 🙂 Sometimes just a small minor adjustment can make the picture so much better.
