Lisa+O'Brien+-+Photo+Editing

 =**Lisa O'Brien's Photo Editing Page**  =

I used a [|Canon PowerShot SD800 IS] to take the photos, and [|Adobe Photoshop CS2] to edit them. With the help of three online tutorials, I used the following tools in at least one of the photos I edited: the select tool, blend mode, opacity option, noise option, sharpen option, curves adjustment layer, blur filter, wand tool, hue/saturation option, levels option, and color balance option. The first two edited photos are of the bike I used for the camera explorations page; the third photo, however, is of a beach scene I took while on vacation.
 * The Camera, Software, and Tools**


 * The Photos**
 * [[image:Reformatted_Bike.jpg caption="Before"]]  || [[image:Reformatted_Bike_Extreme_Contrast.jpg caption="After"]]   ||
 * I wanted to make this plain photo more dramatic, so I edited it by creating an extreme contrast effect. To do this, I used [|Adobe Photoshop Tutorial: Extreme Contrast Photo Effect] on [|photoshopessentials.com]. Here are the abbreviated steps to how I achieved this look: I desaturated a new layer, duplicated the new layer and changed the blend mode to "screen" and the opacity to 50%, created a copy of the background and changed its blend mode to "color burn," merged the layers, added noise, and added a "curves" adjustment layer. ||
 * [[image:Reformatted_Red_Bike_Original.jpg caption="Before"]]  || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">[[image:Reformatted_Red_Bike.jpg caption="After"]]   ||
 * My favorite color is red, and I wanted to focus on the red in the picture. So, I changed everything to black and white, except the red frame. To do this, I used the [|Adobe Photoshop Tutorial: Adding Focus to an Image with Color] on [|photoshopessentials.com]. Here are the brief steps to how I created this effect: I selected the bike frame with the wand tool, inverted the selection, added a hue/saturation adjustment layer, dragged the saturation slider to the left to remove the color. Learning this effect also helped me with my teaching and learning project, as I used the effect when focusing on household objects in pictures for learning French vocabulary. ||
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">[[image:Hawaii_Beach.jpg caption="Before"]]  || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">[[image:Hawaii_Beach_Indie.jpg caption="After"]]      ||
 * I wanted to experiment with a landscape photo, so I chose one from my Hawaii vacation pictures. I found a tutorial called [|Achieve the Indie Movie Look]. My picture looks like it could be the setting of a movie, so I tried the tutorial. Here are the steps to achieving the look: I used the selection tool to add the black strips, changed the adjustment levels, changed the midtone color balance so that the the yellow hue is the highest value, and adjusted the highlights color balance so that the red hue is the highest value. ||