Michael+Ellis


 * Adobe Photoshop CS2**

For the Digital Photo Editing portion of the assignment, I chose to use Adobe Photoshop CS2. I based this decision on four reasons:

1. I have it installed on my computer 2. It was free 3. I am familiar with it 4. The software is "the standard" in the imaging industry

For demonstration purposes, I am using a photograph that I took of a red rose. To begin with, I cropped the image using the Rectangular Marquee tool to remove what I deemed unnecessary portions of the top, bottom, and left side of the photo. Since I felt that the original image was a bit dark, I used the Image Adjustments/Brightness/Contrast tool to set the brightness and contrast at +10. Since I am an admirer of water color paintings, I decide to use one of the many Filters offered in Adobe Photoshop; I chose the Artistic/Water Color Filter setting the Brush Detail to 9, the Shadow Intensity to 1, and the Texture to 2. Lastly, since the original image was large, I used the Image, Image Size tool to reduce the width to 400 pixels, the height to 439 pixels, and the resolution to 72 pixels/inches. Here are the results: