Basic Photoshop Adjustments

Now that you have taken your Academic pictures, here is a quick and easy way to edit them in Photoshop. If you have already posted them, please go back and edit the pictures and re post.

This is a quick tutorial on how to edit photos in Photoshop. If you need help to do these steps, please ask and I will help you.

Color

Color changes take a little longer and can be much more evident to the eye.

1. Open the photo in Photoshop, you can go to the search tool on the top right of your desktop and type in Photoshop.

2. The first thing we want to do every time is to SAVE AS and rename your photo and save it in the correct folder. For right now that folder is your folder on the  desktop.

3. Go to – Image>Adjustments>Levels

A box should pop up on your screen. In that box is a drop down box that has RGB in it. Use the drop down box and go to >BLUE

Move the black and white slider tools (the hershey kisses) and move them as needed to be underneath the mountain.

go to >GREEN
repeat

go to >RED
repeat

go to >RGB

On this step you move ONLY the middle one which is brown (do not move the black or white slider) just slightly where the photo appears a little lighter than perfect.


4. The final step, go to >Filter>Sharpen>Sharpen

You should only do this one time

5. Crop and make sure you have the correct resolution as requested. Today you do not have a specific Height and Width (that will change later) and your resolution is blank (that will also change later).

6. To change the photo to black and white go to: Image>Mode>Grayscale

when the pop up appears asking if you want to discard the color information, hit yes or okay. Soon you will be asked to produce a B&W image. Today your images can be color. If you want to make one of them Black and White, I am okay with that.

7. Save and close the file