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Photoshop Tips
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Let's say you have a nice shot from your point and shoot camera,
but it still doesn't
look as good as a studio shot. No problem, we can take care
of that.
The first obvious problem with this photo is the shadow on the left
side. Because
this shadow is so close to a shade on the neck, I use the Clone
tool (5th item down
on the left side) to clone part of the background and chop it into
two different parts.
If you have a really steady hand you could do this to
take out the entire shadow,
but what I am about to show you will be even easier.
Now take the Magic Wand tool (second down on the right hand side)
and click
once on the background. The main person is now highlighted
(excluding the
shadow). Before we broke up the shadow, it also would have
been included.
You will notice that on one side of this subject you can still see
some nice texture
on the wall. Now that the subject is selected, you can clone
that section (same tool
as mentioned above) of the background and duplicate it all
around the person. By
being selected, this keeps you from accidentally cloning on
you main subject.
By continuing all the way around you have now done two major
things. A) You
have gotten rid of that terrible shadow. B) You
have created a much more
interesting texture for the background (although right now it
is VERY light).
If you go up to the drop down menu across the top, go
over to Image, down to
Adjustments, and click on Brightness/Contrast you will
come up with the
Brightness/Contrast dialog box. (Shown below.)
Now for the fun part. Play with your brightness control to
make the background
texture much more noticeable. As long as your subject is
still selected, this will only
effect the background. This setting will vary a lot depending on
what your original
looks like. After you find the right tone, deselect the main
image.
If after you deselect the highlighted area (5th item from the
left across the top menu
and then down to deselect) ; you still have small
little sections that don't match, then
go back in and select your clone tool again to clean up those
edges.
Looking at the two side by side, which one would you rather
admit to having taken?
Note: If you didn't have any texture in the original,
you could have sampled the
texture from another photo (Ctrl + C = Copy and Ctrl +V =
Paste) and placed it
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