I am still consider a newbie to what is called Photoshop and I must say it is truely a great program to use and learn.

Scanning and colour correction

It has been a while since I had Grant’s class of colour correction. Learning to do colour correction can be hectic and slow moving at first but once you get the hang of it, it is very useful. Colour correction can bring images with bad colour cast and make it more natural to the eye.

Steps to colour correct your image:

1. Find a picture with bad cast
2. Go to level to adjust the white and black points (you can press on option when dragging to invert colours to see more accurately)
3. Go to curves to pull the colour the to become brighter or darker
4. Go to colour balance to adjust the cast (red offsets cyan, green offsets cyan and blue offsets)
5. Go to selective colour to bring out or reduce specific  colour
6. Use unsharp mask to adjust the clearness of the picture

Creative images

An important part of photoshop is to be able to create sceneries that or very surreal or imaginitive. To me the most important part to creating a manipulative picture is finding a very good picture that you can manipulate. Good sites with stock images are devianart and sxc.hu.

Steps I take to create a manipulative creative picture

1. Use masking to take specific part of the pictures you want to use in your product (better than the eraser tool as you can bring parts of image back)
2. Use mask edge to make the edge not as jagged
3. Put your picture together
4. Use blending modes to mix the picture to your liking
5. Add filters or blurs to make the picture more cohesive

These steps do not guarantee a good picture but it is the steps I usually use when I manipulate picture. This list is just a general way to create a manipulative picture, but it is not the only way.

My creation for my final photoshop project using the steps above