Week 11 [Workshop Notes]

Re-Editing on Photoshop and Camera RAW

In this week's workshop, our tutor gave another tutorial of how to use the post-production softwares available for us to use for editing our photographs for our creative project. This was because a few students were not there for last week's workshop, so it was vital they had an understanding of Camera RAW and Photoshop. Here are some notes that I took down that I found relevant for me to further my knowledge in these softwares.

Camera RAW edits our photograph from 16-bit RAW files into an 8-bit shape. The higher range of tones, the higher bit rate the photograph file is.

On Camera RAW we can change the colour balance of our original photograph from the presets available from the camera, for instance we can add a flash balance which can make the image appear warmer.

We want to create the best photograph with the high amount of tones in order to make it easier to edit in Photoshop.

Vibrancy deals with the peaking colours, you can reduce this so they're not clipped. It doesn't matter if they go off the chart vertically as this is the range of tones of a certain pixel/colour. We do not want the histogram clipped off horizontally.

Use sharpness and noise reduction to get rid of graininess within the image.

Lens correction is important. This is because the circular lens cuts a square out of what we see, thus the light makes the focus sharper for the centre of the image.

Use a software called 'Spider' to calibrate your screens for editing.

Photoshop allows you to:
- Crop 

- Orientation

- Texture

- Brightness

- Vignette

- Filters

Set your photoshop workspace to "Photography" --> This makes the tools and workspace more relevant for photograph editing.

Set you crop/size of image to A4 which is 210mm x 297mm (dimension WxH)

PRESS ENTER TO APPLY EDITS

Always duplicate your layer before applying effects to your image so you don't ruin your original image, plus you can compare the original image to the layer that you've edited.

Usually you'll add a layers of:

- Hue and Saturation

- Curves

- Levels

These help enhance the richness and depth of your photographs. You can adjust how much of these layers come through to your image, so the effects may not appear as strong.