How to Photoshop A Sleeping Baby
Posted by Dr. Cason on Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
I’ve been having a problem with my photos recently. You see I bought a Digital SLR camera about 6 months ago and have been using it like a point and shoot. Photoshop is so complicated that I haven’t gotten very far with understanding all my options so up until today all I did was take a picture in RAW format-because that’s what they told me was the thing to do- but then I’d save it in jpeg and then use microsoft to autocorrect it. It seemed to go ok as long as the photo wasn’t too bad. But if you saw my post on 5/14/08 then you’ll see that my photo of jake sleeping was really poor quality. Today I tinkered around.
Here is the pic straight out of the camera.
I took in a RAW format and had to change it to jpeg.
The problems are obvious it’s very yellow and dark and rotated of course.
Autocorrecting the picture just washed it out.
I really wanted to correct the coloring and was lucky that I shot in raw.
So I opened the RAW file and corrected the tonal quality. Once I changed the raw format I was free to save it to jpeg and then I applied unsharpen mask to his face to crisp things up a bit.
Aaahh! Much better! I’m going to replace the photo in the post: A Restless Sleep
Do you have any Photoshop tricks up your sleeve? Do share. I’d be immensely grateful.
Filed in My Favorite Photos, The Joy of Photography |
Dellaon 22 May 2008 at 12:38 am 1Check out http://www.thepioneerwoman.com. She has a whole section on Photoshop in a really easy to understand format!
Melanie at Beanpasteon 22 May 2008 at 7:06 am 2Hi Sheila!
Regarding your comment over at my blog: I do use Photoshop on many of my photos, usually just adjusting the contrast, brightness, and crispness, sometimes more involved processing for B&W or vignette effects.
I do really try to fight 90% of the good photo battle with good lighting: no flash, indirect and diffused bright light, etc.
I’m getting ready to do a little post about my camera and pictures, so it’s good to know that someone will actually be interested!
Melanie
Dr. Casonon 22 May 2008 at 8:14 am 3Oh Goody!
I’ll be waiting.
For those of you who haven’t seen Melanie’s photos at Beanpaste, go check them out. You won’t be disappointed!
Jennon 27 May 2008 at 12:13 pm 4The best Photoshop books I have used are by Scott Kelby. Check out “The Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers.” He has put a new one out with each new version of PS.
Jenn
Dr. Casonon 27 May 2008 at 4:58 pm 5Jenn!
Thanks for the tip. I’ll have to check it out.