An old saying goes, “Light is the paintbrush of photography,” and it’s certainly true. Just as there are many types of paintbrushes, so are there many types of lightsoft light, hard light, directional light, and bounced light, to mention a few. Each influences the mood and quality of a photo.
Light also affects such things as color balance, saturation, and contrast. Many times we’re able to control these factors. Color balance and saturation are relatively easy to adjust with filters and exposure, but contrast control isn’t. One of Photoshop’s great strengths is its ability to adjust image properties, and adjusting contrast is a snap with the Auto Contrast command.
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A credit score is a number that is based on a statistical analysis of a person’s credit report, and is used to represent the creditworthiness of that person - the likelihood that the person will pay his or her debts.
Knowing, understanding, monitoring and always being aware of our credit scores have become an essential financial skills in the 21st century. From the working men/ women or just an ordinary housewife need to know how credit scores work and understand clearly the enormous effect they can have, that could positively or negatively influence on our financial lives. Credit scores are used to evaluate the potential risk posed by lending money to consumers and to mitigate losses due to bad debt. Using credit scores, lenders determine who qualifies for a loan, at what interest rate, and to what credit limits.
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We’ve all had it happensomeone gives you a less-than-stellar image to use for a project you’re working on. When this occurs, you should immediately evaluate the image’s tonal quality. After all, you probably don’t want to spend countless hours trying to correct the image in Photoshop only to find out later that it isn’t salvageable. One of the ways you can determine if an image is of quality, or if it can be saved, is to view its histogram.
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Problem: An image is overwhelmed by oversaturated color.
Solution: Make a Hue/Saturation adjustment.
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Title: Geometrics
Description: 60’s psychedelia reincarnated into a collection of images, each of which is presented in four versions - one in black & white, three in colour.
No of images: 160
Size / Output / Format: 300dpi/50Mb/A3 (42cm x 29.7cm or 16.5in x 11.7in)/CMYK JPG
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Problem: Unnatural color obscures the beauty of an image.
Solution: Use the Levels command.
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You’ve just spent several hours searching through your photo files for a close-up shot of a flashlight you want to use for a sales presentation. It’s perfectexcept for the color. The flashlight is yellow, and you need a green one, as shown in Figure A. What do you do? Why not try a great editing feature included with Photoshop called the Replace Color command? By using the Replace Color command, you can easily and quickly substitute one color for another, turning a yellow flashlight to green or whatever other color you desire.
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A friend of mine had his camera broken when she wanted to take pictures from Venice bridge. She grunted that she can’t afford to pay for the repair fee. She said she would rather buy a new one instead. Well, I think she was being ridiculous. I mean did that mean the repair fee is more expensive than buy a new one. I was thinking that she actually forgot that she is living from a regular salary
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One of the most common tasks Photoshop users are asked to perform involves changing the color of a specific object or item in a photograph to a completely different color. For some reason, it’s assumed that this process is quick and easy. In reality, though, the difficulty level can range from easy to complex, depending on what you have to modify. However, Photoshop’s Color Replacement tool can aid in the color-replacement process. This tool is located on the Healing Brush tool’s flyout menu in the Toolbox, as shown in Figure A. With it, you can paint over an image to replace one color with another color of your choosing more easily than ever before. Let’s take a closer look at how this tool works.
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Whether you’re toning several images for a single layout or color correcting one image, Photoshop CS’s Match Color command can make this process quick and painless. Using this command you can make broad adjustments to multiple images based on a source image’s color makeup or adjust tonal values within an image by adjusting its luminance and color intensity. Let’s take a closer look.
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