5 Tips of Editing Pictures

Editing pictures in Photoshop its  a difficult task. It's hard for me and also others to pick the "most important" 5, because there are many more, but in this article we will list 5 that are very important for editing process and that we almost use every time while editing pictures.

1. Lighting:

Using the "curves tool" in Photoshop is many times the first thing we will do to a portrait. With this tool you can adjust the lighting in a photo. It is obviously best when your photo has been properly taken firstly, then you can brighten it up with the top "point" and give it some contrast with the bottom "point".

2. Eyes:

Then we will go straight for the eyes in a portrait as that is usually the very first thing we look at a picture.  Use the history brush and "screen" is great to lighten up the outer part of the pupil. Then "dodge highlight" it at 7-10% to brighten it up. Then many times we will sharpen just the eyes as well, depends on the photo.

3. Color /Contrast:

We have many different procedures that we use. We mean by "paint" is maybe duplicate your background copy and then create a mask and work just with the truck itself to make it look super contrasty to the rest of the photo. Or maybe you want to do that just with the subjects clothes, etc. Just see the photo and justify yourself what needs to be done. Don't put a technique on a photo just because you know how to.

4. Blur:

We will add a little blur by creating a mask and using "guassian blur" and grabbing the subject back out of it so the subjects face doesn't have any blur on it and stays in focus. You have to play around with what percent of blur you want so it still looks natural.

5. Burning:

When we are completely done editing a photo we like to burn the edges with the burn tool or add a vignette by using an action we have created or purchased. When we were editing a photo from studio, the vignette actions do not work because they create this weird "ring" around the background if we were using just a solid color, so that is when we will manually burn if needed.