May 2010
Beginner
240 pages
4h 33m
English
Even carefully planned and posed photographs can have flaws. Photos you snap on the spur of the moment are even more likely to include distracting background objects or to have less-than-ideal lighting. The good news is that you can improve—and sometimes even perfect—exposure and lighting. You can also often remove unwanted objects, such as phone lines or even people, in Photoshop.
Unless you’re working with an adjustment layer, most image corrections involve changing the actual pixels. So, once again, it’s a good idea to be working in a copy of the image, leaving your original intact for future use.
The tonality of an image includes qualities of lightness, darkness, and contrast. Photoshop includes a full ...