IMAGE EDITING

By: Ms. Gemma F. Lamsen - T-1CATALINo D. CEREZO NHS

Trainers:Dr. Joseph Lopez & Dr. Ma. Caridad Abaya

Objectives:

• At the end of this quarter, you are expected to:– Goals and target– Explore and examine the basic concepts and

underlying principles in photo editing especially using Adobe Photoshop;

– Apply the concepts and skills learned in photo editing– Produce a marketable product or service in photo

editing and– Appreciate the relevance of learning the basic

concepts and skills of photo editing

Setting our Goal and Targets

In studying this module, as a learner you need to set your own learning goal and targets. Follow the illustration below and place your answers in your activity notebook

My Goals at the end of this module are:

1. To know the different editing techniques.2. _________

My Targets are:

Target 1 - Create an edited pictureTarget 2 - _________________

Let’s begin!

Activity 1: Study the pictures below showing services and products processed in an image editing software.

Activity 1: Study the pictures below showing services and products processed in an image editing software.

Have you seen the changes?

What do you think was done on the pictures?

What are the effects of the changes? Were they done for advertising, for entertainment, for emphasis, for other effects?

Do you think you can create those changes? How?

Do you want to be a good photo editor? Why?

IMAGE EDITING

• Image means….– Photographs

• Digital• Analog

– illustrations

• Edit means…– Alter– Change– Modify

IMAGE EDITING

• The process of altering, changing, modifying, whether they are processed photographs, traditional analog photographs or illustrations

Image Editing Softwares

• Are the primary tools with which a user may manipulate, enhance and transform images.

• Also used to render or create computer art from scratch.

Examples:Adobe Photoshop Corel

Picasa PixiaGIMP

Basic of Photo Editing

1. Cropping – a technique where you cut out distracting background or a clutter of irrelevant objects around an image.

Study the picture below. What can you say about the picture?

• In cropping, always use the golden in photography-

“rule of thirds”

Remember this!

Basic of Photo Editing

2. Resizing /Resampling

Resizing – changing the size of the image depending on the usage

Remember! Save a copy of your image before you resize it so that you use it at a different size in the future.

Basic of Photo Editing2. Resizing / Resampling

To learn further about the resizing, try to look at the following terms:

PixelResolution

Have you encountered these words before? Can you tell the class about them?

Play video

Basic of Photo Editing

2. Resizing / Resampling

Resolution – refers to the number of dots per inch (dpi) that appear in our

image.

Pixel – Number of dots on the screenBut they actually look like small square

Basic of Photo Editing

3. Adjusting the Brightness/Contrast

Brightness – the amount of light of an image

Contrast – defines the separation between the darkest area and brightest areas of the image.

Basic of Photo Editing

3. Adjusting the Brightness/Contrast

Increase in contrast and you increase the separation between the dark and the bright, making shadows darker and highlights brighter.

Example of Contrast:

Basic of Photo Editing

4. Sharpening and Softening

• Sharpening is a tool that gives emphasis on textures and for drawing viewer focus.

Note: Excessive image sharpness will always increase the amount of contrast and distorts color relationships.

Softening- is the opposite of Sharpening

Basic of Photo Editing

• Sharpening and Softening

Basic of Photo Editing

5. Automatic Image Enhancement• Basic automatic image improvement features

in camera and image editing programs• Corrects color imbalances, red eye reduction,

sharpness adjustments, zoom features and automatic cropping

• Why automatic?– Because it happens with less user interaction or is

offered with one click of a button

Basic of Photo Editing

6. Data Compression- many image file formats use data compression to reduce file size and save storage space

Some File formats that use data compression:JPEG – Joint Photographic Experts GroupPNG – Portable Network Graphics

Key Terms and Definition

• Photoshop Document (.psd) – is the file format in which Photoshop saves documents by default. It is a multi-layer document that retains its full editing options when saved.

• Layers – the ones that composed a Photoshop document. These are single transparent sheets which hold particular pieces of an image. These layers can contain images, text and vector graphics

Key Terms and Definition

• Selection – refers to the region in an image that will be affected by the various tools.

• Resolution – refers to the number of pixels in a full size image

• Image Size – actual size of the image considering its height and width size

Key Terms and Definition

• Color Mode – refers to the types of colors you will be using in you image

Types of color modes:1. CMYK – Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, BlacK

- Setting of images that will be printed on paper

2. RGB – Red, Green, Blue - color channel for the Web

Activity: Group yourselves into four and complete the WEB below.Direction: Enumerate the basics of image editing

and give brief description of each.

Image editing

References:http://www.rcampus.com/rubricshowc.cfm?code=R3XX5C&sp=yes&www.google.comhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDwe5nRdaCIwww.elance.comwww.oid.ucla.eduwww.adobe.com

By: Gemma F. Lamsen

• Thank you