Today was the first workshop session for this unit. It introduced me to the fundamentals of Adobe Photoshop, and I learnt a lot of new skills during the two-hours because I was unfamiliar with Photoshop prior to the session.
The first features of the program I discovered were the Image Adjustment tools. I was given a number of old photographs which I had to bring back to life using some of the image adjustment tools. The first photo required the use of the Hue & Saturation tool found under the Image | Adjustments menu. I hope you agree that the repaired image looks significantly better than the original. I think it added a lot of warmth to the image and certainly gave it lots of life through the new colours that were added. To get the results shown below, I had to decrease the Hue property ever so slightly, and increase the Saturation by about 50%. I left the Lightness property alone as I was happy with my result:
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The next image adjustment tool i used was for adjusting Colour Balance. Again, this feature is found under the Image | Adjustments menu. The original image was definitely in need of restoration, and to do this I had to alter each of the colour balance properties. The results are shown below:
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The final task was to repair a very old photograph which had been subject to tears, sellotape, and folding. This made use of a number of different tools, including the Clone Stamp and Healing Rubber, which were used in conjunction with simple copy and paste methods to bring this image back to a much more presentable state.
I am very pleased with the result of this task, and I hope you agree:
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And for my best image restoration of the day:
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That's it for today, So until next time, stay CREATIVE!
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