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In this tutorials I am not going to tell you how to use your scanner but rather
how to deal with your Images when you get them into photoshop.
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Scan
the picture at the resoution that you need (75dpi for the web, 150 dpi for photo
editing or 300dpi for professional quality prints).
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Crop
the image until you feel happy. Use the square marquee tool to draw a box around
your chosen area and then go to image > crop on the menu.
Once you have done that and you are pleased with the way it's cropped move on
to the next section.
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The
image may look a bit blurred so you need to use the Unsharp Mask filter to improve
it. The setting you use depends on how sharp you want the image to look, mess
arround with different strengths until you feel happy with it.
Fiters > sharpen > unsharp mask
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Next
we will adjust the brightness/contrast to make the image brighter or darker and
more varied in tone.
Image > adjust > brightness and contrast
As you can see the image begins to look sharper and stronger as we go along. As
with alot of the things that we go though you can mess with them a lot until you
get the right look.
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If you want to inject some colour into the image, for example if the sky is not
very blue, you can use the Vartion tool.
Image > adjust > variations
To change the sky as its a light shade we select the sky using highlights, then
change the slider towards fine as this just makes the colour variations smaller.
Click on the cyan or blue button to inject some blue and after a few clicks you
shoud notice some change in the image, don't over do it, but just add enough to
make it a bit more pleasant. You can use the same tool to reduce the stength of
a colour such as green by adding a click or two of Magenta.
The colours work out as follows:
To reduce Green add Magenta
To reduce Cyan add Red
To reduce Blue add Yellow
To reduce Yellow add Blue
To reduce Red add Cyan
To reduce Magenta add Green
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If you feel lazy you can use Auto Levels (Image > adjust > auto levels),
but if you're feeling adventurous then you can play with the levels tool.
Image > adjust > levels
Move the sliders along to see what you can do. This works quite similarly to the
Brightness/Contrast tool, but this one allows you to do more. I Will Update this
when I can fiqure out the terminology for the Levels Chart. |
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