Photoshop lesson 1

For this lesson we learnt the basics go photoshop, (extension, .PSD), for this lesson we had to import a photo as seen above and correct it.
When first importing a RAW image photoshop recognises the images is raw and opens up raw image controls, this allows colour settings, contrast, brightness, E.T.C… to be changed before the photo is edited, we changed the colour settings to give the colour seen below.

The next job was to fix the rotation issue, as seen in the original image the photo is not at a square angle , there are several ways that this would be corrected, one way it could be corrected is by manually rotating the image by using free transform, (CTRL + T), this would be a longer process and there is a small chance it wouldn't be completely accurate; the way we done this is by using the crop straighten tool, we done this by holding left click over the crop tool to bring up the options for crop and selected the crop straighten tool, the way this tool works is by making you select each corner of the image, it then automatically straightens the image for you, this is a lot quicker than doing it manually.

The next task we had was to change the colour of the girls hat from pink to green to do this we used the colour replacement tool, this tool allows you to change the colour of a selected item, we had to select a certain shade of green using the RGB scale, once the colour is selected you have to manually paint the selected section you wish to change the colour of.

We then had to remove some of the grafitti from the wall and change it back to bricks, to do this we used the clone stamp tool, the way in which this works is in two different steps, firstly you have to select an area in which you want it to clone, then using a paintbrush you go over the area you want and it replaces it with the section you selected for cloning. One issue that you may get from using the clone stamp tool is the new cloned are may look slightly false and it stands out from the other sections, to fix this we used the spot healing tool, this blended the new cloned are into the existing are making it look more realistic.

to finish the image we exported it in JPEG and saved it.