Photoshop Session 2

This session of Photoshop was all about Enhancement & amp; Restoration. So we covered a lot of things relative to that topic, such as the presence of balance in an image, the concept of "beauty" both within an image as well as in general, the importance of "keeping your project live" by using different layers for different changes, and finally we talked about some Photoshop controversies that are out there and knowing when enough is enough (if there is indeed a limit) in editing/enhancing an image.

As a related challenge for this session's topic, students were to have their own photographs taken before for them to work with. Unfortunately, there were some technical difficulties with the cameras we were using (apparently the batteries were feeling a bit fatigued and needed to be re-juiced) and we weren't able to take all the students' pictures, thus not enabling us to let the students use them in their challenges for the day as planned. However, we were prepared with an alternative: the students were supplied with a folder filled with old, tarnished, and esthetically challenged, un-edited photos to work with and practice some of the great enhancement & restoration Photoshop tools, adjustments and techniques they were exposed to.

Check out the before-and-after projects that some of the students were working on!

Here's DJ's before & after project:

He did a great job of increasing the lighting in the shadows of the image so that everything could become a lot more visible!





Here's Dylan's before-and-after project:

He made good use of his sharpening tool in this one in order to establish the contours of the cat's face more!
















And here are Natalia and Ibadete's before-and-after projects (Although they both used the same image to use work on, they took two completely different approaches to it):

Ibadete did a flawless job of editing and changing the woman's eye color as well as giving the photo an overall soft-light effect which really compliments the woman's expression and facial stance in
this image!

And Natalia did a remarkable job of changing the woman's hair color, eye color, and enhancing the highlights on the face!
















We might have to let those magazine image editors out there know about some possible new competition coming their way. =)



At the end of the day, the students were asked to blog about their experiences with Photoshop, and once they were all able to get into Blogspot they were hard at it. They’re sure to have some interesting things to say, and us instructors are looking forward to reading them!