![]() ![]() It’s hard to tell what needs to be adjusted on a dark image. The first thing that I am going to do is brighten the image by using the exposure slider, this helps us to see where our starting point will be. You’ll see that on the right hand side there are all of the sliders, for temperature, exposure, clarity, vibrance and saturation. Hospitals can be a little dark, sometimes images are a bit warm or red, so I’m going to open that image up, in the Camera RAW plugin. The example image that I will be using is of my adorable little nephew just minutes after he was born. If your monitor is not calibrated, your colors will likely be off no matter what you do when it comes to editing. **Note: In order to get accurate colors you need to have a calibrated monitor. Then a settings menu will pop up and you can just adjust it to open all JPEG and TIFF images as well as RAW so that you can use the Camera Raw plugin on all images. ![]() To set it up so that it opens all images in Adobe Camera RAW you click on “Photoshop” > “Preferences” > “Camera Raw” In Photoshop there are multiple ways to do this, the first way is by using the Adobe Camera RAW plugin, this plugin can be used on RAW and JPEG images. To add a duplicate layer, at the top of photoshop you click “Layers” > “Duplicate Layer” It will pop up with “Duplicate: Background As: ” and you just name it whatever you want, or just leave it as “Background layer” and hit enter and there you have it, your second layer to work from. The reason that I suggest this is because if you mess up, you can just erase or mask (I’ll teach you that later) that one part and start over there instead of starting over on the entire image. When you start out editing, sometimes it’s easier to go add a duplicate layer of the image that you are working on. If you are on a PC or don’t feel like dragging and dropping, you click “file” > “open” and locate the image on your computer then click “Open” or hit Enter. If you are on a MAC you can simply drag and drop the image and it’ll open right up, easy peasy. I know this might sound silly to some of you, but for those who have used LightRoom or another editing program, you might be sitting there wondering, “How in the world do I even get a picture to open!?!” Step one: Opening a picture in photoshop. Follow this step by step guide to learn photoshop 101. This is a free tutorial when learning photoshop as a photographer or amateur. Learn the basics of Photoshop: Photoshop 101 if you will through this photography crash course built for you. ![]()
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