Working with photo editing programs (lesson notes)

In the first IT lesson we started learning how to work with Adobe Bridge and how to adjust and edit images (correcting sharpness, exposure, changing the white balance) in camera raw. We been given a few images to practice on which made the learning process much easier. The first image that we practiced on was the little girl named Sophie's photo, we had to change the color setting so there are equal amount of green,red and blue in the picture, we started by taking color picker tool and selecting the part of the image that was the lightest which was the white, then we adjusted the RGB numbers to even out the green blue and red colors in the image, this method also corrected the exposure of the image making it more natural. After we were done editing this image we learnt how to save it so that later on we could open it and edit again, also we learnt how to save the adjustment setting that we made and apply them to other photos.

In the second lesson we started to learn working with program called InDesign, we were able to learn how to change the images from the hand in document template that we been given and swapping them with our own images while linking them to program Bridge, the images had to be .tif files this way if they get edited the images in the InDesign would update as well. I have took my images from the final shoot to practice how I could apply them using this method, and it worked fine, I was able to add my own images to the hand in document template which made me think that it is not as hard as I thought it will be.

In the third lesson we were taught how to create a mood board, which was also necessary for our assessment. To create mood boards we been told to use Photoshop program, we start by setting up the size of our page, to make it easier for us we could create guidelines where we want our images to go, which was much easier than doing it without the guidelines. For my images that I chose to be on the mood board, I picked plenty of gold themed pictures and I wanted them to be all different size and different length, I did not want a plain, simple looking mood board, I was going for more of a different and creative mood board look.