| Megan Buccere said
at 6:45pm on December 3rd, 2007 |
Like I said in the post about photographing your art...many of you already know all of these things but I thought I would post some photoshop tips. If any of you have any ps tips please share them. |
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| Megan Buccere said
at 6:51pm on December 3rd, 2007 |
I teach photoshop to high school students so I'm not sure if these tips help...but I know they've helped me.The BEST thing about ps. is levels. The brightness/contrast function is great but if you use levels once you'll never go back. Instead of darkening the entire image you can go to Image>adjustments>levels. It will pop up a window with sliders. One for highlights,midtones and shadows. If you need to lighten areas of your pict. just slide the white triangle over. It won't disrupt all of the values in your image like brightness and contrast. |
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| Megan Buccere said
at 7:09pm on December 3rd, 2007 |
A really important tip about saving your images!! Make a folder for original images. Once you have unloaded camera and cropped your image (if needed) save your large file image as a .tiff file or .png (png's aren't universal so other computers may not recognize them). jpgs are the usual format everyone is used to the problem with jpgs is that every time you open the file and do anything to it it degrades. Eventually you are left with an image with really poor resolution and if you need to make prints, even small ones, there is a possibility that they will come out pixelated..tiff files are much larger and don't compress like .jpg. You can open it a hundred times and you won't loose resolution. Save a .jpg copy for web applications and you don't need a high resolution for that anyways. If you need to make prints of your art use .tiff and you won't wonder (like I did) why your images look so grainy. |
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| A.Manjiri Kanvinde said
at 7:31am on December 4th, 2007 |
Thanks Megan for the tips. They are really helpful. It makes it a lot easier for me now to save the image without losing the quality. cheers! |
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| Megan Buccere said
at 9:00am on December 4th, 2007 |
Images sizes for the web: Many artists use a watermark or copyright symbol over their painting. This is a great way to keep people from printing copies of your art directly from the internet. If the file you uploaded is really large then anyone can save it and print out a decent copy without purchasing it from you. If you can resize your file to around 600x600 pixels people can still view a pretty good image of your artwork but if they go to "pirate" it they will get a very poor quality image. |
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| Sally Trace said
at 11:06am on December 4th, 2007 |
Wow, levels are amazing, I just went into some problem photos that had dark areas and it made them perfect. I'm still not sure how it works, I guess some study is in order. Thanks so much for that tip |
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| Janeice Silberman said
at 11:22am on December 4th, 2007 |
Megan,I was advised that 500x500 pixels was better. Any loss of quality? |
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| Megan Buccere said
at 12:11pm on December 4th, 2007 |
Janeice, I'm not really sure. Try saving a painting in both formats. I really think as long as it's under 600px it will deter people from taking your images. |
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| ART By IRIS said
at 10:43am on December 14th, 2007 |
Megan, thanks for these tips! I work with photoshop a lot but all I know is self taught or looking briefly at some books/online guides/forums... there is always so much more to learn about this program! I will definitely practice your tips and try them out, thanks again! |
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| Megan Buccere said
at 7:19pm on December 17th, 2007 |
I have noticed lately that when I photograph my art some of my paintings colors don't look as good as they do in the original. A great photoshop trick is to go into >image>adjustments>hue/saturation.
You can move the saturation slider around to brighten up the colors of your painting. |
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