QUICK AND EASY PHOTO EDITING TECHNIC FOR BEGINNERS

In this article, I will show you how to make basic photos pop by tweaking a few small things in Photoshop.

 

Step 1: What You'll Need

You Will Need:

A digital photograph

Photo editing software

A computer

Step 2: Opening the photo in Photoshop

This is easy step to open your photo editing software and click the "File" tab, then click the "open" option, then direct the

popup window to the file that you want to open.

Or, just open photoshop and drag the file that you want to edit.

Step 3:Tweak the Lwvels!

This is the first things that was taught to me in photo editing.

Find the "Levels" option in your photoshop workspace.

Find the "Image" button at the top of your workspace, then scroll your mouse down to "Adjustments" and over to "Levels"

Step 4: Lose the Noise!

If you click the "Channel" box, you can switch it over to the colors "R" "G" and "B"-which is what you want to do.  

Switch to the "R" or "Red" channel to work on it.  At the edges of your histogram you will see either spikes in the graph 

or depressions-these can be caused by any number of reasons, but regardless of the source-we dont need em! click the

 black and white sliders at the bottom to slide them just past the spike/depression in the histogram.  

This cleans up the noise and makes your photo's colors REALLY stand out!

Now heres the general rule of thumb:

When tweaking the levels, always work toward the middle of the histogram.

If there is a depression at the very beginning, move the slider to where the histogram data curve starts.

If there is a spike, move to the next lowest point  past the spike.

If there is a slow curve, move the slider a little ways up the curve to make the colors pop!

Step 5: Clear the Noise From the Other CHannels.

In the Channel selector window, repeat the same process for clearing the noise on the other two channels: "G" for Green and "B" for Blue.

Step 6:You Finished Work!

Check the results!