Photoshop 101 with Evanish

[Blazer88]

Great tutorials man! I have always liked playing with photoshop and it's a good challenge to take/adjust good pictures in the aquarium. Keep 'em coming!

 

[BlueCorn]

Layers allow you to make adjustments and edits without altering the original pixels of an image. Instead of adjusting the tint of an image you can add an adjustment layer; so you can always go back. You can also use layers to mask areas that you won't want to adjust.

 

[Andrew]

I wouldnt reccomend using auto levels or color, they really suck. You'll notice the levels didnt really make the black black, and the color, made the white really blue. To me the final image dosnt stand out much more.

I just did this real quick, adjusted the levels so the black is black, and white is white. Then adjusted the color balance to make the fish more of a redish orange rather than yellow. Also did a unshap mask on the fish, and gausian blur on the other objects to give DOF really make the fish stand out.

I like to go with the blue look. Plain colors don't look as good to me.

 

[MaryBebo]

Thanks so much for these tutorials ! I have PS and learning how to use

 

[MaryBebo]

Yea! I did it

Thanks so much !

 

[CTS]

Great idea, I see the potential that photoshop has but i dont know how to use it. This thread will help out lots.

 

[Scuba_Dave]

I've used photoshop mostly to color correct my Scuta diving underwater shots. I'm still learning, as of yet I do not have a decent digital camera for tank pics
I've been reading thru this forum for info. I have Adobe Photoshop 7.0, not sure how old that version is.

 

[MaryBebo]

Andrew, I see that you have changed your Avatar and your name is on it. I have tried to change mine and RC keeps telling me it is too large. I have got it down to like width 95 height 91 and it still is too large.

 

[Andrew]

Try lowering the quality. Go to file> save image for web > then lower the quality until its small enough bytes. That reef bowl is around 70% quality and it looks exactly like the 100% quality one. Or you can post it here and Ill be more then happy to do it for you.

 

[melev]

Reviving another great thread.

Here's a fresh example of how I photoshop an image.

This is a late night shot, using an LED flashlight and my camera in Shutter Priority. For the thread, this image was <b>resized</b>, but for all intents and purposes, it is raw out of the camera.

Instead of resizing, I used <b>Crop</b> and set it to save at 640x480, putting the subject off into the right corner.

Next there was a tiny dot to the left of the Harlequin Shrimp that needed removing. I used the <b>healing</b> brush to make it vanish. You'll hardly notice the difference between this image and the last version, but the dot is gone.

<b>Unsharp Mask</b> was applied now. I have it set to <b>.3</b> at <b>125</b>.

I tried <b>Auto Levels</b>, but it looked ugly.

So I clicked <b>Step Backward</b>, then clicked on <b>Levels</b> to adjust the brightness and the Red Level independently, leaving Green and Blue alone.

Once I was happy, I clicked <b>Save For Web</b>, then selected <b>Medium</b> at <b>52</b>, and named the file. Click <b>save</b> and it is ready to upload to my site for sharing.