Monday, March 7, 2016

Good morning everyone!

Today you will be editing your ghost photos and running them into a contact sheet. Here are the steps you should take for each photo:

1. Crop if necessary. Take out large amounts of "dead space"
2. Turn your image black and white by clicking Image--> adjustments--> black and white.
3. Adjust your levels by clicking CTRL L or image-->adjustments--> levels. Adjust the black and white sliders so your image has nice contrast and your ghosts show up well.
4. Extras:
    -add a sepia tone by clicking image-->adjustments-->hue and saturation. Click the check box that says "colorize". Slide the hue slider to orange and pull the saturation slider lower. You should get a soft brown vintage effect.
     -use the burn tool with a LARGE soft edge brush around the outside of the photos to make the edges dark
    -use the sharpen tool to make faces stand out a little more. Remember, only one or two swipes of the brush, or it'll start to look weird.


Sepia Toned image
 Burnt edges effect



5. Name these photos anything you like and run a 2 column 3 row contact sheet.  Doublecheck your neighbors contact sheet to make sure you did not use the same photos!
Finished contact sheet example



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