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DUE DATES MATTER!

Late Assignments: Assignments submitted past the due date are subject to the following:

  • 10% loss of points (of the overall possible total) per day that the assignment is late.
  • 0% is awarded if an assignment is submitted past the five day mark. The only way an assignment will be graded past this period is if a FULL SIZED Milky Way Midnight , Twix (any kind), or Snickers (Almond), candy bar is surrendered to the teacher. It will cost one candy bar per late assignment. 
    • This exchange will buy you time. It will not buy you guaranteed success on a project. All rubrics and grading standards still apply
  • All late assignments must be followed up with an email to the teacher

Color Correction in Photoshop

World of Color Due Date: September 16

Photography With a Purpose Due Date:

  1. Rationale
  2. Example
  3. World of Color CC

Your images require color correction. Oftentimes, the photos that we shoot are either too dark, too light, and the colors become "muddied" or washed out.  This is easily accomplished in Photoshop using a Histogram panel and Curves Adjustment Layers.

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For this example, I have chosen this picture of a puppy

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In Photoshop, I applied the Adjustment Layer "Brightness and Contrast" to it.  

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If we click on the little sun icon to the left of the white box (the mask), we can adjust the Brightness and Contrast. To achieve a slightly darkened image, I moved the Brightness slider to 3 and the Contrast slider to 58 

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Now that I have my layer adjusted the way I want, I can make so that the adjustment only affects the puppy and not the background. In order to do this, I need to create a "Mask."

Once I have selected the paintbrush, I adjust it's size by clicking "Brush Size" icon on the Options bar. Now, I can move the slider to adjust it's size. Once that is completed, I begin painting around the puppy on the white Mask box in the Layers panel. Notice that that background is now not as vibrant of a yellow as it was before. Then, when I'm done, I save the file as "Puppy-BC.PSD" (saved as a Photoshop document) in my folder.

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By combining another adjustment layer (Vibrance), I can now amplify the color of the puppy while leaving the background color what it originally was. 

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Note that the images that we shoot and edit will be stored in your D1 - Adjustments Layers - Levels, Exposure and Curves and D2 - Adjustments Layers - Vibrance, Photo Filter, Color Balance folders that are located in your D - A World of Color folder

  1. You will color correct each and every image in your World of Color folder, using the Curves Adjustment layer in Adobe Photoshop
  2. Be sure to have your Histogram panel open inside of Photoshop (located under Window): On the Histogram Panel Options (those three little lines in the upper right hand corner of the panel, be sure to select "All Channels View"

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  4. Apply an Curves Adjustment Layer in the Layers Panel
  5. Adjust the Red/Green/Blue values to remove the 'Dead Color Space." As you adjust the sliders, your Histogram will reflect the adjustments and the color values will redistribute more evenly. 

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  7. When you are done Color Correcting an image, save the image in the folder you just corrected with it's original name followed by "CC" as a PSD file (Example: thimble_near-cc.psd)

Mr. Christopher Garner (AS, BS, MS)
STEM Education and Leadership
Technology Education
Graphic Communications & Design
Email: christopher.garner@mcusd709.org

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