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Adobe Elements 7 Tutorial To Enhance Your Black And White Photos
Posted on 16. Nov, 2009 by admin in Adobe Elements 7 Tutorial, Elements 7, Elements Tutorials, photoshop elements tutorials
If your black and white pictures have hints of colors in some portions; you can now correct it using the easy-to-access features of Adobe Elements. Using this software’s features, you can retain the old classic black and white look of your favorite pictures forever now, as explained in this Adobe Elements 7 tutorial…
Here’s how to enhance the quality of your black and white pictures using Adobe Elements 7:-
1. The first and the foremost step is to convert your existing picture into an absolute black and white picture. This should be done using the feature of RDB that converts colors to grayscale. To do this, click on to the image to get through mode. In the mode you see an option of grayscale. After clicking on that, you will observe that all the live colors of pictures are faded with no access to incorporate other effects like sepia et al. Therefore, you could simply avoid this option and choose another one. You can remove the color of your picture by going to the "Enhance" option, then go to color and in the last, go to "remove color". This fill eliminates all the colors in the picture, however, allowing the access to toning and incorporating other color effects in the picture.
2. Now to adjust the contrast level in your picture, click on to enhance, then auto levels and finally auto-contrast. This will make remarkable changes by improving the brightness of the areas of the object in the picture; it will however have no effects on the background of the picture. You could try another option instead of this one. Click on flash mode to reach ‘enhance’ and then click ‘fill flash’. This option is best chosen for those photographs taken in broad day light where the subject needs little resolution and color enhancement. These steps will help you clear off the shadow and improve the clarity of the picture.
3. To further adjust the contrast in the picture, go to ‘enhance’, then ‘brightness’ to reach to ‘contrast’. On clicking ‘contrast’ you will see a tool box opening which details you on the pixels of brightness existing in your picture. Now this tool box will also have the option of adjusting the brightness of your picture. The graph in the left shows the percentage of shadow in the picture. Similarly, the graph in the middle and right show middle tones and brighter tones respectively. You can drag the slider to adjust the tones in your picture accordingly.
4. Though with these steps your picture would be almost ready, however, you can still invest some more time to better it to perfection. Click on to the blend modes and create a duplicate layer where you can blend your picture with different modes and settings. You can make darker areas go lighter and vise-versa by making changes in its pixels. Reduce the opacity of the picture by using the filtering effect on the topmost layer. Finally, you can add sepia effect to the picture by clicking enhance and then click on to ‘color’ to reach the option of hue/saturation slider.
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