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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Adobe Elements 7 New features Tutorial
Posted on 19. Oct, 2009 by admin in Adobe Elements 7 Tutorial, Elements 7, Elements Tutorials
Adobe elements 7 is the most accessible and feature driven program available in the market for managing and editing pictures to perfection. Its advanced features are intuitive and easily accessible for an amateur photographer aiming to make some good income from his photography passion. Adobe elements 7 is unmatched in terms of its highly competent tools and features that makes your photograph a picture perfect with impeccable clarity and advanced resolution.
Adobe elements 7 run high on features and functionality that makes your photo editing task as easy as a child’s play. It highly advanced editing; creating and sharing features make Adobe elements 7 a supreme program for photo editing. Some of its prominent features that make it highly accessible among users are its easy navigation tools, a comprehensive guide on the usage of its features and tools, online functions and a highly sophisticated photo merging tool.
This Adobe Elements 7 tutorial will now reveal its main functions and features:-
The operation of tools on photo editing like, photo organizing, launching photo books, collages, slide shows, preparing calendars are made extremely simple even for a beginner. The elements not only have easy access on photo editions task but also has simple tools to share ones pictures on Flickr, emails, CD and social networking sites like Facebook, Orkut etc.
You just need to apply the basic rules of dragging and dropping pictures into the Edit Mode. On launching this mode, you will be subjected to varied, easy to access editing tools with various tricks and tweaks to better your editing, at your disposal.
The in built Quick Fix tool gives you the comfort of auto-correcting your pictures in case you find manual editions a bit complicated at the first go. This option will automatically enhance the resolution and correct the color schemes of your photo.
The best feature of Adobe elements 7 is its comprehensive Guided editor that thoroughly acquaints you with every feature ranging from correcting images to cropping to color setting.
The elements have made importing so much easier like never before. Adobe elements 7 enables the importation of the pictures into the "My pictures" folder by default and allows you to perform the editing operations like light adjustments and red eye editions within the organizer.
The unique photo browser of Adobe elements 7 allows you to access all your pictures saved in your catalog at a go in one window. It also has the capacity to display pictures in other removable forms of media like a CD.
The Organize panel of the Task pane allows you to manage your pictures in a proper format by assigning them appropriate key word and tags. This avoids the saving of important pictures at random places and allows you to easily locate them immediately.
Another significant panel, Create Panel, allow you to present together your projects in form of slide shows. This enables a systematic display of your projects, presentations as well as pictures.
So, if you are new to Adobe elements, it is highly recommended that you download the latest feature oriented version of Adobe Elements 7 to make your photo editing experience delightful.
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