Foundational Skills: Photo: Projects: Photographic Editing

• How do I alter a photo to enhance its visual qualities?

• What can I change about a photo?

What am I making?

• (Example link) A web page showing "Before and after" pairings of 6 photos you took for class this week

• Captions for 3 original photos explain what you wanted to fix

  • lighting? color? cropping?

• Captions for 3 edited photos using Google Photos: explain what settings you changed in editing

• 3 more original photos that you edit in Photoshop or Photopea using Levels or Curves (and other edits you decide)

• 3 edited photos from Photoshop or Photopea

• Write about what you learned in the process on the page.

How do I make it?

• Basics: GadgetsNow article

• Video tutorial: Using Google Photos to adjust lighting, color, cropping & another similar video

• Tutorials: Photoshop Basics: Levels, Curves, and Color page & video

  • Mr. W. adjusts Levels with Photopea

  • Levels and Curves Adjustments In Photoshop: Which One Is Better? has a good text summary; also another video tutorial

• With your own phone: You don't have to use Google Photos, but that's easy, and easy is good! If you're interested, you can download the Lightroom app or another app for your phone and play with it too ... some things you can do in Lightroom

Steps

1. Using Google Photos, make adjustments to 3 photos.

   • Save a Copy before editing each photo

   • Adjust Color, Light, Cropping as you like

2. Find or make a new Google Sites page titled Photographic Editing. (Or Photo Editing)

3. Add the 3 original photos with the 3 edited versions next to them using Layouts, or just Insert them in order.

4. Make sure you Uncrop each image.

5. Write notes in the captions for each image

   • for the originals, why you chose to edit the photo

   • for the edited photos, what settings you changed

6. Take 3 more photos and use Photoshop or Photopea to improve them with Levels or Curves
   (and other functions in the Image menu)

7. Add those before and after photos, make sure you Uncrop each

8. Below everything, write a few sentences explaining what you learned about photography and photo editing doing this assignment.

9. Publish your page, copy the link shown in the chainlink icon, then paste the link into the Google Classroom assignment to turn in.

Career Connections

• Whenever you use photos to communicate, you can alter the message by altering the image.

Resources

• Editing resources