Chaney LaPlante

Photo Editing Blog 1.5 This week, I have been trying to work out the issues with my computer not allowing me to use the pictures edited on it.  Sadly, I have not figured it out so I practiced with my mobile version. I used saturation, highlighting, contrast, select color editing, cropping, blurring, and sharpening.  The app gets easier the more you use it. The most important thing I have found is to make sure the size of the tool you are using is proportionate to the area on the picture getting edited. Otherwise, it may blur colors that are not supposed to be blurred, or something similar.  Original  Final Product

Photo Editing Blog 1.4 For this week, I decided to learn how to replace the background of one image with that of another. This I found to be more difficult. It is important to keep the lighting the same in each picture. Also, it helps the more meticulous you are when outlining the section you are keeping from the original photo. Otherwise, you will need to do a lot of blending of colors later.   Some problems I faced this week were time management, because I was extremely busy and tech struggles with my computer because it is not classifying my edited photos as pictures and so Blogger won’t let me upload them to my blog. Original Final product (again, it looks grainy because I took the picture of my computer with my phone)

Photo Editing Blog 1.3 This week I have been able to download the proper software onto my computer. It took about thirty minutes to download. Once there it presented me with tutorials on the many applications that it has. I decided to edit the saturation, lighting, sharpness and most importantly the removal of an object. It seemed very complicated but in reality it was simple. You outline the object you wish to remove and then select delete. It may appear like a ghost if the figure remains but using a blending technique you can minimize it until it is no longer noticeable. Original Final Product Also, this looks grainy because I took a photo of my computer screen to add it in. The file size on my computer was too big and I couldn’t figure out how to shrink it. Most importantly though the guy on the right was successfully edited out.

Blog 1.2 Basic Editing Techniques I first tried downloading Adobe Photoshop software, but my computer was not cooperating with me.  I then resorted to getting the mobile version of it.  It was very well organized.  Tools were well labeled and it actually came with example videos on how to use different aspects of it. I started with: cropping, total lighting changes, sectional lighting changes, blurring, sharpening and color editing. Examples of these would be taking out wrinkles of clothing, making teeth whiter and sharpening features. Original Finished Product