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Applying and removing effects

Applying and removing effects - Photos for OS X Tutorial

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Applying and removing effects

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- Now that you understand how easy it is to work with a copy of an image, let's try adding some effects. Remember, the effects you add are non-destructive, which means that at any point in time, you can go back and modify those effects, or even remove them. This allows you to add filters, color correction, or even cropping. Since we're focusing mostly today on enhancing images, we'll explore these tools in depth. Let's go to an image here with the macaw, and I'll choose to edit this image. I'll just double-click to open it, and click the Edit button. You'll notice across the top you have controls. If your mouse is near the top, you may also see the top menu toolbar. Let's tart with cropping. I notice that there's a diagonal line here, where this should probably be straight. So I'll just adjust this here until it looks straighter, and I can see that with this vertical line and this horizontal line here. That looks…

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