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Making a few basic edits using Photoshop
From the course: Kids Photography: At Home
Making a few basic edits using Photoshop
- Once you have your images in Photoshop we can get started on looking at them and seeing what we wanna do. I have the five selected from our Lightroom photos and the one thing that you always wanna do when you first start in Photoshop is create a background copy. You never wanna work on the actual background. If you do you can't erase what you've done, so creating a copy lets you work and then still go back if you don't like the changes you've made. Looking at this image just as an overview there's nothing really I would change all that much. I'd probably sharpen it and then take this small little leaf out of the front, not that it adds a lot to the picture, it doesn't take away that much, but I'd probably just use the patch tool and then just pull it over and it's gone. And then you have a nice, clean wood area in from of them, so that the focus is actually on Leo and the chicken and the Roberto looking over his shoulder. The other thing I'm going to do is just make sure that I…
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