This document discusses digital editing and the use of Photoshop, outlining learning objectives around recognizing the potential uses of digital editing, producing edited images, and learning creative image manipulation techniques. It provides examples of historical and contemporary photo manipulation, and includes exercises on using Photoshop tools and techniques like layers, retouching, and saving files in different formats.

1. Digital Editing
Part One
A2 Photography
06/10/2010

2. Digital Editing
Learning Aim.
Recognise the potential of Photoshop as a tool for
editing/manipulating images
Learning Objectives
• Brainstorm potential uses of digital editing.
• Produce edited images
• Review learning progression to date
• Respond to the changing Times brief by prodcing work relevant to
the assignment
• Prepare for an interim critique on the project (09/11/2011)
Objective 2 (another session)
Learn more creative techniques for image manipulation.

3. Digital Editing
Task 1.
2. Brainstorm potential uses of digital editing.
4. Identify through own research three manipulated images and discuss
how the affects were achieved.

4. Digital Editing
What is Photoshop?
Image editing software often used to manipulate the captured
image to an extent determined by the artist/retoucher.
Colour balance, contrast, cropping.
Retouching, airbrushing.
Compositing.
Arguably Photoshop can be used in a similar way to Dark room
processing of prints. The artist can however manipulate images
far beyond the capabilities of conventional dark room techniques.

5. Digital Editing
Is photo-manipulation new?
Nikolai Yezhov, an NKVD leader photographed alongside Stalin in at least one photograph, was shot in 1940 and
subsequently edited out of the photograph.

6. Digital Editing
Is photo-manipulation new?
Two ways of Life: Oscar Rejlander, 1857

7. Digital Editing
Is photo-manipulation new?

8. Digital Editing
Task 2.
Photoshop exercise
•colour space
•Image size
•Preparing print ready images and web ready images.
•Saving files jpeg, tiff, psd.
•Working in layers
•Copying
•Curve adjustment - (contrast control)
•Histogram
•Colour balance
•Hue saturation
•Clone tool
•Healing brush

9. Digital Editing
Potential of Photographers in the Digital age.
Photoshop Images.
David Tweedie.

10. Personal Investigation.
Potential of Photographers in the Digital age.
Photoshop Images.
•Todd Antony

11. Digital Editing.
Potential of Photographers in the Digital age.
Photoshop Images.
•David Hockney

12. Digital Editing
•David LaChappelle

13. Personal Investigation.
Potential of Photographers in the Digital age.
Photoshop Images.
•David Hockney

14. Digital Editing
Marilyn – David LaChapelle Marilyn – Andy Warhol

15. Digital Editing
Gisele Bundchen

16. Digital Editing
Exercise
• Change the working space of your document to adobe RGB 1998.
• Create an image layer copy.
• Retouch the skin surface removing blemishes and skin imperfections,
describe what tools you have used.
• In the layers pallete create a histogram adjustment and a curves layer.
• Resize your image create one image at 72 dpi and 10 cm long
• Create a second image at 300 dpi and 10 cm long
• Save your output files as psd and jpg’s describe the
advantage/disadvantage of these type of file formats for your sketch
books.