This document provides an overview of basic photo editing concepts and skills to be learned in the quarter, including exploring Adobe Photoshop. It defines image and photo editing as altering, changing, or modifying photographs, illustrations, or digitally processed photos. Common photo editing tools allow users to manipulate, enhance, and transform images, and are also used to create computer art. Basic editing techniques like cropping, resizing, adjusting brightness and contrast, sharpening and softening are described. The document also covers image file formats, layers in Photoshop, selections, resolution, and color modes.

1. IMAGE EDITING
By: Kristina Kassandra S. Guardiario
Sylvia Hanikka S. Guardiario
Justine Claire T. Mande
Patricce M. Gomugda

2.  At the end of this quarter , you are expected
to:
 Explore and examine basic concepts and
underlying principles in photo editing
especially using Adobe Photoshop;
 Apply concepts and skills learned in photo
editing and
 Appreciate the relevance of learning the basic
concepts and skills of photo editing.

3.  Image means
-Photographs
• Digital
• Analog
-illustrations
 Edit means
-Alter
-Change
-Modify

4.  The process of altering, changing,
modifying, whether they are processed
photographs, traditional analog photographs
or illustrations

5.  Are the primary tools with which a user may
manipulate, enhance and transform images.
 Also used to render or create computer art
from scratch.
Examples :
Adobe Photoshop
Picasa
GIMP
Corel
Pixia

6. 1. Cropping- a technique where you cut out
distracting background or a clutter of irrelevant
objectives around an image.

9.  In cropping, always use the golden in
photography.
“rule of thirds”

10. Resizing- changing the size of the image
depending on the usage.
Remember!
Save a copy of your image before you resize it so that
you can use it at a different size in the future.

11. Brightness- the amount of light of an image
Contrast- defines the separation between the
darkest area and brightest areas of the image.

12. REMEMBER :
Increase in contrast and you increase the separation between the
dark and the bright, making shadows darker and highlights
brighter.

13.  Sharpening is the tool that gives emphasis
on textures and for drawing viewer focus.
Note:
Excessive image sharpness will always increase the
amount of contrast and distorts color relationships.
Softening – Is the opposite of Sharpening

15. • Basic automatic image improvement features in
camera and image editing programs
• Corrects color imbalances , red eye reduction,
sharpness adjustments, zoom features and
automatic cropping
• Why automatic?
- Because it happens with less user interaction or its
offered with one click of a button

16. - Many image file formats use data compression to
reduce file size and save storage space
- Some file formats that use data compression:
JPEG- Joint Photographic Experts Group
PNG- Portable Network Graphics

17.  Photoshop Document (.psd)- is the file
format in which Photoshop saves document
that retains its full editing options when
saved.
 Layers- the ones that composed a Photoshop
document. These are single transparent
sheets which hold particular pieces of an
image. These layers can contain images, text
and vector graphics

18.  Selection- refers to the region in an image
that will be affected by the various tools.
 Resolution- refers to the number of pixels in
a full size image
 Image Size- actual size of he image
considering its height and width size

19.  Color Mode – refers to the types of color you
will be using in your image
Types of color modes:
1. CMYK- Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black
- Setting of images that will be printed on paper
2. RGB- Red, Green, Blue
-color channel for the Web

20. THE END !