Part 6

Digital Processing. Saving images while out in the field is important. The first storage place is on the memory card inside your camera. One memory card is enough for half a day of heavy shooting. More than one memory card is always a good precaution to take. Caring around smaller cards instead of one or two huge ones is better to do just in case you lose one then at least your not losing almost everything you have. After the memory card is full, it is usually uploaded on a PC or laptop. Once it is on your laptop it is on your hard drive, but it is always good to put the pictures on a disc or another source of memory just in case something ever happens to the computer.When pictures are in raw mode they are much easier to edit. We have been finding this out in class, most of us didn't take our pictures in raw form.
The first correction made to pictures are either to brighten or darken them. This is easy to do in photoshop and can be done in many ways with many layers and with either the whole picture or just a part of it. Adjusting the color ans saturation is also a common thing to do. I don't like messing with the color too much because it starts to look fake really fast. Saturation can look really bad if it is over done as well. Color and contrast are fun to mess with. I like contrast in most of my pictures so I like to adjust that at least a little bit throughout the picture.
Adjusting the shadows and highlights of pictures is cool as well. Its amazing what highlighting the shadows can do to some pictures. Dodge and burn tools: these work just like a dark room would. Healing brush: this allows you to take pixels from one part of the picture and place it in another spot. This helps things in the photo blend more. Clone stamp tool: This copies pixels from one part of the picture to the next and covers it with what you select. It is used for more than just blending and for much bigger jobs.
When adjusting sharpness, again too much is not a good thing. Sharpness increases the detail on a specific subject, but if it is too sharp it will start to look grainy.