Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Photoshop Elements Tools Made For Amateur Digital Photographers

Digital photography is a favorable profession that is chosen by many young and budding photographers today. However, many of them do not make it big in this field as they meet failure right at the onset. This is due to low standards of their picture quality which fails to impress many online stock photography sites.

So, the solution to an impressionable photograph lies in using the unique and efficacious tools of the picture editing software, Adobe Elements. Its tools help you produce a refined picture out of an ordinary looking one. Here’s a glimpse on the imperative tools and brushes offered by Adobe to further refine the quality of your picture.

Once you are done with the job of clicking a photograph, your job of photo editing begins. And, the very first step is to choose a new layer from the options in the menu. Remember that whenever you are making editions and deletions in your original photograph, always do it in a new layer as this makes your editing job easier. Now comes the turn of enhancing the lively appeal of the picture by accentuating its color scheme. This can be done by selecting the brush tool from the menu and clicking on the desired brush element. Basically this tool has three components to opt from, paint brush, spray paint and airbrush. Select the one that would best accentuate the appeal of your picture. Next comes the turn of selecting the size of the brush as well as the kind of stroke you would want your brush to apply. After clicking on the brush tool from the menu, press the bracket key right facing the right side to increase its size and the bracket key on the left side to decrease its size. To escape from the fuss of changing the brush sizes every time you sit to use Adobe, select the sample size option to maintain the consistent size of the brush. Now you have to determine how dark you want to your brush strokes to be. This can be done by choosing the opacity tool which gives you the freedom of increasing and decreasing the darkness to improve the clarity of the picture. The opacity tool has a sliding option wherein you can increase or decrease the color intensity of your paint brush from 0% to 100%. Adobe gives you the provision of using varied color schemes till you find the best one. This can be done by experimenting with your colors in different layers and keep deleting them in case you are not satisfied.

It is recommended to use Photoshop CS3 if you practice photography at the professional level. This is because Adobe Element is for proletarian. This software offers you more than twelve hard-edged and soft edged brushes to help you enhance the appeal of your picture to perfection. You would also see varied shaped brushes including star shaped, spatter shaped, air brush, spatter shaped and natural brushes. If these are not enough, you are also given the provision of downloading more unique shaped and sized brushes.
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