Your home archive can contain many photographs: old and recent, black and white and color, professional and amateur, etc. But they are all of the same type: they only show what the camera lens “sees”, ie. reality is what it is. If you want to "touch up" the captured reality, use the universal graphics editor Photoshop, no matter from Adobe or Macromedia.
Instructions
Step 1
First, you need to save the image to your computer. If you want to edit the photo you just took, connect the camera to your computer using the USB cable that should come with your camera.
Step 2
Open Photoshop, in which, sequentially selecting "File" - "Import" - "Support for WIA …", open the required file. Most likely it will be a.
Step 3
In a very similar way, you can import a printed photograph or other image through a scanner. Perform the same manipulations, but instead of WIA, select the scanner model installed on your computer. When the scanning process is over, the image will appear in Photoshop, only now it will most likely be in.tiff format. Neither format is suitable for working in Photoshop, so the image must be converted to.psd.
Step 4
When importing images from both external sources and internal storages, in Photoshop they open as a background, or a fixed layer with which you cannot do anything. To make the desired transformations with a picture, it must be made from the "background" by a "layer", or, what is the same, the image format must be converted to.psd. To do this, select the "Layer" - "New" - "Layer from the background (background)" item in the main menu of the program. Now the image format has changed, and you can make any manipulations with the picture at your discretion.
Step 5
Most Photoshop tutorials are based on such examples that you don't even want to try your hand at mastering the program. Meanwhile, to make a sample of the simplest effect, one does not need academic knowledge or a lot of experience. Just open the picture, make the background a layer and add a filter to the entire image or to a selected part.
Step 6
To add the desired filter to the whole picture, simply select "Filter" in the main program menu and use the parameter sliders to make the picture the way you like. The parameters will be different for each filter. Your task is a little more complicated if you want to apply a filter to a specific area of the image. But, all the same, there is nothing wrong at the initial stages of mastering the program.
Step 7
For training, choose a photo with a plant background and a portrait. Keep the portrait unchanged and paint the background with watercolor strokes. Select the polygonal (linear) lasso tool to select an object in the picture that will remain unchanged. Circle it by setting the "anti-aliasing" option. Invert the selection and feather it 5 px. This is necessary so that the border between the image and the background is not sharp.
Step 8
Now apply the filter "Imitation" - "Watercolor" to the selected area of the image. However, in different versions of Photoshop, the names of the options can be radically different. Use the sliders to set the width of the stroke (scale "scale"), the intensity of the relief and the direction of light. A preview window will appear in the left (or top) part, where you will see a preliminary result of your work. In the middle part, you can select a filter from the palette, and all settings are set in the far right (or bottom) area.
Step 9
When finished, save it in the original Photoshop format. This will allow you to return to work if you want to change something without losing quality. Then flatten the layers to reduce the size of the final file. Save it in.jpg"
