Photoshop Elements 3 Solutions: The Art of Digital Photography- P3

Photoshop Elements 3 Solutions: The Art of Digital Photography- P3: This book rocks! It is not just a revised version; this is a brand new edition.So much has changed in Adobe Photoshop Elements 3 that it is practically a whole new program,and Mikkel Aaland has completed quite an amazing undertaking with PhotoshopElements 3 Solutions.
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Photoshop Elements 3 Solutions: The Art of Digital Photography- P3 Tinting Images I like grayscale images. I really do. But sometimes they benefit from a color tint. The tint need not be overwhelming. In fact, sometimes a subtle shade of yellow or red is all it takes to give a grayscale image an added pop so it jumps from a page. Take, for example, the 1761 engraving from a Russian bath shown in Figure 2.16. The image was published in black-and-white in a book I wrote on bathing. It looked fine. However, when I went to place the image on my website, it was lacking. It needed to stand out more.44YOUR IMAGES: GLOBAL SOLUTIONS ■ Figure 2.16: The original grayscale image. This is what I did: 1. I opened the Hue/Saturation dialog box (Enhance Adjust Color Adjust Hue/Saturation), shown in Figure 2.17.2: N o te : This will not work if you are in Grayscale or Bitmap modeit works only if you are CHAPTER in RGB or Indexed Color mode. If you need to, choose Image Mode RGB or Image Mode Indexed Color to convert the image. 2. I selected Colorize. The image was converted to the hue of the current fore- ground color—in this case, red. 3. I then slid the Hue and Saturation sliders to select variations of color. 4. When I got the tint I wanted, I clicked OK. The tinted image is shown in Figure 2.17.Figure 2.17: To tint, make sure the Colorize option is selected in the Hue/Saturation dialogbox (left). The tinted image (right). You can tint an image using the Hue/Saturation dialog box (Enhance Adjust 45Color Adjust Hue/Saturation) from within Quick Fix as well. You can also use the ■ CORRECTING COLORQuick Fix Color group. Start by sliding the Saturation slider completely to the left.Then adjust the Tint slider to introduce a tint. You can then use the Hue slider tointroduce new tints. (When you adjust the Saturation, Hue, Temperature, and Tintsliders, Commit and Cancel icons appear next to the word Color. Select Commit whenyou are satisfied with the image. Select Cancel if you are not. Until you select either theCommit or Cancel icon, the Reset button located above the After version of yourimage is dimmed and inoperable.)Eliminating or Diminishing Dust, Scratches, and Electronic NoiseMost digital images suffer from dust, scratches or other marks, or electronic “noise.”Even high JPEG compression can cause unwanted artifacts, which show up as“blocks” and are especially obvious in areas of continuous tone such as a vast blue skyor skin, and can appear as chunky blocks of pixels. Any of these flaws can detractfrom the look of a digital image. With smaller prints, or when viewed on a monitor,these artifacts are not as noticeable, but as prints get larger—or if an image is magni-fied over 100 percent—these artifacts can be quite visible. Fortunately, PhotoshopElements offers several tools for getting rid of them. N o te : Low-cost, third-party solutions to reducing noise are available. Check out Dfine, a Photoshop plug-in from nik multimedia that offers more options than Photoshop’s new Reduce Noise filter. (A trial version of Dfine is included on the CD.) Reduce Noise Filter The newest and most useful tool in the Photoshop Elements arsenal is the Reduce Noise filter. The filter can be applied from either Quick Fix or Standard Edit. Look at Figure 2.18 (left) and you’ll see a shot I took in extremely low light. I managed to get the shot without using a flash by boosting my digital camera’s ISO setting to 1600. I got the shot, but increasing the ISO introduced a lot of “noise” or “grain” into the image. Figure 2.18 (right) shows a magnified view and reveals the noise more clearly.46YOUR IMAGES: GLOBAL SOLUTIONS ■ Figure 2.18: I shot this in low light w ...