S O P H I E C A N N I N G

Opening Photoshop

To begin with, I needed to make sure that I had images saved onto my user space to edit.

I knew I already had some from a previous photo-shoot.

To open adobe Photoshop, I launched the start window and clicked on all programmes.

I then clicked the adobe folder where the Photoshop application appeared.

I then clicked on that.

How to open an image

To open an image, once opening Photoshop, click on the file button the top left corner of the scree. It should then display a drop- down menu. Once this happens click open.

Selecting an image

The screen should then display your drive. Go into the folder which your pictures are saved. If you have not named your pictures and cannot identify them, don’t worry!

You simply click on a picture once and it should display a preview of the picture at the bottom of the tab.

Once you have found the photo you want to edit, click on it once then click open.

Editing the lighting and colour

to do this, click on the ‘filter’ button at the top of the screen.

This should display a drop-down menu. So then select ‘render’ ( this is about half way down the menu)

Another menu should appear to the right or the ‘ render button’. Now click on ‘lighting effects…’

The spotlight affect

So now you have the ligting affects you can select anything! I just played around with the different filters.

Firstly I set the ‘light type’ to ‘footlight’.

In the preview window I moved the dots to change the direction that the light was pointing in.

Changing the pattern of the spotlight and the colour.

So now I wanted to add some different types of light directions to make a shape of light on my picture.

To do this I clicked on lighting style where I selected ‘RGB light’. This game me three spotlights.

Then using the coloured box at the end of the intensity scale I selected the colour purple.

Changing the lighting of the whole picture

To change the lighting of the whole picture I had to click on ‘style’ and selected ‘Soft direct light’ on the drop down menu.

I then moved the dots on the preview window. This allowed me to select where the lighted part of my picture was.

I also moved the cursor on the intensity bar to choose how light/dark I wanted my picture to be.

Inserting ripples of light

So with this picture I clicked on the style button the selected ‘three down’.

I chose the colour whit for this light as I didn’t want to change the colour of my picture, but just higlight parts through lighting.

In the preview window I enlarged the three ovals of light by moving the dots.

Changing the colour of my whole picture

So to finish off I decided to change the whole coulour of this picture.

So, on the style option menu I selected ‘default’

Then I just selected the coloured box at the end of the intensity bar. I then chose the shade of green I wanted.