Photo editing requires much carefulness because when editing a photo you encounter many errors and you tend to do a lot of work on the photograph. Soft wares like Adobe Photoshop are the most popularly known for editing photographs. In order to edit a photograph like a professional ensure that you are understanding aspects to deal with in the photo.

When editing your photograph, put into mind these key things to edit: saturation, colors, retouch blemishes, hue, smoothness, and brightness, this key thing when well worked on can change your normal photograph into an awesome amazing photograph.

It is always very hard especially for a new photographer to edit photographs into the amazingly different way, photo editing requires a lot of practice and experiences, but with this new current technological world, it is very easy to edit a photograph like a professional. There are many provided steps you can go through, understand and implement them.

8 ACTIONALBLE STEPS THAT WILL ENABLE YOU TO EDIT PHOTOGRAPHS LIKE A PROFESSIONAL:

There are steps that help you edit your photographs and make them look awesome. You actually don’t need to spend a whole day or even days editing photos. You just need to understand these steps and you are ready to set off. The steps are very easy and simple. The step favors phone users and camera users.

1. Ensure that you have a good photo base.

The background in which you take your photographs contributes a lot to photo editing. Bad photographs which may have been taken from bad backgrounds will affect the editing of your photograph.

Make an attempt of taking photographs indirectly from the sunlight, avoid using the flash as much as you can and also ensure that the environment around which you are taking your photograph is clean, clear and nice as well. This will be the best first step that will lead to the best results.

2. Choose the best photo editing software.

Currently, there is much software meant for photo editing. Among this photo editing soft wares there are those that perform the best than the others. Thus when editing your photograph ensure that you use the best tool is likely to bring out the best results.

We recommend that when taking photographs using your Android or iPhone edit photographs using Adobe Photoshop if you are using windows and mac use either Picasa or iPhoto for the best results. And if you are using an online browser for photos ensure that you edit the photographs using Pixler or the Picmonkey.

3. Crop the photographs.

This is the easiest and fastest step but also very crucial in photo editing. Crop the photographs to remove the unwanted and destructive parts. When cropping put into consideration the desired size, ensure that you don’t make the photograph too small, keep it in a normal size.

4. Adjust the photograph’s brightness.

Bright and clear photographs are always great. Many photographs taken indoors should be improved their brightness. When doing this you should be cautious also, don’t put too much brightness on the photograph and also don’t put very low brightness.

Too much brightness can cause your photo to have blowouts. Ensure that you reduce the shadows in a wise manner.

5. Saturations.

You need to be very careful when dealing with this because saturating your photos so much will cause harm to them. The main purpose of saturation is to make the colors in your photo deeper and make them more vibrant.

When dealing on this part ensure that you keep in mind the intention of retaining the original color for your photo, don’t overstate the color and also don’t understate it.

6. Hue.

The background in which you take your photos in determines the colors of our photos. It is easy to edit the colors of your photo. Blue and yellow colors are the most colors that tend to appear on your photograph. It is crucial to edit the colors and get your photograph back to their normal colors.

7. Contrast.

Contrast is best and mostly used to edit black and white images to ensure that the dark part colored is darker and the light part remains lighter. High contrast is most recommendable when doing photograph edit in black and white photos.

8. Addition of text to photographs.

This is always not much important, but in the cases where it is necessary to add a text to your photograph ensure that you use the space to create a text. In the case where there is no empty space make the color of your text quite transparent. Make the text easy to read and appealing.

By going through the above steps before starting editing your photo will enable you to edit your photograph with easy and become an amazing photograph. There are thousands of things to do when editing photographs but the above steps are the most crucial and important.

Time lapse photography is so interesting to me. It freezes the seconds we live everyday into something we can visually see.

Here are two beautiful time lapse videos I found on Vimeo & YouTube.

Makes me want to start practicing!

Trick Photography Is A World Of It’s Own.

There are limitless possibilities with Photoshop. I don’t know how you CAN’T love it. I ran across this post on CNN with images from this incredible photoshop artist.

Photo manipulation can become addicting. If you have an imagination and understand how to use the tools, you can conquer the world! 😉

You can see all the cool images here: Photo Effects – Cool Trick Photography Images On CNN