Spice up your world!
Friday, February 20, 2009 // 9:34 AM
Some Facts:
- An average person has no use for 24 megapixel camera because a maximum amount of pixels to print is 2 million, even less when on the internet
- megapixels are overrated
- camera phones are not bad because of the small megapixels, but because of the small shutters
Today in class, we worked on making a picture look better.
- Layers help you keep control of your picture, since you can undo and step backward only so many steps (depending on your computer's memory), so layers help you create pieces of information on top of your original image. The great thing about layers is that you can go back and delete them if you are unhappy with the results.
*If you want to view the image without the layer, press the eye button beside!
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Enhance>Brightness/Contrast>Levels - Shows the Hexadecimal values in levels (like a bar graph)
- By sliding the little triangles under the graph, you can change the levels of black, white and grey (black triangle on left, white triangle on right and grey triangle in the middle)
- In movies, directors can film scenes in broad daylight but change the levels to make it appear as if it were the darkest of nights, all part of the movie magic.
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Enhance>Color>Hue/Saturation - Changes the colour levels, saturation (intensity of the colour), and Lightness (how much light hits the picture aka brightness).
* By checking Colorize, it makes your image one complete solid shade of colour.
* Master changes all the colours but you could also select from the drop down menus the different individual colours you can alter.
Ta ta for now!
- Serena