Kathie Kerler

Kathie Kerler - Fiber Artist, NQA Certified Judge, and Writer

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A Final Exam! Really?

Our final lesson in Pixeladies Photoshop Elements on-line course was to select a photo we hadn’t worked with before and make at least five adjustments. I picked a photo I had taken of a wall hanging by my friend Mary Telford during our Oregon Garden exhibition. Here’s the original:

Mary’s wallhanging–original photo

As you can see I did not take the image straight on. I wanted to practice straightening edges, so this was a great one to choose. What did I do?

  • I cropped the image.
  • I straightened the edges. They aren’t perfect. Mary’s quilt is square, but you can only correct a mediocre photo so far.
  • I cropped again.
  • I used Levels to brighten the image, because her colors were more saturated than my photo shows.
  • I sharpened the image. My photo was fuzzy.
  • I added a watermark with a title giving Mary credit for her work.

Mary’s Garden–adjusted

Much Better!

 

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