ACC: 5.1: Editing 101

Digital Photography

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• Editing 101

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Unit 5 Extra Credit

5.1

EDITING 101

UNIT 5 OVERVIEW

In this unit, you will explore how images are edited and processed to enhance their look and feel. You will also be introduced to copyrights, image licensing, and the etiquette of visiting museums and galleries.

• This unit will have ONE unit test
• NO assignments in Unit 5

Prep for Success

• Safety
• Guided Notes and Study Guides
• Assignment Resources Padlet

Knowledge Check

• Earn +1 EXTRA CREDIT POINT
• Results let me see what to focus on and you get a sneak peak at this unit.

• Filter
• Grayscale
• Desaturate
• Monochrome
• Achromatic
• Sepia tone

• Edit a photograph using color tones and filters
• Converting images to Black & White and Sepia using GIMP
• Identify the purpose of using different color modes and filters

Presentation title

1st Lesson!

5.1: Editing 101 Lesson

• Intro to GIMP
• Changing Color Tone
• Converting an Image to Black & White
• Saving an Image
• Converting to Sepia Tone
• Filters

• Install GMIP
• Download the image in edio or pull up one of your own images.

EXTRA CRedit

3 Extra Credit Points!

1. Choose your own image or the image provided in the lesson.
2. Open the image in GIMP or a photo editor available to you.
3. Then, use any editing technique you learned in the lesson, such as manipulating color or using filter options, and save the edited photograph in a .jpg format.

Follow the steps below to submit both the original (before) and the edited (after) photographs:

1. Use the presentation template attached in Edio or your own presentation or doc.
2. Add the two photographs to a presentation side by side, with the original image (before) next to the edited (after) version.
3. Save the presentation as FirstNameLastNameEditing101
4. Upload your file.
5. Answer the question: Which filter did you apply to your photograph? Explain briefly the purpose of using the filter.
6. What differences can you point out between the original photo and the edited photo?

Editing 101

You've learned composition, photography, and lighting techniques for various styles. After taking a photo, you can still enhance it using editing tools. The only limit to editing is your imagination!

Editing 101

There are many tools and computer programs designed to help users with specific tasks that you can use to edit photos. You can go online to find free tools and applications, such as Pixlr and GIMP.

You can use photo editing to improve a photograph in any of the following ways:

• Removing unwanted objects, people, and details from the photograph
• Altering the appearance of your subjects by adding makeup, fixing their hair, and so on
• Enhancing or changing a photograph's colors
• Cropping the image to exactly what you want to appear
• Adjusting the brightness and contrast of the imageSharpening the photograph

Digital Editing Before & After

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Film

Before the invention of photo editing software, people still changed their pictures, but the process was much more complicated, expensive, and time-consuming with film. Only wealthy photographers could afford to change their photographs even slightly. As photo equipment developed, so, too, did new editing technologies.

In 1846, Calvert Richard Jones took a photo of five Capuchin friars in Malta. Four were talking, while one awkwardly stood behind. Jones felt the fifth friar ruined the scene, so he painted him out on the negative, replacing him with white sky in the print. This was the first instance of photo manipulation.

Negative

Photos made from film are edited in the darkroom during the printing process.

That's an enlarger that projects the image.

Original Dodge Tool

Original Burn Tool

Photo Editing Software

A raw image is an unprocessed image captured by your digital camera. Image editing enables you to correct a variety of things, such as exposure, noise, and focus, and to highlight essential objects to make a stunning image. Based on your editing needs, several editing software programs and tools are available for public use and are suitable for a wide range of skill levels.

Click on the images to learn more about each program!

POLAR

SnapSeed

Changing Color Tone

One of the most effective photo editing techniques is to change a photograph's overall color. By changing a photograph's overall color, you can dramatically alter its look and feel. You are about to learn how to use photo editing software to alter a photograph's color palette, just like what was done with the photograph of the window. You will use the software to convert a color photograph into black and white or sepia tone. You may use any color photograph you already have taken, or you may download and use the photograph provided in Edio.

Saturation

Black & White/ Desaturation

Monochromatic

Sepia Tone

Accessing GMIP

For this lesson, you can use GIMP or any other editing application. If GIMP is not already installed on your computer, you can use GIMP to download it. To open GIMP on your computer (Microsoft OS):

• CLICK on the Windows icon on your toolbar (bottom left of your screen)
• TYPE in a search for GIMP or SCROLL down to find the GIMP program
• Select the GIMP app, and it should open in a separate pop-up window.

Click HERE to download GMIP: the directions if you don't have GIMP on your laptop.

Step 1

• Open GIMP
• Go to the File menu
• Select Open

Next, you will select the image you want to edit.

Step 2

Open an Image Window

• Navigate to the location in which you have stored the image you selected
• SELECT the image
• PRESS Open

The photograph will now open in the editor, ready for your edits.

Saturation involves the image's colors and their intensity. An artist can choose to increase or decrease the saturation for the desired effect.

Saturated

Desaturated

A photograph with LOW or NO saturation (desaturted) shows gray tones.

A HIGHLY saturated photograph shows INTENSE and VIVID colors.

What's the mood of this color saturated image?

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What's the mood of this desaturated image?

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Converting to Black & White

Black and white photography can create dramatic, timeless images using different shades of gray, ranging from white to dark. Black & White images can enhance the texture and depth of an image. Any photograph that contains little to no color tone across the image is achromatic. When it comes to image editing, remember that not every composition works well in black and white.

Image by: Toni Frissell

Converting to Black & White

Converting a color photograph to black and white can make the photo look timeless. It can also help remove the distraction of color, creating a focus on the subject, the textures, the shapes and patterns, and the composition of the image itself. HOWEVER, converting a photograph to black and white can also remove detailed information you might want to preserve. You need to know why you are converting a picture to black and white before you make the change. If you cannot pinpoint a good reason or set of reasons, your photograph may not be meant to be monochromatic.

Converting an image to black & white will help you focus on:

• Texture
• Depth

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Convert a Color Image to Black & White

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Step 2

Step 1

Desaturate:Desaturate all of the colors to turn your picture to black and white (BW), also known as grayscale. Steps to follow: On the Colors menu, press Desaturate, and then select Desaturate.

Save the Image:Press OK when you have decided on the option you want to use.

Use Black and White Filter:The Desaturate window opens. You can choose a filter option from the Mode drop-down menu.

DESATURATE all of the colors to turn your image to black and white (BW), also known as grayscale.

STEP 1:

• Click on the Colors dropdown
• Go to Desaturate
• Select Desaturate

STEP 2

Use Black & White Filter The Desaturate window opens. You can choose a filter option from the Mode dropdown menu.

Review Step 1

STEP 2

Adding the Filter Press OK when you have decided on the option you want to use.

Review Steps 1 & 2

Saving Your Converted IMAGE

Once you have changed the color tone of your photograph, you will want to save the new file in a standard format. A standard format makes it possible to use the image in a variety of ways, from posting it to social media to including it in a report or presentation.Both GIMP files and files created with other photo editors need to be exported as .jpeg files before they can be opened in other programs. These include popular word-processing programs, publication tools, and presentation applications.

Saving Your Converted Photograph: How to...

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Step 2

Step 1

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Add Name & Location:

• After the Export Image window opens:
• Name your image
• Select file location

Export the File:

• Go to File menu
• Click on Export As...from the dropdown menu

Select the File Type:

• Click Select File Type
• Scroll down and select jpeg image
• Press Export to proceed

Save the File:

• When the Export Image as Jpeg boxes opens, you can use the default settings.

a Closer look at

STEP 4

Converting to Sepia Tone

Converting a color photograph to black and white can make the photo look timeless. It can also help remove the distraction of color, creating a focus on the subject, the textures, the shapes and patterns, and the composition of the image itself. HOWEVER, converting a photograph to black and white can also remove detailed information you might want to preserve. You need to know why you are converting a picture to black and white before you make the change. If you cannot pinpoint a good reason or set of reasons, your photograph may not be meant to be monochromatic.

Convert a color image to sepia tone

Ctrl + Z to undo

Step 1

Step 2

Choose the Tone:

• OPEN image in GIMP
• Go to Color (top bar)
• SELECT Desaturate from the dropdown menu
• SELECT Sepia

Select the Effect Strength:

• When the Sepia box opens adjust the strength by clicking the 🔼 & 🔽 arrows or changing the number
• Select Preview to see the change
• Once you have the desired tone click OK.

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Filter options

Most photo editing tools provide a variety of additional filters, preset ways to alter images to give them a certain look, from adding blur to making tones colder (bluer) or warmer (browner). Filters can even add rounded corners to photographs or make them translucent so that text or images can be made visible below them. Every editor has its own set of filters, so be sure to investigate all of the filters available to you. One example, the Old Photo filter option in the GIMP tool.

Apply old photo filter

Step 1

Step 2

Ctrl + Z to undo

Go to Filters Dropdown:

• Select Decor in the dropdown menu
• Next select Old Photo

Make Adjustments, then click OK!

SAVE YOUR IMAGE

Change the settings as desired.

Select OK to save your image.

MATCH each of the following tones with the correct image.

A) Sepia

B) Color

C) Black & White

3 Extra Credit Points!

EXTRA CRedit

1. Choose your own image or the image provided in the lesson.
2. Open the image in GIMP or a photo editor available to you.
3. Then, use any editing technique you learned in the lesson, such as manipulating color or using filter options, and save the edited photograph in a .jpg format.

Follow the steps below to submit both the original (before) and the edited (after) photographs:

1. Use the presentation template attached in Edio or your own presentation or doc.
2. Add the two photographs to a presentation side by side, with the original image (before) next to the edited (after) version.
3. Save the presentation as FirstNameLastNameEditing101
4. Upload your file.
5. Answer the question: Which filter did you apply to your photograph? Explain briefly the purpose of using the filter.
6. What differences can you point out between the original photo and the edited photo?

SUMMARY

in this lesson you learned

Don't forget you can earn EXTRA CREDIT by:

• Complete the U5 Knowledge Check
• Completing the image Editing Activity

• A Filter alters an image to give it a certain look, from blurring to making tones cooler or warmer.

• The Desaturation filter is used to convert a color image to black & white.

• The Sepia Tone filter adds warm brownish-golden color to an image.

In an upcoming lesson, you will continue learning more editing and post-production techniques to help take your photographs to the next level!

Next Lesson

Move on to the next lesson:

Less is More

Next Lesson...

STEPS 1 & 2

• Click on the Colors dropdown
• Go to Desaturate
• Select Desaturate
• The Desaturate window opens.
• Choose a filter option from the Mode dropdown menu.

STEP 1

• Click on the Colors dropdown
• Go to Desaturate
• Select Desaturate

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Photopea

Photopea is a free, powerful web-based image editor that's great for beginners! Pros: free, no downloads or subscriptions are required and is good for beginners Cons: It lacks some advanced tools & isn't as user friendly as PhotoShop

Try it out!

Photoshop

Photoshop, by Adobe, is the industry leader in image editing software. It is an extremely powerful software program that can be used for everything from spot removal to creating one-of-a-kind images. It is a subscription service and is updated frequently. Pros: robust and powerful; used by photographers around the world Cons: expensive; challenging to learn

Polarr

Polarr is a free, multiplatform image editor. It can be used as on the web or can be downloaded and used as an app on a mobile device. Pros: free, multiplatform web or mobile application; great for filters and color overlays Cons: somewhat limited in its scope and capabilities

Snapseed

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