HOW I EDIT MY BLOG PHOTOS | BLOG & PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS

I have been blogging for a long time hence picking up a few tips and tricks. Prior to this, I took Photography during my A-levels so I have basic knowledge of the tools in Photoshop. Today I'm showing you how I achieve get from before to after. In the original photo, you can see the colours are muted and have a blue cast.

STEP 1 - AUTO COLOUR

Auto Colour automatically fixes any colour cast problems to a certain level. You have Auto Level (Shft + Ctrl +L) , Auto Contrast (Alt + Shft + Ctrl + L) and Auto Colour (Sfth + Ctrl + B), I play with all these functions depending on the outcome I prefer. I normally stick with Auto Colour and Auto Levels. In this photo, I went with Auto Colour (Shft + Ctrl + B).

STEP 2 - BRIGHTNESS AND CONTRAST

I do prefer my photos to be a bit brighter and I don't always do this after the 1st step, it can also be your last final adjustments. With the slide bar, I adjust the level of exposure and contrast of the photo. The contrast brings out more colours and dark tones. I like to keep this minimal as I prefer fewer shadows so you can see product details better. For this photo, I kept brightness to 15% and contrast to 5%.

STEP 3 - HUE / SATURATION

This is the part you really adjust the tones in your photos. You can still see I do still have a slight blue/grey cast. With Hue/ Saturation (Ctrl + U) you can pinpoint what colours you want to reduce or enhance. On the tab, you can see 6 main adjustments you can make. My main problems are blue cast but if you have any other colours you want to adjust change the saturation.

For my photo, I stick with Cyans (Ctrl + 4) and Blues (Ctrl + 5).  With both Cyans and Blues I knock it both down to -100% on Saturation you can instantly see it removes all blue tones in the photo and is instantly brighter.

So here is the before and after:

This is how I normally edit my blog in 3 simple steps. I hope this has helped you guys in some way.

Joyce x

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