Learn a Photo-Editing Program and Enhance Your Memories – John W Scherer

Let’s face it. Photos have gone digital. Most everyone has a digital camera and has spent hours uploading them onto their computers and maybe even organized them into digital photo albums. I love this method of storing and sharing photos. I think it is convenient, affordable and fun. But let’s take it a step further. It is time for a photo-editing program. Learning a photo editing program will give you the tools to make your photographs the absolute best that they can be. Whether you want to use an advanced program like Photoshop® CS2 or something a little more user friendly like Photoshop Elements, you can master it if you take the right steps to learn.

There are many lessons and tutorials out there, but I have found that Video Professor is the most efficient and effective way to learn Photoshop. It can either be sent to your door or you can take the tutorial online. They are divided into three segments and will take you from being a beginning photo editor to an expert photo editor. Plus the tutorial can be fast-forwarded, rewound, stopped and paused so you will never be left in the dust. Don’t just fiddle around in your photo editing program of choice until you kind of do what you wanted to do. Master the program and take your photographs to the next level.

Get Rid of Red Eye with a Photo Editing Program

Have you ever taken a great photo of someone only to have the dreaded red-eye effect ruin the picture? Well, this is one of the easiest things to resolve in a photo editing program. All you have to do is make a channel mixer adjustment layer and set the red channel to red 0 percent, green 50 percent and blue 50 percent. Don’t get scared you’ll get a completely off color image. Now select the mask of the adjustment layer and fill it with black by pressing Alt-Backspace. As the last step, select the paintbrush and paint on the mask with white to reveal the effect of the adjustment layer. Select the paintbrush that is the size of the red spot in the eye. The final result is very natural and convincing.

Do Not Fear, a Photo Editing Program is Here

Although it may seem that working in a photo editing program is time consuming and everything takes to many steps, it should not scare you. Once you learn the toolbars and some fundamentals, you will be able to expand your photo editing skills and do any and everything you ever wanted to do with your photos.