14 Recap

14 Recap

Where are we now? Hopefully, I've convinced you to try trusting your camera and shown you a few simple tools to make the most of your photographs.

The 10 Photoshop tools we've needed to get this far are:
  • Marquee (A standard Windows tool for selecting area)
  • Crop
  • Rotate
  • Auto Levels (and fading them)
  • Auto Colour
  • Brightness/Contrast
  • Shadow/highlight
  • Hue/Saturation
  • Clone Stamp
  • Unsharp Mask
Even if you never try anything else, those 10 tools, and Noiseware Community Edition, will let you fix most things that are actually fixable.

The good news is that all those tools will work on photographs you've taken with a phone too.

The bad news is we're done with 'easy'. Next, I'm going to show you some of the things you can do, but which require rather more effort to learn. My hope is that the examples I've picked will inspire you to actually want to learn the more advanced stuff.