Linlithgow Camera Club Introduction to Photoshop (Part 2) Prepared by Neil Robinson

Linlithgow Camera Club This presentation will cover the following topics. 1.Adding a border. 2.Histograms 3.The Orton Technique - using Photoshop 4.Adding Metadata to a file e.g. copyright

Linlithgow Camera Club Adding a border.  Open your image.  Set the foreground/background colours to the colours you want the border.  Select Image > Canvas Size.  In the pop-up selection box, ensure that the Relative box is checked.  In the new size boxes, select the width of the border you want (make sure the two right boxes are set to Pixels.  Select the colour for your border  Select OK to apply border.

Linlithgow Camera Club Histograms Image>Adjustment>Levels A = Input Levels text fields; corresponding to the three Input sliders (B) B = Input Levels sliders: Black Point (Shadows), Gamma (Midtones), and White Point (Highlights), respectively. C = Output Levels text fields; corresponding to the two Output Levels sliders (D) D = Output Levels sliders

Linlithgow Camera Club Histograms  Channel – the default setting RGB adjusts all the 3 colour channels. It can be set to adjust any one of RGB singularly.  Input Levels - As you move the input level sliders (B), you will see these values adjust  Output Levels - As you move the output level sliders (D), you will see these values adjust

Linlithgow Camera Club Histograms

Linlithgow Camera Club Histograms

Linlithgow Camera Club Histograms

Linlithgow Camera Club Histograms

Linlithgow Camera Club Making Orton images in Photoshop: Open any image you wish to try the technique on. Make a duplicate of the image (Image>Duplicate). Close the original image. Lighten the image as follows: Image>Apply Image… then in the dialog box that comes up change the blending mode to “Screen” and the Opacity to 100%. This will give you an appropriately overexposed image.

Linlithgow Camera Club Making Orton images in Photoshop: Duplicate this overexposed image (Image>Duplicate). Blur this second image (Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur… and in the dialog box use a Radius setting of 15 to 50 pixels – the higher the pixel setting the blurrier the photo Experiment with different settings, a radius of about 25 pixels is a good start point.

Linlithgow Camera Club Making Orton images in Photoshop: Now select the move tool from the Photoshop tool bar (or just press “v” on your keyboard for quicker access to the move tool). Hold down the “shift” key and use your mouse to drag and drop the blurry image onto the sharp one (don’t let go of the shift key until after you release the mouse button or the images won’t be in perfect alignment).

Linlithgow Camera Club Making Orton images in Photoshop: Bring up the layers palette in Photoshop (F7 is the keyboard shortcut). Under the word “Layers” in the layers palette will be a menu box of blending modes. Change the blending mode from “normal” to “multiply”. Now “flatten’ the two layers by pressing “CTRL+E” or by clicking on the sideways triangle in the layers palette to select ‘flatten image’.

Linlithgow Camera Club Making Orton images in Photoshop: If you’re happy with the result, save your file. The Michael Orton website is

Linlithgow Camera Club Creating a Metadata template Metadata e.g. Copyright notice can be added to a picture using Adobe Bridge.  Open up Adobe Bridge.  Select Tools>Create MetaData Template  Update fields as required  Change Template Name and Save You’re now ready to append data to your photos

Linlithgow Camera Club Adding Metadata to a picture Metadata e.g. Copyright notice can be added to a picture using Adobe Bridge.  Open up Adobe Bridge and select folder.  Select photo/s to append data  Select Tools>Append MetaData  Select “template”  Verify data has been appended

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