1 Printing & Imaging Technology Digital Photo Retouching: Quick Fixes for Digitally Captured Photographs Copyright © Texas Education Agency, All rights reserved. Images and other multimedia content used with permission.

2 Introduction Photos may be digitally captured using digital cameras or flatbed scanners. Although every attempt should be made to get the best photo from the camera, retouching is needed sometimes. This lesson teaches concepts that are simple to execute with industry standard photo editing software. Professionals can get even better results using more advanced techniques. Copyright © Texas Education Agency, All rights reserved. Images and other multimedia content used with permission.

3 Some Uses of Photo Retouching To improve personal photos To edit professional photos To edit photos for continuity within a project 3Copyright © Texas Education Agency, All rights reserved. Images and other multimedia content used with permission.

4 Repairing Imperfections Scratches Water spots Torn edges Discoloration Red Eye Repair 4Copyright © Texas Education Agency, All rights reserved. Images and other multimedia content used with permission. Original photo water spots and torn edge Retouched photo spots and edges fixed

5 Brightness and Contrast Switching the image to black and white helps with understanding the adjustments Shadows Mid-tones Highlights 5Copyright © Texas Education Agency, All rights reserved. Images and other multimedia content used with permission. Retouched photo spots and edges fixed Retouched photo – b/w brighter and contrast adjusted

6 Recoloring and Adjusting Saturation Color reference Color balance Understand the context of image Objects must match context of the image Saturation – (amount of color) For each object For overall image 6Copyright © Texas Education Agency, All rights reserved. Images and other multimedia content used with permission. Retouched photo – b/w brighter and contrast adjusted Retouched photo Colorized

7 Colorization Questions: Do any of the colors look like they do not belong? Why or why not? The black hat was actually recolored with black. Why would you add black back to the colorized image? What objects should have been colorized in the image but were not? 7Copyright © Texas Education Agency, All rights reserved. Images and other multimedia content used with permission.