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Photo Editing: How to Remove Subjects from Photos

Lisa Michele Burns — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 08:32:38 +0000

Editing Tips – Remove an Object from a Photo Removing a subject or item from your photo can help enhance the scene and allow your image to remain clutter free. Perhaps you want to remove a person from the photo, remove objects or just want to clean up the image, removing dust spots, rubbish or little marks. When editing your images, regardless of whether you’re photographing portraits, travel, landscapes or another genre, you may come across the need to remove unwanted elements. The aim of creating a beautiful photo is to remove distracting which can deter the viewer from seeing the subject and instead be drawn towards something like a piece of rubbish on the ground. You want all eyes to be focused on the story you’re attempting to tell or the scene you wish to showcase without any other little features getting in the way. Removing a subject from your image can be a small job such as removing a single dust spot, or a more time-consuming process like removing footprints in the sand from a crowded beach. What are some reasons you might want to remove objects from your image? They’re distracting from your intended focus Dust spots...

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Creating Pastel Photos with Photoshop and Lightroom

Lisa Michele Burns — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 07:53:31 +0000

Pastel Editing Tips for Your Photos When editing an image, I don’t like to push things too far. I’m sure a few people just did a little laugh snort because I do use a lot of colour in my images but I always edit, then look back at the original and ensure they’re not too far apart in natural tone. The look of soft pastels instead of harsh hues is what I aim for. You want your final result to believable and beautiful, not a saturated assault on the senses. Learning to control the colours within your image, how the colour palette works together and how to integrate gentle adjustments throughout the image is what creates the magic. To create pastel tones, the effect will not only depend on how you edit but also how you captured your image originally. If you know you’ll be wanting to produce pastel colours, always capture your image a little brighter than normal by overexposing slightly but ensuring you’re not losing detail within the highlights. Having lighter tones to work with from the start will help you massively and avoid the need to remove harsh shadows and dark spots. *If your original image is...

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Photoshop Editing – The 3 Magic Tools You Need to Know

Lisa Michele Burns — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 23:21:12 +0000

How to Edit in Photoshop Photoshop Tricks – How to Remove Unwanted Subjects, Clone + Replicate Photoshop is magic. That’s basically my conclusion on the matter. I don’t really know how it works from an IT or programming perspective but I do know how to use its tools and that it works wonders when you’re editing photographs. A lot of Photoshop skills can be learnt by trial and error. A quick Google search will tell you what tools are for what purpose, or even just hovering your mouse over each icon will reveal its intended use or name. Before reading any further, if you don’t yet have Adobe Photoshop, you can sign up for a 7 day free trial here so you can test it out and see if it works for you. Sometimes on location there’s an incredible shot just waiting to be taken but there’s a rubbish bin in the middle of it, or one person that just won’t move out of the way despite your less than subtle hints. Rather than wait for someone to move or physically ripping the bin out of the ground, you can simply take the shot and then remove them later. Much...

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Alternative Photo Editing Programs – Luminar and Aurora HDR

Lisa Michele Burns — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 02:11:16 +0000

Ever since I’ve been a photographer I’ve only known and used two editing programs, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom. However, the big news cruising through photography circles is that now, there’s a new kid on the block and they’re already proven to be producing professional standard programs. Let me introduce you to Luminar and Aurora HDR by Skylum Software. The names immediately had me intrigued and after spending some time trialling the programs recently I wanted to share some screenshots and a review with you here on The Wandering Lens. The programs are very affordable in comparison to the Adobe subscriptions so it’s well worth having a little peek and seeing if it could work for you. It’s also timely because Aurora HDR 2019 has just been released! (Scroll down for a discount code!). You’ll notice I don’t share much about editing on this site and that’s because I believe every photographer has a different preference in terms of how they go about their post processing. It’s a major part of the creative process and who am I to say this is how you should edit…instead I always think it’s best to play around with various techniques, software and to...

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Editing Tips: Creating Pastel Skies in Photoshop

Lisa Michele Burns — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 15:26:32 +0000

Learn to Edit Photos in Photoshop How to edit in Photoshop to create Pastel Colours Learn how to create pastel skies in Photoshop and transform your photographs with dreamy tones. Pastel skies and Photoshop are a match made in photography dreams. The tools are there to transform regular sunsets into pastel wonders with tiny adjustments that create a natural looking effect. You definitely don’t need to be a tech whiz to get started and below I’ll talk you through how to make your photos beautiful with a little pastel power. If you prefer to watch rather than read, skim to the bottom of the post for my YouTube Video – Creating Pastels in Photoshop… Taking the Photo Having the correct settings when capturing the shot will allow you to do much more when editing your image. If your photo is too dark or too overexposed, it will be difficult to bring back the detail required to create pastel colouring in Photoshop or Lightroom. A correctly exposed image is much easier to work with and if you’re hoping to print the photo, it’ll mean a much better print quality. Over exposing a tiny bit will on most occasions make creating pastel...

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How to Edit Your Travel Photos in Photoshop

Lisa Michele Burns — Mon, 23 Feb 2015 08:38:00 +0000

Photoshop Editing Tips The magic of Photoshop is something we are all familiar with. You’ve either seen fashion magazine images edited within an inch of reality, fake backdrops, intense skies that were never really that dramatic or something simple like text written over a photo. When it comes to travel photography it’s best to keep editing simple and realistic. Travel is about the experience, the journey, people you meet along the way and the amazing places you see. Who wants to distort that reality? What you can do though is make it just a little bit prettier. There is no harm in creating travel photos that look professional and in this post I’ll be showing you a few easy tricks to make your photographs pop by using Adobe Photoshop (totally meant to rhyme!). Firstly, if you don’t want to commit to the full version of Photoshop straight up you can take a 30 day trial to test it out or pay per month! I like to use both Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop so will be sharing my Lightroom techniques in a separate post soon. Before you read any further my biggest tip of all is this. Before editing any photographs...

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